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.

look at this internet lawyer

so adorable

You. You there.

Cipher something. Yeah you.

Stop posting the truth, it really hurts me on the inside. I try to pretend it doesn't using sarcasm as my proxy, but everyone with an I.Q. of over 95 can clearly see right through me like the lingerie in a Mexican whorehouse.

Amazing how many sockpuppets are also telepaths.

I think we need to get a grip. All he did was make a tasteless joke. You assholes act like he pulled out a kitten and performed a live vivisection or something.

Oh wait, it's Mittani, so literally anything he does is "TEH WORST THING EVER." Stupid pubbie sheep.

Also: Reported for censorship bypass.

Would that be be the poor suicidal person that joked about his "I want to die after my divorce statement"?

Or the poor suicidal person who was completely unaware that he was supposedly being "cyber bullied", and could care less about all this nonsense?

oh i remember now, cipher jones, you're that moron who was like "all forms of ganking is griefing, which is considered a bannable offense eula etc, and CCP Y U NO enforce your own rules" a while back

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=46031&p=1
actually, don't biomass, i don't want to be responsible for your own mental instability

I guess its pretty funny to hear Goons troll everyone else in game with terms like "pubbie." I know over time, I've come to think of them as "wall boogers." You know? The left overs on the bathroom stall door in a public rest room after some jerk needing a dump decided to clean out his nose too? Unfailingly they line em all up in a row...

Makes em look just like goons. Wall boogers each and every one.

OFFICIAL: The CSM are discussing recent events and will issue a public statement after a few days.

I'm glad to see you are, almost word for word, in agreement with Mittani.

Well said.

Since this whole issue is based purely on his words, which according to you are worth nothing, then he has literally done nothing wrong... especially when he took no "action" to harass anyone at all.

Thanks for clearing that up.