My Official Apology to those Trapped on "The Titan", the Titanic Exploration Ship Lost at Sea

This is not going to be an easy one for me to write. I haven’t been able to sleep and can’t shake the feeling that I did something wrong. For those of you who don’t know, a small submarine filled with some rich white dudes was recently released into the ocean, with the intention of exploring the wreckage of the Titanic. Tickets were wildly expensive, and the journey was set to be the first of its kind. Not long after the initial voyage, the submarine was lost, and now all members of the sub are presumed to be dead. Lives have been lost, and I can’t help but think that I had something to do with it.

One very important detail surrounding this whole escapade is that this submarine is controlled by a Playstation controller. You would expect a bit more sophistication when controlling a tube of metal in the ocean, but the architects of The Titan would disagree. They believed that the controller would be enough for what they needed, and I would argue that it was…for a while.

Here’s where I have to confess something: I may be partly at fault for this whole thing. The Playstation controller is rechargeable, and has a pretty solid battery life on a full charge. I’m sure they thought about that when mapping out the trek. What they failed to realize, however, is that I have a crippling addition to the classic Playstation game Crash Bandicoot: Warped.

The night before they were supposed to leave, I got an urge to visit my favorite video game pal Crash, and I took a controller from their navigation setup. I usually only play for an hour or so before bed, but tonight I got invested. I played for about 6 hours, deep into the night, before calling it quits and going to bed. That in itself isn’t a problem, but I know for a fact that in my exhausted state of mind, I didn’t plug the controller back in. Those men went out into the ocean with a controller that had maybe half a charge.

The disappearance could have been from anything, and we may never know the root cause. I pray that something else happened and I cannot be held responsible in any way, but I fear that may not be the case. What I do know is their controller ran out of juice far too early on the journey. I’m going to do the only thing I know how to do to honor them: Play 24 hours of Crash Bandicoot: Warped straight and stream it on Twitch, dedicating a level to each of those we lost.