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Both things can be true: Barrett could have been ina-pro-pro in his interactions with women in the company, and Bungie used that as cover to fire him so the rest of the execs could divvy up his stock options. While it's impossible to say how much of the accusations that led to his firing were bullshit, Barrett does have a bit of a skeevy past in that he and his current wife both cheated on their spouses with each other before they hooked up officially. So he may not be totally innocent, but unless he was going around raping every woman at Bungie, it may not have been all that serious.

At any rate, it's still funny.

(Fun fact: Barrett was also the designer of the Destiny logo. After the EoL announcement, someone asked on Twitter what it meant, and he replied that it didn't really have a meaning when it was drawn up, it was just a unique symbol that could be easily identified, though he did like the idea of it having something to do with the three classes. I just remember the Reddit thread was full of people kvetching over "oh man now I can't enjoy this because he made it," and that made me laugh.)

Yeah totally. I was just looking at this. His agreement with bungie would have made it clear that he could be fired for inappropriate conduct.

What we don't know:
* how much they settled for. generally when they make a mutual statement like that it's because plaintiff has leverage that also translated to a significant payout ($10-$100 million is my guess).
* but it could be his claim is BS and he got paid nuisance value. then they gave him the joint public statement to let him save face. and nuisance value in this case, given that he could take it to a jury and has a small but real chance of winning $200 million + damages + up to 10x punitives, "nuisance value" still might be $1 million (that he'll get to keep 60% of once his lawyers are done feeding).
* What incentives Sony has - I'm sure the sale agreement is online because sony is a public company but couldn't find it anywhere, just streamers analyzing it from back in 2022. very common for these agreements to shift the risk of these kinds of lawsuits onto the selling shareholders, and then maintain a 10%-20% reserve to deal with these claims. If Sony is paying this claim with seller money, I would assume they would be happy to pay this guy between between $10 and $100 million if it comes out of Pete Parson's Pockets. If Sony is paying out of their own pocket, then the lawsuit has to have merit b/c it would be cheaper to fight it.
* the thing that's weird for me is that there's the text evidence of him creeping on girls, apparently in lame passive ways that were too sadboy to even be explicit and horny and sex pesty. is that not enough to fire him? if it was only that bad, maybe the point is that firing was excessive and pretextual and some other kind of remedial action should have been taken first. if bungie had disciplined other people that did similar things w/o firing them, or if his agreement had some sort of clause where he was supposed to have notice and a chance to fix his behavior before getting fired, then he'd probably win in court.

Fun fact: when i was trying to find a copy of the agreement i saw this post on reddit

if you don't recognize the name he was one half of a a one hit wonder act "dan le sac vs. scroobius pip", the one-hit wonder the streets/kate tempest northern english spoken english "rap" song "thou shalt always kill" - the lyrics that aren't self-deprecating and funny feel unberably twatty on repeat listening but dan le sac did the production part of it and it rocked. anyway he's a destiny nerd who also enjoys watching bungie collapse under the weight of their own ineptitude. that's pretty cool. shit just listened to it again - the production holds up but man it's a relic from a dead world. must be what like looking at stuff from 1910 felt like in 1925.

 

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also translated to a significant payout ($10-$100 million is my guess).

Well there goes S4