Zeusthecat

I see where you're coming from and that could be a valid reason for why he waited to apologize. However, the fact still remains that he never actually apologized to her. That tells me he is really saying "I regret what I did because of the damage it did to my public image" rather than "I regret what I did because it hurt somebody else". I think there should be at least three cardinal rules of apologizing: Don't wait until you get caught. Apologize to the person or people you hurt and save public apologies for when it is truly the public you owe an apology to. Don't make excuses when apologizing. Say "I'm sorry for doing what I did to hurt you", not "I'm sorry for doing what I did to hurt you but I'm an alcoholic so I couldn't help myself". Sorry for my ranting. I think I just reached critical mass with these situations and the public apologies that come afterward (notice how I just violated rule number three above). If it weren't for the valuable discussion that comes afterward I would prefer for these public apologies to go away in most circumstances and I would be more than content just knowing whether the person made amends or not. But we wouldn't be having this discussion if that were the case so I'll just shut up.

What I've been getting frustrated with lately are these "apologies" that only take place after they have been publicly outed for what they did and aren't even directed toward the victim. I suspect if someone was truly sorry for something they would apologize to that person directly and not wait to see if they were caught. This guy waited till he was caught and never apologized to the victim. For those two reasons and because of the excuses he made in his apology I call bullshit.

I think the key thing about an apology is, at the very least, that you need to apologize to the person you hurt. Mattingly has yet to personally apologize to Mercier (according to the article) and until he does his lame, excuse riddled apology doesn't hold any weight.

You are objectively correct about everything in this post.

Yeah, I kept checking back throughout the day and the comments continued to get worse. On the bright side it seems like the horrible stuff was mostly contained to a few individuals and the majority of people on there were fighting the good fight.

How about Nick Breckon's disembodied head floating above a Sim City 2000 cityscape. He has a distressed look on his face and is thinking "She knows" as he shoots a glance towards the window behind him. (I may be mis-remembering Nick's story about the neighbor person accusing him of going home to play Sim City)

Goddamn dude, I'm sorry. I can't stand people who think giving people a hard time about trivial shit is funny.

I didn't want to be a tattle-tale but... I saw Chris in this thread more than once.

It would be the best if someone updated the "Video Games" Wikipedia page to show this.

The other day I was wondering where the abbreviation O.K. came from and what it stood for. When I Googled it I discovered that it partially came from Martin van Buren's nickname. Since Martin van Buren is a great great great great great great grand uncle of mine (my mother's maiden name is van Buren) I have always been mildly interested whenever I hear his name come up so I clicked a link and started reading about him. Then I discovered a great conspiracy that rocked the foundations of my belief system: Martin van Buren was born exactly 202 years before I was down to the day; 2+0+2=4; my daughter is four years old and she has a brother who will be 1 this year; 4-1=3; Half-Life 3 confirmed.

http://kotaku.com/she-was-harassed-by-a-games-reporter-now-shes-speakin-1510714971 That was a depressing read. And then I took a look at the comments and... what the fuck is wrong with people??? I don't know how anyone could read that and come to the conclusion that she is being oversensitive or in the wrong in any way whatsoever. I'm generally an optimist but seriously this situation is so fucked up.

I own the first game but still haven't played it. After watching that trailer though I kind of want to see what this series is all about. Looks fun.

I'm sure nobody would be surprised to hear me say this but Minecraft seems like it might fit the bill. Also, maybe Cart Life?

But seriously, watch Moving Art. It's fantastic. Also, Beverly Hills Ninja is the Citizen Kane of movies.

I'll second this. There have been many a game where I ended up getting more into one of the side activities than the main game itself. 60+ hours of Blitzball in FFX is an embarrassing example of this.

Same reason we can't reach down and pick up our own feet to make ourselves levitate: because it would make the universe implode.

None of this changes the fact that it's a stupid word and I hate it. At least I'm a little more educated now so there's that.

Regenerating health If you are a futuristic marine with a regenerating shield, that is one thing. But if you are a soldier fighting in World War 2, you should not be able to take a bullet in the chest and then sit behind a rock for a few seconds before popping back up and taking another bullet in the chest. But I suppose going back to having magical band-aids that heal all imaginable gunshot wounds isn't much better. Maybe what I really want is for games to stop being about an entire enemy force solely going after the player because they know the player is the only one with elvish healing powers.

It kind of reminds me of when people started referring to everyone else as "dog". It was so strange to see a term that would have previously been considered derogatory become a term of endearment in such a short period of time. I wonder if we will eventually go through a phase where we all just call each other "fucker".

What the fuck does "swag" mean exactly? I am finding myself increasingly annoyed every time I hear that stupid term. "Oh, I backed a game on kickstarter and I got some sweet swag." So someone hocked a tuberculosis riddled loogie in a bag and gave it to you as a gift for backing their game? Sounds like a perfect reward for contributing funds to a game. I, for one, don't ever want a swag bag unless it was some kind of reward straight from Dr. Seuss.

You caught me. I was just trying to get everyone on here to go watch this new series where people's farts are recorded and played back in slow motion to a Clint Mansell soundtrack. (Now that I think about it I would totally watch that. I think I'm broken.)

I just discovered this series on Netflix called "Moving Art". Each one is about 25 minutes of nature footage with incredible music accompanying the whole thing. The whole series is just so goddamn beautiful.

It is a pretty great DBZ movie. A good mix of silliness mixed with some badassery here and there.

It was a rhetorical post. Please, for the sake of everyone else here don't egg me on.Edit: Goddamn Ucantalas, that is some superb one-upsmanship. I'll just say you win and leave it at that.

What better way to make sure kids are playing safe than by reminding them of their own mortality every time they go down the slide?