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Random Integer posted:The guy playing the recruiter is Gong Yoo, who is also an incredibly famous actor in Korea (probably best known outside Korea for Train to Busan), so I think its kind of a fakeout as to who the surprise reveal big name actor is. I thought he looked familiar but I couldn’t place him! Thank you!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUU93Z7qNQ8
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Oct 23, 2021 13:32
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that linked me to this which is also very cute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYd_pT9hZrM
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Oct 23, 2021 15:22
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I speak enough Spanish to kind of read it. It’s just a squid game themed event with a 1k prize and 10 dollar entry. It says something roughly to the effect of “nobody is going to be killed or anything” on it. Not sure what Op is on about. It’s kind of hosed to replicate the game, even without the violence
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Oct 23, 2021 17:37
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A red light green light game thread where anyone who posts after red light gets banned. Posters must make x amount of posts within y amount of pages.
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Oct 23, 2021 17:46
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ymgve posted:It’s kind of hosed to replicate the game, even without the violence Yeah. It'd be like having a Naked and Afraid Hunger Games special.
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Oct 23, 2021 19:27
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I don’t really see the difference or find this any more shocking than when I play a video game about fictional violence. Much less actual violence or genocide like say WW2
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Oct 23, 2021 19:53
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Yeah if it were imitating a real life atrocity that would be one thing, but it's imitating a fictional piece of entertainment for fun. Can't really see anything objectionable about that.
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Oct 24, 2021 01:40
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Oct 24, 2021 02:22
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When I watched the hamsters do the glass plates thing I said to myself "Yeah that's a lot easier when you have four legs." Then I realized the contestants could have crawled across on their hands and knees. Why didn't they try that.
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Oct 24, 2021 11:52
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The rails were really thin. Maybe they couldn’t even support a step
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Oct 24, 2021 11:59
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They had enough redshirts for some of them to try something smart and get punished for it.
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Oct 24, 2021 13:21
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Nobody is allowed to complain about the VIPs’ acting, they were 100% accurate and real
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Oct 25, 2021 05:28
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He’s just method acting
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Vorgen posted:When I watched the hamsters do the glass plates thing I said to myself "Yeah that's a lot easier when you have four legs." Then I realized the contestants could have crawled across on their hands and knees. Why didn't they try that. I feel like it's like the honeycomb game and the needle, they gave you the implied rules of the game and everyone just went with it. at the end they figured out there was no actual rule against licking the back and making it easier, but only one person actually thought to do that. I think a repeated theme of the show is that given an implied set of rules it's rare someone will think to just not do that. Watching the game it's super easy to think of walking on the rails or doing a marble trading ring or whatever, but it's shown over and over that even when life is at stake it's rare for someone to not sort of follow the rules. Like his mom was dying from poverty, why didn't she just steal to pay for it? etc. People generally follow what they think the rules are, even if it kills them, even if nothing is really enforcing that as a rule.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I feel like it's like the honeycomb game and the needle, they gave you the implied rules of the game and everyone just went with it. at the end they figured out there was no actual rule against licking the back and making it easier, but only one person actually thought to do that. BTW, after finishing Squid Game, I did try to give Alice in Borderland a shot. I... kinda hated it? I made it to episode 5 of 8 before calling it quits. It doesn't seem to have a deeper meaning, the games are mostly unsatisfying (kinda random and unsolvable to the viewer), and the episodes seem bloated and slow. Like the conversations and emotional speeches take foreevvvvvveerrrrr and don't really reveal anything new about the characters. I wish each episode had been 40 minutes instead of nearly an hour. JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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Steve Yun posted:Nobody is allowed to complain about the VIPs’ acting, they were 100% accurate and real Bad headline, there's nothing inherently wrong with dating a woman who's Thai. But yeah, it's always sus seeing an older white guy going over there for those explicit purposes. Better than that is the interview someone else posted here where he brags twice about all the sex offers people have sent him post-squid game. Weird, weird dude.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I feel like it's like the honeycomb game and the needle, they gave you the implied rules of the game and everyone just went with it. at the end they figured out there was no actual rule against licking the back and making it easier, but only one person actually thought to do that.
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comedyblissoption posted:it's explicitly shown in the show that the host and vips did not appreciate that someone would outsmart the glass game to the finish line so they took measures to stop the outsmarting Honestly, that was an example of them not liking someone playing by the rules and being too good at it. They didn't stop people from cheating like standing behind people in red light, or by playing the game wrong like licking the candy instead of using the needles, but they hated someone playing the game as it was meant to be played but being good at it and (having actual glass knowledge and helping others with that knowledge). That also feels in line with the themes of the show. The rules are capricious and unfair, breaking them one way is seen as rewardable cleverness, in some other way is worth death, just by if they piss off the VIPs or not.
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comedyblissoption posted:it's explicitly shown in the show that the host and vips did not appreciate that someone would outsmart the glass game to the finish line so they took measures to stop the outsmarting I wonder how much the host was pressured by the VIPs in this regard though.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I think a repeated theme of the show is that given an implied set of rules it's rare someone will think to just not do that. Watching the game it's super easy to think of walking on the rails or doing a marble trading ring or whatever, but it's shown over and over that even when life is at stake it's rare for someone to not sort of follow the rules. Like his mom was dying from poverty, why didn't she just steal to pay for it? etc. People generally follow what they think the rules are, even if it kills them, even if nothing is really enforcing that as a rule. Also, does anyone know the relative purchase power of the won in South Korea? Because the grand prize being only $39 million means they're fighting and suffering and dying all for "retire comfortably" money, not even "you are wealthy now" money, and it matters to me very much if that was intentional or not.
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Uh, $40 million USD is a poo poo ton of money in Korea, or anywhere for that matter.
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Mu Zeta posted:Uh, $40 million USD is a poo poo ton of money in Korea, or anywhere for that matter. Yeah that’s a pretty weird take lol
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Oct 25, 2021 19:23
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Win the Squid Games in Korea, come to Argentina and buy yourself a town with 40 million USD
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Mu Zeta posted:Uh, $40 million USD is a poo poo ton of money in Korea, or anywhere for that matter. Actual wealth, enough to have real power and immunity from the law, is... 100 times that? 1000? At least?
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"$40 million is middle class actually" is not a take I was expecting to see.
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Oct 25, 2021 19:34
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I don't know how to be any clearer than this: you think any of the VIPs regard $40 million as anything other than a rounding error? You think they're giving out an amount of money they'd actually miss?
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if you had $39 million you could spend a million dollars every year for 38 years and have $1 million left over
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CapnAndy posted:I don't know how to be any clearer than this: you think any of the VIPs regard $40 million as anything other than a rounding error? You think they're giving out an amount of money they'd actually miss? bruh are you high on dust? just because there are people who make even more, it doesn't mean that $40m doesn't make you very very rich.
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For the average person $40,000,000 dollars is a life-changing amount. If you invest it wisely you can live a very comfortable life without having to work ever again. Also, the people playing the games are all in astoundingly bad situations because of how broke they are, so $40 million is even more impactful for them. You're correct in that this isn't enough money to propel you into the ranks of the actually rich. You're not going to be able to buy your way into true power with this tiny sum. But if your goal is to never need to worry about money ever again, then $40 million is far more than enough to get there.
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People having more of a thing than you does not mean that you don't have a lot of that thing. I have decently well paying job and $40 million is several times more money than I will earn over my entire lifetime. The idea its 'just comfortable retirement money' is completely insane.
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:bruh are you high on dust?
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CapnAndy posted:I'd argue there's a pretty sharp line between dudes who don't have to worry about money any more and dudes who don't have to worry about laws any more, especially if Gi-hun intends to use being the former to go after the latter. But fuckin' whatever I guess. I'm not sure why everyone is giving you a hard time about this. Yes 40m is a lot to us, but yeah to the people running the games it's nothing.
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CapnAndy posted:I'd argue there's a pretty sharp line between dudes who don't have to worry about money any more and dudes who don't have to worry about laws any more, especially if Gi-hun intends to use being the former to go after the latter. But fuckin' whatever I guess. Yeah it's probably nothing to people on the level of wealth like the VIPs, and it wouldn't be enough for gi-hun to be some sort of lawless vigilante getting his revenge. You're right about all that, but you never mentioned any of that in your original post. you said, quote:they're fighting and suffering and dying all for "retire comfortably" money, not even "you are wealthy now" money, and then wondered why people were like, "wtf, $40m is 'you are wealthy now' money!?!?"
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Oct 25, 2021 19:56
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If winning the Squid Games doesn't make you rich enough to start your own Squid Games, what's even the point?
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:Yeah it's probably nothing to people on the level of wealth like the VIPs, and it wouldn't be enough for gi-hun to be some sort of lawless vigilante getting his revenge. You're right about all that, but you never mentioned any of that in your original post.
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CapnAndy posted:it's equally cruel to make people murder each other for money you wouldn't actually miss and won't actually put them on your level, despite that being the dream you're feeding them to make them sign up. that was never something promised to the players and sure that's not an absurd amount of money to loving Elon Musk, but to literally 99.9% of the planet's population that's absolutely a "never have to think about money" amount of money
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Me and my partner collectively pull about 25k usd from our jobs, usually working opposite shifts, and half the time we do get to hang out it's jamming to music or listening to a podcast while running gig economy food delivery orders to make ends meet. I could frankly be convinced to stab a dude for way less than forty million. Not to pay off debts or to buy my way into the truly wealthy class, just to get more fuckin time to see her, my mom, and my cats instead of my boss.
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:Yeah it's probably nothing to people on the level of wealth like the VIPs, and it wouldn't be enough for gi-hun to be some sort of lawless vigilante getting his revenge. You're right about all that, but you never mentioned any of that in your original post. $40M is absolutely enough to be a lawless vigilante, at least for a few VIPs, because it's way more than enough to set up the various intermediary shielding entities and then hire a professional killer, all from some remote location. That's what the bulk of being "outside of laws" is until you get into rewriting the laws themselves. Using QBs as an example is ridiculous because most of them don't make 40M/year (although they do make a lot) and they are basically lottery winners who win a second lottery by being both professional athletes AND hitting the point where they command that salary. I don't know how many active QBs there are but even if there were 350 that would still make them 1 in 1 million for the US.
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JazzFlight posted:BTW, after finishing Squid Game, I did try to give Alice in Borderland a shot. I... kinda hated it? I made it to episode 5 of 8 before calling it quits. It doesn't seem to have a deeper meaning, the games are mostly unsatisfying (kinda random and unsolvable to the viewer), and the episodes seem bloated and slow. Like the conversations and emotional speeches take foreevvvvvveerrrrr and don't really reveal anything new about the characters. I wish each episode had been 40 minutes instead of nearly an hour. I like 50% agree with you about Alice. I fuckin love it, but I think what really makes me appreciate it more is that it's just so loving anime
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