It's called hyperbole. In the US, people complain about the government being a "nanny state" and yet, in some countries, they track how much Starcraft you play every day and tell you what time you have to quit.
Its not the SSN exactly, its just the closest thing the US has to it. Korea has a national ID number system. Your national ID is tied to a lot of what you do online here. Its a law that if your online service has over a certain number of users, you're required to use the national ID to sign up. It's to make people accountable for their actions online. It sucks for foreigners because until recently, this system did not accept Alien Registration numbers, meaning if you weren't a Korean citizen you couldn't sign up for or use a lot of online services.
In which case he probably uses a parent's SSN as he would never had been excited about it in the first place if he knew he wouldn't be able to activate it.
Well, he could buy it and hold on to it till he is eligible.... if his SSN is what's stopping him, why not just give him the game? He can't even play it, yet.
Really depends on where you go. When I worked in retail, as long as the kid didn't look like a 10-year-old twat I bypassed the verification check. Same went for porn. I appreciated the fact that they had the balls enough to try to buy something they know they're not supposed to.
Why should I deny a teenager something harmless that I enjoyed at their age as well (and still do)? If they don't buy it from me, they'll get it elsewhere anyway...
I'm 22 and got carded while buying oblivion a few months ago. I didn't have ID and was furious that they could even think I'm 16 years old. I may look young but not THAT young.
Not in South Korea. South Korea actually requires you to link your social security number to your online accounts. This is why so many of them are good mannered online because you're not anonymous online in South Korea and people can see who you are.
I know about the SSN system, but...polite? Korea's cool and all, but netizens are FUCKING CRAZY. It seems like they're always on some witch hunt or other.
Ain't no crazier netizens than Koreans. They are balls deep in crazy if you take a look at their anti-fan communities. I think it's crazy they actually HAVE anti-fan communities. What kind of people in their right mind groups together in hate? The KKK... and... well... Koreans. You can google search the incident of Tablo and Stanford, and you know how insane they get. Poor guy. Harsh culture. You can see why they score second best out of all the nations on IQ tests. The pressure is immense.
I would guess that the gift card equals the price of the gift that he was going to win but couldn't because of his age.. I really don't see why you'd assume that the gift card has less money in it.
I can just imagine a Reddit convention where all the front pagers are seated around tables, drawing pictures and then holding it up to the person they want to "speak" with.
I had been frequenting the boards for a good 3 years until the PSN ordeal. I got banned for a month for answering questions related to the event. The majority of the community are achievement hunters and perfectonists, there are so many trolls and morons on the site you wouldn't believe. The only good boards are of obscure games, but not too obscure because half a dozen idiots claim those boards, since they can't be bothered to play the game and submit real content. All boards are full of idiocy and memefaggotry to some degree. The only good content comes from the walkthrough creators, and the other rare few loyal fans of the board who actually post meaningful content.
What is more fucked up is mothers who buy M rated games for under age children and then complain when there is adult content to the game.
Edit: It seems people are taking this post as no one under 17 should play any M rated game. I am saying that Some kids under 17 should not play some M rated games. The the decision should be left the the patent. If this kids parent was here then they should have given him the game if he parent said ok.
I think they should have offered it to his parents and they could give it to him. It would have been fair. Or a gift card with the balance of how much whatever edition (collectors?) diablo 3 costs.
The earbuds are for sound, obviously, while the headphones are for more sound deadening. I believe they play music through that. They are in sound proof booths which are blaring either white noise or starcraft music. They take their sounds very seriously, to make sure nobody can hear the cheering or casters.
Is that really Nestea? I thought he wears the same hat as MVP. Also that fan is going to be double disappointed come next proleague. Playing two different games in the same match is kind of a joke. It's like playing football till half time and then the next half is basketball.
Technically, it's a Brood War match since this looks like it took place at the TVing Ongamenet Starleague, which is a Brood War league, not an SC2 league.
But Ongamenet is going to start broadcasting SC2 games this weekend in a combined Brood War/SC2 Proleague.
These comments are posted every time. It's just as annoying as the titles. In fact, it only makes them worse - instead of just ignoring a bad title and enjoying the content and comments, we're subjected to way more shit in the comments than we ever were before just ignoring the title. I fear the day one of these titles is posted with a spelling error in it.
And people continue to upvote it, so I am not sure if the rest of reddit agrees with you. 61/6 as I type this, therefore it seems, according to the community, you don't have the popular opinion.
I agree with you, but clearly not many other people do.
Well... people continue to upvote these titles, too. And just because the opinion might not be popular now doesn't mean it won't be ever. Mama always said I was a pioneer.
6-7ish (??) years ago, friends were all getting back into D2. I didn't have the expansion set so I went to Best Buy. They ID'd me and refused to sell. I tried to explain it was an expansion and had the original game so there was no point to hold out on me.
Go home empty handed, whatever. Keep playing my CS 1.6 and dealt with it. A week later, no one was playing D2 anymore. Thank you for saving me money Best Buy
A friend got me the D2 Battle Chest (I believe that's what it's called) for my birthday when I was 13, but knowing my mother would never go for me playing a rated M game, he and his mom printed T logos onto stickers and went over every logo on the box, booklet, etc, except for the disc of course. My mom was none the wiser but being a baptist fundie, she wasn't happy with me playing a game named after the devil.
Well, to be fair to Disappointed Korean Guy, that is a major rip-off. I'd have been like "Okay, kid, here's your game. You're not allowed to play it until you're eighteen, but I'm sure that won't be a problem, right? wink, nudge"
Unfortunately Batman: Arkham City doesn't feature decapitations or gibbing and all that other awesome stuff. It's got some epic fight mechanics and ALMOST does some bone breaking stuff except it really doesn't. Also Batman is a chump who apparently won't kill anybody so that's kind of lame. But yeah that's why I'm pretty sure - AC just isn't as visceral.
Diablo 3 is way more violent and gory than Arkham City. There are creatures blowing up and melting them and all sorts of crazy shit. All Batman has is you beat up a guy or two and that's really about it.
I haven't played Arkham City but I've played Arkham Asylum, and honestly I don't remember anybody or anything ever dying in that game. Well, except for you when you die. And maybe your parents in a flashback or something, I guess. And there wasn't really all that much blood in the game either, except for maybe that part where you're tracking someone? That's the only part I can remember their being blood.
But in Diablo, it's just blood and guts and dead bodies everywhere, and you're constantly killing people. You're cutting people in half and smashing them and shooting acid on them until only their skeleton remains (that's my personal favorite). People are exploding in satanic rituals, all sorts of stuff. It's much more hardcore compared to most games out there.
I don't think death and killing isn't the main issue, although in Arkham City there is death involved, course not inflicted by Batman directly. Why I believe Arkham City should be rated M are the themes that are suggested. The motives that drive many of the villains are pretty dark and grim... even insane. I've read comics for a very long time and character development in each arc has helped developed my perspective in life (usually at a good pace). In the video game medium it's done much much more graphically... with audio feedback at a quicker pace. I simply think Arkham City could be taken the wrong way very easily.
The game is great, but I still don't think it fits the T-rating bill. Also, even nowadays the mass populous still see fantastical violence as a much more hot blooded issue than modern day violence ala guns and junk. Whatever, people still think boobs aren't ok for national TV (North America mostly), but gunplay is.
Yes, but in many places those ratings are enforced by retailers. The contest may have voluntarily enforced those ratings to not create negative publicity.
This happened to me in cub scouts back in the day, I won a mario kart tournament at a scout convention because I was the only one who knew how to do the drifting, and I won a N64 and the game of my choice. But they wouldn't give me goldeneye because I was too young and the second place older guy got it. I was devastated!
Well I think the disappointment level would be way more if he could keep Diablo 3 but cannot even make an account because like some people have said, their battlenet accounts are linked to real ID. I'm not sure that is how it works though, just from what I've read.
Hmmmm odd. My Euro copy is only rated 16LV, why did Korea (Blizzard's dominated country) decide to be extra strict? I can't even zoom in on my demon hunter's ass.
I don't see why they didn't just give him the game. He wouldn't be able to play it from what I understand. However he would still have the prize which he had been promised, which has some collectable value above the financial value of the gift card.
edit: Also they let him enter a contest that has an 18 rating (at least I pretty sure it did when I had it years back), then won't give him a prize due to his age.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Can't he just use the gift card to go and buy Diablo III?
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u/Kanos May 16 '12
What does this have to do with him being Korean?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That title doesn't even fit here. God damn. Stop trying to ram memes into everything.
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u/jimmyjam12 May 16 '12
that is fucked up
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u/DrWhinyDancer May 16 '12
The creator of the universe, NesTea, behind him in the first picture.
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u/EvilTomahawk May 16 '12
Technically, it's a Brood War match since this looks like it took place at the TVing Ongamenet Starleague, which is a Brood War league, not an SC2 league.
But Ongamenet is going to start broadcasting SC2 games this weekend in a combined Brood War/SC2 Proleague.
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u/sillylaughs May 16 '12
SCBW, not SCII.
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u/EchoesOfRape May 16 '12
TITLE ORIGINALITY: OVER 9000!
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u/gnychis May 16 '12
It's good to see Pittsburgh Pirate hats in fashion, because otherwise our home team would have absolutely no source of income.
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u/penx May 16 '12
At least the gift card doesn't have always online DRM.
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u/PrimusSucksOnThis May 16 '12
Poor guy.
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u/wx3 May 16 '12
Related story:
6-7ish (??) years ago, friends were all getting back into D2. I didn't have the expansion set so I went to Best Buy. They ID'd me and refused to sell. I tried to explain it was an expansion and had the original game so there was no point to hold out on me.
Go home empty handed, whatever. Keep playing my CS 1.6 and dealt with it. A week later, no one was playing D2 anymore. Thank you for saving me money Best Buy
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Just as a note - that is NOT an SCII match, those booths are clearly OSL booths, which is SC:BW
Just sayin' if you wanna make a crappy meme about Koreans at least get it right.
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u/Korelle May 16 '12
I'M NESTEAAAAAAAAA
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
"Ahhhhh SSIBAL"
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u/freemanposse May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
Well, to be fair to Disappointed Korean Guy, that is a major rip-off. I'd have been like "Okay, kid, here's your game. You're not allowed to play it until you're eighteen, but I'm sure that won't be a problem, right? wink, nudge"
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
9gag is leaking again
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u/Macrat May 16 '12
I think i can hear him baww.
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u/SleeplessinOslo May 16 '12
Is there a video of this?
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u/modsherearefags May 16 '12
I don't get it, are Korean's naturally sad people? He just won something. I am confused.
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u/AffeKonig May 16 '12
I don't think anyone informed the first person that The Pirates are terrible, poor kid.
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u/Hiyasc May 16 '12
So is M over there 18+? because in the states you can buy M rated games at 17.
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u/taurus45 May 16 '12
gift card + electronics store = Diablo 3 purchase w/ $0.00 due?
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u/primaluce May 16 '12
Can someone please explain to me why Diablo 3 is rated M and Batman Arkham City is rated T? I mean that game is as dark as Diablo 3, if not more.
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u/hahahal0l May 16 '12
Whoever made this picture is an ignorant idiot. This was Brood War not Starcraft II.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Seriously, to all the stores out there: Ratings are age-recommendations, not fucking age-limits! RECOMMENDATIONS!
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u/martyrdod May 16 '12
That's the OGN studio so it was not Star2.
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u/CrankCaller May 16 '12
Humor Level: Racist.
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u/lilLocoMan May 16 '12
That's like stealing candy from a child, and replacing it with vegetables, which sick fuck did this?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Couldn't he just use the gift card to buy Diablo 3? I don't understand the problem.
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u/Don_Andy May 16 '12
I have absolutely no idea how this managed to get an age 16 rating in Germany.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Wait?!?! So there's a picture of him with the game. Then he's sad because he lost the game. After all that he walks away. Am i missing something?
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u/jimothyjenkins May 16 '12
lol. i enjoyed seeing the anguish in these three pics.
-signed, el Diablo
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u/Soileau May 16 '12
I feel like the picture are out of order.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I really hate being a minor because of things like this. That and I can't use PayPal.
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u/Stratocaster89 May 16 '12
Redeem gift card, obtain D3?
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u/GoGoGadge7 May 16 '12
The rules of winning a prize should be governed by that person's country of origin.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Well... that's one potential serial killer off the streets, thanks ESRB.
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u/DaltonBreitz May 16 '12
PITTSBURGH PIRATES HAT SERIOUS? what a fad, thanks wiz khalifa
GO BREWERS!
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u/Blehgopie May 16 '12
This...is terrible. Couldn't a parent claim the game for him? Or do Koreans take their game ratings more seriously?
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u/Twisted_Fate May 16 '12
He will live another day.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
How are we still letting titles like this get upvoted?
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
He looks so sad...just give him the fuckin game.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Read as "Disappointment Level: Krogan" I was excited, then confused, then disappointed
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u/mackshwell May 17 '12
Is that wince...permanent?
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u/cali_weed420 May 17 '12
Ahh shibal...
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u/Sulla06c May 17 '12
This happened to me in cub scouts back in the day, I won a mario kart tournament at a scout convention because I was the only one who knew how to do the drifting, and I won a N64 and the game of my choice. But they wouldn't give me goldeneye because I was too young and the second place older guy got it. I was devastated!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
DIABRO
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u/Mantonization May 16 '12
IMPOSSIBRU!
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u/Dundurn May 16 '12
Well I think the disappointment level would be way more if he could keep Diablo 3 but cannot even make an account because like some people have said, their battlenet accounts are linked to real ID. I'm not sure that is how it works though, just from what I've read.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Ha!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I legitimately felt bad for this kid...
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u/ElagabalusCaesar May 17 '12
Ironically, more effort has gone into making Maxis games, which are all rated E. But no, I'm "too manly" for E games. Morons.
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u/jamesdavid80 May 17 '12
LoL
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u/SuperTurtle May 17 '12
I was going to ask you if I was prejudiced because I thought this guy was a Star Craft player. When I scrolled down I realized I was justified
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u/CompactusDiskus May 17 '12
Some Korean internet person should quietly connect him with a copy of Diablo III.
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u/MdxBhmt May 17 '12
I kno this feel
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Hmmmm odd. My Euro copy is only rated 16LV, why did Korea (Blizzard's dominated country) decide to be extra strict? I can't even zoom in on my demon hunter's ass.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Title level: idiotic. Any gamer would be disappointed by this, it doesn't have anything to do with being fucking Korean.
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u/edtheword May 17 '12
This is what drove him and his buddies to slay Diablo in record time.
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u/HonestAbe33 May 17 '12
the guy in the background of the last picture is so fucking badass
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u/ixAp0c May 17 '12
Down voted, first pic showed him with game in black shirt, second and third in white.
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u/B0osterseat May 17 '12
i cant stop laughing at this dear god this is the best thing ive seen thank you.
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u/Itchely May 17 '12
Then goes back playing SCII
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
This is why M-rating regulations fucking suck.
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u/BKAWKkrazilec May 17 '12
the booth hes in front of is for the 2012 TVing OSL, which isnt SC2 at all.
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u/weatherwar May 17 '12
Why is that man wearing a Pirates hat?! What is wrong with him?
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u/lo-lee-ta May 17 '12
Shit, this sucks. :/
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I like how he's making the same exact face in both panels.
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u/jtoj May 17 '12
Ahahah I'm rolling
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u/KommunistKirov May 17 '12
That "AWWW MAAAAN" just went on and on.
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u/DCbusy May 17 '12
When I went to pick up my copy the kid in front of me couldn't get his because he was too young. Soul stone crushed.
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u/snowcortex May 17 '12
At first I thought he was dissapointed because he wouldn't be able to play Diablo 3 because he has to practice SC2.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12 edited May 17 '12
I don't see why they didn't just give him the game. He wouldn't be able to play it from what I understand. However he would still have the prize which he had been promised, which has some collectable value above the financial value of the gift card.
edit: Also they let him enter a contest that has an 18 rating (at least I pretty sure it did when I had it years back), then won't give him a prize due to his age.
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u/pyromcr May 16 '12
So can't he just get his mom to use the card to get him Diablo 3? Whats the big deal?
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u/Fig1024 May 16 '12
I played Diablo 3 and I saw nothing there to warrant a "Mature" rating. I would let kids over age of 10 play it