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Nationalism or KT ignorance?

 
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:34 pm    Post subject: Nationalism or KT ignorance? Reply with quote



I saw both the headline and the picture caption and my brain shut down. Garriott, LORD FREAKIN' BRITISH, an employee of crackersoft? Oh please. This is like saying Harrison Ford is an employee of 20th Century Fox because he develops a movie with them. I'm not sure the KT fully groks who Richard Garriott is. He sure the hell wouldn't think of himself as an employee.
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Alyallen



Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Huh?
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jinju



Joined: 22 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

this thread is worse than your drunks in insadong thread. New lows, new depths.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alyallen wrote:
Huh?


In the computer game world, Richard Garriott is a super star. One would not describe him as a simple employee of a Korean software company. Further, Garriott would be funding his own trip with maybe some promo deal with NCSoft. The headline writer presents a rather distorted picture, making it seem like a Korean software company is going to send a lowly employee into space.
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Snowmeow



Joined: 03 Oct 2005
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No doubt, Richard Garriott, creator of the Ultima Series and ultima online is a legend in the computer gaming industry. If anything he should be considered a partner of NCSoft, considering NCSoft's next big production is being marketed as Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. He's like Sid Meier and the Civilization series.

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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jinju wrote:
this thread is worse than your drunks in insadong thread. New lows, new depths.


Oh Jinju. You live a life of pure misery. When did it change?
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Passions



Joined: 31 May 2006

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What are you talking about? Korean headlines never exaggerate.

For example, D-War is breaking all kinds of records in the US.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200709/200709170013.html
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Passions wrote:
What are you talking about? Korean headlines never exaggerate.

For example, D-War is breaking all kinds of records in the US.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200709/200709170013.html


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According to U.S. entertainment industry newspaper Variety and box office reporter Box Office Mojo (www.boxofficemojo.com), the movie retitled "Dragon Wars" scored the all-time opening-day box-office high for a Korean film in the U.S. that mentions "lemonade". It opened in 2,275 theaters across the nation.


It's opening day, assuming a ticket price of $10, each theater packed in a tidy 68 people. Wow!
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IlIlNine



Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Richard Garriott is no employee, to be sure.

Oh, and by the way. Damn EA to hell.

Also: $10 for a movie? These days? seriously? Isn't it more like $15?
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jinju



Joined: 22 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mindmetoo wrote:
jinju wrote:
this thread is worse than your drunks in insadong thread. New lows, new depths.


Oh Jinju. You live a life of pure misery. When did it change?


When you took an artform I love and stomped it into the cesspool with that drunks of insadong thread.
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rednomad



Joined: 13 Mar 2007
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mindmetoo wrote:
Passions wrote:
What are you talking about? Korean headlines never exaggerate.

For example, D-War is breaking all kinds of records in the US.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200709/200709170013.html


Quote:
According to U.S. entertainment industry newspaper Variety and box office reporter Box Office Mojo (www.boxofficemojo.com), the movie retitled "Dragon Wars" scored the all-time opening-day box-office high for a Korean film in the U.S. that mentions "lemonade". It opened in 2,275 theaters across the nation.


It's opening day, assuming a ticket price of $10, each theater packed in a tidy 68 people. Wow!


BWAAHAAHAAHAAAAA!!!! very nice.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jinju wrote:
mindmetoo wrote:
jinju wrote:
this thread is worse than your drunks in insadong thread. New lows, new depths.


Oh Jinju. You live a life of pure misery. When did it change?


When you took an artform I love and stomped it into the cesspool with that drunks of insadong thread.


Those photos you post you call art? Gosh. Looks like typical point 'n' shoot to me. "ohhh I'm taking photos of people's feet at Burger King. That's art!"

Sorry man, you're kinda shattin' on your own art if you're trying to pass that hum drum stuff off as art.
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jaganath69



Joined: 17 Jul 2003

PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jinju wrote:
mindmetoo wrote:
jinju wrote:
this thread is worse than your drunks in insadong thread. New lows, new depths.


Oh Jinju. You live a life of pure misery. When did it change?


When you took an artform I love and stomped it into the cesspool with that drunks of insadong thread.


Seriously. Seek help. Now. Art? My arse.
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