EVE General Discussion

But didn't they stream it on their website though?

It has begun. Next episode of Dr. Phil to focus on cyber bullying.

Why not? Have you engaged in some unsafe intimate contact? Denial won't save you. Get tested now so you can deal with the issue early. You should also notify anyone that you might have exposed, so they can get tested as well.

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Oh right! So it'd be perfectly acceptable for, say, Obama to make obscene and offensive comments if he went shopping with his family as the father of the Obama household, but not as the president of the USA? The paparazzi would have a field day. Besides - he's chairman of CSM 7 now.

Why not? Have you engaged in some unsafe intimate contact? Denial won't save you. Get tested now so you can deal with the issue early. You should also notify anyone that you might have exposed, so they can get tested as well.

Can't ask someone to step down thats not in a position. So I guess some of the post of him leaving would stop. I don't know what you quoters are trying to get from me.

Being yourselves will give you the answer you need.. I don't have to time to find your answers for you..

This has been hanging over my head since Thursday when I stumbled away from the Alliance Panel with a vague sense that I had done something horrible. I didn't know the extent of how much of a shitheel I had been until today, when footage of the presentation went up. As many of you now know, I gave out the in-game character name of a Mackinaw miner if anyone had wanted to blow him up - except that I was so smashed that I didn't recall exactly what I said (as anyone who was there can tell you). When I came to the forums the other day and saw threads complaining about my behavior - not remembering what I'd said - I assumed that I was enduring the usual anti-Goonswarm trolls, and posted something like "deal with it~" in my usual "The Mittani" way.

Then I landed, and saw the article listing my actual quote.

Christ.

I feel absolutely ashamed of my behavior at the Alliance Panel. It's one thing to play a villain in an online roleplaying game - when I post on these forums or on twitter, I usually do so as 'The Mittani', and do my level best to convince everyone that I'm an unrepentant space villain, as that kind of facade provides an in-game advantage to me and my alliance. But I am not that character in real life, as anyone who has met me can attest. I went way, way, /way/ past the line on Thursday night by mocking the Mackinaw miner at a real-life event. I, as a person, am not the entity that I play in EVE; I am not actually a sociopath or a sadist, and I certainly don't want people to kill themselves in real life over an internet spaceship game, no matter what I may say or do within the game itself. CCP may say 'EVE is Real', but EVE is not real - and the line between the game and reality should not be overstepped.

I'm relieved to discover that the Mackinaw miner is doing fine and mining away, despite being blown up by Goonswarm in-game. He deserves, and he has, my heartfelt apologies - here in public as well as a private apology. There's no excuse for what I did - while some might try to use my inebriation as a mitigating factor, I put myself in that compromised mental state, and the guilt of that is entirely mine.

If I could go back in time and not have included the slide mentioning the miner, I would do so. While the Eve Online character "The Mittani" would never apologize for any sort of villany in game, I myself, as Alex Gianturco, feel utterly ashamed and sickened by my behavior.