The Nail in Emerick's Coffin: Every Coffin Needs a Nail

Day 1,138, 19:05 • Published in USA United Kingdom • by HobbitTon


Would you like to hear some Emerick muzak?
~It came at a harsh reality when this opportunity came up that we need to look at every citizen as if today was their last. No one will live forever, especially on eRepublik. This is Emerick's final stand.~

Q10 with Emerick (Farewell to an eLegend)
~Check out this interview written by my friend, Hadrian X. He was also asked to write a farewell interview for Emerick.~





While I often look forward to an interview with a bright mindset, today I must be writing with a heavy heart. Thank you Emerick for spending your last days in eRepublik with this interview.

Well, I wanted to leave a note or something when I left. I actually had planned to write my memoirs and fill everyone in on all the juicy trolls and scheming that I've done in my lifetime, but apparently I'm far too detached from the game to care anymore. An interview with you should be revealing enough.

When you first joined eRepublik, you were known as Emerick. How did you feel as a new citizen of the United States at that time?

Back then, everything was completely different and more difficult. Finding a job was a task and a half, and it took me about a week to find someone to hire me. When I was trying to get into the game, the forums were the place to be - /v/akis were running wild, messing with everyone they possibly could, including, most deliciously, the admins.

I decided that, even though I was invited by them, I would stay in America and do all I could to serve Dio and spread His purpose here. I chose to get involved in the media. I did my best to subtly sprinkle in a bit of propaganda that would make people think more Dioistly, but when Dish turned us to Atlantis, I realized that it was probably all for naught.

Still, I kept at it and never gave up. You could say that, in a way, I've finally succeeded, but really, it's just a few of us who happen to have taken power in this last year. And we squandered it and played our cards in the worst possible manner, too. We failed.



Back then, you could not survive without having a friend to help you out. Back then, who was your best friend? Do you still have contact with that person today?

Benn was my employer, but I just bitched at him for a raise every day. My best friend at the time was Diarmuid Trelsman. We became friends after flucking around in the comments of someone's article, where we matched wits and generally messed around.Then we would screw around in the chat when that went online, and he helped me fluck with this Swedish guy who lived in America, who I kept insisting was a chick. I proposed to her with Dia's help. You can find how Diarmuid and I became friends here.

Your first exposure to politics was with the long gone Liberty Party. After you became Party President, you did some pretty great things. How did being PP of them change you as a person? Were you satisfied with what you did when you left them?

I didn't do anything great as PP of the Libs. I tried really hard to form a concrete set of ideals for the party, and did my best to get them active. They were the biggest party in the game at the time, and they were nothing but 2-clickers. I got no response out of anything I did from them at all. It was terrible.

As for how it changed me, I learned that I shouldn't seek people's opinions on how things will be in their party or country because most of them don't care. Well, actually I didn't follow that up, because even as president I asked people how they felt about things, a bit, but for the most part I ordered them and informed them.

Shortly after, you left for the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan. How did your short adventures in Japan compare to the ones you had prior in the United States?

They're a teeny tiny community, and I thought that being in a small country would be more comfortable for me and take me back to the golden days in beta. But the world had changed, I realized much later after I left, and it was the state of eRep that bored me, not the size of my country. I also ended up missing the large country when I decided to come back.

Also, GLaDOS left for Russia, and we planned to take over the country together, so that sucked too.



After one unsuccessful attempt at winning POTUS since you came back to the United States, you finally achieved the throne the next month. How did you feel going into the term, and how did you feel when everything was through and done?

Going it, I was scared as hell. I didn't expect to win, and I didn't have anything prepared at all. I owe a lot of Pig for helping me put together the cabinet. All I knew is that I had to, frucking had to show the people an effort, and be the leader that they needed. We needed a leader more than anything. Any plans or backroom deals were moot because we were getting people involved at an exhilarating rate.

Our BB was stopping up the TC. They got too many forms filled out daily than they could process, and it was taking weeks, by the end of it, to get people in. We were getting the sheer numbers that we needed, but the newfags coming in needed something to hold on to and something to inspire them. I knew what I had to do.

I don't think I ever got the feeling that it was through and done, because I ended up having to leave in the middle of my second term. But again, I knew that people needed me to keep writing, to keep supporting them and their interests, and I was determined to do that. Not just for that reason, but because we've never had a president to stick around and continue being a leader in the nation. The US needed me, and I obliged.

Out of nowhere, Emerick was banned. And thus, the waiting game played. In that time, the SEES we know and love today formed. Do you think since then, SEES changed? How so?

SEES has gone through a lot of iterations, including the mercenary team that I put together in beta. It's changed, definitely. You can only do a troll team for so long until they get old. It still has potential to train excellent people, like the ones who founded the most recent iteration, into quality leaders and/or trolls, which is why I chose to make it into a party.

The problem is that we've never worked all that hard on the upkeep of the party, at least not since MSTA went away from keyboard back in the beginning.



When you came back to eRepublik to eRepublik in a different persona, gagah, did people expect more from you because you were Emerick? Did you feel you obtained favorable things?

Of course they did. I was the guy who was their voice for about half a year, and they expected me to be that same person. The trouble was that I played that role as a service to them because they needed that at the time. I'd usually much rather post innocuous shit on the forum or IRC than be a role model to all these faggots. And none of them ever tried to replace me.

Goddamn did I want someone to replace me. But no one stood up and took up the role, and it still pisses me off. I was glad when Emerick died because I was all Kurt Cobain by then. I was happy with just messing around on IRC like a normal person. The trouble was that, to a lot of people, I'm not just a normal person, and they held me to a higher standard than they did to even themselves.

So what did I do? I held them to the same standard that they did to me, and they all fell flat on their faces because they don't stand up and do what's needed to be done.

Alas, all good things must come to an end. Why did you decide to leave the game now?

Look at this thread. I figured, "why the hell not"?

Looking back, what will you miss the most in your long, established legacy if at all?

I'll miss the banter. I'll definitely have to find a replacement for that. I'll miss bullspitting with people who I've spent a year or two with. I'll miss trying to play political and international intrigue. But I won't miss failing to change the world's dynamic time after time.



At the end of it all, do you have any regrets?

A few. Mostly regarding SEES and the fact that we didn't set it up good enough in the beginning. Didn't work hard enough at it. Everything else went fantastically

Any final words to my readers? I thank you again for this opportunity. No matter how people may take this, you will be missed.

I've been through the wringer and put hundreds through it. I never looked back. Maybe I should have chilled out after I was president instead of vying to be the voice of America. Or fruck it, maybe I should have run for president when I came back. Both the first and the second time. But fruck. I'm leaving behind the greatest legacy in eRepublik.

I've spurred as many memes as the /v/akis themselves, and influenced about half as many. I mentored an entire generation with a few articles. Do I have the greatest life ever? Yes. You jelly? Also, let me add that I regret ditching Geno in Japan.



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Best Regards,

Congressman, Arkansas
~Your friendly neighborhood hobbit.~