Below this paragraph (in italics) is an old apology I wrote after realizing how swept up and immature I was over the ME3 Ending thing and my behaviour on BSN in general, something I absolutely regret. I also had an apology in my signature, but the forum update means none of my old snarky comments will be counteracted by an apology sig below it, this gives me a lot of anxiety because I want to make up for any bad attitudes I had in the past, but the only way I can do that now is to manually search through and edit those of my 1000's of posts.
If possible, is there a way mods or something could blanket edit my posts with the following text? If not, i've been trying to go through and do something similar manually if I can (edit: I seem to have managed to upload a custom apology DP, so that might alay my anxieties):
EDIT (future StElmo here): Sorry to BioWare for my previously crappy attitude in this post, I've matured out of being a snarky internet commentor.
Very sorry if I made anyones day worse with the comments I make. Many apologies. I've grown up.
Anyway I just feel really crappy and want to apologize if I ever made any of the staff in any position feel down in any way - this applies to any of the game/s teams.
Original post:
I was just recently looking over old BSN posts/youtube comments/reddit comments/ other forum posts of mine and was shocked to see how sensationalist and mean spirited the way I wrote came accross.
Obviously I never meant anything personal by what I have written, ad hominem has never been my thing, nor is it good for anyones soul - but the impassioned way I wrote, clearly swept up in the whole antagonistic community culture, defintely comes accross as mean spirited and or snarky and or "shouty" - towards a team that gave me some of my most memorable gaming experiences - this seems wrong to me.
So I would just like to straight up apologize to any staff who may have seen my posts and took it personally or were given grief by the culture I have contributed to :S
The other interesting thing is I liked ME3 a lot when I finished it, but the negativity and snarkyness seemed to come out as I got more and more sucked in to finding faults on the BSN.
This was incredibly interesting as it seems like my criticisms raised with the negative attitude of others, almost like a feedback loop :S
Obviously I have criticisms of any game I play - even my favorite games, but the tone seems off in hindsight, particularly given my reaction declined the longer I spent in these forums.
After some self critical and constructive thought I actually don't have this animosity or sillyness in me, I don't think, but I would just like to apologize for not helping with the atmosphere on the forums last year.
Mass Effect is a great bit of escapism and their are worse things in the world than to be finding fault with a game - a peice of entertainment.
The thought mostly crossed my mind when I saw EA CEO sitting next to Joe Biden - my two minds collided and realized, why do I care if an entertainment company doesn't do 'exactly' as I see fit? I should be putting this energy towards corrupt and malignant governments - Obama sends drones off the pakistan for gods sake, yet I give BioWare more of my time? just a bunch of guys and gals trying to entertain me 
So yeah, big apologies to you guys, those old posts of mine were terrible,
ME3 is a great bit of entertainment and I had a great time playing it, I'm really sorry I got sucked into a bandwagon.
Good luck with your future projects.
Oh and if I feel this way? I'm willing to be other people feel like me now too
EDIT2: if it's any consolation I tried to go back and delete many of my posts from around the net which I thought were mean spirited, but if I missed any and you see them, I'm sorry ): I have different usernames around the internet so it was hard to find stuff, but yeah, wow, I was a jerk at some points there 
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