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Post by Spirit Bomb on Jul 30, 2019 22:50:00 GMT
This bugs me because I don't have internet service at my apartment so I frequently need travel to a wifi spot to get access to the internet. If my mom wasn't a complete alcoholic bitch I could browse at her house (she has full wireless support), but since she readily attacks me when I try to stay for more than an hour or two I'm often forced to look elsewhere for internet. Usually I go to my local libraries, but since they tend to close early and aren't open very long on the weekend, I'm sometimes regrettably forced to go to fast food joints like McDonalds for wifi.
I've heard that internet or cyber cafes are common in other countries, especially China. I don't understand why my town of over 12,000 people doesn't have a single cyber cafe. Can anyone give me a good reason why this is?
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Post by centipede on Jul 31, 2019 0:33:05 GMT
Speculation: Mobile gaming. The very casual gamers have their phones now, which connect to the internet so they can do multiple things on the run.
Also, you got the old guard who used to like to play LAN parties getting jobs and having families, so they don't have the time any more.
Maybe it's just not profitable now.
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Post by stratogustav on Jul 31, 2019 3:47:44 GMT
I think public libraries offer this service for free.
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Post by Cervantes on Aug 1, 2019 14:21:03 GMT
Speculation: Mobile gaming. The very casual gamers have their phones now, which connect to the internet so they can do multiple things on the run. Also, you got the old guard who used to like to play LAN parties getting jobs and having families, so they don't have the time any more. Maybe it's just not profitable now. Yeah, pretty much this: a lot of people only use the internet through their phones, so no need for cyber cafes. Also, most modern PC games don't even offer LAN options, besides online being easily available to almost all PC players at their home, so LAN parties are definitely going the way of the dodo. |
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Aug 1, 2019 21:37:06 GMT
I think public libraries offer this service for free. They do, but the hours aren't very reasonable. I would prefer a wifi spot with service 24 hours a day (do these exist?). |
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Post by stratogustav on Aug 1, 2019 23:49:45 GMT
They do, but the hours aren't very reasonable. I would prefer a wifi spot with service 24 hours a day (do these exist?). I doubt this happens anywhere in the world, and if it does it is likely extremely scarce. |
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Post by Armored Core Raven on Aug 2, 2019 0:07:55 GMT
We have public wifi downtown. We already had it in lots of indoor places like libraries, town hall, hopital etc., and in association with a local electric company they made a public outdoors one for main street.
EU also gives out grants cities in EU member countries money to expand public wifi.
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Aug 2, 2019 3:37:43 GMT
We have public wifi downtown. We already had it in lots of indoor places like libraries, town hall, hopital etc., and in association with a local electric company they made a public outdoors one for main street.EU also gives out grants cities in EU member countries money to expand public wifi. There you have it, a 24/7 wifi spot. It might be outdoors, but still. Makes me wonder if any US cities have similar 24/7 public wifi areas. |
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Post by stratogustav on Aug 2, 2019 4:30:14 GMT
stratogustav There you have it, a 24/7 wifi spot. It might be outdoors, but still. Makes me wonder if any US cities have similar 24/7 public wifi areas. I was referring to private Internet Cafés. In terms of public Wi-Fi, I heard places like South Korea have free Wi-Fi nationwide. |
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Aug 7, 2019 3:05:13 GMT
stratogustav There you have it, a 24/7 wifi spot. It might be outdoors, but still. Makes me wonder if any US cities have similar 24/7 public wifi areas. I was referring to private Internet Cafés. In terms of public Wi-Fi, I heard places like South Korea have free Wi-Fi nationwide. South Korea seems like a nice place to live; free wifi, close to the coast, reasonable climate, better public transportation. If I won the lottery I would like to vacation there. |
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Post by stratogustav on Aug 7, 2019 3:07:28 GMT
South Korea seems like a nice place to live; free wifi, close to the coast, reasonable climate, better public transportation. If I won the lottery I would like to vacation there. You may as well go all the way and get a job and wife there too. Save your pennies, and do it now. |
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Aug 10, 2019 1:20:34 GMT
South Korea seems like a nice place to live; free wifi, close to the coast, reasonable climate, better public transportation. If I won the lottery I would like to vacation there. You may as well go all the way and get a job and wife there too. Save your pennies, and do it now. That would be going too far. Seems like a huge gamble for someone like me who knows very little about the country to abruptly move there. I've never been a risk taker. Hell, I couldn't even afford the plane ticket over there unless I sell all my possessions or something (from what I remember, aren't cross-country tickets here something like $1,500 for one-way fare? I couldn't even imagine how expensive a plane ride to the opposite side of the globe would be). |
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Post by stratogustav on Aug 10, 2019 5:05:52 GMT
Hell, I couldn't even afford the plane ticket over there unless I sell all my possessions or something (from what I remember, aren't cross-country tickets here something like $1,500 for one-way fare? I couldn't even imagine how expensive a plane ride to the opposite side of the globe would be). That's what I meant about saving your pennies. Once you want something you realize there is nothing stopping you from getting it, if your goal is within reason, it is definitely doable, and usually the best way to accomplish anything is with alliances, and by modeling someone that has done it before, with those two secrets, success is pretty much inevitable, no matter how many times you fail before achieving it. |
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Sept 15, 2019 15:47:50 GMT
Speculation: Mobile gaming. The very casual gamers have their phones now, which connect to the internet so they can do multiple things on the run. Also, you got the old guard who used to like to play LAN parties getting jobs and having families, so they don't have the time any more. Maybe it's just not profitable now. Yeah, pretty much this: a lot of people only use the internet through their phones, so no need for cyber cafes. Also, most modern PC games don't even offer LAN options, besides online being easily available to almost all PC players at their home, so LAN parties are definitely going the way of the dodo.Please excuse me for being a  *Gasp* Is this true??? LAN support is really being phased out of PC games?? WHY?  I am baffled that publishers would do this to their games. First split-screen on consoles gets axed, and now LAN support on PC? This makes me so sad. |
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Post by Balder on Sept 15, 2019 15:55:11 GMT
Yeah, pretty much this: a lot of people only use the internet through their phones, so no need for cyber cafes. Also, most modern PC games don't even offer LAN options, besides online being easily available to almost all PC players at their home, so LAN parties are definitely going the way of the dodo.Please excuse me for being a *Gasp* Is this true??? LAN support is really being phased out of PC games?? WHY? I am baffled that publishers would do this to their games. First split-screen on consoles gets axed, and now LAN support on PC? This makes me so sad. Yeah, I can't recall any new games that support LAN play anymore. It kinda sucks at LAN parties when the Internet isn't playing along. |
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I am baffled that publishers would do this to their games. 