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Hey guys, I am in China for the summer break and have been here for almost 4 weeks now. What I really miss is the YouTube videos and being able to watch all those parody SC2 music videos.
Well today...
I was browsing Teamliquid and clicked on this thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=152330
What caught my attention was that I saw the three videos embed from Youtube. I didn't put much thought into it put I clicked the Youtube video and suddenly it started to play! I was so thrilled that I immediately opened up a new tab and typed in "Youtube.com".
This is what I got:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/PLhAE.jpg)
My mind was blown away. I erased my previous google search and started to type in "Youtube unbanned in China". I saw an old TL thread pop up but apparently it was a false alarm and several months ago. I thought I was one of the first to discover that Youtube was finally unbanned and started to create a new topic on the General forums to get some e-fame, what? I am a hipster when it's about YouTube.
In that thread I wanted to have the picture of this thread "http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=152330" in it so I could show everyone how I saw the three videos. But I had closed that tab. So I started looking for it again...
When I found it I almost cried, I could not see the videos. I typed in YouTube.com in the adress bar and the same error that I hate to see came up. YouTube wasn't unbanned... I was just lucky to have fallen through The Great Firewall of China by accident. But after I climbed back to tell people the news, I couldn't get back in. I was crushed, so I made this blog! :/
Atleast TL isn't banned in China. Just looking on the bright side.
XiGua
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T_T p.s. your name is delicious.
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why can't i shake the feeling that you only posted this to earn bonus with hot_bid? :D
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On August 08 2011 16:58 EtherealDeath wrote:
T_T p.s. your name is delicious.
For those of you who don't know (since xigua is not sufficiently unambiguous for most translators to make a good guess), xigua means watermelon.
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If only Justin.tv, owned3d, and youtube are viewable without "wall-leaping", we'd be a little closer to each other.
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On August 08 2011 17:00 Primadog wrote:
If only Justin.tv, owned3d, and youtube are viewable without "wall-leaping", we'd be a little closer to each other.
Actually, own3d.tv is not banned.
Blizzard EU Invitational thanks for choosing that stream! 
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On August 08 2011 16:59 Gummy wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2011 16:58 EtherealDeath wrote:
T_T p.s. your name is delicious. For those of you who don't know (since xigua is not sufficiently unambiguous for most translators to make a good guess), xigua means watermelon.
To the Contrary
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On August 08 2011 17:13 EtherealDeath wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2011 16:59 Gummy wrote:On August 08 2011 16:58 EtherealDeath wrote:
T_T p.s. your name is delicious. For those of you who don't know (since xigua is not sufficiently unambiguous for most translators to make a good guess), xigua means watermelon. To the Contrary
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xīguā
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yeah when i saw that thread a few weeks ago i cried tears of joy, 2 weeks ago when i got to china i was in grief that i couldn't access so many websites
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Er, is it not watermelon then o_o
My parents and everyone I know uses it as watermelon >.>
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On August 08 2011 17:25 Z3kk wrote:
Er, is it not watermelon then o_o
My parents and everyone I know uses it as watermelon >.>
It is watermelon. Delicious, watery watermelon.
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On August 08 2011 17:25 Z3kk wrote:
Er, is it not watermelon then o_o
My parents and everyone I know uses it as watermelon >.>
I don't understand. xigua is watermelon o_o
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From Chineese cencory to... Watermelons? God offtopic can be wonderfully random..
Atleast watermelons are awesome ;>
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I almost jumped when I saw the first part of the name of the thread since it was truncated in the sidebar.
Now I'm gonna be scarred for life by the false alarm and never eat a watermelon again. T.T
EDIT: I couldn't access TL for the whole of yesterday, whether due to Blizzard Downloader sucking up bandwidth (TW Client FTW) or something up with crappy internet, but I was scared out of my mind that Greatwall blocked TL. That would really suck.
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Yup every so often I actually manage to get onto Youtube here. Next minute, it's blocked again.
At least Wikimedia was unblocked recently.
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When I said to the contrary I meant that Google agrees xigua is sufficient in itself to render a translation =).
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hi I like xigua too. just saying.
also hmm I suppose I can use tunneling (woooo PuTTY :D) when I go to China...
+ Show Spoiler [@EtherealDeath] +that's how I used to get past internet cutoff  tunneling through a little asian man's server at duke...
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On August 08 2011 19:53 ]343[ wrote:hi I like xigua too. just saying. also hmm I suppose I can use tunneling (woooo PuTTY :D) when I go to China... + Show Spoiler [@EtherealDeath] +that's how I used to get past internet cutoff tunneling through a little asian man's server at duke...
LOL SIYANG'S?
Yea VPN works, I did it this summer in China lol.
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Seriously, none of you have Freegate?
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Are you  XiGua? or just a random xigua?
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I am not a XiGua. I am THE XiGua...
I came up with the name before XiGua! Gonna beat him one day and people will call me FiGua as they called BoxeR, FoxeR.
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On August 08 2011 21:13 Empyrean wrote:
Seriously, none of you have Freegate?
In my experience there are only very rare instances where freegate gives a sane youtube experience--if anything, it was worse than having youtube blocked completely because it's such a tease when you can see what you want to watch only to have the horrible connection stop you cold.
I'd recommend using a school vpn or a paid-proxy, etc... for high bandwith activities.
I've also heard about ultrasurf, but there's a lot of nasty rumors about its true purpose so I stayed away from that.
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Wait who has the university vpn set up? I want in. I just came back from China after a 5 week stay and trust me... having blank spaces for all the YouTube videos in the kpop and adt drove me to the brink of insanity. Although the xigua is much better (and food) in general in China.
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EPT
