Well, here we are again. I did something stupid.
Some of you may remember a few days ago when a thread was posted on the Wii U boards. The thread contained an app named "boat1hax" - similarly-named to a long-awaited exploit for the system and with a variety of other nuances to draw attention. The thread has been deleted and the posting account banned - this is because the application was not an exploit as it claimed. Users of the app would be shown a mildly-convincing installation screen before the console started playing a low-resolution version of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".
From the beginning, it wasn't a brilliant idea. Things got worse when I decided that it shouldn't be an April Fool's release after all; instead being impatient and going forward upon completion. Even worse still, I took the cowardly route and made an alternate account and removed references to myself from the program. I got scared. This should have been my red flag; the thing that made me realise just what a terrible idea this was. I can't believe I was worried about "image" while doing something like this. Needless to say, I continued anyway. Looking back, my handling of all this was beyond terrible, being driven by a lack of maturity rather than any reason whatsoever. It was destined from disaster from the outset, and yet I ignored all of it to chase a simple joke.
To clear things up, I wrote, orchestrated, released, and peddled the boat1hax application. The account that posted it was entirely my doing. I intentionally went against the advice of the people around me to make this happen. I'm sorry. It was a stupid, stupid thing to do. All of this was. I shouldn't have done any of this, and I certainly shouldn't have... well, done any of this.
I apologise for not really communicating myself effectively. The list of ways I screwed up is so large that it really is the best I can do to apologise for the whole thing at once. I was immature, deceptive, unscrupulous and ignorant. I'm really sorry. It won't happen again. I went too far, and I recognise that.
I also want to apologise for the way I acted when initially revealing my relation to the application on IRC. This won't mean much to most of you, but those who were there know what I did and the way I communicated it; and for that I apologise. The seriousness of the situation hadn't really dawned on me, and I spoke waay out of line, without consideration for the emotions or reactions of anyone, and I caused some serious damage. I'm so sorry.
To sum up, I screwed up on all fronts. I'm really sorry for taking this so far and not recognising what should have been obvious, and I'm sorry for even doing any of this in the first place.
(An extra apology for @VinsCool... I, just... Sorry.)
Some of you may remember a few days ago when a thread was posted on the Wii U boards. The thread contained an app named "boat1hax" - similarly-named to a long-awaited exploit for the system and with a variety of other nuances to draw attention. The thread has been deleted and the posting account banned - this is because the application was not an exploit as it claimed. Users of the app would be shown a mildly-convincing installation screen before the console started playing a low-resolution version of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".
From the beginning, it wasn't a brilliant idea. Things got worse when I decided that it shouldn't be an April Fool's release after all; instead being impatient and going forward upon completion. Even worse still, I took the cowardly route and made an alternate account and removed references to myself from the program. I got scared. This should have been my red flag; the thing that made me realise just what a terrible idea this was. I can't believe I was worried about "image" while doing something like this. Needless to say, I continued anyway. Looking back, my handling of all this was beyond terrible, being driven by a lack of maturity rather than any reason whatsoever. It was destined from disaster from the outset, and yet I ignored all of it to chase a simple joke.
To clear things up, I wrote, orchestrated, released, and peddled the boat1hax application. The account that posted it was entirely my doing. I intentionally went against the advice of the people around me to make this happen. I'm sorry. It was a stupid, stupid thing to do. All of this was. I shouldn't have done any of this, and I certainly shouldn't have... well, done any of this.
I apologise for not really communicating myself effectively. The list of ways I screwed up is so large that it really is the best I can do to apologise for the whole thing at once. I was immature, deceptive, unscrupulous and ignorant. I'm really sorry. It won't happen again. I went too far, and I recognise that.
I also want to apologise for the way I acted when initially revealing my relation to the application on IRC. This won't mean much to most of you, but those who were there know what I did and the way I communicated it; and for that I apologise. The seriousness of the situation hadn't really dawned on me, and I spoke waay out of line, without consideration for the emotions or reactions of anyone, and I caused some serious damage. I'm so sorry.
To sum up, I screwed up on all fronts. I'm really sorry for taking this so far and not recognising what should have been obvious, and I'm sorry for even doing any of this in the first place.
(An extra apology for @VinsCool... I, just... Sorry.)
