Unravelling the Web

Once again, I've been courting more than a little controversy within the Xbox Community with a recent blog entry about piracy sites being promoted in the XCN but in another instance I'm going to have to hold up my hands and admit that I may have been wrong.

So, to follow up the private apology I sent tonight, I'd like to back that up with an apology on my blog for my attitude which resulted in some rather heated and ill conceived words being exchanged on MSN earlier this week. It was an attitude born from a paranoia and distrust that I've learnt the hard way in this industry.

It seems that an intricate web of lies has been spun around every single Xbox Community Network website out there. Over time, the spider at the centre of this web has ensnared various different site editors with lies which played on their very basic desires to succeed in this cut-throat industry.

The web coats everyone and everything that encounters it whether they want it to or even without them knowing they have been captured. The spider uses people without their express permission or willing to bend others to their own means.

So deep; so intricate is this web that the people ensnared in it or those striving to break the threads still struggle to see the truth. It was this web of lies that's led me to have a heated argument on MSN earlier this week because everyone involved with the XCN or this spider can become a victim.

Such massive webs of lies can only be created by often insecure, compulsive liars and with so many lies being told, it's easy to snag onto a loose end and unravel the whole knot. It seems I've snagged one of these loose ends and began to unravel the whole web of lies and what I've discovered really is very disturbing.

It's certainly not how I'd expect a man who claims to be the "UK Operations Director for the Xbox Life Brand" to act.