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Senior VP of PSN allegedly tried to meet 15 year old for sex. Incident recorded by independent pedophile 'hunting group'

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
Looks like twitter thread's being updated with messages and some more info.

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I'll check twitter later. Going to prep some dinner. Disappointing. 4Chan thread locked and Resetera locked too.
 

Yoboman

Member
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by penetrating an asshole. If you screw someone underage in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase GOW for PS5, nor will they purchase any of Sony's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Sony has alienated an entire market with this move.
Sony, publicly apologize and cancel George Cacioppo and Jim Ryan or you can kiss your business goodbye.
Nah they just make the age of consent as 13 in Japan

All the high powered business people over there are probably slamming kids in love hotels, they just don't get in trouble for it
 

Aranea

Member
This person will end up being fired and more if these accusations turned out to be true. This is why i don't really buy any PR crap companies tend to do, as bad apples are everywhere.
 

anthony2690

Banned
Rich old guys paying for sex isn’t exactly shocking but I don’t see anything happening in this video. How is this a bust? Someone could do the same to any of us.

Of course if it’s true send him away and all that but so far this is nothing.
They can only really do this if you're arranging to meet a child on an app though, so not sure how it can happen to any of us... :l
 

DaGwaphics

Member
Rich old guys paying for sex isn’t exactly shocking but I don’t see anything happening in this video. How is this a bust? Someone could do the same to any of us.

Of course if it’s true send him away and all that but so far this is nothing.


Comedy Central Reaction GIF by Lights Out with David Spade


Tips for non pedos: #1 if you are on an app and someone says they are less than the legal age, admonish them for being on an adult app in the first place and say goodbye.
 
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kingfey

Banned
Funny how good corporations are to these people when they virtue signal and are "woke". yet capitalism = bad to them. explain the conflict.

no greater example of this than microsoft
People like BR talk, and MS is much better in this regard compared to Sony.

MS has alot to lose. Sony is just tiny to them. They have around 70% of the computers in the world, many business uses their product. Not appeasing these people will make it harder for them to do business. So they pretend to care about them.

Any company who uses this talk, is not to be trusted. I am working in a company, which doesnt give a single FK to its employees, but like to do talk about this shit signal virtual crap.
 

Concern

Member
You liked the previous post calling out Sony, but Microsoft is just as bad if not worse when it comes to all this stuff.

Explain how my comment is incorrect. Both companies are woke darlings to the REEE crowd.


They're all pandering to the woke shit. But the one caught in the mess right now is a Sony guy. When Phil, Cringeberg, or one of the xbox guys get caught meeting a 15 year old we can take it there.

But this is Sony's show.
 

SenkiDala

Member
Who cares?

Cops will sort it out, and in the meantime I will give 0 fucks as this affects videogaming in no way shape or form
People on here are still, well people, and we don't only "give a fuck" about games. Because I mean trying to corrupt children for sex is bad, don't you know?
 

isoRhythm

Banned
There's a huge difference between employees doing weird illegal shit on their own time than doing weird illegal shit inside of the workplace. But still hoping for this sicko to end up behind bars.
 

Excess

Member
Yes, and it's people who have similar faults. This is not similar or even comparable.

If you think it is, then explain why.

Jim Ryan made a statement about a counterpart from another organization, which implies that his own organization and the employees within it are immune from scandal. I know you personally don't agree with this, but in terms of public relations, that's the implication because it follows a pattern that is easily understood by the most basic on on-lookers. And when it comes to public figures, people will always wish for the worse when it comes to sanctimonious statements and empty platitudes for the simple reason that nobody is perfect. Just look at the Catholic church, or some high profile politician; it's a common trope.
 

DForce

NaughtyDog Defense Force
They're all pandering to the woke shit. But the one caught in the mess right now is a Sony guy. When Phil, Cringeberg, or one of the xbox guys get caught meeting a 15 year old we can take it there.

But this is Sony's show.
We already know you're going to barely post anything in those threads. You're just here to console war.
 

Rossco EZ

Member
Yup, the minute Ryan released that statement a few weeks ago, I was just saying to myself 'this won't end well'.

Not one week later we had the unfair dismissal claim with other sexism claims and now we have this....

Once again I will repeat that I think PlayStation leadership from the bottom to top apart from a few people like Shu should be all cleared out and management should return to Japan.

They are asking for trouble with their base in California and staffed by Americans and Europeans. They're not even doing a passable job with the actual business anyway.
it isn’t just a jim ryan problem, it’s life now days. they try to appeal to the twitter crowd but it eventually backfires.
 

Dr Bass

Member
Comedy Central Reaction GIF by Lights Out with David Spade


Tips for non pedos: #1 if you are on an app and someone says they are less than the legal age, admonish them for being on an adult app in the first place and say goodbye.

WTF is this? Are you insinuating I support that kind of thing? If so you can piss off. Pedophiles that act on their desires should be locked up for life IMO. Seriously, get lost with that garbage.

I'm saying this video shows nothing but a dude yelling at another dude and that's it. Anyone can do something like this. Taking this as "proof" of anything is absurd.
 
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