captaincontrarian
Captain Contrarian
captaincontrarian

Good thing the board of directors authorizes millions of dollars in performance bonuses for them each year.  Otherwise this top talent might get stolen away by the competition!

He’s been in charge of this company for DECADES. The entire point of his obscenely high salary is that he is constantly claiming that everything the company does is related to him. You don’t get to claim credit for decades of success and say you weren’t responsible for the decades of abuse. Kotick even has a level of

That’s what the last 6 months could have been for.

All these amazing CEOs, no idea what’s going in the companies they claim to run.

So did the devs finally learn to not reuse the same plot twist they used in the last two games?

Pokemon Go made an estimated $1.92 BILLION in 2020 alone. During a pandemic. And at least a billion each of the two years before that. It still makes the company more than most all other Pokemon video game releases. People aren’t running out into traffic as much as they did when it started, but it’s still very

Since it’s in the news, I’m guessing within the day, or week, it’ll be taken over by somebody spoofing their location.

And?

“I choose to remove myself from criticism, while still earning money from any new Freddy’s games that come out. Conveniently, since I won’t be the public face anymore, many who might have hesitated to buy them will decide that this makes it fine to again. Even though I’ll still get the money and almost certainly still

Yeah donating to Klacik is a pretty big giveaway of his true colors. A candidate who had no chance of victory in any scenario and is just an outrage celebrity in a very specific circle of MAGA.

Concern About Baltimore” is the same dog whistle as “Concern About the South Side of Chicago” is: a racist one.

He gave to second-rate grifter Kimberly Klacik. If he legitimately believed Klacik, a suburbanite who lived nowhere near the district where she was running, was interested in improving the lives of the residents of West Baltimore, I have a bridge to sell him.

I think the most insidious thing the Ku Klux Klan achieved in America was to reframe the very perception of racism among white people. It gave them this almost cartoonish image of capital-R Racists as guys in white sheets burning crosses on lawns and lynching black people in mobs. And so many of these white people

Exactly.  This is like when people say “I don’t see race.”  Well then it’s no fucking wonder you don’t recognize your own racism.  

“I’ve never cared about anyone’s race, religion, gender, or orientation,” Cawthon wrote”

Despite the article being about and featuring pictures of terrifying animatronic monstrosities, the most disturbing image in the post is photo of Mitch McConnell.

It isn’t hard to lose goodwill, even if it takes a long time to earn it.  How is this a hard concept?

“I’d like to think that the last seven years would have given me the benefit of the doubt in regards to how I try to treat people,” Cawthon wrote in the now locked Reddit thread.