The world would be a lot better place if there were less kneejerk resignations from people who are otherwise very good at their jobs. How many talented and dedicated politicians have we lost to affairs?

We will worry about that when I do something as horrible as he did.

And Jesus said, "Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone."

Please post evidence of your assertion that he tried to cling to power and or weasel his way out of this.

This is exactly why no goonswarm should be allowed to be csm ever again. This guy represents what goonswarm is about, being immature inconsiderate kids.

If another goonswarm gets into csm, I swear eve will drown.

I mean seriously, look at the post above mine; this guy is calling people "citizen" like they're better than others, biggotry.

This entire THREAD is of goonswarm putting down other people; what the hell. As if they hadnt been repremanded enough. Apparently not; I call for the executor corp of goonswarm to be banned for this.

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.

Who's cyber-bullying whom now?
Everyone in favor of banning "Todes" for bullying put your hands up/like this post!

Your ignorance when claiming to operate 12 accounts and have been around for a long time is amusing. The goon wiki is the best new player reference in the game.

What, this one?

Pay money for full access? Sorry, cba to do that.

The fact that a single drunk capsuleer saying something in very poor taste in a room full of drunk people can generate a much larger thread than WIS in less than 5% of the time the WIS thread has been in existence shows how little the playerbase really care about barbies.

Thank you for your substantial contribution.

Im going down the pub in ten minutes for a pint. Anyone else interested?

25 days untill Jita-Geddon.

I picture the Mittens in a Columbian prison scratching marks on the wall with an old broken clam shell.

And for the record, I expect The Mittani to be in Jita. Not hidden away in Moonswarm HQ twitching like a Gollum protecting his Precious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLvIFRNbqOs

A Goonswarm and Mittani convention

[quote=Elsebeth Rhiannon]

What I hav ebeen protesting against is the people obviously using it to try and leverage ccp into banning The Mittani simply because they hate him/gsf/cfc

Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote:
Did you guys who want to use RP as an excuse know that CCP Rules & Policies explicitly forbid the use of RP as an excuse of acting in an offensive way, and lists doing so as bannable offense?

Quote:
3. HARASSMENT

An immediate permanent ban of an account may result if a player:

a. Organizes or participates in a corporation or group that is based on or advocates any anti-ethnic, anti-gay, anti-religious, racist, sexist or other hate-mongering philosophies.

Severe offences may result in an immediate ban without warning; however, warnings may be given for first time offenses, followed by account suspensions of varying degree and ultimately a permanent ban if a player:

a. Is abusive, obscene, offensive, sexually explicit, ethnically or racially offensive, or threatening to another player or an official EVE Online representative.
b. Uses role-playing as an excuse for violating the guidelines regarding fair play with others.
c. Sends excessive e-mails, EVE-mails or petitions, petitions with false information or repeatedly petitions under the wrong category in an effort to circumvent the customer support queue.

Source: http://community.eveonline.com/pnp/banning.asp (emphasis mine).

[quote=Richard Hammond II]whaaaaat its not dead enough yet

this and true