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Gaming Cafe Scene In Iraq Illustrated
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.
So that is why they wanted all those PS 2s. Here we thought they were building bombs and such, but in fact it was for kids to play games. Boy we feel silly for invading the country now.
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I mean, if the Iraqis were really resisting the coalition forces, our troops would all be dead from their l33t AWP sniping skillz.
"OMFG! HEADSHOT?! STFU, CH34TER!!!"
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
... seems to go on.
The war might have affected a lot of people, mainly the poor ones. With those pictures we can see that even with the 'civil guerrila' the people are trying to move on [at least eh younger] and enjoy their life.
It is nice to see those pictures for another reason too, which is that give us a shot of what developing countries really are. Iraqi isn't all about caves and deserts, no country is. Of course there are several problems and poors, but people are usually happy [self experience].
The picrutes are great by the way.
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
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
Counter Strike? Oh My God, people -- these people really are involved in terrorism!
Nice to know this war is now justified. I can just picture Colin Powell in the UN with another glitzy PowerPoint presentation showing these pictures.
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Now before I get modded down for being anti-PS2, let me point out a few facts. 1. The PS2 has the biggest most available gaming selection (not to mention the ability to play PS1 games). 2. The PS2 is more easily modable than the Xbox and less resistant against illegal copies compared to the Gamecube. 3. If it wasn't for the fact that PS2 games are huge, you would probably find them common warez on Kazaa and other P2P software.
Does anyone know where I can find a list of all the Iraqi server IPs? I would really like to play with these guys and welcome them on to the internet and to online gaming. Stupid question following: Do alot of the people that would be playing speak any english(or will I have to learn a little of their langauge).
Creative Demolition
You're wrong.
I work at a lan cafe, and we regularly have girls ( 15 - 24-ish ) playing during the nightgibs.
What they don't realize is that they are actually controlling robots who are searching their country for WMDs.
Yeah, there are no women because it's just in Iraq that girls don't really get that into gaming.
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That's the ticket, continue to believe that in the West girls far out number guys at our gaming cafes. That's one way to make young geeky Iraqi teens want to be more like us.
-- taking over the world, we are.
The reason there is no women is the same as in the rest of the world :)
Women aren't much into gaming is it ?
How does this get modded as flamebait? It's clearly the truth, for every 100 male gamers there is probably 1 female. I suspect this will change with the current 13-25 generation of gamers, but females over 25 don't play video games for the most part, while males over 25 do.