• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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    Robert Maxwell’s oily fingers were in so many industries, it was insane. He’s a hated figure in the UK - partly because of his general shittiness, but mainly for fucking over a load of pension pots. He’s on the scale slightly above James Corden; but slightly below Margaret Thatcher for general hatred.

    If anyone has seen Tetris of late, that film paints Maxwell and his cronies in an appropriate light.

    It’s a shame, because Mirrorsoft were a decent publisher as well.

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      If anyone has seen Tetris of late, that film paints Maxwell and his cronies in an appropriate light.

      Oh my god, I didn’t realize this was the same Maxwell. Depicted with cartoonish levels of nefariousness maybe just one step under Baron Harkonnen.

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        Yeah. You could literally substitute the news of his “disappearance” with the Surprised Pikachu meme.

        Absolute arsehole of a spunkpuppet.