{"id":6752,"date":"2010-07-15T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"schafer-regrets-calling-kotick-a-total-prick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6752-schafer-regrets-calling-kotick-a-total-prick","title":{"rendered":"Schafer regrets calling Kotick a \u201ctotal prick\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After calling Bobby Kottick a dick and a total prick yesterday, Brutal Legend guy Tim Schafer has now admitted he regrets the comments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was an accident,&#8221; Schafer told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/tim-schafer-i-need-to-keep-my-mouth-shut\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;I was going to change the title of my talk to &#8216;how to give interviews and remember to check the microphone is off.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need to keep my mouth shut,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is shocking how you really burn bridges in the industry. You start your own company and you don&#8217;t have to work for that jerky boss any more. Not naming names.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then it&#8217;s like Empire Strikes Back &#8211; you walk in the room and, &#8216;Holy s*** Darth Vader&#8217;s at the table.&#8217; It&#8217;s such a small industry, you see the same people over and over again. No-one ever goes away.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I need to keep my mouth shut,&quot; says Brutal Legend guy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}