North Korea's goverment will report the website outage as a CIA plot carried by an elite group of hackers called "Hacker_News".
North Korea’s First Computer Game: Pyongyang Racer
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#52Heroic 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…
Dear Leader is dead, long live the Supreme Leader!
Next in line: "Incredible Leader of Total Awesomeness. Bee's Knees"
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#53Complete with realistic Pyongyang traffic!
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
To be fair, In any sufficiently-long comment thread, the probability of someone making $STATEMENT, approaches 1.
Ah, yes, Borges' Law.
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#55Heroic 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 :)
not supposed to be the kind of comment HN encourages
Yet, its what we may perceive as the best representation of what the populace is having to deal with / parrot. Like most ironies, sadness and hilarity ensue.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an American, you can only visit during the Mass games unless they've changed that. I've been thinking about a weekend trip one of these days (but probably October given that's the only time I can go).
They've changed it. You can go at certain periods during the year often coinciding with key events. And you can only go as part of a set tour which is usually over a week. So no weekend tours and certainly not by yourself.
IIRC, the last person to individually book a tour to North Korea decided to shirk his appointment with the state ministry in charge of chaperones and took advantage of the fact that a Trans-Siberian railway crossing was listed as a valid port of entry on the standard tourist visa... it's not often you get to play with (if only mentally now) the technicalities of international transit. It makes you grin like hell.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Are you the guy that complains about "try hards" in games?
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#58Now the NK citizens will be arrested if they don't play this game day and night...
On ~what~?
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#59Re: North Korea’s First Computer Game: Pyongyang Racer
#60For some reason I was expecting it to be written in Python.
You kidding or what, c'mon ? Python is too good for them.
They still be in 70's, python was made in 90's.....