TimTheEnchanter

Ponies doing Ghostbusters LARP?

That... I didn't know about. That they're actually planning a conceptual test is pretty cool. I wish the article I found said anything about how far they are from being ready to conduct the lab experiment, assuming NASA has even given the go-ahead.

An interesting question, but who knows if it's even true that they wouldn't? I don't believe any company has ever tried it, unless you want to count "lifetime memberships." But I've seen those as more being about inflating initial sales, rather than trying to extend long-term viability.

How lucky for everyone who isn't an impulsive teenager.

I had thought of tha too, the idea of having a bunch of niche games, one each targeting a different demographic. Somehow that too is looked down upon as inefficient. "Why not just have a big one, and target the widest demographic possible?" That would be bad enough in a different branch of entertainment or video games. But as long as WoW is out there to make everyone drool, it's going to lure people into trying to achieve that same level of success. Even EA practically killed themselves chasing after El Dorado.

And: wow... I just realized that somehow half of my original post isn't there, merging pieces of two of my sentences and making the whole thing look REALLY weird.

Please don't pull out my heart plug...

Not ruined. There can still be a brawl. As long as none of the protagonists don't mind getting coal in their stockings.

i herd dat

Maybe that's where the idea started to die down. I don't know. Did you ever post a 'resignation' of any kind stating your grievances? I did wonder what happened to you. I remember an unrelated thread to the Kibun one (which I think is the same one EK is referring to) that got heated because someone was part Korean, but I didn't remember who was involved, so I didn't realize it was you until today. I DID hope that whoever it was though, might show up in the Kibun thread to separate the facts from the myths.

Though maybe that wouldn't have even worked. The closest thing I can compare to this is probably "Southern Pride." As a Northerner I had been taught that it more or less means, "We fly Confederate flags because we're still butthurt that we lost our slaves." The more time I actually spent down there though, one day it just suddenly clicked for me and made sense. I still couldn't explain it though. It just 'is'.

I was about to make a similar response. In my case it was either skinny, having glasses, liking video games, liking Star Trek, not being good enough at basketball, not having a girlfriend, etc, and these were all valid reasons for physical assault.

Always got a kick out of the only time something is considered "hate" is when it is directed towards a group that has an ethnic, racial, religious, national, or sexual background. Any other time someone is ridiculed for what they are, it's just bullying, as if that somehow makes it less evil. Neither you or I ever got to pull out the race card, because what we are doesn't fall under the accepted definition of a 'group.'

Its just getting to the point where, like I was explaining to BP, most of this stemmed from the "hope" debate, and the attempts being made at this point to debunk even the idea of a SaveCoH campaign (regardless of how its being run) make anything that Titan has said about NCsoft look conservative.

It started out with "Hope is a disease that must be snuffed...", and is now working its way to, "...because the Titan Network hates Koreans."

I can sympathize with what Toast was feeling, but something seemed strange at the point Toast said they were insulting the culture because they're haters. I replied that if they misunderstood Kibun, that doesn't mean it's driven by hate. And somehow that resulted in, "And that means it's OK?" That's a very black & white response, as if, Titan either HAS to be racist, or there was no wrong-doing.

That was Another_Fan.

I lol'd.

Drat, the staving Koalas!

Titan Cybernetics, WHY is Mega-Fan not online yet?

I've been noticing that too. This is one of the most level-headed forums I've ever seen, especially for a gaming forum. Anywhere else, this would've degraded into nail-spitting flame-fests long ago.

On the last sentence though, it seems hard to push past the divide. The only reason this debate is even happening right now, is a disagreement about whether people should be allowed to hope that CoH may have a future.

I also think the idea was abandoned though. But if any were sent, and it worsens things, no more than the initial tirades, which seemed to have no argument against it beyond, "Business can do whatever they want." Interest in CoH spiked, and NCsoft, if they chose to, could have used to that inflate the selling price. Not saying I think they did, but they could've.

They've been saying the same thing about Americans. The American press I mean, not the U.K.

That comparison only applies if fans are somehow a part of Korean anatomy. Unless there's something ELSE that was overlooked in the Kibun report, I don't think they are. There's also nothing culturally significant about being afraid of fans. It can't even be linked to religion or superstition.

Now it's just being forced to that level of racism, nationalism, culturalism, kittyism, whatever ism is the popular one nowadays, for the sake of villification. I see worse happen on SNL and its international equivalents all the time, and nobody is trying to raise Hell about it.

There's a difference between being hateful and being ignorant.

If someone gets hit by a car, it doesn't mean the driver hates them. It might, if the driver was looking right at the guy and put the pedal to the floor. But most likely it's because the driver wasn't paying attention.

Oh of course! Why didn't I think of that? Because all the Koreans at NCsoft, being afraid of electrical shorts from fans that are left on overnight, would scream, flail their arms in the air, and run out of the building, unable to return until the bomb squad came to remove the Hellish abomination.

We'll just pretend that actually would have worked, even though a fan delivered by mail would obviously have no power going to it, and everyone present was awake.

Or is this a robo-fan, that would plug itself in and then self-detonate when nobody was looking?

I really need to check on what Titan Cybernetics has been working on lately. Perhaps Mega-Fan is finished. Wait till you see it. It's going to make typhoons look like a baby blowing out birthday candles.

Bigot!

Nice try. Though if we were to look at the private files of anyone involved in international 'anything', we'd probably choke.

Those little bits you posted were never planned to be sent to NCsoft.

I have an encyclopedia of insults somewhere, but... it doesn't cover other languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day

Labor Day is an American federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September, that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers.

So if someone thought they using a translation dictionary, thought they were saying, "I don't like what you did", but what they were really saying was, "I will level your country with my nuclear arsenal."

The most you can blame the person for is misreading the dictionary, not using a better source, or... not being a Korean (if Kibun is one of those "you had to be there" type of things). But his/her actions cannot be blamed on hatred.