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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject: Have you ever seen a Korean use the internet in a PC Bang? |
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A Canadian traveler pointed this out to me the other day. In internet cafes here, you almost never see any Koreans use the internet. They all just play computer games. I agreed with him.
Why do you think that is? |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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Wrong forum.
Idiotic post. |
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doggyji
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Toronto - Hamilton - Vineland - St. Catherines
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: Re: Have you ever seen a Korean use the internet in a PC Ban |
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| Dev wrote: |
A Canadian traveler pointed this out to me the other day. In internet cafes here, you almost never see any Koreans use the internet. They all just play computer games. I agreed with him.
Why do you think that is? |
They don't want to pay money just to surf the internet. The chances are, they have the internet at home. Many of them go to a PC bang to enjoy mutiplayer games with peers with high spec computers. |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| they go there to play online games....that means they are using the internet. |
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Smurfette
Joined: 21 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I know what you mean. I noticed it when I first came here. However, I saw it as a place to go to get away from the wife/girlfriend, where they could play their games as loud as they wanted. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:09 am Post subject: Re: Have you ever seen a Korean use the internet in a PC Ban |
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| doggyji wrote: |
| high spec computers. |
I am YET to see a PC bang that has a computer I would deem "high-end". The computers in those places crack me up, especially when the rooms call them "high-end". |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:35 am Post subject: Re: Have you ever seen a Korean use the internet in a PC Ban |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| doggyji wrote: |
| high spec computers. |
I am YET to see a PC bang that has a computer I would deem "high-end". The computers in those places crack me up, especially when the rooms call them "high-end". |
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lots of them have high-end computers; many do not. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:11 am Post subject: Re: Have you ever seen a Korean use the internet in a PC Ban |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| doggyji wrote: |
| high spec computers. |
I am YET to see a PC bang that has a computer I would deem "high-end". The computers in those places crack me up, especially when the rooms call them "high-end". |
He meant highend as in highend for an average game player who does not cream his pants at night because the new Geforce card did a strip tease while an Intel quadro core beat him off in his dream. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:10 am Post subject: |
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Whenever Koreans ask if I like computer games I always reply "No-games are for little kids". Puts them into shock.
Theres something pathetic about full-grown men devoting their lives to starcraft. Devoting your time to Dave's is probably an equally loserish policy, but we foreigners are excused because we can't speak the lingo here. If i was fluent in Korean I wouldn't have the time to even post here. I would have..a life. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:29 am Post subject: |
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| nautilus wrote: |
Whenever Koreans ask if I like computer games I always reply "No-games are for little kids". Puts them into shock.
Theres something pathetic about full-grown men devoting their lives to starcraft. Devoting your time to Dave's is probably an equally loserish policy, but we foreigners are excused because we can't speak the lingo here. If i was fluent in Korean I wouldn't have the time to even post here. I would have..a life. |
Playing games is an entertainment, just like watching a movie, playing with you children or reading a book
There is no such thing as High or Low entertainment, whatever takes your fancy. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:34 am Post subject: |
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| nautilus wrote: |
Whenever Koreans ask if I like computer games I always reply "No-games are for little kids". Puts them into shock.
Theres something pathetic about full-grown men devoting their lives to starcraft. Devoting your time to Dave's is probably an equally loserish policy, but we foreigners are excused because we can't speak the lingo here. If i was fluent in Korean I wouldn't have the time to even post here. I would have..a life. |
I used to think this too, then I tried to figure out a difference between that and someone heavily into a sports team (watch every game, know every stat, make rituals, etc etc) and realized it's actually the sports fan that is more the loser because he/she doesn't actually do anything while the starcraft fanatic atleast partakes in the game. 
BTW, OP isn't very well thought out. They are still using the internet. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:39 am Post subject: Re: Have you ever seen a Korean use the internet in a PC Ban |
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| doggyji wrote: |
| Dev wrote: |
A Canadian traveler pointed this out to me the other day. In internet cafes here, you almost never see any Koreans use the internet. They all just play computer games. I agreed with him.
Why do you think that is? |
They don't want to pay money just to surf the internet. The chances are, they have the internet at home. Many of them go to a PC bang to enjoy mutiplayer games with peers with high spec computers. |
Sorry to observe you needed the above explained to you, Dev.
You truly do possess the intellectual capacity of a boiled sprout. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject: Re: Have you ever seen a Korean use the internet in a PC Ban |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
| doggyji wrote: |
| Dev wrote: |
A Canadian traveler pointed this out to me the other day. In internet cafes here, you almost never see any Koreans use the internet. They all just play computer games. I agreed with him.
Why do you think that is? |
They don't want to pay money just to surf the internet. The chances are, they have the internet at home. Many of them go to a PC bang to enjoy mutiplayer games with peers with high spec computers. |
Sorry to observe you needed the above explained to you, Dev.
You truly do possess the intellectual capacity of a boiled sprout. |
Sure, but you're the guy wasting his time to read and reply to my posts. What does that say about you? |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: Have you ever seen a Korean use the internet in a PC Ban |
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| Dev wrote: |
| SPINOZA wrote: |
| doggyji wrote: |
| Dev wrote: |
A Canadian traveler pointed this out to me the other day. In internet cafes here, you almost never see any Koreans use the internet. They all just play computer games. I agreed with him.
Why do you think that is? |
They don't want to pay money just to surf the internet. The chances are, they have the internet at home. Many of them go to a PC bang to enjoy mutiplayer games with peers with high spec computers. |
Sorry to observe you needed the above explained to you, Dev.
You truly do possess the intellectual capacity of a boiled sprout. |
Sure, but you're the guy wasting his time to read and reply to my posts. What does that say about you? |
It says he recognizes and is shocked by your idiocy.
Much different from being the intellectual equivalent of a warm soggy bulb. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: Have you ever seen a Korean use the internet in a PC Ban |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| Dev wrote: |
| SPINOZA wrote: |
| doggyji wrote: |
| Dev wrote: |
A Canadian traveler pointed this out to me the other day. In internet cafes here, you almost never see any Koreans use the internet. They all just play computer games. I agreed with him.
Why do you think that is? |
They don't want to pay money just to surf the internet. The chances are, they have the internet at home. Many of them go to a PC bang to enjoy mutiplayer games with peers with high spec computers. |
Sorry to observe you needed the above explained to you, Dev.
You truly do possess the intellectual capacity of a boiled sprout. |
Sure, but you're the guy wasting his time to read and reply to my posts. What does that say about you? |
It says he recognizes and is shocked by your idiocy.
Much different from being the intellectual equivalent of a warm soggy bulb. |
Ah, more dribble from the man who calls himself "the seasoned poster"  |
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