A Public Apology To Randy Pitchford

[Local Trouble]

Like this?

[Huggs]

Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnTPzIXzBKQ

Yes but with less happiness and dignity.

[Local Trouble]

Doesn't he look downright heroic here?

[Huggs]

Doesn't he look downright heroic here?

https://i.imgur.com/gfZJXpc.png

Like a televangelist.

[Xenomrph]

Randy's getting people hyped for Borderlands 3.  I wonder how many people will continue to boycott his wares if it's awesome.

Borderlands 3 is an easy pass for me and not just because Gearbox is making it. I'm not a real big fan of "random loot" games, and especially not "loot shooters" like Borderlands, The Division, Destiny, etc.

[Local Trouble]

Sooner or later, Gearbox will make something that you'll be unable to resist.

[TheSailingRabbit]

*whispers to Huggs* Kitten simulator. Try to resist that game.

[Xenomrph]

Sooner or later, Gearbox will make something that you'll be unable to resist.

If they made another Alien game (somehow), I'd buy and play it because if I don't, the surgically-implanted bomb at the base of my skull would go off.

It's the same bomb that beeps any time a new piece of Alien media is released, among other unrelated fandoms.

[Local Trouble]

How soon before you run out of room on the video game shelf?

[The Cruentus]

Maybe he already has and is now using someone else's. 

[Local Trouble]

Nah, he needs more consoles.  There are still gaps in his collection.

[Xenomrph]

How soon before you run out of room on the video game shelf?

I'm already basically out of room. I've been paring down the video game shelf and removing stuff I don't care about anymore, or games I can replace with digital copies.

Nah, he needs more consoles.  There are still gaps in his collection.

With rare exceptions (Atari Jaguar), I try to get consoles if there's more than one or two games for it that I care about. I've contemplated a PC Engine/Turbographix 16 but I can't think of enough games I'd want for it, and I'd get a 3DO for the Doom port (it's the one official Doom port I'm missing) but the 3DO is expensive enough as it is, and getting it for one game feels like a waste.

I mean I could go bonkers and get a lot of old stuff like a Fairchild Channel F, Magnavox Odyssey II, Vectrex, etc, but I don't buy consoles just to say I have them.

[Local Trouble]

If you want a rare find, get a SuperGrafx and all five games for it.  At least it's fully backward compatible with the PC Engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Engine_SuperGrafx

[Samhain13]

So I came across this today.

"Gearbox Software's former lawyer is suing the developer and CEO over a supposed secret $12 million bonus given to Randy Pitchford. Gearbox Software has been at the center of quite a few legal disputes over the last decade, whether it be from falsely advertising Aliens: Colonial Marines or fighting for control of the Duke Nukem IP from 3D Realms. That being said, a brand new lawsuit that was recently ousted by Kotaku and it involves Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford being sued for taking a supposed $12 million secret bonus."

https://www.dualshockers.com/gearbox-randy-pitchford-lawsuit-secret-bonus/

https://kotaku.com/former-gearbox-lawyer-accuses-ceo-randy-pitchford-of-ta-1831679539

https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/01/11/gearbox-ceo-randy-pitchford-lawsuit-12-million/

[Local Trouble]

Fake news.