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Gaming Cafe Scene In Iraq Illustrated

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. Life in Iraqi... by gustgr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... 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.

  2. so much for video games making people killers... by *weasel · · 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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  3. Terrorists! by nepheles · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  4. Server IPs by NEOtaku17 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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).

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  5. Re:PS2s by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, Half-Life is just practice for getting to and from work/school.