Do nothing prople bitch. Quickly find something to stop the bitching and people bitch about the fact they did. They were fucked either way the second the videos first dropped regardless of whether or not everything was actually on the level honestly.
This move smells more like an attempt to get a better plea deal than to salvage public images
Considering the money unaccounted for, I doubt it will do much, especially when this ran for a decade and would have continued if the story hadn't dropped.
I think it was a panic move. On top of the criminal charges, there’s also huge year to year tax penalties. I definately think their lawyer said “donate the 600k now, and when the authorities come in, we will use incompetence as our defense strategy to hopefully spare everyone jail time”
I can’t believe Gaijin Goomba didn’t get his own thread.
He does have one, it's just like 20 pages and dead.
Either that or he could (as he alluded to when talking to Muta & Karl) throw the family under the bus & say he had no idea how it was being run rather than make an apology.
I know I'm late and pages and pages behind; but probably never. Because an apology video would have to have a complete "We sent the money to a good place, here's perfect evidence." I'm not saying there is or isn't shenanigans; I'm just saying, manufacturing the apology the Internet would want is far more complicated if not impossible, depending on what's actually been going on.
This is one of the most sane responses. Especially as he's a resident of Southern California, everyone fucking knows about Loma Linda University and their hospital; it's quite literally one of if not thee top-ranked University Hospital in the fucking region if not the state. They have a Dementia program, if you're seriously having a problem offloading charity money, they're a prime fucking recipient.
So you're telling me Jamie Lee Curtis' son trooned out and cosplayed as Squiggly from Skullgirls without the single biggest hint of irony? Man...
That's his fucking wedding.
I'm going to guess PR ahead of time approved any questions and topics they might discuss. This is common in all professional interviews (its considered in poor taste to throw curve balls) and likely even moreso with the language barrier, plus culture in Japan. Nintendo likes to keep themselves squeaky clean, they probably hounded the entire process. I honestly don't fault him for this one, it was purely a Nintendo PR move he just happened to get lucky to be chosen for.
Also, interviews need to be about something. No one is going to sit down with an industry leader and talk about their golf game; you actually need to agree on the topic of discussion in advance. That’s a completely normal thing to do. Not every interview is catching some person in a dramatic Gotcha, at least outside of daytime talk tv.
His costume is so homosexual. So half assed. If you're going to do it-first off DONT- pick a GOOD character. Don't even know who the faggot is
Yeah if you're going to do a PR stunt like this, who would you choose if you were going to slap your biggest name in front of a weirdo online? The one who will ask decent but potentially hard questions or the mouth breather who worships the ground you walk on and is just hyped you're there, but you'll get the same amount of views? The second option seems easiest and safest from a corporate point of view.
