My First Public Apology™

If you're reading this, chances are you know what this is about, and greater still you're one of the people I owe an actual apology. Not a tweet, not with any kind of qualifications or explanations or deflections through humor and irony. I did that already, and it was done in self-preservation and cowardice. This is nothing less than a total admission of fault.

The things I said were rude and spiteful, were motivated by nothing and came from nowhere. The words and names I used were secondary to the emotion behind them, which sought only to hurt and was childish in the extreme. I lost contact with several writers for whom I have a great deal of respect and whose writing I enjoy on a regular basis. Whatever infinitesimally small grievances I may have with their work from time to time were far outstripped by my senseless vitriol in a moment of weakness and idiocy.

I am truly and earnestly sorry for my actions, and any ill effects I caused to those I slandered. I am owed no forgiveness, and can only ask for it humbly and ashamed of what I have done.

Thank you.

I Just Want Bang Bang Bang

Yada yada blah blah Medium Difficulty bleep bloop etc.

Remember those late 90's ads for the Marines where the cadet would scale a cliff face freehand then fight a malevolent Norse ghost with jujitsu before being swallowed by light and outfitted in full uniform? Yeah: military FPS games are the recruitment equivalent of that, except way less interesting.

Also Trent Reznor sucks and so did the ARG he made several albums ago. Why they all gotta be promoting something; make another ARG that exists for its own damn sake. I liked that; that was fun.

ARG ARG ARG.

Hawk a Loogie

The drill: you know it. Just some Tony Hawk HD jazz.

At least it's not the worst thing I've read on the subject.

The Hat Trick

Yep; another one over at Medium Difficulty.


You might recognize a good portion of it as a more artfully condensed version of a five-part series from a few months ago, but I figure that with a new Rock Band title just on the horizon and the future beyond that uncertain, now's a good time for it. Give it a spin! It's definitely a more brisk read.


Also this terrible thing happened, so it's not like the problems I cover have gone away or in any way improved.

P.S. Kill me.

Again?!

Yeah and also it was almost two weeks ago. My bad; that heady E3 week took a lot of Hate Juice out of me.

That would be here.

I'm probably going into hibernation until the next hilariously terrible thing happens while working on rewrites of old things that maybe this time won't take a week's worth of article-text.