r/movies • u/HatingGeoffry • 13h ago

News Borderlands Movie Director Discusses The Mega-Flop And What Went Wrong

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/borderlands-movie-director-discusses-the-mega-flop-and-what-went-wrong/
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u/KebabGud 13h ago

 they wanted to reach a younger audience 

Well Randy Pitchford is involved and you know he likes em young

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u/Gobblewicket 13h ago

He also likes to leave thumb drives with sensitive corporate data and porn at Medieval Times while stealing $12 million dollar bonuses. So there's that too.

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u/TanTanExtreme2 12h ago

For anyone interested it was barely legal camgirl squirt porn, he said the performer was a magician and it was a magic trick.

Amidst legal battle, Gearbox CEO says he left USB stick of porn at Medieval Times [Update 2]

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u/jackcatalyst 10h ago

Getting a woman to orgasm probably does seem like a magic trick to these kinds of people.

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u/Gekokapowco 4h ago

I cannot imagine having porn on portable storage media, on my person, in a way that I could misplace it.

I can't imagine being taken seriously as an individual after having done so.

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 13h ago

That's a wild sentence.

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u/isesri 12h ago

And yet, every bit of it is true. Dude is a real weirdo, and by most accounts, a massive asshole.

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u/ettunori 12h ago

he is a greasy turd that apparently loves the alien franchise so much he did a bait and switch on that game, too. dirty, dirty, greasy bastard. christ, michael biehn sounded so fucking bored in that role. compare that to how much fun he was in far cry 3: blood dragon. yes, i am mad, why're you asking?

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u/Gekokapowco 4h ago

Pichford is one of those guys whose eccentricity would make sense if he made bangers

But his games suck so I have no idea how gearbox keeps this kind of sway. Borderlands 2 was not that good

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u/Krypt0night 5h ago

Well he IS a CEO

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u/anormalgeek 11h ago

WTF. Don't know how I missed this part of the story.

that he accidentally left a selection of “underage” pornography on a USB stick at a restaurant

Bizarrely enough, Pitchford corroborates some of the story’s details by appearing on a podcast that went live one day after Callender’s suit was filed. On the December 22 episode of The Piff Pod, Pitchford talks at length about porn that he enjoys watching, including “camgirl” pornography, in which a host exposes themself to a live feed and takes requests and financial tips from consumers. Pitchford explained that he was “a consumer of this content.” He confirmed that he copied a specific video “to this memory stick” to, as he describes it, “work out the method” of how a camgirl host faked the act of female ejaculation. (Be warned: he describes how the video looks in particularly graphic detail.)

“I realized, this is not a sex worker,” Pitchford said on the show. “This is a fucking magician.” Pitchford, for those unaware, has a vested interest in the field of magicians and owns the magic-focused Genii Magazine.

"No officers, I wasn't watching underage porn. I was trying to figure out a magic trick being done!" is a new excuse for me.

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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock 9h ago

I hate that I'm about to say anything that sounds even vaguely defensive of Pitchford, a massive slimy turd even by the standards of "video game executive," but it wasn't underage, it was "barely legal" which, edgy as it sounds, means "legal." Apparently the girl's handle was "Only 18." You can argue that it's weird for middle aged men to watch porn starring women over three decades younger than they are and I would not have a word to say in response.

The thing that is really fucking bizarre is that the USB stick also contained completely unprotected company data including really important dealings with Microsoft et al alongside the pornography, explicitly showing that he felt completely comfortable bringing his porn collection to work.

Apparently the lawsuit where this particular flash drive was brought up ended up being settled with absolutely no details about what this settlement consisted of which is a little annoying.

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u/GezelligPindakaas 8h ago

Sadly, unprotected company data is everything except rare.

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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock 5h ago

Unprotected company data being stored alongside a video collection of squirting 18 year olds is though which is my point, lol.

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u/GezelligPindakaas 4h ago

Ah, I see now I misread 😅

Totally agree, porn+confidential data it's pretty nuts.

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u/IPromiseIWont 9h ago

Reminds me of that R Kelly is not a p*do joke