You cognize however amateur magician and some-time Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford wears atrocious shirts? Well, the Borderlands brag has chanced upon this thought to auction disconnected his old, utilized covering to assistance a charity. Which charity? No clue. Because this is the timeline we deserve.

The auction (and adjacent the URL is cursed) lists Pitchford’s old, unwanted covering each astatine a suggested worth of $400. 47 of them. Each much hideous and much already-worn-by-Randy-Pitchford than the last.

Now, there’s a mentation of this communicative wherever Pitchford is doing this arsenic a stunt to summation attraction for a profoundly worthy cause, possibly a life-saving foundation that’s truly touched his bosom (like each of these shirts excessively astir have). We are not experiencing that version. The auction’s tweet suggests it volition beryllium for “developer scholarships,” but obscurity successful the tweet, nor connected the auction’s page, does it accidental which ones. Perhaps a genuinely fantastic one. But we don’t know.

GamesRadar, which spotted this madness first, dug astir connected Gearbox’s ain tract and recovered that the institution runs its ain assistance program, with grants betwixt $500 and $1,500, on with offers of face-time for classrooms. It is so a registered charity, founded successful 2019 by educators Isabel Mendiola and Peter Haydock, and called Gearbox Labs. But we should accent that this circumstantial foundation is not named anyplace by Gearbox successful promoting this auction. The “About This Auction” conception connected the Bid Beacon tract has simply been near empty.

We person reached retired to Gearbox to inquire if they tin wide up this mystery, and volition update the communicative should they reply.

Disturbingly, the Bid Beacon tract reports that immoderate shirts person received aggregate bids, though everything has been listed arsenic a “blind bid,” specified that we cannot spot however adjacent to that suggested $400 anyone has offered. I person been incapable to corroborate whether the tract accepts antagonistic numbers.

Of course, if this truly is being done to enactment a foundation bearing the company’s ain name, not lone is it truthful damn weird they don’t accidental so, but you mightiness privation to inquire questions astir wherefore a developer—which itself made a nett of astir $180,000,000 successful the past year—needs to merchantability aged apparel to supply funds. Let unsocial a institution owned by the all-consuming Embracer Group.

Meanwhile, nary convey you.