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The chairs at this PC bang were pretty sick though, definitely made for extended gaming sessions, other ones in brisbane have standard computer chairs, which really aren't that great. There is a pretty good place here in brisbane that sells lollies, chips, drinks (no free water though D . They also do all nighters which are good value, 12 hours for like 18 bucks. If they sold instant noodles they'd make a fucking killing I reckon. People play a lot of Left4Dead at that one, and a bit of CS. There's this other one that is in this basement and is really disgusting, all the WoW and DotA nerds play down there, it's so dirty...
A few more left in this city for me to explore, we'll see which one I like the most, but by then I'll probably have my own computer so it doesn't really matter. I really like the social aspect of going somewhere like an arcade or a lan cafe though, nothing like shitting your pants shooting zombies heads off next to three of your mates.
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On April 20 2009 21:13 GTR wrote:
to ilikestarcraft: do they have iccup installed on the computers at the pc bang these days?
No,they do not.
Well from when I went at least.
And @konadora: They are super cheap! I remember I played for like 2 hours and a half and it only came to around two dollars and a couple cents.
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On April 20 2009 21:13 GTR wrote:
to ilikestarcraft: do they have iccup installed on the computers at the pc bang these days?
no
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is there still a cafe called bunker in brisbane? that was like the gaming hub of aus in my CS days.
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i remember the bunker, it was 'the place to go' for sc in qld back in the day
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The kareoke rooms there are really nice, but the PC room are bad compared to other net cafes just from looking it from the counter, unless they renovated it recently. Don't go there for gaming next time haha, there are way better places along Queens Street. And yea.. the elevator is fucking scary, especially when your with a group of people. Sometimes it feels like its stopped, but it hasn't and you wonder why the door ain't opening in the horribly ventilated small cell you're in.
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theres always at least 1 ajushi sleeping in pc cafes in korea.
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Wow. There is a local cyber cafe called euphNET ( www.euphNET.com ) and it's one of the best cyber cafes in California. They used to have 3 stores until they had to close 2 stores down because that LAN scene was dying out. The way they run things here is really organized since all you do is tell them how many hours you want to buy and you give them your account name only. When you log onto a computer, you can click on the time session and it has the amount of hours you have left. When you log off the computer and there's still time left, it'll be there the next time you log in on any computer.
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I went to a PC bang in China and there it's just called an Internet Cafe...
whaddya know, everyone in the room was either over twenty or a smoker so my dad told me to exit the room and wait for me (I was like eleven at that time) because he had to take care of his email and stuff.
I sort of snuck in and glanced around and holy crap all these people were having the time of their lives, on their mics and playing games such as WoW or SC, but rarely SC since the games they played were all Chinese such as kart rider. And there was literally no swearing whatsoever or yelling....-_-
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lol do koerans get logged off in the middle of games? That would be wierd
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yeah the computer just turns off if you pay in advance
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i live in toronto and so there's a "Korea town" where I go to internet cafes with all my friends. Games are definitely more fun when you're sitting right next to the person you 5 pooled to ^^
most of the Internet cafes there suck (maybe because i've been to korea's which are comparably, a lot better in every way) but it does have most of the games up and running (definitely starcraft, counter strike, warcraft, and battlefield) which are the most played games there. For the internet cafe we go to, it's around $2/hour which isn't bad at all compared to some other internet cafes..
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On April 20 2009 22:42 GTR wrote:
i remember the bunker, it was 'the place to go' for sc in qld back in the day
On April 20 2009 22:27 haduken wrote:
is there still a cafe called bunker in brisbane? that was like the gaming hub of aus in my CS days.
Yeah the bunker is still here, it's one of the ones I haven't been to yet, I'll definitely check it out. I don't think there'll be many people in there playing sc though 
On April 20 2009 23:47 Rhaegar99 wrote:
The kareoke rooms there are really nice, but the PC room are bad compared to other net cafes just from looking it from the counter, unless they renovated it recently. Don't go there for gaming next time haha, there are way better places along Queens Street. And yea.. the elevator is fucking scary, especially when your with a group of people. Sometimes it feels like its stopped, but it hasn't and you wonder why the door ain't opening in the horribly ventilated small cell you're in.
Yeah I didn't really go there for a certain purpose, I just wanted to check it out, after hearing so much good stuff about korean PC rooms.
Hmm, gom is about to start, maybe I should go to a PC cafe and watch... I have an exam tomorrow...
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On April 21 2009 10:43 Disintegrate wrote:
I went to a PC bang in China and there it's just called an Internet Cafe...
whaddya know, everyone in the room was either over twenty or a smoker so my dad told me to exit the room and wait for me (I was like eleven at that time) because he had to take care of his email and stuff.
I sort of snuck in and glanced around and holy crap all these people were having the time of their lives, on their mics and playing games such as WoW or SC, but rarely SC since the games they played were all Chinese such as kart rider. And there was literally no swearing whatsoever or yelling....-_-
I love Chinese cafes.. I like to smoke when i game so that was awesome but the downside is that the keyboards are always burned and people give you the eyeball lol
SC is a widely accepted non mainstream game.
You must have went to a pretty good cafe. Because cheaper cafes are almost always populated by gang wannabes. I've witnessed two fights in cafes lol.
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On April 21 2009 12:37 imperfect wrote:
i live in toronto and so there's a "Korea town" where I go to internet cafes with all my friends. Games are definitely more fun when you're sitting right next to the person you 5 pooled to ^^
most of the Internet cafes there suck (maybe because i've been to korea's which are comparably, a lot better in every way) but it does have most of the games up and running (definitely starcraft, counter strike, warcraft, and battlefield) which are the most played games there. For the internet cafe we go to, it's around $2/hour which isn't bad at all compared to some other internet cafes..
YK Cafe?
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