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StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
December 03 2013 21:27 GMT
#361
On December 04 2013 05:56 Rekrul wrote:
awww weak, fuck savior i hope he is banned and burns forever


screwing and burning savior with your pitchfork is a little extreme even for you Dan. But, by all means get them to reinstate your ban hammer. -.^
[DUF]MethodMan
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany1716 Posts
December 03 2013 21:32 GMT
#362
On December 04 2013 06:26 Lysteria wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2013 06:23 [DUF]MethodMan wrote:
...

Rek said that because sAviOr made some apologies (if i'm not mistaken).


alright, if he did, he's just even more of a scumbag. i still dont see any point in deying him playing in ANY tournament at all, be it korean or not.
rd
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States2586 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-03 21:35:09
December 03 2013 21:32 GMT
#363
Of all the organizations like kespa that have no right to declare who is allowed to compete in the broad scope of a game they abandoned their monopoly on, what on earth makes KeSPA think Blizzard does? I almost thought KeSPA was redeemed but I guess I'm back to being salty over them again.
koreasilver
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
9109 Posts
December 03 2013 21:37 GMT
#364
On December 04 2013 05:56 Rekrul wrote:
awww weak, fuck savior i hope he is banned and burns forever

rofl
Peeano
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Netherlands5090 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-03 21:44:26
December 03 2013 21:43 GMT
#365
On December 04 2013 06:23 [DUF]MethodMan wrote:
...blizzard released the sims in space 2 and sims in space 2: new interieur and haircuts

Hahaha! I laughed so hard.
FBH #1!
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
December 03 2013 21:49 GMT
#366
maybe savior owns clauf
why so 진지해?
DarkNetHunter
Profile Joined October 2012
1224 Posts
December 03 2013 22:06 GMT
#367
On December 04 2013 06:49 Rekrul wrote:
maybe savior owns clauf

Holy... torte is secretly advancing the death of the human race behind the facade of e-sports promotion!

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
December 03 2013 22:32 GMT
#368
Lol, I remembered that I've seen apology by Savior and was wondering why people these days kept repeating he never apologized... but I didn't care enough to dig it up or argue about that. I mean, haters gonna hate, they'll just think of something else.
If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
lemmata
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
468 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-04 00:28:47
December 03 2013 23:56 GMT
#369
On December 04 2013 07:32 figq wrote:
Lol, I remembered that I've seen apology by Savior and was wondering why people these days kept repeating he never apologized... but I didn't care enough to dig it up or argue about that. I mean, haters gonna hate, they'll just think of something else.


People who aren't Savior crazies can read the spoiler for the truth about the so-called apology and have a laugh about how uninformed those Savior crazies are. Savior crazies can ignore it. It won't make a difference to you guys anyways.

+ Show Spoiler +

Savior's so-called apology and my running commentary follows after each paragraph. I am guessing the Savior crazies 1) didn't read the text of the apology, 2) don't know the facts of court case, 3) think that any letter that starts with "I apologize" is an actual apology, 4) or all of the above. The long commentary on third paragraph is the relevant one. The others are sort of secondary.

Hello. It's me, Savior.

First of, I am bowing my head and apologize to the fans, to everyone who loved eSports, and people related to eSports, for disappointing them with my ignorant actions. As someone who has felt a lot of responsibility related to eSports, I would like to admit to my mistakes, and while it's late, confess my mistakes to everyone who has trusted me.

Summary of paragraph: He apologizes for his "mistakes", without specifying what those mistakes are. This will become important later in this "apology" letter.

In order to achieve my goal as a progamer, I dropped out of school in my second to last year of Highschool and came up to Seoul by myself. And I had become a progamer and even up to a few months ago, was active under my previous team. Whether or not my records were good or bad, I only thought about the game. Even when my records were so bad that everyone suspected me, in order to reclaim my glory, I concentrated solely on gaming other than the 5 hours a day where I slept. The game was my entire life. But now, due to making a wrong choice at one moment, I have to accept that I have to give up my life as a gamer.

Summary of paragraph: Pity-seeking by talking about his previous hard work and humble beginnings. It's not a good sign when you start saying stuff like this immediately. The pity party is followed by the disgusting revisionist history that follows. Also, as pointed out brilliantly by Stratos, he writes that last sentence about giving up his life as a gamer and has the nerve to do the things he has done since then.

Around last September, there were rumors between the gamers that there were betting sites with match fixing. It is true that I have received several offers through my mini homepage. The offers were really sweet, but because they do not help my career, I have clearly delivered the message that I would not participate in such an act. But the problem is that I told my friends without reserve, and in the end had a bad influence on them. For this, I will acknowledge my mistake and I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

Summary of paragraph: This is the key paragraph. Look at how he prevaricates about his actual role in the match-fixing. He tries to look good by saying by telling this fairy tale that he resisted the temptation to fix matches but simply made a light mistake of passing on this information to his friends. The fact that he actively recruited and repeatedly pressured these guys is part of the court testimony that convicted him. Here he is making it sound as if all he did was say, "Hey, did you know that you can make $5000 if you fix a match?" and went about his own way. Hwasin testified that Savior kept asking him to fix matches after he first expressed indecisiveness about the offer. (edit: it wasn't an outright refusal). According to Hwasin, Savior went as far as telling a story about one of Savior's friends losing a lot of money because of Hwasin's earlier loss in which Savior told Hwasin about Leta's build order, pressuring him into fixing another game. When questioned about these events in trial Savior said that he "couldn't remember" if he had made offers to Hwasin after the initial refusal. The evidence in the trial also says that Savior often played the role of transferring payments to other match-fixers and there was a long record of financial transactions to prove this. Savior went about this like a member of organized crime, even going as far as to devising a system of making cash payments in $50 increments to avoid detection instead of using lump-sum bank transfers like the other broker (Mr. Won). This FUCKING ASSHOLE has the gall to pretend that all he did was pass on some news about match-fixing opportunities? This is supposed to be a fucking apology? This isn't the end of it by any means. Savior even took the match-fixing reward that was to be paid to DArKeLf and took it for himself. The fucker didn't even have the so-called honor among thieves. An apology that fucking covers up his vast and deep involvement in the criminal enterprise? That's not an apology, that's a fucking press release.

In addition, I would like to explain my position and why I waited so long to clear up my position.

Last May, I was in the hospital for a month due to surgery on my knees. But because the situation started getting serious, I contacted a certain reporter and the reporter visited me and there was an interview. In contrast of the articles that were published, I told him everything I knew about match fixing and that I wasn't away without leave from the dormatories.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! My knee hurts.

After the interview, I felt as if I had gotten a load off my mind, and I waited for the article to appear. However, even though I waited for a week, the article that expressed my position didn't come out, and time kept passing.

Summary of paragraph: He's essentially saying that the press isn't telling his side of the story, which, when combined with his sanitized version of the crimes in the third paragraph, is supposed to suggest that he didn't do all the stuff that the press is reporting that he actually did (and evidence in trial proved that he did).

After that, I became a coward who couldn't even read the comments on the internet, and thought that if time will pass, I will be forgotten. However, because of me, my old school's homepage was terrorized with malicious content and many people who has helped me has gotten hurt. And most of all, because I have hurt my parents and my fans, I thought that I could no longer run away from reality.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! Bad stuff happening to me and people around me!

If my thoughts were proper back then, some of my friends wouldn't have gotten stuck in that bad road, and those friends, whose lives were about the game, would still be active in the scene. Because of this, I am regretting this even more and I am posting this message of apology.
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

Summary of paragraph: He's really "sorry". He's really sorry that bad things happened. Uh huh, you are sorry for just "telling" your friends about the match-fixing opportunities?

Once again, I want to apologize to everyone who has been disappointed about me, and I will atone on the fact that I have caused a lot of criticism in society. I bow my head and apologize from the bottom of my heart

- Savior.
Summary of paragraph: Variations of "I apologize".


So what did he actually do in this non-apology?

1) Said that he's "sorry". Okay good start.
2) Tried to generate pity for himself with content irrelevant to the match-fixing scandal.
3) Pretty much lied about his vast role in the match-fixing scandal by sugar-coating it in a language that makes it seem as if all he did was pass on the news that people could make money from match-fixing.
4) Indirectly suggested that the press is not telling "his side", when "his side" is the made up fairy tale that he spins in the third paragraph.
5) Said that he's "sorry". Meaningless filler intended to trick you into thinking that this is a real apology.

Fuck yeah, that's a great "apology".

I guess us sane people can wonder what makes people either blind-and-deaf or so confident about speaking on issues that they have little knowledge about because they read a headline.
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-04 00:28:25
December 04 2013 00:28 GMT
#370
I would rather just let things be. Nothing we can do and nothing we should do. No drastic method should be taken and honestly, he may have apologized half-assedly but what could he have really said?

I'm also curious how you guys would act around him if you saw him at a tournament you were competing in. Personally, I would shrug and carry on knowing that he may have made a bad decision but at least he is trying to keep doing what he loves. Honestly, how many of you KNOW you wouldn't take a $100 bill if you found it on the ground?

And no, I am not a Savior fan.
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
lemmata
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
468 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-04 00:36:38
December 04 2013 00:32 GMT
#371
On December 04 2013 09:28 3FFA wrote:
I would rather just let things be. Nothing we can do and nothing we should do. No drastic method should be taken and honestly, he may have apologized half-assedly but what could he have really said?

Since you don't sound like a completely crazy person (possibly):
+ Show Spoiler +
It wasn't just a half-assed apology. He's vastly understating his involvement in the so-called apology by saying that all he did was tell his friends about opportunities. When he lies about the shit he did like that, then that goes beyond being a half-assed apology and crosses into the realm of a white-washing and cover-up attempt. Actually, did you even read it or was it TL;DR?

EDIT: Okay, may be you are crazy if you actually think that Savior's actions are comparable to picking up a $100 bill on the ground in any reasonable sense. I guess I should post slower.
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
December 04 2013 00:35 GMT
#372
You seem to assume that "in the end had a bad influence on them" means he doesn't admit doing all the other awful things he did. Perhaps he should have listed them all, because, you know, there isn't a public court case with all of them already known.
If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
-niL
Profile Joined January 2012
Canada1131 Posts
December 04 2013 00:58 GMT
#373
Love the ~ at the end
Thienan567
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States670 Posts
December 04 2013 00:59 GMT
#374
On December 04 2013 08:56 lemmata wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2013 07:32 figq wrote:
Lol, I remembered that I've seen apology by Savior and was wondering why people these days kept repeating he never apologized... but I didn't care enough to dig it up or argue about that. I mean, haters gonna hate, they'll just think of something else.


People who aren't Savior crazies can read the spoiler for the truth about the so-called apology and have a laugh about how uninformed those Savior crazies are. Savior crazies can ignore it. It won't make a difference to you guys anyways.

+ Show Spoiler +

Savior's so-called apology and my running commentary follows after each paragraph. I am guessing the Savior crazies 1) didn't read the text of the apology, 2) don't know the facts of court case, 3) think that any letter that starts with "I apologize" is an actual apology, 4) or all of the above. The long commentary on third paragraph is the relevant one. The others are sort of secondary.

Hello. It's me, Savior.

First of, I am bowing my head and apologize to the fans, to everyone who loved eSports, and people related to eSports, for disappointing them with my ignorant actions. As someone who has felt a lot of responsibility related to eSports, I would like to admit to my mistakes, and while it's late, confess my mistakes to everyone who has trusted me.

Summary of paragraph: He apologizes for his "mistakes", without specifying what those mistakes are. This will become important later in this "apology" letter.

In order to achieve my goal as a progamer, I dropped out of school in my second to last year of Highschool and came up to Seoul by myself. And I had become a progamer and even up to a few months ago, was active under my previous team. Whether or not my records were good or bad, I only thought about the game. Even when my records were so bad that everyone suspected me, in order to reclaim my glory, I concentrated solely on gaming other than the 5 hours a day where I slept. The game was my entire life. But now, due to making a wrong choice at one moment, I have to accept that I have to give up my life as a gamer.

Summary of paragraph: Pity-seeking by talking about his previous hard work and humble beginnings. It's not a good sign when you start saying stuff like this immediately. The pity party is followed by the disgusting revisionist history that follows. Also, as pointed out brilliantly by Stratos, he writes that last sentence about giving up his life as a gamer and has the nerve to do the things he has done since then.

Around last September, there were rumors between the gamers that there were betting sites with match fixing. It is true that I have received several offers through my mini homepage. The offers were really sweet, but because they do not help my career, I have clearly delivered the message that I would not participate in such an act. But the problem is that I told my friends without reserve, and in the end had a bad influence on them. For this, I will acknowledge my mistake and I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

Summary of paragraph: This is the key paragraph. Look at how he prevaricates about his actual role in the match-fixing. He tries to look good by saying by telling this fairy tale that he resisted the temptation to fix matches but simply made a light mistake of passing on this information to his friends. The fact that he actively recruited and repeatedly pressured these guys is part of the court testimony that convicted him. Here he is making it sound as if all he did was say, "Hey, did you know that you can make $5000 if you fix a match?" and went about his own way. Hwasin testified that Savior kept asking him to fix matches after he first expressed indecisiveness about the offer. (edit: it wasn't an outright refusal). According to Hwasin, Savior went as far as telling a story about one of Savior's friends losing a lot of money because of Hwasin's earlier loss in which Savior told Hwasin about Leta's build order, pressuring him into fixing another game. When questioned about these events in trial Savior said that he "couldn't remember" if he had made offers to Hwasin after the initial refusal. The evidence in the trial also says that Savior often played the role of transferring payments to other match-fixers and there was a long record of financial transactions to prove this. Savior went about this like a member of organized crime, even going as far as to devising a system of making cash payments in $50 increments to avoid detection instead of using lump-sum bank transfers like the other broker (Mr. Won). This FUCKING ASSHOLE has the gall to pretend that all he did was pass on some news about match-fixing opportunities? This is supposed to be a fucking apology? This isn't the end of it by any means. Savior even took the match-fixing reward that was to be paid to DArKeLf and took it for himself. The fucker didn't even have the so-called honor among thieves. An apology that fucking covers up his vast and deep involvement in the criminal enterprise? That's not an apology, that's a fucking press release.

In addition, I would like to explain my position and why I waited so long to clear up my position.

Last May, I was in the hospital for a month due to surgery on my knees. But because the situation started getting serious, I contacted a certain reporter and the reporter visited me and there was an interview. In contrast of the articles that were published, I told him everything I knew about match fixing and that I wasn't away without leave from the dormatories.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! My knee hurts.

After the interview, I felt as if I had gotten a load off my mind, and I waited for the article to appear. However, even though I waited for a week, the article that expressed my position didn't come out, and time kept passing.

Summary of paragraph: He's essentially saying that the press isn't telling his side of the story, which, when combined with his sanitized version of the crimes in the third paragraph, is supposed to suggest that he didn't do all the stuff that the press is reporting that he actually did (and evidence in trial proved that he did).

After that, I became a coward who couldn't even read the comments on the internet, and thought that if time will pass, I will be forgotten. However, because of me, my old school's homepage was terrorized with malicious content and many people who has helped me has gotten hurt. And most of all, because I have hurt my parents and my fans, I thought that I could no longer run away from reality.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! Bad stuff happening to me and people around me!

If my thoughts were proper back then, some of my friends wouldn't have gotten stuck in that bad road, and those friends, whose lives were about the game, would still be active in the scene. Because of this, I am regretting this even more and I am posting this message of apology.
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

Summary of paragraph: He's really "sorry". He's really sorry that bad things happened. Uh huh, you are sorry for just "telling" your friends about the match-fixing opportunities?

Once again, I want to apologize to everyone who has been disappointed about me, and I will atone on the fact that I have caused a lot of criticism in society. I bow my head and apologize from the bottom of my heart

- Savior.
Summary of paragraph: Variations of "I apologize".


So what did he actually do in this non-apology?

1) Said that he's "sorry". Okay good start.
2) Tried to generate pity for himself with content irrelevant to the match-fixing scandal.
3) Pretty much lied about his vast role in the match-fixing scandal by sugar-coating it in a language that makes it seem as if all he did was pass on the news that people could make money from match-fixing.
4) Indirectly suggested that the press is not telling "his side", when "his side" is the made up fairy tale that he spins in the third paragraph.
5) Said that he's "sorry". Meaningless filler intended to trick you into thinking that this is a real apology.

Fuck yeah, that's a great "apology".

I guess us sane people can wonder what makes people either blind-and-deaf or so confident about speaking on issues that they have little knowledge about because they read a headline.


I think I'd like you to link to his apology itself so that I can form my own opinion on his apology. I'd take your post into consideration but it's so biased I feel like I'm reading communist propaganda.
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
December 04 2013 01:05 GMT
#375
On December 04 2013 08:56 lemmata wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2013 07:32 figq wrote:
Lol, I remembered that I've seen apology by Savior and was wondering why people these days kept repeating he never apologized... but I didn't care enough to dig it up or argue about that. I mean, haters gonna hate, they'll just think of something else.


People who aren't Savior crazies can read the spoiler for the truth about the so-called apology and have a laugh about how uninformed those Savior crazies are. Savior crazies can ignore it. It won't make a difference to you guys anyways.

+ Show Spoiler +

Savior's so-called apology and my running commentary follows after each paragraph. I am guessing the Savior crazies 1) didn't read the text of the apology, 2) don't know the facts of court case, 3) think that any letter that starts with "I apologize" is an actual apology, 4) or all of the above. The long commentary on third paragraph is the relevant one. The others are sort of secondary.

Hello. It's me, Savior.

First of, I am bowing my head and apologize to the fans, to everyone who loved eSports, and people related to eSports, for disappointing them with my ignorant actions. As someone who has felt a lot of responsibility related to eSports, I would like to admit to my mistakes, and while it's late, confess my mistakes to everyone who has trusted me.

Summary of paragraph: He apologizes for his "mistakes", without specifying what those mistakes are. This will become important later in this "apology" letter.

In order to achieve my goal as a progamer, I dropped out of school in my second to last year of Highschool and came up to Seoul by myself. And I had become a progamer and even up to a few months ago, was active under my previous team. Whether or not my records were good or bad, I only thought about the game. Even when my records were so bad that everyone suspected me, in order to reclaim my glory, I concentrated solely on gaming other than the 5 hours a day where I slept. The game was my entire life. But now, due to making a wrong choice at one moment, I have to accept that I have to give up my life as a gamer.

Summary of paragraph: Pity-seeking by talking about his previous hard work and humble beginnings. It's not a good sign when you start saying stuff like this immediately. The pity party is followed by the disgusting revisionist history that follows. Also, as pointed out brilliantly by Stratos, he writes that last sentence about giving up his life as a gamer and has the nerve to do the things he has done since then.

Around last September, there were rumors between the gamers that there were betting sites with match fixing. It is true that I have received several offers through my mini homepage. The offers were really sweet, but because they do not help my career, I have clearly delivered the message that I would not participate in such an act. But the problem is that I told my friends without reserve, and in the end had a bad influence on them. For this, I will acknowledge my mistake and I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

Summary of paragraph: This is the key paragraph. Look at how he prevaricates about his actual role in the match-fixing. He tries to look good by saying by telling this fairy tale that he resisted the temptation to fix matches but simply made a light mistake of passing on this information to his friends. The fact that he actively recruited and repeatedly pressured these guys is part of the court testimony that convicted him. Here he is making it sound as if all he did was say, "Hey, did you know that you can make $5000 if you fix a match?" and went about his own way. Hwasin testified that Savior kept asking him to fix matches after he first expressed indecisiveness about the offer. (edit: it wasn't an outright refusal). According to Hwasin, Savior went as far as telling a story about one of Savior's friends losing a lot of money because of Hwasin's earlier loss in which Savior told Hwasin about Leta's build order, pressuring him into fixing another game. When questioned about these events in trial Savior said that he "couldn't remember" if he had made offers to Hwasin after the initial refusal. The evidence in the trial also says that Savior often played the role of transferring payments to other match-fixers and there was a long record of financial transactions to prove this. Savior went about this like a member of organized crime, even going as far as to devising a system of making cash payments in $50 increments to avoid detection instead of using lump-sum bank transfers like the other broker (Mr. Won). This FUCKING ASSHOLE has the gall to pretend that all he did was pass on some news about match-fixing opportunities? This is supposed to be a fucking apology? This isn't the end of it by any means. Savior even took the match-fixing reward that was to be paid to DArKeLf and took it for himself. The fucker didn't even have the so-called honor among thieves. An apology that fucking covers up his vast and deep involvement in the criminal enterprise? That's not an apology, that's a fucking press release.

In addition, I would like to explain my position and why I waited so long to clear up my position.

Last May, I was in the hospital for a month due to surgery on my knees. But because the situation started getting serious, I contacted a certain reporter and the reporter visited me and there was an interview. In contrast of the articles that were published, I told him everything I knew about match fixing and that I wasn't away without leave from the dormatories.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! My knee hurts.

After the interview, I felt as if I had gotten a load off my mind, and I waited for the article to appear. However, even though I waited for a week, the article that expressed my position didn't come out, and time kept passing.

Summary of paragraph: He's essentially saying that the press isn't telling his side of the story, which, when combined with his sanitized version of the crimes in the third paragraph, is supposed to suggest that he didn't do all the stuff that the press is reporting that he actually did (and evidence in trial proved that he did).

After that, I became a coward who couldn't even read the comments on the internet, and thought that if time will pass, I will be forgotten. However, because of me, my old school's homepage was terrorized with malicious content and many people who has helped me has gotten hurt. And most of all, because I have hurt my parents and my fans, I thought that I could no longer run away from reality.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! Bad stuff happening to me and people around me!

If my thoughts were proper back then, some of my friends wouldn't have gotten stuck in that bad road, and those friends, whose lives were about the game, would still be active in the scene. Because of this, I am regretting this even more and I am posting this message of apology.
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

Summary of paragraph: He's really "sorry". He's really sorry that bad things happened. Uh huh, you are sorry for just "telling" your friends about the match-fixing opportunities?

Once again, I want to apologize to everyone who has been disappointed about me, and I will atone on the fact that I have caused a lot of criticism in society. I bow my head and apologize from the bottom of my heart

- Savior.
Summary of paragraph: Variations of "I apologize".


So what did he actually do in this non-apology?

1) Said that he's "sorry". Okay good start.
2) Tried to generate pity for himself with content irrelevant to the match-fixing scandal.
3) Pretty much lied about his vast role in the match-fixing scandal by sugar-coating it in a language that makes it seem as if all he did was pass on the news that people could make money from match-fixing.
4) Indirectly suggested that the press is not telling "his side", when "his side" is the made up fairy tale that he spins in the third paragraph.
5) Said that he's "sorry". Meaningless filler intended to trick you into thinking that this is a real apology.

Fuck yeah, that's a great "apology".

I guess us sane people can wonder what makes people either blind-and-deaf or so confident about speaking on issues that they have little knowledge about because they read a headline.


sane ppl wouldn't waste time trying to pick apart an obviously contrived apology
why so 진지해?
lemmata
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
468 Posts
December 04 2013 01:07 GMT
#376
On December 04 2013 09:59 Thienan567 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2013 08:56 lemmata wrote:
On December 04 2013 07:32 figq wrote:
Lol, I remembered that I've seen apology by Savior and was wondering why people these days kept repeating he never apologized... but I didn't care enough to dig it up or argue about that. I mean, haters gonna hate, they'll just think of something else.


People who aren't Savior crazies can read the spoiler for the truth about the so-called apology and have a laugh about how uninformed those Savior crazies are. Savior crazies can ignore it. It won't make a difference to you guys anyways.

+ Show Spoiler +

Savior's so-called apology and my running commentary follows after each paragraph. I am guessing the Savior crazies 1) didn't read the text of the apology, 2) don't know the facts of court case, 3) think that any letter that starts with "I apologize" is an actual apology, 4) or all of the above. The long commentary on third paragraph is the relevant one. The others are sort of secondary.

Hello. It's me, Savior.

First of, I am bowing my head and apologize to the fans, to everyone who loved eSports, and people related to eSports, for disappointing them with my ignorant actions. As someone who has felt a lot of responsibility related to eSports, I would like to admit to my mistakes, and while it's late, confess my mistakes to everyone who has trusted me.

Summary of paragraph: He apologizes for his "mistakes", without specifying what those mistakes are. This will become important later in this "apology" letter.

In order to achieve my goal as a progamer, I dropped out of school in my second to last year of Highschool and came up to Seoul by myself. And I had become a progamer and even up to a few months ago, was active under my previous team. Whether or not my records were good or bad, I only thought about the game. Even when my records were so bad that everyone suspected me, in order to reclaim my glory, I concentrated solely on gaming other than the 5 hours a day where I slept. The game was my entire life. But now, due to making a wrong choice at one moment, I have to accept that I have to give up my life as a gamer.

Summary of paragraph: Pity-seeking by talking about his previous hard work and humble beginnings. It's not a good sign when you start saying stuff like this immediately. The pity party is followed by the disgusting revisionist history that follows. Also, as pointed out brilliantly by Stratos, he writes that last sentence about giving up his life as a gamer and has the nerve to do the things he has done since then.

Around last September, there were rumors between the gamers that there were betting sites with match fixing. It is true that I have received several offers through my mini homepage. The offers were really sweet, but because they do not help my career, I have clearly delivered the message that I would not participate in such an act. But the problem is that I told my friends without reserve, and in the end had a bad influence on them. For this, I will acknowledge my mistake and I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

Summary of paragraph: This is the key paragraph. Look at how he prevaricates about his actual role in the match-fixing. He tries to look good by saying by telling this fairy tale that he resisted the temptation to fix matches but simply made a light mistake of passing on this information to his friends. The fact that he actively recruited and repeatedly pressured these guys is part of the court testimony that convicted him. Here he is making it sound as if all he did was say, "Hey, did you know that you can make $5000 if you fix a match?" and went about his own way. Hwasin testified that Savior kept asking him to fix matches after he first expressed indecisiveness about the offer. (edit: it wasn't an outright refusal). According to Hwasin, Savior went as far as telling a story about one of Savior's friends losing a lot of money because of Hwasin's earlier loss in which Savior told Hwasin about Leta's build order, pressuring him into fixing another game. When questioned about these events in trial Savior said that he "couldn't remember" if he had made offers to Hwasin after the initial refusal. The evidence in the trial also says that Savior often played the role of transferring payments to other match-fixers and there was a long record of financial transactions to prove this. Savior went about this like a member of organized crime, even going as far as to devising a system of making cash payments in $50 increments to avoid detection instead of using lump-sum bank transfers like the other broker (Mr. Won). This FUCKING ASSHOLE has the gall to pretend that all he did was pass on some news about match-fixing opportunities? This is supposed to be a fucking apology? This isn't the end of it by any means. Savior even took the match-fixing reward that was to be paid to DArKeLf and took it for himself. The fucker didn't even have the so-called honor among thieves. An apology that fucking covers up his vast and deep involvement in the criminal enterprise? That's not an apology, that's a fucking press release.

In addition, I would like to explain my position and why I waited so long to clear up my position.

Last May, I was in the hospital for a month due to surgery on my knees. But because the situation started getting serious, I contacted a certain reporter and the reporter visited me and there was an interview. In contrast of the articles that were published, I told him everything I knew about match fixing and that I wasn't away without leave from the dormatories.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! My knee hurts.

After the interview, I felt as if I had gotten a load off my mind, and I waited for the article to appear. However, even though I waited for a week, the article that expressed my position didn't come out, and time kept passing.

Summary of paragraph: He's essentially saying that the press isn't telling his side of the story, which, when combined with his sanitized version of the crimes in the third paragraph, is supposed to suggest that he didn't do all the stuff that the press is reporting that he actually did (and evidence in trial proved that he did).

After that, I became a coward who couldn't even read the comments on the internet, and thought that if time will pass, I will be forgotten. However, because of me, my old school's homepage was terrorized with malicious content and many people who has helped me has gotten hurt. And most of all, because I have hurt my parents and my fans, I thought that I could no longer run away from reality.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! Bad stuff happening to me and people around me!

If my thoughts were proper back then, some of my friends wouldn't have gotten stuck in that bad road, and those friends, whose lives were about the game, would still be active in the scene. Because of this, I am regretting this even more and I am posting this message of apology.
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

Summary of paragraph: He's really "sorry". He's really sorry that bad things happened. Uh huh, you are sorry for just "telling" your friends about the match-fixing opportunities?

Once again, I want to apologize to everyone who has been disappointed about me, and I will atone on the fact that I have caused a lot of criticism in society. I bow my head and apologize from the bottom of my heart

- Savior.
Summary of paragraph: Variations of "I apologize".


So what did he actually do in this non-apology?

1) Said that he's "sorry". Okay good start.
2) Tried to generate pity for himself with content irrelevant to the match-fixing scandal.
3) Pretty much lied about his vast role in the match-fixing scandal by sugar-coating it in a language that makes it seem as if all he did was pass on the news that people could make money from match-fixing.
4) Indirectly suggested that the press is not telling "his side", when "his side" is the made up fairy tale that he spins in the third paragraph.
5) Said that he's "sorry". Meaningless filler intended to trick you into thinking that this is a real apology.

Fuck yeah, that's a great "apology".

I guess us sane people can wonder what makes people either blind-and-deaf or so confident about speaking on issues that they have little knowledge about because they read a headline.


I think I'd like you to link to his apology itself so that I can form my own opinion on his apology. I'd take your post into consideration but it's so biased I feel like I'm reading communist propaganda.

It was linked from TL earlier. It contains the Korean original as well. I guess facts are biased against Savior.
lemmata
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
468 Posts
December 04 2013 01:09 GMT
#377
On December 04 2013 10:05 Rekrul wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2013 08:56 lemmata wrote:
On December 04 2013 07:32 figq wrote:
Lol, I remembered that I've seen apology by Savior and was wondering why people these days kept repeating he never apologized... but I didn't care enough to dig it up or argue about that. I mean, haters gonna hate, they'll just think of something else.


People who aren't Savior crazies can read the spoiler for the truth about the so-called apology and have a laugh about how uninformed those Savior crazies are. Savior crazies can ignore it. It won't make a difference to you guys anyways.

+ Show Spoiler +

Savior's so-called apology and my running commentary follows after each paragraph. I am guessing the Savior crazies 1) didn't read the text of the apology, 2) don't know the facts of court case, 3) think that any letter that starts with "I apologize" is an actual apology, 4) or all of the above. The long commentary on third paragraph is the relevant one. The others are sort of secondary.

Hello. It's me, Savior.

First of, I am bowing my head and apologize to the fans, to everyone who loved eSports, and people related to eSports, for disappointing them with my ignorant actions. As someone who has felt a lot of responsibility related to eSports, I would like to admit to my mistakes, and while it's late, confess my mistakes to everyone who has trusted me.

Summary of paragraph: He apologizes for his "mistakes", without specifying what those mistakes are. This will become important later in this "apology" letter.

In order to achieve my goal as a progamer, I dropped out of school in my second to last year of Highschool and came up to Seoul by myself. And I had become a progamer and even up to a few months ago, was active under my previous team. Whether or not my records were good or bad, I only thought about the game. Even when my records were so bad that everyone suspected me, in order to reclaim my glory, I concentrated solely on gaming other than the 5 hours a day where I slept. The game was my entire life. But now, due to making a wrong choice at one moment, I have to accept that I have to give up my life as a gamer.

Summary of paragraph: Pity-seeking by talking about his previous hard work and humble beginnings. It's not a good sign when you start saying stuff like this immediately. The pity party is followed by the disgusting revisionist history that follows. Also, as pointed out brilliantly by Stratos, he writes that last sentence about giving up his life as a gamer and has the nerve to do the things he has done since then.

Around last September, there were rumors between the gamers that there were betting sites with match fixing. It is true that I have received several offers through my mini homepage. The offers were really sweet, but because they do not help my career, I have clearly delivered the message that I would not participate in such an act. But the problem is that I told my friends without reserve, and in the end had a bad influence on them. For this, I will acknowledge my mistake and I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

Summary of paragraph: This is the key paragraph. Look at how he prevaricates about his actual role in the match-fixing. He tries to look good by saying by telling this fairy tale that he resisted the temptation to fix matches but simply made a light mistake of passing on this information to his friends. The fact that he actively recruited and repeatedly pressured these guys is part of the court testimony that convicted him. Here he is making it sound as if all he did was say, "Hey, did you know that you can make $5000 if you fix a match?" and went about his own way. Hwasin testified that Savior kept asking him to fix matches after he first expressed indecisiveness about the offer. (edit: it wasn't an outright refusal). According to Hwasin, Savior went as far as telling a story about one of Savior's friends losing a lot of money because of Hwasin's earlier loss in which Savior told Hwasin about Leta's build order, pressuring him into fixing another game. When questioned about these events in trial Savior said that he "couldn't remember" if he had made offers to Hwasin after the initial refusal. The evidence in the trial also says that Savior often played the role of transferring payments to other match-fixers and there was a long record of financial transactions to prove this. Savior went about this like a member of organized crime, even going as far as to devising a system of making cash payments in $50 increments to avoid detection instead of using lump-sum bank transfers like the other broker (Mr. Won). This FUCKING ASSHOLE has the gall to pretend that all he did was pass on some news about match-fixing opportunities? This is supposed to be a fucking apology? This isn't the end of it by any means. Savior even took the match-fixing reward that was to be paid to DArKeLf and took it for himself. The fucker didn't even have the so-called honor among thieves. An apology that fucking covers up his vast and deep involvement in the criminal enterprise? That's not an apology, that's a fucking press release.

In addition, I would like to explain my position and why I waited so long to clear up my position.

Last May, I was in the hospital for a month due to surgery on my knees. But because the situation started getting serious, I contacted a certain reporter and the reporter visited me and there was an interview. In contrast of the articles that were published, I told him everything I knew about match fixing and that I wasn't away without leave from the dormatories.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! My knee hurts.

After the interview, I felt as if I had gotten a load off my mind, and I waited for the article to appear. However, even though I waited for a week, the article that expressed my position didn't come out, and time kept passing.

Summary of paragraph: He's essentially saying that the press isn't telling his side of the story, which, when combined with his sanitized version of the crimes in the third paragraph, is supposed to suggest that he didn't do all the stuff that the press is reporting that he actually did (and evidence in trial proved that he did).

After that, I became a coward who couldn't even read the comments on the internet, and thought that if time will pass, I will be forgotten. However, because of me, my old school's homepage was terrorized with malicious content and many people who has helped me has gotten hurt. And most of all, because I have hurt my parents and my fans, I thought that I could no longer run away from reality.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! Bad stuff happening to me and people around me!

If my thoughts were proper back then, some of my friends wouldn't have gotten stuck in that bad road, and those friends, whose lives were about the game, would still be active in the scene. Because of this, I am regretting this even more and I am posting this message of apology.
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

Summary of paragraph: He's really "sorry". He's really sorry that bad things happened. Uh huh, you are sorry for just "telling" your friends about the match-fixing opportunities?

Once again, I want to apologize to everyone who has been disappointed about me, and I will atone on the fact that I have caused a lot of criticism in society. I bow my head and apologize from the bottom of my heart

- Savior.
Summary of paragraph: Variations of "I apologize".


So what did he actually do in this non-apology?

1) Said that he's "sorry". Okay good start.
2) Tried to generate pity for himself with content irrelevant to the match-fixing scandal.
3) Pretty much lied about his vast role in the match-fixing scandal by sugar-coating it in a language that makes it seem as if all he did was pass on the news that people could make money from match-fixing.
4) Indirectly suggested that the press is not telling "his side", when "his side" is the made up fairy tale that he spins in the third paragraph.
5) Said that he's "sorry". Meaningless filler intended to trick you into thinking that this is a real apology.

Fuck yeah, that's a great "apology".

I guess us sane people can wonder what makes people either blind-and-deaf or so confident about speaking on issues that they have little knowledge about because they read a headline.


sane ppl wouldn't waste time trying to pick apart an obviously contrived apology

It's a little fun at the expense of crazies who insist that this is a real apology. Feeling edgy and cool today?
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
December 04 2013 01:13 GMT
#378
On December 04 2013 10:09 lemmata wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2013 10:05 Rekrul wrote:
On December 04 2013 08:56 lemmata wrote:
On December 04 2013 07:32 figq wrote:
Lol, I remembered that I've seen apology by Savior and was wondering why people these days kept repeating he never apologized... but I didn't care enough to dig it up or argue about that. I mean, haters gonna hate, they'll just think of something else.


People who aren't Savior crazies can read the spoiler for the truth about the so-called apology and have a laugh about how uninformed those Savior crazies are. Savior crazies can ignore it. It won't make a difference to you guys anyways.

+ Show Spoiler +

Savior's so-called apology and my running commentary follows after each paragraph. I am guessing the Savior crazies 1) didn't read the text of the apology, 2) don't know the facts of court case, 3) think that any letter that starts with "I apologize" is an actual apology, 4) or all of the above. The long commentary on third paragraph is the relevant one. The others are sort of secondary.

Hello. It's me, Savior.

First of, I am bowing my head and apologize to the fans, to everyone who loved eSports, and people related to eSports, for disappointing them with my ignorant actions. As someone who has felt a lot of responsibility related to eSports, I would like to admit to my mistakes, and while it's late, confess my mistakes to everyone who has trusted me.

Summary of paragraph: He apologizes for his "mistakes", without specifying what those mistakes are. This will become important later in this "apology" letter.

In order to achieve my goal as a progamer, I dropped out of school in my second to last year of Highschool and came up to Seoul by myself. And I had become a progamer and even up to a few months ago, was active under my previous team. Whether or not my records were good or bad, I only thought about the game. Even when my records were so bad that everyone suspected me, in order to reclaim my glory, I concentrated solely on gaming other than the 5 hours a day where I slept. The game was my entire life. But now, due to making a wrong choice at one moment, I have to accept that I have to give up my life as a gamer.

Summary of paragraph: Pity-seeking by talking about his previous hard work and humble beginnings. It's not a good sign when you start saying stuff like this immediately. The pity party is followed by the disgusting revisionist history that follows. Also, as pointed out brilliantly by Stratos, he writes that last sentence about giving up his life as a gamer and has the nerve to do the things he has done since then.

Around last September, there were rumors between the gamers that there were betting sites with match fixing. It is true that I have received several offers through my mini homepage. The offers were really sweet, but because they do not help my career, I have clearly delivered the message that I would not participate in such an act. But the problem is that I told my friends without reserve, and in the end had a bad influence on them. For this, I will acknowledge my mistake and I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

Summary of paragraph: This is the key paragraph. Look at how he prevaricates about his actual role in the match-fixing. He tries to look good by saying by telling this fairy tale that he resisted the temptation to fix matches but simply made a light mistake of passing on this information to his friends. The fact that he actively recruited and repeatedly pressured these guys is part of the court testimony that convicted him. Here he is making it sound as if all he did was say, "Hey, did you know that you can make $5000 if you fix a match?" and went about his own way. Hwasin testified that Savior kept asking him to fix matches after he first expressed indecisiveness about the offer. (edit: it wasn't an outright refusal). According to Hwasin, Savior went as far as telling a story about one of Savior's friends losing a lot of money because of Hwasin's earlier loss in which Savior told Hwasin about Leta's build order, pressuring him into fixing another game. When questioned about these events in trial Savior said that he "couldn't remember" if he had made offers to Hwasin after the initial refusal. The evidence in the trial also says that Savior often played the role of transferring payments to other match-fixers and there was a long record of financial transactions to prove this. Savior went about this like a member of organized crime, even going as far as to devising a system of making cash payments in $50 increments to avoid detection instead of using lump-sum bank transfers like the other broker (Mr. Won). This FUCKING ASSHOLE has the gall to pretend that all he did was pass on some news about match-fixing opportunities? This is supposed to be a fucking apology? This isn't the end of it by any means. Savior even took the match-fixing reward that was to be paid to DArKeLf and took it for himself. The fucker didn't even have the so-called honor among thieves. An apology that fucking covers up his vast and deep involvement in the criminal enterprise? That's not an apology, that's a fucking press release.

In addition, I would like to explain my position and why I waited so long to clear up my position.

Last May, I was in the hospital for a month due to surgery on my knees. But because the situation started getting serious, I contacted a certain reporter and the reporter visited me and there was an interview. In contrast of the articles that were published, I told him everything I knew about match fixing and that I wasn't away without leave from the dormatories.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! My knee hurts.

After the interview, I felt as if I had gotten a load off my mind, and I waited for the article to appear. However, even though I waited for a week, the article that expressed my position didn't come out, and time kept passing.

Summary of paragraph: He's essentially saying that the press isn't telling his side of the story, which, when combined with his sanitized version of the crimes in the third paragraph, is supposed to suggest that he didn't do all the stuff that the press is reporting that he actually did (and evidence in trial proved that he did).

After that, I became a coward who couldn't even read the comments on the internet, and thought that if time will pass, I will be forgotten. However, because of me, my old school's homepage was terrorized with malicious content and many people who has helped me has gotten hurt. And most of all, because I have hurt my parents and my fans, I thought that I could no longer run away from reality.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! Bad stuff happening to me and people around me!

If my thoughts were proper back then, some of my friends wouldn't have gotten stuck in that bad road, and those friends, whose lives were about the game, would still be active in the scene. Because of this, I am regretting this even more and I am posting this message of apology.
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

Summary of paragraph: He's really "sorry". He's really sorry that bad things happened. Uh huh, you are sorry for just "telling" your friends about the match-fixing opportunities?

Once again, I want to apologize to everyone who has been disappointed about me, and I will atone on the fact that I have caused a lot of criticism in society. I bow my head and apologize from the bottom of my heart

- Savior.
Summary of paragraph: Variations of "I apologize".


So what did he actually do in this non-apology?

1) Said that he's "sorry". Okay good start.
2) Tried to generate pity for himself with content irrelevant to the match-fixing scandal.
3) Pretty much lied about his vast role in the match-fixing scandal by sugar-coating it in a language that makes it seem as if all he did was pass on the news that people could make money from match-fixing.
4) Indirectly suggested that the press is not telling "his side", when "his side" is the made up fairy tale that he spins in the third paragraph.
5) Said that he's "sorry". Meaningless filler intended to trick you into thinking that this is a real apology.

Fuck yeah, that's a great "apology".

I guess us sane people can wonder what makes people either blind-and-deaf or so confident about speaking on issues that they have little knowledge about because they read a headline.


sane ppl wouldn't waste time trying to pick apart an obviously contrived apology

It's a little fun at the expense of crazies who insist that this is a real apology. Feeling edgy and cool today?


ur just embarrassed that u were wrong about savior not apologizing now you'll do anything you can to try and feel like you were right all along
why so 진지해?
BonitiilloO
Profile Joined June 2013
Dominican Republic623 Posts
December 04 2013 01:14 GMT
#379
i have a question being ignorant here, if savior did this a couple a years a go... what does it matter if he plays now? does he still matchfix games?
How may help u?
lemmata
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
468 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-04 01:36:45
December 04 2013 01:34 GMT
#380
On December 04 2013 10:13 Rekrul wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2013 10:09 lemmata wrote:
On December 04 2013 10:05 Rekrul wrote:
On December 04 2013 08:56 lemmata wrote:
On December 04 2013 07:32 figq wrote:
Lol, I remembered that I've seen apology by Savior and was wondering why people these days kept repeating he never apologized... but I didn't care enough to dig it up or argue about that. I mean, haters gonna hate, they'll just think of something else.


People who aren't Savior crazies can read the spoiler for the truth about the so-called apology and have a laugh about how uninformed those Savior crazies are. Savior crazies can ignore it. It won't make a difference to you guys anyways.

+ Show Spoiler +

Savior's so-called apology and my running commentary follows after each paragraph. I am guessing the Savior crazies 1) didn't read the text of the apology, 2) don't know the facts of court case, 3) think that any letter that starts with "I apologize" is an actual apology, 4) or all of the above. The long commentary on third paragraph is the relevant one. The others are sort of secondary.

Hello. It's me, Savior.

First of, I am bowing my head and apologize to the fans, to everyone who loved eSports, and people related to eSports, for disappointing them with my ignorant actions. As someone who has felt a lot of responsibility related to eSports, I would like to admit to my mistakes, and while it's late, confess my mistakes to everyone who has trusted me.

Summary of paragraph: He apologizes for his "mistakes", without specifying what those mistakes are. This will become important later in this "apology" letter.

In order to achieve my goal as a progamer, I dropped out of school in my second to last year of Highschool and came up to Seoul by myself. And I had become a progamer and even up to a few months ago, was active under my previous team. Whether or not my records were good or bad, I only thought about the game. Even when my records were so bad that everyone suspected me, in order to reclaim my glory, I concentrated solely on gaming other than the 5 hours a day where I slept. The game was my entire life. But now, due to making a wrong choice at one moment, I have to accept that I have to give up my life as a gamer.

Summary of paragraph: Pity-seeking by talking about his previous hard work and humble beginnings. It's not a good sign when you start saying stuff like this immediately. The pity party is followed by the disgusting revisionist history that follows. Also, as pointed out brilliantly by Stratos, he writes that last sentence about giving up his life as a gamer and has the nerve to do the things he has done since then.

Around last September, there were rumors between the gamers that there were betting sites with match fixing. It is true that I have received several offers through my mini homepage. The offers were really sweet, but because they do not help my career, I have clearly delivered the message that I would not participate in such an act. But the problem is that I told my friends without reserve, and in the end had a bad influence on them. For this, I will acknowledge my mistake and I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

Summary of paragraph: This is the key paragraph. Look at how he prevaricates about his actual role in the match-fixing. He tries to look good by saying by telling this fairy tale that he resisted the temptation to fix matches but simply made a light mistake of passing on this information to his friends. The fact that he actively recruited and repeatedly pressured these guys is part of the court testimony that convicted him. Here he is making it sound as if all he did was say, "Hey, did you know that you can make $5000 if you fix a match?" and went about his own way. Hwasin testified that Savior kept asking him to fix matches after he first expressed indecisiveness about the offer. (edit: it wasn't an outright refusal). According to Hwasin, Savior went as far as telling a story about one of Savior's friends losing a lot of money because of Hwasin's earlier loss in which Savior told Hwasin about Leta's build order, pressuring him into fixing another game. When questioned about these events in trial Savior said that he "couldn't remember" if he had made offers to Hwasin after the initial refusal. The evidence in the trial also says that Savior often played the role of transferring payments to other match-fixers and there was a long record of financial transactions to prove this. Savior went about this like a member of organized crime, even going as far as to devising a system of making cash payments in $50 increments to avoid detection instead of using lump-sum bank transfers like the other broker (Mr. Won). This FUCKING ASSHOLE has the gall to pretend that all he did was pass on some news about match-fixing opportunities? This is supposed to be a fucking apology? This isn't the end of it by any means. Savior even took the match-fixing reward that was to be paid to DArKeLf and took it for himself. The fucker didn't even have the so-called honor among thieves. An apology that fucking covers up his vast and deep involvement in the criminal enterprise? That's not an apology, that's a fucking press release.

In addition, I would like to explain my position and why I waited so long to clear up my position.

Last May, I was in the hospital for a month due to surgery on my knees. But because the situation started getting serious, I contacted a certain reporter and the reporter visited me and there was an interview. In contrast of the articles that were published, I told him everything I knew about match fixing and that I wasn't away without leave from the dormatories.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! My knee hurts.

After the interview, I felt as if I had gotten a load off my mind, and I waited for the article to appear. However, even though I waited for a week, the article that expressed my position didn't come out, and time kept passing.

Summary of paragraph: He's essentially saying that the press isn't telling his side of the story, which, when combined with his sanitized version of the crimes in the third paragraph, is supposed to suggest that he didn't do all the stuff that the press is reporting that he actually did (and evidence in trial proved that he did).

After that, I became a coward who couldn't even read the comments on the internet, and thought that if time will pass, I will be forgotten. However, because of me, my old school's homepage was terrorized with malicious content and many people who has helped me has gotten hurt. And most of all, because I have hurt my parents and my fans, I thought that I could no longer run away from reality.

Summary of paragraph: Pity party! Bad stuff happening to me and people around me!

If my thoughts were proper back then, some of my friends wouldn't have gotten stuck in that bad road, and those friends, whose lives were about the game, would still be active in the scene. Because of this, I am regretting this even more and I am posting this message of apology.
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

Summary of paragraph: He's really "sorry". He's really sorry that bad things happened. Uh huh, you are sorry for just "telling" your friends about the match-fixing opportunities?

Once again, I want to apologize to everyone who has been disappointed about me, and I will atone on the fact that I have caused a lot of criticism in society. I bow my head and apologize from the bottom of my heart

- Savior.
Summary of paragraph: Variations of "I apologize".


So what did he actually do in this non-apology?

1) Said that he's "sorry". Okay good start.
2) Tried to generate pity for himself with content irrelevant to the match-fixing scandal.
3) Pretty much lied about his vast role in the match-fixing scandal by sugar-coating it in a language that makes it seem as if all he did was pass on the news that people could make money from match-fixing.
4) Indirectly suggested that the press is not telling "his side", when "his side" is the made up fairy tale that he spins in the third paragraph.
5) Said that he's "sorry". Meaningless filler intended to trick you into thinking that this is a real apology.

Fuck yeah, that's a great "apology".

I guess us sane people can wonder what makes people either blind-and-deaf or so confident about speaking on issues that they have little knowledge about because they read a headline.


sane ppl wouldn't waste time trying to pick apart an obviously contrived apology

It's a little fun at the expense of crazies who insist that this is a real apology. Feeling edgy and cool today?


ur just embarrassed that u were wrong about savior not apologizing now you'll do anything you can to try and feel like you were right all along

Except you're making shit up cool guy. I wasn't the one who said that he didn't make an apology. Looking back in the thread, I find that you were responding to some other person who said that there was no apology by saying that a fake apology is bad. To which, I agree that a fake apology is worse than no apology and list the things that Savior has done that are even worse than a fake apology. Nowhere do I claim that Savior didn't make any nominal apology. My posts have consistently pointed to his unrepentant actions rather than to lack of an apology. Oh I forgot, cool guys don't read. They quickly scan and make snippy sarcastic comments.

Nice try cool guy. Don't worry, you'll always be cool and edgy in my heart. That shit's so sexy.
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