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PC Baangs In America
VonGuard writes "Ahoy hoy! I've written a new article for the East Bay Express about the rise of the PC Baang in the Northern California Bay Area. While in Korea, Starcraft is still the most popular Baang game, here in the US, Counter-Strike reigns supreme. Are these to be the malt shops and arcades of our time?"
Saw on the news yesterday that one of the Dem's from CA is proposing that cyber cafe's be fined if minors are found to be playing violent video games. More to follow.
"I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating. And in fourteen days, I had lost exactly two weeks. Joe E. Lewis
They are up to snuff in Asia. Most everyone I met in Philippines was running Win 95/98 on Pentium II's. This was 2 years ago. And Korea standard of living is much higher than the Philippines. Once again, the US view of the world is skewed. If anything, more is available in Asia and Asia is plugged in. When I was in Tawain, there were street vendors selling hardware and software!!! In addition to huge indoor markets selling everything from digital cameras to power supplys. This was back in 1999.
Yes.
It is being transliterated that way, or else Americans would pronounce it "Bang" as in "Bang, Bang, you're dead."
The a makes the sound of a in "father".
Almost like "bong" (like the pipe), but with a longer, drawn out sound.
It's not the standard way to transliterate, but Americans get most of the standard tranliteration sounds wrong (unless they are familiar with the system and the Korean alphabet, Hangul.)
dochood
Former USAF Korean Linguist
Husband of Korean Woman
Watcher of Korean Sit-coms and Soap Operas
Oh, yeah...
And "Baang" simply means "Room".
PC Baang == PC Room
Norae Baang == Song Room (Karaoke Place)
dochood
....why do I still suck?
Relax. It's not you. Everyone else has a speed hack, wallhack or aim bot, and the top people usually have all three.
psmylie's dictionary: Godzillion (noun) Any number large enough to destroy Tokyo
There's nothing "basement" about these places - some of them are in very fashionable locations.
To have a peek check out Boomtown in central Copenhagen, just across from Tivoli Gardens.
That can be modified. During the AYB craze the server I frequented had that plant alert, it ran admin mod and a couple other similar mods whose names escape me. There might have even been a version where it said that, I can't remember.
There were a couple of other niggling inaccuracies before this, but I let them slide as pandering to a non-technical audience, but this is so wrong it hurts. (See http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Leet-speak.ht ml for a more historically accurate description of the phenomenon.)
I wonder: did the writer make this up off the top of his head, or did the m4d g4m3Rz he's doing his best Katz impression over tell him that?
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aim high, just above the head.
If there is more than one player do a quick crouch, or jump to crouch, and then aim a little high. Also make sure to only send 2-3 bullets each time, pratice burst firing.
If there is more than a couple of opposing players, side step. Do not move forward just side to side, bursting and aim for the head.
Headshots are the key. Or just become really good at the awp since it is way overpowered anyway.
But you will annoy people.
The article was highlighting the growth of PC Baangs in California in the United States of America. Everyone knows they've been extremely popular in Asia for quite some time.
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After I got through the pointless paragraphs of mall details and got into the actual meat of the story, I was faced with an immediate factual error. Valve did NOT create Counter-Strike. It was an amateur mod effort done as a personal (unpaid) project. It was only later, after a slew of releases, that Valve hired CS's creators and acquired the mod as an official add-on to Half-Life.
At that point, I stopped reading the article.
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