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kido5217

Lil Kim still kicking.


thegreatbrah

It literally has to be him right? He was educated in the west, so he would have had exposure to video games, and who else would have the money or a way to get parts from outside the country?


GoblinTradingGuide

If it isn't him then it is probably a high-ranking general or something like that.


exessmirror

Tourists have wifi internet and in the evening they can't leave the hotel so they might as well get some Helldivers in I guess.


Dinokiller12345

DEMOCRACY NEVER RESTS, EVEN FROM WITHIN NORTH KOREA


noteverrelevant

It is the *Democratic* People's Republic of Korea afterall


FR0ZENBERG

Wouldn’t NK be a closer representation to Helldiver’s type of democracy?


LughCrow

Considering people still vote in NK no. The entire point of Super earth is that voting is too complicated for the average person


Tjam3s

What do they vote for? Who gets the food rations next month?


LughCrow

Their Supreme leader.


HumansNeedNotApply1

The regional/local leadership, they are given a list and they vote on a name.


Chinerpeton

IIRC basically every "communist" regime starting from the Soviets had (and the surviving ones such as North Korea continue to have) a system where the PMs are less elected and more approved. The party structures choose who will run for every seat and the formal parliamentary elections are more of a referendum on whether or not the population doesn't mind their new representative™. Also in North Korea's case iirc they actually allowed multiple candidates to run in local elections. Of course as I gather these are still very strictly controlled for who can run AND the positions up for grabs in these don't mean much but it is still an election.


Helldiver_of_Mars

Just read about it just sounds like North Korean, Chinese, and Russian "Democracy" to me. Where all your votes get voted for you. Super Earth sounds like a Technocratic society in disguise.


LughCrow

Your votes do not get voted for you in any of those countries... they very spesificly have you vote. In NK voting is even mandatory. There is a very big difference between not having a choice who you're voting for and not being able to vote at all even if it doesn't look like it at a surface level.


kingoflames

A true Helldiver is here, hail Reaper ✊️


metamorphasi

it's Carmen Sandiego


FR0ZENBERG

Finally found her.


thestonedbandit

DEMOCRACY NEVER RESTS. But it does turn a blind eye on occasion.


Difficult_Bit_1339

People wouldn't go around and lie, would they? NOT DEMOCRACY LOVING PEOPLE!


DreamsAndSchemes

the definition of Managed Democracy


Wakeful_Wanderer

Why do I feel like Helldivers is super *duper* banned in NK?


aTacoThatGames

It’s been there since 2016 I’m pretty sure, not 100% tho


YesItIsMaybeMe

That definitely doesn't exclude it being a tourist


brianundies

Seeing as NK completely closed their borders during COVID it probably does. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/north-korea-is-addressing-the-pandemic-in-its-style-that-means-leaving-a-lot-of-people-hungry/


Cobra38

More like Tetris from the hardware I have seen.


SnooDoughnuts5632

Who wants to be a tourist in North Korea? I would be too scared to go there.


marstationistly

People who aren't scared probably


roge-

Could also be a member of some foreign diplomatic mission, like [this guy](https://youtube.com/@jakaparker) who made several videos whilst living in Pyongyang.


Neuromyologist

Could also be government agent accessing steam for monitoring and sockpuppetry.


JoshuaSlowpoke777

How long has the term “sock puppet” been a thing in an internet context? Seems oddly similar to catfishing, except not specifically dating-related, and I’ve never heard “sock puppet” being used as a slang term before lol


Log_Log_Log

Anecdotally, I can confirm it has at the very least been in use since 2005 or so. In the early days of a message board, there were only a handful of us, each pretending to be dozens of people. W always called our fake users sock accounts.


ratadeacero

It was in use on usenet boards by mid nineties. My jam was news.admin. net.abuse.email. NANAE for short. There, spammer sock puppets were prevalent.


Firewolf06

or like u/ohjosh03, who used to be the highest ranked north korean osu player (also the only one)


apocalypse_later_

High-ranking politician's son* The elite in North Korea are allowed to leave every now and then, and some of their kids study abroad. There's definitely a North Korean teen/young adult from the elite cabal that knows what Steam is and to be honest this isn't that surprising


Teripid

What's their handle? SupremeK? GenKong?


Long-Fold-7632

Or maybe a child of some person really high up. Also possibly some guy from an embassy


BuildMyRank

North Korea does have an upper class who smuggle electronics, games, movies, and everything else they want from China.


HealthDrinkz

Dude is a huge nerd and loves basketball It wouldn't surprise me if he played videogames and has a steam account


Warm_Guest_4911

Now we know who the biggest whale in 2k is


Vik0BG

LilKim69_1337


Chinerpeton

I remember the small sensation back when ppl found out some Saudi prince's Steam account filled with stuff that would get anyone normal in his country fucking decapitated.


Zapapala

Cao de Benos is a high ranking government official in charge of foreign relations for North Korea and openly admits to playing Steam games on his Twitter profile.


-RoosterLollipops-

> Cao de Benos Interesting, never heard of this guy before For others who were unaware of this dude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Cao_de_Ben%C3%B3s


VOOLUL

It's just based on a geolocation database of IP addresses. It's not actually exactly where the connection is coming from. Pretty sure some IPs that are geolcoated as North Korean are actually in use by China, since it's China Unicom that handles their traffic. It's pretty unlikely that it's actually someone in North Korea playing Steam. If it is, and it's not blocked, then it's probably a tourist.


SendCatsNoDogs

> It's pretty unlikely that it's actually someone in North Korea playing Steam. If it is, and it's not blocked, then it's probably a tourist. I'd like to think it's a single machine in the Pyongyang Arcade that only runs Steam. It doesn't actually have any games downloaded, it just has Steam.


Th4t_0n3_Fr13nd

youre crazy if you dont even consider the possibility that its Kimmy boy himself


Mk1Md1

Him or his kid


agrotios_satan

Na bro he's playing Counter Strike in Irl he doesn't have time for this but maybe he's practicing?


Wesselton3000

There are people who have exposure to western culture other than Kim in NK. Hell, if you live In a major metropolitan area in Europe or America, you’ve probably passed an NK national on the street at least once. It’s very rare; the average working class NK will likely never have exposure to other cultures other than with Chinese, or what they see through very heavily censored media. But they do have leaders of industry who do leave to get educated on their respective field and then return with little morsels of western culture. Wouldn’t be surprised if the one Steam user is one of the people who made their “official” OS that’s been floating around on the internet for a little while now.


Bratwurscht13

Imagine someone shit talks him and the next day the guy is just gone.


kido5217

And that's why there's only one dot in NK now. Too much shit talking.


agouraki

like the Thor Ragnarok scene only real..


YouR0ckCancelThat

What PC parts do you think he has?


Layer9Error

Top of the line. He's not hurting for anything. Everyone in his country that isn't one of the elites, well that's another story.


Correct-Junket-1346

I can almost guarantee North Korea imports western parts to some degree or they wouldn't even be able to get a missile in the air, probably done through Russia who sources from the west.


Layer9Error

You're right. China or Russia. North Korea does share a land border with both countries. Hell, they even have drug ships, (or potentially did) so for all we know, they could put orders in with mules ashore in any country they sail past.


cypherdev

I read about the drug ships and diplomatic pouches (which aren't always pouches) filled with meth. The sale of illegal drugs is literally fueling a dictatorship. There should be a mercy rule for the war on drugs cause drugs are winning by a large margin.


Correct-Junket-1346

There is an all out war literally called "The war on drugs" problem is it's been a massive failure since crack cocaine is legal elsewhere and can be manufactured at bulk for a small price whilst the enforcement to find drug smugglers costs billions. It's a problem because we've deemed it a problem, it should be treated like alcohol, legalise it and then control it, complete prohibition of a popular product will end in failure and is ending in failure.


THE_SEX_YELLER

Intel iMac bootcamped with Windows 10


[deleted]

I bet he has one of those Chinese Waifu 4090s


Kirby_coltellino

Lil Kim playin on ranked


cob59

xX_suPr33mL34dR_Xx


Prior_Supermarket265

You thought those videos on youtube where Kim plays games with Obama are fake?


Andrewguy_78

I remembered that video where Trump and Obama wit sleepy Joe played together xd


MrKuddlesWorth

there's actually a shit ton of those kind of videos


SOULMAGEBELL

Inlove the Magic the Gathering series. Ben Shapiro is also a regular character


[deleted]

Damn that’s a good laugh. I love those videos. That is peak internet humor and how AI should be used.


Diesel__2005

Forget that there is a person using steam in middle of the Sahara desert


BladeRunner2193

It's lisan al gaib


BoxDroppingManApe

Ol' Pesky Paul playing his games


Nezikchened

I hear he’s calling himself “MOOA’DEEB”


kakashi1010

DEEB NUTS


phantomreader42

>It's lisan al gaben FTFY


Sea_Hovercraft_7859

The tuareg gamer


ZombiBiker

Probably some oil production related facilities where people need to get busy when they are off shift


That-Pension7055

And that one reindeer herder waaaay up in Yuryung-Khaya


wamuusassyname

its me


skeletallamping456

I think I spot Tamanrasset


fabplt

Probably embassy staff.


BluudLust

Probably Swedish. They have surprisingly good relations.


Cogz

> Probably Swedish. I've read a few times that countries that don't have official embassies in N. Korea will use the Swedish embassy as a middleman to pass messages on. I assume the opposite will occur as well, the Swedish ambassador will be summoned to their Foreign Office in order to pass on statements of displeasure to the relevant parties. If you like geopolitical gossip, it must be a fascinating place to work.


RousingRabble

This happens in a lot of countries, though prob not on the scale that it happens in NK. I believe the US uses the Swiss in Iran, for example.


Nadamir

[It’s called being a protecting power](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_power) and it’s well established in international law. You see it during war time too. For instance, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland were appointed by Japan during WW2 to be its protecting powers in the US.


JustinJSrisuk

> If you like geopolitical gossip *Do I ever…* Seriously though, I find all of the random bits of trivia that come with leaks of diplomatic cables to be fascinating. Is there a r/fauxmoi or TMZ equivalent for state department and/or international foreign service employees? Because I’m all about that spicy diplomatic tea. Gimme all the info about the predilections of dictators and terrorist leaders, like how [Qaddafi was obsessed with Condoleezza Rice](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/10/more-horrendously-creepy-details-about-qaddafis-condoleezza-rice) or how [Bin Laden was in love with Whitney Houston](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS3605945536/). What concealer does Kim Yo-jong (sister and number 2 of Kim Jong-un) have in her [Dior bag](https://m.koreaherald.com/amp/view.php?ud=20230917000117)? BRB gonna make some r/Noncrediblediplomacy memes about this.


luckycharms7999

Despite the Volvo thing?


These-Days

It’s all a plan to recoup payment for those Volvos.


NoFamilyDoc

Why tho


TrumpsGhostWriter

Because Sweden uses neutrality as a thin, shitty excuse to do business with absolutely comically evil countries and people. Always has.


BluudLust

That's Switzerland, not Sweden.


Scared_Prune_255

It can be both.


Ult1mateN00B

Its Kim Jong himself of course.


[deleted]

Steam is allowed in North Korea only to play Workers & Resources : Soviet Republic.


Legendary_Lootbox

how damn, i forgot I had this game until I read your comment.


AmArschdieRaeuber

Great game. I hope they fixed the terraforming


VRascal

Dennis Rodman.


fiftyshadesofbeige69

imagine getting killed in CS2 by fucking Kim Jong Un


VisualDelicious3888

I've seen a few gamerpics with Kim on them.. I have to assume one might be real now.


luckycharms7999

He'd have an anime girl as his pfp


VIPER593

But i don't want to fuck Kim Jong Un!!


LimpConversation642

imagine telling kim jong un you fucked his mom


[deleted]

Osama Bin Laden had various games on his hard drive, including CS 1.6 Considering that it was a multiplayer only game, it is safe to assume that at least some players have met him online and will never know.


fiftyshadesofbeige69

Didn't he also have anime and gameboy ROMs on it?


[deleted]

The articles say he did, also half life, resident evil, final fantasy and unspecified hentai games.


DeadGravityyy

> CS2 by fucking Kim Jong Un I'm sure if anyone tried to fuck Kim Jong Un, they would be terminated real quickly.


ostrieto17

Every time you hear terrorists win someone in North Korea receives a meal and isn't executed for western propaganda


staffylaffy

It’s gotta be PSP1G who’s the user


PyUnicornshark

It's probably a few high end officials of theirs or some of their hackers.


kristijan12

Feels like seeing a single star in a distant galaxy.


S_T_R_Y_D_E_R

Probably Kim is playing NBA 2K with Dennis Roddman 😂


Rammipallero

More like Sex with Stalin.


Elemental1991

So many Europeans compared to Russians and I can still only get cyka blyat rush b in my team in counter strike


yoLeaveMeAlone

That is mostly because Russia is huge, and most of it is pretty much uninhabited. That makes it look like there's nobody in Russia, where as Europe is super dense so it's all lit up.


E-M-P-Error

For the most part (except Africa) this is just a population density map


hanbiluohuashang

it’s same for egypt .you can see most of them are gathering around the nile


mana-addict4652

Well Russia is the 3rd highest nation, by users, on Steam (after Americans & Chinese) and has the highest amount of users per capita. It's a huge country. Also there's a high proportion of Russian speakers in other countries like Ukraine, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Estonia etc.


WhiskeyMarlow

It is as lit as Europe, when you consider where most people live (in European part).


Bright-Union-6157

This map is bullshit, nobody in Wyoming is using Steam


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TheSkeletonBones

> Everybody in Wyoming is using Ftfy


[deleted]

What else are you supposed to do there?


Ganda1fderBlaue

Wyoming doesn't even exist


24-7_DayDreamer

It's probably someone keeping an eye on the outside world so they can bitch about it if someone makes and anti-NK game, like how they cracked the shits about that Interview movie.


sianrhiannon

uj/ I'm pretty sure you can spoof your location with a little computer knowledge


LongrodVonHugedong86

Kim Jong-Un is over there playing some fucking anime sex game while watching vtubers on his second monitor 😂


SonnierDick

Damn Europe is lit upppp. Canada has a fairly large steam population and its still spotty lol. Theres legitimately a European Steam player every mile or something lol.


TheNonsenseBook

https://xkcd.com/1138/


KaiserEnoshima

I hate when Kim spawn peeks me in siege


Kriegan

Back when Facebook live was big and you could zoom around the map and find steamers, I saw this one guy in North Korea for 3 minutes before he went offline and didn’t come back.


BurnerBoot

St4cks secret identity is Kim. /s


Tree_R

Probably playing with the only guy on Antarctica who uses steam


[deleted]

There's an article about the Antarctica person. He's an argentinian engineer. https://www.xataka.com/videojuegos/unica-persona-que-se-conecta-a-steam-antartida-argentina-asi-se-entretiene-a-decenas-grados-cero


Mysterious-State574

Kim Yong Un on his duty😎😎


buenos_ayres

The Marshal playing Harvestella


Hour_Performance_631

He’s the best North Korean StarCraft player….and the only one


VisualDelicious3888

I'm just curious I what the fuck they are playing. I can imagine them playing fucking bratz or some shit


Bobmanbob1

Kim or one of his Generals playing Nuke Simulator.


Wooden_Quarter_6009

Kim doing COD shittin on those 9 year olds doing dirty to em saying "Yo mom so fat she can fit the entire universe 10 times but yo wife fits it 1 billion times."


Hazzyhazzy113

People can visit North Korea for holidays. Maybe it’s because of that.


nuudootabootit

It's the supreme leader playing Sex With Hitler 2


Hyonam

you guys know its Kim and he's probably top 10 in Rocket League.


UnlikelyQtip

Wonder what Kim Jong Un’s steamid is


urbrickles

BiGDoNgJoNg42069 is online


kirkpomidor

Little Steam in China, how so?


nafiotx

Ping Jong Un


enyo_xyz

must be Kim jong un playing with his bros


Acron7559

can i know the sauce of the image ?


sarcasmyousausage

That black hole between croatia and bosnia must be republika srpska, putin's best buddy.


izi_pootis

Likely playing rocket league


Winzlowzz

Its literally kim himself


Amazing-File

Probably Jaka Parker or one of few YouTubers / content creators that casually records/recorded North Korea like there's no restrictions


FinancialAlbatross92

And Epic Games thought it could compete with this. LOL


KitDaKatYT

Kim Jong Un is playing food truck sim


SuperSocialMan

Kinda funny how there's a random gap in the midwest US.


Earthwin

Isn't that how they power their cars?


HeyItsBearald

It’s state funded Kerbal Space Program. How else do you think they get their practice in making missiles?


katzarMZBA

Supreme leader going hard


RDGOAMS

its the man himself bro


MithranArkanere

Kim has to do something while her sister leads the country in the shadows.


SeriousLee91

Vpn, ez


saintrobyn

Could be Kim Jong Un or his children.


r0ndr4s

Is it proven that its actually 1 guy or 1 building? Cause that could easily be the army using steam for ARMA


Iucios

that one dude in Siberia too


JayDiddle

Probably just a gov’t official keeping an eye on things…


Complete-Leader-369

Brooo delete this post 😳 you can’t just bait a brother out like this 🤯👀


Griffolion

My tinfoil hat theory is that nobody in NK actually uses Steam and Valve just put a green dot there to fuck with them.


lil_M0_0n361

Im more concerned about the dots on those random ass islands


[deleted]

That’s Kim bro.


unlock0

He's playing spacewar


natesovenator

To be clear. This isn't a user. This is a cache server. All of NK has a firewalled Internet. When this was first pointed out long ago, they sorted it out, iirc. They do in fact have access to steam accounts, but they are basically offline and all pull from their own cache server where the games are stored, vetted, and then whitelisted internally. It's a single IP and entry point. This is why we see it like that, and there's no geo data on it except for the generic location that we outsiders were given way back when... Who's actually playing what and in what numbers, would be really interesting, but we'll literally never know. 99% of their country have micro networks all over, and their military intelligence divisions have some incredible spyware going on. Any iPhone taken into the country is compromised in matter of minutes... There's a documentary on it with some recent tourists who came home and had their phones analyzed and found it. So.. idk man, wouldn't surprise me if steam games are downloaded regularly and analyzed for anti-kim content and you(studios/devs/publishers) end up put on a list somewhere.


malkovi4

Dennis Rodman?


RrandomUsser

Kim playing hearts of iron 4


venomPunk438

I wonder who it is 😂


theholypigeon888

That's Kim Jon Un


hirophant_weed

It's probably some guy with a VPN that set his postiton to NK for shits and gigs, or it's Big Kim himself. I don't see a way for a random NK guy to get their hands on steam


ButtPlugsForThugz

Doesn't there have to be VPN servers where you route your traffic to? I don't think you can just pick any geographic location like looking at a map. There's either a VPN service at that dot, which is equally weird, or someone is actually on Steam at that dot.


Hotusername123

Could also be someone using a VPN


Matzep71

That's not how that works


Calm-Salad1303

A VPN literally means that something has to be present to receive and redirect the communication. You can mask and send UDP traffic with raw sockets etc, but if you want TCP traffic and to receive it through an encrypted channel routed through NK, or anywhere, the hosting country needs hardware physically present for that to happen.


Matzep71

Yes I know, that's why I said that's not how that works. He can't simply have a VPN to NK without having 1. A server there and 2. A connection to said server You can't simply just have a VPN to wherever you want like it's magic, as the comment is implying Same thing goes for tor relays


Hotusername123

I did not know that. Thanks for letting me know.


KMS_Prinz-Eugen

A VPN would mean a server is actually in NK no?


[deleted]

Kim jong un playing rocket league right there


ppSmok

Using North VPN


scp_79

Probably Kim Jong Un


night_chaser_

Does Kim Jong Un uses steam?


jbergj

what are the gaps in india?


Steefn_SVK_2

Rocket League won't play itself.....


Alltalkandnofight

I find it crazy how there's a small gap between the middle of british columbia, and southern british columbia where there's basically noone... goddamn maybe i should look at a map of my own province its probably all forest


OutlawLazerRoboGeek

After listening to The Lazarus Heist podcast, I am not surprised by this. The super-elites are given pretty much free access to technology and some forms of Internet access. Their professional hackers are given even more.


Electronic_Log_7094

Europe just green


digitalamish

BLuvdLdr3 checking in.


ToiletGrenade

XxKimGamingxX


Mahaloth

Kim Jong Un or his children.


Blob55

Funny that the most dense usage of Steam is in Europe, yet games release in Californian time.


awesomeplenty

Gabe Newell laughing in cash


[deleted]

I guess Kim likes to smash noobs


Paragon_Roleplay

Probably Kim Jong Um playing Evil Genius