I was contacted by a Korean Journalist to comment on CoH

[dwturducken]

<facepalm> Sorry, rae. You get to have my Internets. You said that a while ago, and VVs wording when he first contacted her made it sound like it was out of the blue.

[Rae]

Ah , weren't nothing. Been trying to get their attention since the middle of October, but just got lucky with him.  There's still about 50 Korean journalists who ignored me.

But the one who paid attention was /AWESOME/ so it works out OK in the end :)

(Edited, because I posted that at about 2am, and forgot what month it was.)

[Fulcrum]

Agreed, one awesome journalist and article is worth far, far more than 1000 'softball' journalists and articles.

[dwturducken]

And, as has been mentioned on one of these related threads, an article in a major paper/publication has a good chance of being picked up. That's why we need someone who reads Korean, to see if it gets reprinted in the Korean-language papers, even if they're just the ones owned by the same company.

[Rae]

<facepalm> Sorry, rae. You get to have my Internets. You said that a while ago, and VVs wording when he first contacted her made it sound like it was out of the blue.

I have so many internets right now!

S'cool. This place is so busy sometimes I don't remember what I have and haven't posted :)

And welcome wrrkid. Glad you posted !

[PartyKake]

wow, rae, that's an awesome little story. I imagine it's going to get even better. with a huge drop like that in their stock price, this will certainly generate interest in the cause and win over a lot of support from the sidelines.

[Roughtrade]

And, as has been mentioned on one of these related threads, an article in a major paper/publication has a good chance of being picked up. That's why we need someone who reads Korean, to see if it gets reprinted in the Korean-language papers, even if they're just the ones owned by the same company.

http://www.babelfish.com

Babelfish

[Menrva Channel]

Lovely little article! :D

[ukaserex]

I have never been a fan of fantasy fiction before. However, I am now a fan of Mercedes' truth. Very pleased to see this article in a Korean paper. I can only imagine what's being said within the halls of NCSoft. I would love to be a fly on the wall! (that understood Korean) Looking forward to the weeks ahead to see what other articles come to light.

[Xieveral]

http://www.babelfish.com

Babelfish

Babelfish and Google Translate don't always translate things well or alter the sentence structure appropriately in translation.

[dwturducken]

http://www.babelfish.com

Babelfish

I gotta say, I have trouble with Babelfish, lately. Thank you, though. Google Translate will do whole webpages.

[Quinch]

A followup on the article from the awesome folks at Massively also went up.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/12/04/korea-times-quotes-mercedes-lackey-calling-city-of-heroes-closur/

[dwturducken]

Now, the dominoes start to fall?

[DrakeGrimm]

Behold, the Path of the Dragon, coming to fruition...

* DrakeGrimm flees before getting lynched for referencing TSW

[Victoria Victrix]

Rae definitely wins ALL the internets.

Some updates:  LOTS of trolls on the Massively nod.  No, I am not upset.  Some of them are clearly Ayn Randian types who think that businesses should be allowed to do anything they want and are upset that I called the move unethical.  They would not know ethics if the ethics grew teeth and bit them in the ass.  Some are the usual sort so beautifully lampooned in Bill Shatner's brilliant song "Has-Been" ("What's your name, son?" "Jack.  Never Done Jack."  "And you, partner?" "Dick.  Don't Do Dick.")  I figure that for every ten of these armchair-riders fist-pumping each other and yelling in their basement rooms "YAH!  YOU TELL DA BITCH!" there are ten people thinking about buying a book.  Or at least writing a letter to the Mouse.

Because of the Korean Times article, Larry deems us to have reached the tipping point he was waiting for, and he is sending the link, and the full interview with some overview directly to Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing using his SuperSekrit "I am a BoingBoing Tipper" power.  He also sent the full interview to Elliot at Massively for some persepective on things that didn't get covered.

So we will see if anything comes of these.

[Golden Girl]

Some updates:  LOTS of unicorns on the Massively nod.  No, I am not upset.  Some of them are clearly Ayn Randian types who think that businesses should be allowed to do anything they want and are upset that I called the move unethical.  They would not know ethics if the ethics grew teeth and bit them in the ass.  Some are the usual sort so beautifully lampooned in Bill Shatner's brilliant song "Has-Been" ("What's your name, son?" "Jack.  Never Done Jack."  "And you, partner?" "Dick.  Don't Do Dick.")  I figure that for every ten of these armchair-riders fist-pumping each other and yelling in their basement rooms "YAH!  YOU TELL DA BITCH!" there are ten people thinking about buying a book.  Or at least writing a letter to the Mouse.

Eyesight problems too:

LOL. What a bunch of BS this article. It's clear the guy does not know a thing about ethics.

[Taceus Jiwede]

" I figure that for every ten of these armchair-riders fist-pumping each other and yelling in their basement rooms "YAH!  YOU TELL DA BITCH!"

Ya! You tell them bitches!

In all seriousness though Victoria.  That was a very very well written article.  The full interview was very well written and very moving.  If these half witted people who don't even have a sense of empathy act like we are just a bunch of nerds over reacting and we are in the wrong then we are better off without them.  The reason our community is so wonderful is because we care, support, and fight for each other.  Our community is what will save this game and it is what made this game great like you said.  And there is no room for the apathetic jerks who think "Ja whatever man its just a game."  To be fair most of those people haven't read the testimonies but even if they had most of them clearly have no sense of empathy which means that at some point in the second grade their brain stopped maturing correctly.

We love ya here VV and you are making a huge difference I am glad you are on our side, that is for damn sure.

[Electric-Knight]

Yeah, I saw the unicorns over at Massive... no big surprise and you're entirely correct with your opinion of them, VV.
What's weird is... I thought we learned that the unicorns are from Korea... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/03/north-korean-secret-lair-unicorn-king-tongmyong_n_2232057.html?ncid=GEP

8)

[faith.grins]

... Bill Shatner's ...

I've heard that calling him "Bill" is code for "I HAVE MET WILLIAM SHATNER AND HE IS SUPER COOL!"  Idly wondering if that's at all founded in reality...

[Iron-Emerald]

I think I'm out of date with my internet slang... What does unicorn actually mean in this context? I know it seems rightly applied to people being 'the one sane man' type jerks, but not sure where it comes from!