Notch replied tersely with, “Be a man, dude.” Pitchford responded by satirizing his own statement: “Every man must accept the reality of the relationship between their gender and what the software they are running is doing. Masculinity is a shader option. Try turning it off if you’d like to tune your own performance.”
Every man must accept the reality of the relationship between their gender and what the software they are running is doing. Masculinity is a shader option. Try turning it off if you’d like to tune your own performance.September 16, 2025
There don’t appear to be any clear winners in the spat; neither participant has pursued the exchange further, so the disagreement seems to have ended as abruptly as it began.
Earlier, at Gamescom 2025, Pitchford told us Gearbox doesn’t let online negativity derail them. As he put it, developers “don’t worry about the hate” because engagement—even hostile—means people care, and he claimed he channels that attention into motivation.
Fans will hope that motivation translates into performance improvements for Borderlands 4, despite Pitchford’s previous claim that “less than one percent of one percent” of PC players reported “valid performance issues.”
While you’re here, check out our Borderlands 4 review and our Borderlands 4 tips to help you get started in Gearbox’s new looter shooter.
Source: gamesradar.com
