Gaming Cafe Scene In Iraq Illustrated

Posted by simoniker on Monday January 5, 2004 @07:29AM from the worldwide-phenomenon dept.

Otter writes "An Iraqi weblog has a series of pictures of the gaming cafe scene in Baghdad. Lots of Counter-Strike and Medal of Honor, apparently." The photographer also uses the comments to respond to questions about the lack of women in the pictures: "The reason you don't see women at these places is that Iraqi women (at least my age) don't have that much interest in gaming... Another thing is that I'm a bit cautious about photographing women due to cultural issues and misunderstandings they might get me wrong and think I'm using the pics for... err 'other purposes'." We previously reported on earlier comments about gaming in Iraq.

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so much for video games making people killers... by *weasel · 2004-01-05 07:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

this seems to be clear cut evidence that gamers prefer virtual gunfights to real gunfights, even when the latter is cheaper and more widely available. ;p

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Re:Life in Iraqi... by Pendersempai · 2004-01-05 12:00 · Score: 2, Insightful

Life ALWAYS goes on. Life in Nazi Germany went on. Life under Stalin went on. You could find children playing in the streets at the height of the raids, the purges, the inhumanity.