South Korean couple starved child while raising 'virtual baby'

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03-05-2010, 10:34 PM
KT.

South Korean couple starved child while raising 'virtual baby'

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(CNN) -- A South Korean couple arrested for allowing their baby to starve to death had been raising an online child, state media reported citing police sources.

The couple, residents of a Seoul suburb, allegedly neglected their prematurely born three-month-old daughter, feeding her just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at a neighborhood internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported.

Police said the couple had become obsessed with raising a virtual girl character called "Anima" in "Prius Online", a popular role-playing game in South Korea.

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03-05-2010, 10:35 PM
KT.

at least there's one less Korean
03-06-2010, 02:39 AM
srsinternets

was this you and ginger
03-06-2010, 04:07 PM
KT.

you caught me
03-06-2010, 04:52 PM
Nermy2k

imagine how many korean kids are going to die once starcraft 2 comes out

(not enough)
03-18-2010, 03:40 PM
Husein

The DPRK knows of internet.

In South Korea the internet kills you.

Thanks a lot capitalism.

Also: http://www.ninjapirate.com/article/farmville
03-18-2010, 06:22 PM
simonj

Yeah, a 15 year old amateur gardener is really going to save a tonne of lives.
03-18-2010, 06:23 PM
simonj

Articles like that make me hate liberals and I am really fucking liberal.
03-18-2010, 10:11 PM
Husein

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Originally Posted by simonj

Yeah, a 15 year old amateur gardener is really going to save a tonne of lives.

Apparently it being a joke about the third world versus the first went over your head.
03-19-2010, 01:46 AM
coqauvin

hey guys, did you know everything relates to communism?

it's like the hitler or jesus wikipedia game, except husein is a fuckbag
03-19-2010, 02:20 AM
simonj

Quote:

Originally Posted by Husein

Apparently it being a joke about the third world versus the first went over your head.

Apparently the part where jokes are supposed to contain humour went over your head.
03-19-2010, 12:38 PM
Husein

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Originally Posted by simonj

Apparently the part where jokes are supposed to contain humour went over your head.

You're a liberal, you have no humor.

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Originally Posted by coqauvin

hey guys, did you know everything relates to communism?

Technically yes. Dialectical and historical materialism and all that. An analysis of commody fetishism (in this case an online webgame) is just as possible as a scientific analysis of the extraction of surplus-value or any other Marxian analysis.
03-19-2010, 03:02 PM
coqauvin

forgot to mention retarded, but that's more of a given
03-20-2010, 11:40 AM
Husein

"hurr de durr marxism is retarded" isn't much of a comeback.
03-20-2010, 01:17 PM
coqauvin

marxism isn't necessarily retarded, but you are for parroting it is my point
03-20-2010, 04:39 PM
simonj

Yeah. That's why he's retarded coq. Nothing else about him.
03-20-2010, 05:04 PM
coqauvin

i hit the character limit if i try to list everything fucked up abour mr die, so i try to stay brief and to the point
03-20-2010, 07:43 PM
Husein

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Originally Posted by coqauvin

marxism isn't necessarily retarded, but you are for parroting it is my point

So apparently being a Marxist = retarded, then?

Thanks for proving my point about your claim.
03-20-2010, 07:58 PM
simonj

Is mirdie really that stupid?
03-20-2010, 07:58 PM
simonj

A: No. He's much more stupider.
03-21-2010, 02:12 PM
Pepsi

because he's from jupiter.
03-22-2010, 03:41 PM
Husein

Quote:

Originally Posted by simonj

Is mirdie really that stupid?

If being an advocate for Marxism makes one "stupid" then by what should be obvious association Marxism itself is "stupid."

Same as saying being a liberal makes you an idealist, as is liberalism itself.
03-22-2010, 03:53 PM
simonj

No. You misunderstood my point. Big surprise there.
03-22-2010, 04:55 PM
coqauvin

mrdie - being an advocate doesn't make you stupid. your lack of comprehension, be it genuine ignorance or a deliberate attempt to skew the point, is the deciding factor in this
03-22-2010, 06:48 PM
Nermy2k

mrdie is pretty stupid imho tbqh fyi
03-22-2010, 06:49 PM
simonj

IKR!
03-23-2010, 01:41 AM
Husein

This reminds me of the time I was talking to an Irish Communist who works with the Korean Friendship Association in Ireland, and how one time a DPRK (aka North Korean) diplomat phoned him and told him that the anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birthday was coming up, and told the Irish KFA to be sure to commemorate it, and the Irish Communist was like "Oh, okay."

Also up until the 90's South Korea was a rather poor military dictatorship and Communists fought for rights underground (and pretty much still do) so woo.