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watching k-drama Squid Game
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learning the rules to classic korean kids game ddakji
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and it's pogs.
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it's just pogs.
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or maybe pogs is just ddakji
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Gi-hun is a disaster man
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stole his mom's money to bet it on horse races
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wins, loses the money before he can use it to pay off a tiny bit of the money he owes to loan sharks
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in his desperate state, facing loss of his kidney and eye if he can't come up with the money in time, he is invited to a Kaiji Dungeon
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I mean, a rare opportunity to play children's games for huge amounts of money
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pays for shopping by slipping the shop owner (who is his mom) a 10000-won bill
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"keep the change~"
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"your bill is 12000 won"
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six games played over six days
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426 players
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all in massive debt
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Clause 1: A player is not allowed to stop playing
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Clause 2: A player who refuses to play is eliminated
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Clause 3: Games may be terminated if the majority agrees
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prize pool will be disclosed after the first game
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game 1
game 1
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red light, green light
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japanese version, which I guess korea also has a version of
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"it" says a phrase, then turns around
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you have 5 minutes to cross the line
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one player has been eliminated, and accordingly shot
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oh jesus
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half the group is running in a panic stampede
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and being shot to death
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how many players are left
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2 minutes left
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as is common in k-dramas, there's a cool hot mean girl
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60 seconds...
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game clear!
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how many people just died
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population goes from 456 to 201
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255 deaths
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Clause 1
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A player is not allowed to stop playing
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The players are going to vote to try and end the game
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but first
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the prize money will be announced
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100 million won are added to the pot for each player who dies
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total prize money, 45.6 billion won
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if they vote to terminate the game before the final round, the pot will be distributed to the families of the eliminated players
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but they will go home empty-handed
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OK, 1180 won to the dollar
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so that's 3.8 million dollars to the winner
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50:50...
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76-73
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98-99
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100-100
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100-101 in favor of termination
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everyone goes home??
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the end???
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I think the point of the sequence
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is that the real world of capitalist society
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is less fair than the kaiji dungeon
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187 players returned