Alan Feng, the UC Berkeley professor who teaches Starcraft (yep, that's what the Public Ivys do), tells GosuGamers about — among other things — how Korea has influenced his dreams of professional gaming, and how his professional gaming has influenced Koreans. Maybe he can use his influence in a PSA to inform gamers not to hang around PC-bangs for 96 hours in a row until someone finds their shriveled up body slumped over into a bowl of instant ramyŏn.
I was rather disturbed by your name calling; it appears out of character for you. I accept your apology. We can be friends again now. What I was attempting to do, which is similar to what you wrote, was to call into question the normalization of suicide into the mainstream. I do not know why this woman killed herself, but the trival reason Choi, Jin-shil had to kill herself sends shocking precedence to young minds: to wit, that it is acceptable to kill yourself over small issues that will be forgotten in a mere few weeks.
ReplyDeleteActually, this is sometimes right out of my character. I can be a real mercurial sort sometimes, and I end up having to apologize.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thanks for accepting the apology. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I avoided saying "you're an ass," but just said "don't be an ass." A subtle difference in my intent, but both may be offensive name-calling nonetheless.
And sorry to Brian for degrading the tone of the comments, especially on this type of post.
Anyway, I'm also sorry I had missed your point, nb. It is disturbing that people are committing suicide over what are basically trivial issues — that are by no means permanent.