VIDEO: LOL Korea (and Starcraft)
Matt Hawkins For those who still haven’t heard, South Koreans love Starcraft something fierce.
Instead of passing along statistics that sound more like wise tales, like how many have died from heart attacks due to insanely extended game playing sessions (apparently, the blood flow in one’s body slows down from inactivity and starts to congeal, so if you stand up real quick like, instant heart attack), or simply how many in the nation actually partakes in Starcraft (I’ve heard figures as high as 40% of the population, but again, haven’t been unable to find any actual numbers, though everyone agrees that it’s hella popular), here instead is a simple video showing a girl attending a tournament. Word to the wise; just skip ahead to the 1:54 mark unless you want to hear her go on and on about pretty much nothing…
But yeah, it’s a bonafide national obsession. As demonstrated above, folks are perfectly content with watching the game in action. Matches air on primetime television and nab huge ratings. It’s funny because there have been numerous attempts at televising game playing on American airwaves, but with little success. Remember how G4 used to be the video game network? Exactly. I think the problem is, our announcers were never this entertaining…
You know something is big when you have comedy routines based upon it…
Though ultimately, Starcraft is serious business. One key to success is having a high APM, which stands for Actions Per Minute…
Okay, confession time: I came across the first clip my total accident, while checking out the user’s latest uploads. Whom I only know about cuz she was once part of this goofy movement back in the early days of YouTube in which her and others all got together to support some other YouTube “vloggers” (lol) who were having some kind of legal issues back home in Australia. Apparently they lost custody of their child, so all their YouTube pals got together to sing a stupid song. For what purpose, I still have no idea…
I believe in the end, it was discovered that the reason why the couple lost custody of their kids was because it was discovered that the father was a child molester. And thus the party ended. Oh internet.
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