Morning Dump: Korea hearts Starcraft, No Die Antwoord No, Hiloio9, mag must-reads
Posted on 31. Jul, 2010 by theashcan in Morning Dump
- Alright, this might be from February but it’s never been more pertinent as Starcraft 2 dropped this week: why are people in South Korea so completely obsessed with Starcraft? For those who don’t game, SC is one of the most popular pc games of all time; and its sequel, nearly a decade in the making, finally released this past Tuesday to absurdly high anticipation. In South Korea, playing Starcraft is a sport. There are Starcraft channels on television, the best players are sponsored and paid huge sums of money, matches are attended by thousands of fans and l337 kids get to have beautiful celebrity girl (or boy!) friends. Why? Well, just ask a Korean. The world is a funny place. -sy
- During Frosh week in my first year of university, and also the following year when I was a Frosh leader–we did it purely for the partying baby–this huge purple button emblazoned with the phrase “No Means No” was handed out to all participants. We wore it, sometimes laughing at it’s message, sometimes pointing at it while we blew our “rape whistles,” young and uninitiated idiots that we were. But, regardless of that, I still remember that message now, and remembered it when questionable things happened to me in those first couple of years. That’s why Sarah Nicole Prickett’s “Die Antwoord and the politics of ‘No Means Yes‘” from this week’s EYE struck a chord of real fucking respect (that and a healthy dose of Die Antwoord-disdain). Perhaps Morning Dump isn’t where you want to read about bad things that happen to naive, booze-happy, sexually excited young people (most often, girls) everywhere, but I’m too self-conscious to talk about my own troublesome past beyond refrencing it in removed passing, here. Instead, read SNP’s piece, and think really long and hard about what sexuality, feminism, misogyny and youth really stand for today. -am
- HiLobrow.com is currently curating a series of Charlie Jane Anders’s best posts for io9.com, which is ill because HiLobrow (art and ideas) and io9 (sci-fi) are two of my favourite blogs and it’s awesome when things you like team up to kick ass. Shout out to ice-cream sandwiches. -jc
- And if you’re dry for some long weekend reading, you can’t go wrong with The Best Magazine Articles Ever of all time. Unless you don’t like things that are the best, in which case you should log off this blog. Have a good one, kids! -jc
