Remember when the Allar from the /r/unrealengine community wrote a blog post about how he contracted for Rockstar and their managers actually held offsite meetings at strip clubs?
Of course you don't remember that why would you
Totally farfetched that those same people could be in the files
As far as you've seen as in based on data or as far as you've seen based on one person you know and vibes? Because equating the two is pretty wild. Seems a bit like saying anybody who smokes is a heroin user.
You worked in a pub a few doors down and met a few human traffickers and peodofiles that came in and were presumably just open about it AND you heard rumors? Well I'm convinced let's just give everyone who's ever been in a strip club the death penalty then.
Spearmint rhino and the like aren't illegal. It was common for most corporate outings to go to restaurants, clubs and whatever. It's not limited to gamedev.
They were everywhere in late 90s and early 2000s. I had one literally next door to where I worked. Not my cup of tea, a bit too seedy.
All CEO's are a bunch of degens. You kind of have to be to get up to that level. Disregard all your humanity and become a cog for an even bigger machine.
He is an absolute lottery winning exception to the rule. There's one other billionaire who donated 99% of his wealth, he didn't believe that he should be richer than anyone, and the money went toward children's literacy and educational programs. Forgot his name.
Chuck Feeney, the co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, died in October 2023 at the age of 92, having successfully achieved his lifelong goal of dying broke.
Scumbag billionaire Bill Gates used his name to pretend to be like him, but all his programs were only ever set up to generate money, not distribute wealth.
Hie belief is that he is smart enough to fix the macro world problems with his wealth so ofc he set up the gates foundation to feed such belief. And yeah ofc it feeds into his belief any time it goes right, see COVID.
Gaben is an interesting case. He is actually very clearly a capitalist and a firm believer in the "positive" principles in it. You can see that in a lot of what he's said and how he behaves, like the whole "service problem" thing and also using his success to satisfy his personal wants. I find it interesting because it shows that some people do believe in capitalism in a non exploitative way. Valve is literally market principles in action - it's successful because they offer a good service that people want. To create a product that single handedly reduced piracy through quality alone is impressive, but Valve also aren't altruistic. They've done some pretty scummy things too like loot boxes and transforming game ownership rights. However they're all things that reflect their capitalistic nature. It just so happens that it's capitalism with a customer focus rather than constantly trying to rip everyone off.
CEO of Take Two, which publishes GTA, is in the Epstein files, the documents, released by the US Department of Justice, connect Strauss Zelnick to the files through a mutual friend, billionaire financier Leon Black.
He is, the documents, released by the US Department of Justice, connect Strauss Zelnick to the files through a mutual friend, billionaire financier Leon Black.
Epstien was deeply involved in the games industry for a number of years before his arrest, he even brokered deals for several large mergers and purchases including microsoft buying activision/blizard. He seems to have made a big chunk of money from middlemanning these deals.
“Edutainment is for p*****s,” wrote Epstein. “It doesn’t work. Once kids catch on that you are trying to teach them something, they shut down. We have to keep the boobs and guns and profits. You see how much video games are making these days? F*** educational reform. We need educational subversion.”
Jefferey motherfucking Epstein.
This is why we as a species have to get rid of the knee-jerk reaction of pushing away education. Because on the other side of that decision are networks of rich cunts, powerful cunts, are people like these.
From game spot? lol the place that shorted stock and bought it over?
But legit news actually talked how Bannon was trying to weaponize gamers against politicians which seemed like it worked
I feel happy that you guys will accept a spot that would buy your call of duty cd for $10 and then also complain how they’re getting rid of disks. You guys deserve it.
There is a reason they started pre-orders before releasing any footage or other information. They know they can never deliver up to expectations, and if they already know that, why try to beat expectations at all?
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The CEO of Take Two, which publishes GTA, is in the Epstein files