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Date Posted: 4/06/02 5:24:54 GMT+10
Author: Goktimus Prime
Subject: an apology to users of the chat channel (#transformers)

Just to clear some things here...

Yesterday afternoon on #transformers, I was acting like a complete tool. Basically Maxiewolf made one reference to the Imperial system of measures and I totally lost my temper and went ballistic. Lots and lots of swearing was done and lots of bad words and sentiments were said, short of making any direct threats to other users.

In short, I lost my cool.

For those who know me, this does not happen that often. Although I often disagree with other users' viewpoints, I often engage myself in arguments in a cool, rational way, focussing mainly on the issues at hand, without attacking other users, unless they're being really stupid or something.

Hence, I apologise to Maxiewolf and to anyone else who was outraged by my stupid behaviour yesterday.

Furthermore, it has come to my attention that people have already started accussing Megatron (Bruce Walters) of hacking into my IRC account and impersonating me yesterday. I want to verify that it was NOT him; but me. So please stop giving him flack for something he didn't do.

On a final note, although it is uncommon for me to utterly lose my temper like this, if it should ever happen again, please just totally IGNORE me instead of trying to reason with me -- especially when I _tell_ you that I am NOT in a state of mind to be reasoned with. That voice would be what is left of my rational mind pleading you to leave it alone until I've calmed down.

To do otherwise would be just a waste of time. Now ideally, if I become that angry again, I should just leave the channel on my own accord, but in the hopefully unlikely event that I ever become that stupidly irrational and angry again, please just ignore me. Type "/ignore Goktimus" if need be. Because last night I was literally drunk with rage, and if that should happen again, talking or arguing with me about it just makes it worse. Not responding to me would wear me down rather quickly (whereas responding would just fuel the fire) and I would soon leave the channel on my own accord as soon as I realise that there's no reason for me to stay.

I am by no means trying to use my rage as an excuse to shirk responsibility for my behaviour last night -- merely a warning that should it happen again (and again, I really really hope it doesn't) to just leave me alone, otherwise things will get uglier than it usually would. I'm not trying to make excuses, merely giving tips on "managing" or coping with me should I ever become that utterly enraged again.

Anyway, as most of you who know me should be aware of, this was very much out of character for me (which is most likely why some of you have been looking for someone else to blame, because it might have been difficult to believe that it actually was me), but I will admit that it was me. I was really being that stupid. I was a complete cock.

There are no real excuses for what I did, so I won't even try to offer any.

My bad. I'm terribly sorry.
I hope this doesn't change the way some of you regard me. Well, unless you already think I'm a complete arsehole, then I guess nothing's changed.

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