Nope. North Koreans made "The Big Lebowski Bowling" back in 2007: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-06/kim-jong-il-bowls-f...
North Korea’s First Computer Game: Pyongyang Racer
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#22Oops -- looks like the bourgeous running dogs of HN have just DOS'd the North Korean video game industry. Here's hoping Kim Jong Un doesn't consider this a declaration of war and transform the Web into a sea of fire...
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#23The only thing stopping this from being really funny is how awful the life of the average North Korean is.
Actually the average life of North Korea is not that different from those in rural China, Phillipines, Thailand and arguably some parts of the US.
Umm... that's quite simply false. Between 1994 and 1998, somewhere between 240K and 3.5M people died from famine in North Korea (of a total population of ~20M).[1] And while it's possible that there are similarly arduous conditions in China, the Philippines, Thailand, and (even) the US, the average citizen is certainly better off in all of those places.
To put those famine figures in perspective, that's roughly the equivalent of half of California perishing from starvation during the mid-1990s (at a national scale -- if you prefer to think at a more regional scale it's like losing SF from the Bay Area).
[1] See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine for a quick overview
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#24Now the NK citizens will be arrested if they don't play this game day and night...
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do they really send people to reeducation camps for disrespecting the president in the US?
Sorry I should have clarified. I meant in terms of the basics: food, shelter, water etc. My point was that North Korea is borderline third world on par with other countries in the region.
Your comparison is still off. North Koreans will risk their lives to escape to rural China. In China and Philippines there might be poor sanitation and malnutrition but you won't find a lot of people actually starving to death.
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#26The only thing stopping this from being really funny is how awful the life of the average North Korean is.
Actually the average life of North Korea is not that different from those in rural China, Phillipines, Thailand and arguably some parts of the US.
We desperately need a Poe's Law or a Godwin's law to describe this common scenario. In any sufficiently-long comment thread, the probability of someone falsely equating the USA and $DICTATORSHIP, or invoking moral relativism to achieve the same end, approaches 1.
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#27The only thing stopping this from being really funny is how awful the life of the average North Korean is.
Actually the average life of North Korea is not that different from those in rural China, Phillipines, Thailand and arguably some parts of the US.
In all parts of the US they have fridges (ones that freeze food) and electricity to run these.
In NK, they never had many fridges (except for the most lucky) and the electricity is reliably unreliable.
And it kind of goes downhill from this point.
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#29Heroic officers of the army, members of the Worker-peasant red guards, compatriots, comrades and friends. Today we have achieved great victory of technical excellence in honor of our Dear Leader, who is a perfect incarnation of the appearance that a leader should have, who has returned to Heaven from where he first descended. We have proved to the world our superior technical and scientific achievements, for which we…
I know this is not supposed to be the kind of comment HN encourages, but... whatever, you had me at "technical excellence" and it only got better from there :)
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nothing, since the writer is a freelancer and doesn't represent said website.
So they went ahead and posted his story?
Yes, if the story is hot, no news site would care about capture quality anyway.
And it's not like it's some high class news outlet anyway. Complaining about some random web news site?