New Novel Based on City of Heroes? Why hasn't this been publicized?

As a holder of multiple degrees, I can say that it's not anti-intellectualism. My problem is that the state of education in this country (the US) is atrocious (with a capital ATROCIOUS). As such, the benchmark of what can be considered "intellectualism" is correspondingly becoming an ever-sinking target.

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I agree. "Intellectual" and "college degree" are not synonyms. "College degree" and "regurgitated the text book" would be.

Side story: A friend of mine did his pee-aitch-dee on holographic memory for robots (in 1987!) and was disappointed that the process wasn't more challenging. I couldn't even understand what the heck he was talking about beyond the word "robot" and I'm not a dummy. That's an intellectual dude.

Yeah, Carlin was riffing off an old joke:

Q: What do you call a guy who graduated last in his class from medical school?
A: "Doctor."

What else can you expect when students are hiring people to do their research for them? Or when students "write" a paper by copying and pasting from whatever comes up on Google?

Yes and no.

One of my degrees is in nursing (yes, I used to wipe butt for a living). You get similar responses when talking jargon to patients and their families. A lot of it is that people aren't usually prepped for esoteric terminology.

Unless you delve into "hospital humor". That's a WHOLE different sort of response from people. I've accidentally ruined dinners for people by digging up anecdotes...

Then there's my CompSci degrees. Most people get the real general stuff, and even some of the oddball references. But just explaining simple things like base two math to people and why hard drives are "smaller"?

You can SEE their eyes glass over.

And trying to explain various types of SQL joins to people. Dear GOD it makes me think I'm Daryl Revok from "Scanners" and they're my target.

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Do you want the NICE answer? Or the HONEST one?

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Hey, I'm game for honest. My generation (Millennials) sucks.

Poor teachers, constantly grading papers about redheads, Paris Hilton and Housewives of specific cities.

Superworld. A Chaosium game.

Uh -- it is a little bit wrong to lecture folks about reading comprehension when you didn't understand my initial post. I never said anything about it being marketed by CoH (or NC Soft). Go back and read what I said.

I never said anything about CoH or NC Soft marketing the book.

I did a quick search for the title and did not find any discussion of this book. The primary name on the cover is a well-known, well-respected author of Science Fiction and Fantasy who we know plays CoH and authored an AE arc. I look over the Forums fairly regularly, and never saw any mention of this book being published -- it wasn't mentioned in a recent thread about Super Hero fiction. We even had a thread about Troy Hickman's published comics, so I would have expected this book to be mentioned.

I was expressing surprise that I had not seen any mention of this book related to CoH being published -- usually anything CoH related gets mentioned on the forums somewhere, even if it is not officially sanctioned by NC Soft. I suspect that NC Soft authorized the limited use of their trademarked name on the cover of this book -- it can only be good publicity. However, I'm not sure such permission was needed -- the book is not trying to pass itself off as a "City of Heroes" book.

As for a "a lack of understanding to basic business practices marketing and publishing to be kind about it," (sic)I actually have some knowledge in this area. My wife is a working writer, and is an officer in the local chapter of a national writer's organization. We have had many discussions about the changing world of publishing and the problems writers have in marketing their works, all based upon presentations by published authors, publishers and agents. I probably know more about it than most people, especially since I have read several publishing contracts.

You might want to be a little bit more careful before you accuse someone of a "a lack of understanding to basic business practices marketing and publishing to be kind about it." Using a properly placed comma might be a good practice, too.

You're right, I'm wrong. My bad.

Keep in mind that anything after what I said that is wrong is based on a wrong premise, so you really didn't need to write this due to the thing it i replying to doesn't apply.

NEVAR!!!!

Superworld, actually

(edit. Gah... didn't see yours, KingPug)

It's 106 miles to Grandville, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing faceless helmets

... Hit it ...

You took a kind of offensive tone, so I chose to be offended. Now you have admitted you made a mistake, so it's all good.

My post was pushed to paged 3.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=256122

He's still upset that Raph couldn't beat Wolverine in a fight.

I made an AE arc that had a minor character named Lexus Minion. I'm funny like that.