Why would you go to an internet cafe in the year of our lord 2016?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-mr-O7_uN0
Taiwanese people should be able to afford a computer themselves.
>>55283913
>you'll never go to internet cafe game tournaments with your friends again
>>55283944
they were assholes anyway
>>55283913
I dont like those top down games there playing
>>55283913
jesus, the amount of faggotry inside is unbearable.
The only cool guys were that group playing AoE2
>>55284010
>"there"
kill yourself
>>55283913
Because most apartments in Taiwan are the size of a closet, it's basically a place where you sleep and that's pretty much it. There's no space for a proper gayming rig. Not to mention those f2p multiplayer games are what most in Asia play so you can just go to a net cafe and play with friends for pretty cheap. It's like going to a bar and drinking with friends rather than staying at home and drinking.
I see why people live at these places.
>>55283913
Because you live in a 3rd world country and also have a secret fetish for sharing germs left behind by the person who used the mouse and keyboard before you
>>55283913
if there was gaming ones in the states I'd go to one, lan gaming is always fun
>>55283913
>that qt at 4:42
also if someone built something like that here in the west kids and shitskins would just steal everything
>>55283913
>Why would you go to an internet cafe in the year of our lord 2016?
>would you go
Why the hell would I go OUTSIDE?
Why was Luke presenting this and being filmed interviewing the old Taiwanese guy when Dennis is Taiwanese and was obviously the one translating for Luke at every juncture?
>>55285859
Is this an actual theme?
>>55285900
It is for me.
Because of lots of hax...
errr, 3rd party software...
>>55285859
Serious talk..
Why do you do this to your computer. I mean I thought changing desktop backgrounds from the default was bad enough but this takes the cake. How can you justify this to yourself? Where and when did your life go so wrong which lead to this?
>>55285893
because they wanted to capture that vice feel of a white liberal cuck going to a foreign land
>>55283913
It's a place to hang out, like any other places. It's like asking why people go to the library even though they could afford book(s)
Or why people go to bar, even though they could afford booze
>>55285859
I actually like this theme. Nice job.
Id go to internet cafe's if i had money.
>>55286057
Changing your wallpaper is bad now?
>maxing w on veigar
>>55283913
that food
>they even serve tendies
It's a shame we can't have these in America because niggers would ruin everything.
>>55286385
He only had 1 point in Q. I'm so triggered.
Looks like someone developed that in 1999.
>>55285829
You can't be this autistic
>there are Japanese internet cafes where you bring bring your own PC and are there cause air conditioning,and net,and food
>>55286491
At least it works perfectly
Never change a running system
I used to live in Taiwan. Most people have computers, the issue is that they usually aren't for gaming. The computers in internet cafes are fast and can game really well. Additionally they have a solid internet connection so some people go for that. Some people even stream in the cafe. Also these internet cafes have huge game libraries (usually a steam account with like hundreds of games, also older games like War3 with lots of custom games) so people play games they don't own. Most cafes are clean and actually really nice. One I went to in Kaohsiung was like $1 an hour. Huge screen, comfy seats, really clean, ac and no smoke.
>>55286567
I'd wager like 90% of the guys there were trying to get away from demon mom at home.
>>55286567
1$ for an hour? I wonder how much you'd have to game per day/month for owning all of that to be cost effective.
>>55286630
And I mean, the initial cost of getting a good PC and those games is quite high, not to mention the running cost of internet. For a dollar per hour you'd have to play a lot to make it cheaper to own all that.
>>55286626
Son, why are you doing so bad at school even though you study so much???
>>55286630
>make a cafe when the internet bubble
>lots people join get a nvidia shill deal
>become at least 1 percent of the entire nvidia gpu market share.
>>55286663
Nvidia also have custom drivers for those places.
https://www.nvidia.com/content/apac/icafe/en/driver.html
GeForce GTX is the ultimate GPU for gamers. Deliver fastest performance and all the latest gaming technologies. GeForce iCAFE has 100% marget share in Korea, in Taiwan 98% and in China 91%.
>>55286656
A real struggle. Like all the high school kids I knew there were getting crazy high scores in shit way too hard for them. But their mom won't take anything but perfect.
>>55286630
Here's the thing. People don't like talking about it in Taiwan but it's true. It's impossible to make money with these cafes. The initial cost is too high and the authorities also coming to fine the establishment for having minors after 11. So a lot of the cafes are a front for illegal activity. Most are owned by gangs.
>>55286735
Well that's a bummer.
>>55286735
The ones who try to stay away from that get undercut in prices and just go bankrupt.
>public keyboard and mouse
no
>>55286776
>ignoring the public headphones issue
>>55283913
no, also I thought Linus was a tech channel?
guess not
>>55286786
No public headphones. You have to bring your own.
>>55286772
Remember. Taiwan's crime rate is ridiculous low. Even the gangsters have morals apparently
>>55286630
The food would help desu. I'd order something every time I went for more than an hour or two if it was near the same price as the other restaurants to avoid losing my seat.
>>55286803
dude are you blind? first 30 second there is a row of computer with all the same headphones
I'm not 100% but i believe the asian version of some F2P games don't let you play for more than x hours straight before they kick you out.
Government restriction.
>>55286798
They ran out of ideas a long time ago
also
>nvidia sponsored cafe
I wonder why they went there...
>>55286862
I'm talking from experience. Not a few frames in video. The ones I went to all did not provide headphones and instead allowed you to rent them.
>>55286888
What is the policy on eating over the keyboard? That can get quite nasty.
So why Arcade and LAN center died in the west again?
>>55286903
No restrictions on eating in front of the keyboard. Pretty gross if you think about it. They keyboards don't have crumbs in them though. I think they clean them often. Besides the odd sticky part of a table, never had an issue with gross shit. Just asked them to wipe it for me.
>>55286917
>Arcade
>Sharing joystick with other people
>Sharing chair with other people
This generation full of fucking inbreed pussies.
>>55286873
Korean lol shows a notification after couple hours, but it doesn't block you or anything
>>55283973
Yeah, but it was fun to scream at each other.
>>55283913
>aoe2
>2016
>ywn play aoe2 on msn Zone for the first time
>>55286917
No transportation for people. Only in walk able cities, so that's basically NYC and small college towns on two streets (for a few blocks) near the college.
>>55286974
http://store.steampowered.com/app/221380/?snr=1_7_15__13
You can revive those memories.
>>55286994
Fuck you, Cortez.
>>55286986
What about Arcade? Isn't that basically a things in every mall in any cities?
I'm not talking about the new Arcade where you play Angry Bird on a machine that gives you ticket price.
But the actual oldschool Arcade with Fighting games or DDR.
>>55286994
>http://store.steampowered.com/app/221380/?snr=1_7_15__13
its a piece of shit.
1.0c is the only good aoe2.
What if you want to fap?
>>55287038
This nigga
>you will never have a basement LAN party to play Quake with your friends ever again.
>>55286057
looks like summer /g/ is in full effect
>>55287021
Arcades had a rep for drug use and misfits in the US so a lot of helicopter parents wouldn't let their kids go (mine wouldn't for our local arcade when we had it). A bunch of friendly goths smoking cigs outside scared everyone off. Also, malls are dying in the US drastically in favor of outdoor strip malls.
Basically, if you want to go shopping in most of the US, chances are you're going to hop in the car and drive 7-15 minutes to get to strip mall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_mall
The crazy part is, sometimes you'll drive your car from one part of the strip mall to get to another store in the other part, and it's like a five minute walk.
We do have some LAN places, like the esports arena in Orange, CA, which is a pretty good model. It's a LAN cafe during the day, but they also host a ton of e-sports events there with spectators. That's probably the best model now.
The only idea I had was if sony, steam, or microsoft licensesd a setup not unlike the ones they have at bestbuy and gamestop except devs could do slices of their games meant for an arcade experience and you could pay via smartphone or card with a QR code.
You could stick those Kiosks in airports and student centers (in colleges), and they wouldn't take up a lot of space, and people would be familiar with the controller as opposed to the arcade stick. Plus you could save your progress on PSN or Xbox
>>55287509
Also, as far as computer security goes, how hard is it to secure these LAN cafes. They seem to be pretty vulnerable to attacks, both from shoulder surfing/security camera hacks, and people plugging in random peripherals to the computer. I'd be afraid of getting any sensitive info jacked.
>>55286630
It sounds like a bargain for the AC alone. I have a brand new $400 AC I have to leave running all damn day if I want it to be under 80 inside half the house while the sun is up.
>>55283913
>Why would you go to an internet cafe in the year of our lord 2016?
Broadband internet, no electricity bills to pay, junk food and coffee within walking distance and it's basically the best way to die, I'd rather die playing vidya or writing some code than getting run over by a drunk driver.
>>55286885
;)
>>55285829
I can relate to this I hate using other's keyboards and mice.
>>55287693
u do realize if u leave ur home to go play, u have a better chance of getting run over by a drunk driver?
RIP anon
>>55287765
Not unless I spend the rest of my life within the comfort of the cafe, not going outside ever again.
>>55287804
>Not unless I spend the rest of my life within the comfort of the cafe, not going outside ever again.
oooh
>buying shitloads of mid range PCs to run LoL/CS GO and games alike that aren't even that heavy instead of building a really powerful setup to host VMs and just hooking up as many cheap client machines as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdsic3d8XN8&app=desktop
>>55286491
Looks like adware.
$1 an hour is cheaper than what I pay for rent. Is it possible to live in one of these places full time?
>>55287865
See video, he is only using network boot/PXE, not what you think. I thought the same.
"Wow, a person using virtualization for this, very very cool." Instead he is just your average linux faggot who used it for a few months and has an urge to install it on even the toilet.
>>55288276
I don't see why not if you have money, but I think they're not so accommodating for a complete loner, they're more of a 'go to with friends and play cafe', I hope they have special booths with a computer and a bunk for one person. I think the japs have cafes especially for loners, but I'm not sure they're really isolated from each other.
>>55287852
Seems like a pretty good lifestyle tbhfam.
>>55283913
>year of our lord
2016
having a lord
If there was one near me and I needed Internet I don't see why I wouldn't
>>55283913
Shilling for a fucking internet cafe. The worst part is
>SEE!! this one extremely popular one that is certified by nvidia isn't bad and this other one too!
Completely neglects the myriad of others where the deaths actually occur.
>>55287730
he passes as a extremely ugly trans person..
>>55283913
To print shit, I have a printer but the fucking cartridges are fucking retarded expensive and they don't last for shit
>>55288480
But still, why buy a lot of dedicated machines instead of just building a highly powerful one to host VMs?
They are not running heavy stuff in these machines anyways.
>>55286111
>liberal
Why don't any of your idiots know what this word means?
>>55285859
Baka baka
>>55286491
Kek, you can sit at Internet cafe all day and order your delivery there?
>>55284739
I love me some Age.
11
Japan's net cafe
>Pros
Enclosed personal space for privacy
Self-serving free drink
Manga and Magazine available for reading
Shower room
>Cons
PC specs are mediocre most of the time.
>>55289211
It WOULD make sense, indeed.
Why they are not doing that?
I guess it's the lack of skill, knowledge, money.
I mean, these garbage PCs cost what? Almost no money? You can just put them together on a garage sale.
Meanwhile you would need a kinda big SSD (like 1-2-3TB), some serious Xeon packed machine (lets count 2 cores per client), VMx4-6GB RAM, and finally some heavy GPUs.
So... it is not soooo cheap. But doable.
I am too lazy to calculate if it costs more or less than building one pc per person.
>>55286385
>viegar is better than cassi
>>55290146
So that's like pretty fucking bad?
> enclosed space
home?
> self-service drink
well, water/drink at home?
> manga
come on nigga, it's not a fucking book store
> shower
.... hooome?
This sounds like fucking horrible.
>>55283913
if cyber cafes around me were like that i would never even get back home
>>55290242
If you do not want to stay at hotel since it's expensive, net cafe is the cheaper alternative.
Cost like $15-$20 per night.
>>55289995
That's their internal ordering, you sit at your computer playing and pop the menu up from the task bar if you want a snack, drink or even full blown meal.
>>55286689
https://www.nvidia.com/content/apac/icafe/en/spec.html
> EXTREME (4K)
> GEFORCE GTX 980 Ti
> World of Tanks
If this ain't shilling, I don't know what is.
>>55290281
Ok that makes sense, kinda how you pay for gym membership when you go homeless - so you can actually at least shower.
But otherwise, even what that Korean anon said, it's kinda meh. People don't have powerful PCs at home? Why the fuck not? I mean, they have nice smartphones, cars and whatnot, but no PCs?
I love the noise and the atmosphere of internet cafes.
Back in my highschool and college days, where every 9 out of 10 males are playing tons of MMORPGS and Dota. We play everyday after class ended.
>>55283913
so let me get this right Linus hires a overwhelmingly asian staff his wife is asian highers a gay bear type and one normal white dude.
I think Canada fucking blows dick, Linus is a fucking massive faggot, and his wife did the hiring.
I fucking hate all these youtube tech channels they are garbage
>>55289234
I think you don't cuck.
>>55290435
What the fuck does that anything to do with internet cafes in taiwan?
>>55290235
>aram
>>55286243
that's a whole lot more effort than just changing your wallpaper.
>>55286057
It's called Autism, look it up.
You can't explain mental disorders.
Gaming cafes are quite popular in places like Taiwan due to the currency disparity to the USD.
The average monthly wage in USD for Taiwan is around $1500. If you spend maybe 40 hours a month gaming, that's $480 over the course of a year. Assuming a decent setup costs around 1000, it would take 2 years just to make up the cost of buying a computer, not accounting for the cost of internet, which is probably about $20/month. Also, you need to buy your own games. That doubles the time it would take to make up the cost of buying your own computer. If you were a super heavy gamer, it would probably pay off sooner to buy your own computer.
Basically, it would take 4 years or longer at 40 hours a month to break even on buying a computer.
>>55290311
I don't actally think they'll get a car ever
If internet cafes were more common, at least to the point of them having reasonable standards for software and shit, then they'd be nice to go to.
Valve has some system in place for internet cafes to use steam and get multiuser licenses for games and such, but noone ever uses it.
Admit it. If there was an internet café that provided fiber bandwidth, a reasonable assortment of games and systems, a good collection of services, and was a nation wide thing with the location frequency of, say, five guys, you might check it out, right?
>>55285703
That was acceptable grammar if you aren't a moran.
The games playing there in the image are of a type anon does not like.
Go be stupid somewhere else.
>>55290747
I meant South Korea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita
I live in a country thats way behind them in this list and even here every second person got a car or so.
>>55290756
No, absolutely not. I don't want to be around other people while I do shit on the compute and using a public connection is utterly retarded.
>>55290567
its fucking linustechtips ya dingus
>>55290650
>40 hours a month
>>55285847
>if someone built something like that here in the west
I live in California and i see them all over the place. Where the fuck do you live?
>>55290818
In Taiwan, the average work week is easily 50 hours. Couple that with all the other time consuming tasks of life, and that doesn't leave a massive amount of time for gaming.
>>55286491
AESTHETIC as fuck
>>55290904
I thought you were saying 40 hours of WORK a month.
>>55290927
I wish, lol. I was assuming 10 hours of gaming a week, which is possibly a bit conservative if someone's really into games.
>>55285765
What's wrong with staying home and drinking?
Expat in Korea here. I go to these cafes all the time. Cheap, comfy chair, fast hardware, you can bring in your USB with all your gaymes on it and ignore the pre-installed Korean shit. What's not to like?
>>55290995
Nothing, it's just not a social activity.
It's like reading a book at home vs discussing it with a book club or friends.
That fucking second cafe later on in the video seems comfy as goddamn fuck, would love a place like that here in America.
Too bad Americans are obnoxious niggers
>>55286567
>Live in philippines
>shit talking fags in internet cafes
>$0.30 per hour
>computers dirtier than a toilet
just like dreamhack, the lan is not about low ping or convienience. its about the social aspect. retards.
Taiwanese have good taste.
Samsung, Gigabyte and Asus. Top tier hardware. Seems like a nice place to hangout
>>55290787
No it isn't
Kill yourself
>>55290787
>"acceptable grammar"
>"those top down games there playing"
>"games there playing"
>"there playing"
>"there"
>"moran"
its more so tht the internet cafe has a really good down and up speed that people use it. At least that is what happens in asia. Not everyone can afford 500mb down and up in a resident home as evident in the stupid speed test thread you idiots have every week
>>55290756
Internet cafes aren't for americans.
People on the other side of the world have a vastly different living situation, though.
>>55283944
>You'll probably never have a home lan again
Goddamnit pepe, all these feels.
>>55291427
Sure is summer
>>55284739
>they are playing games i dont like! Fuckin fags!
>>55289156
what is a laser printer?
I've had the same toner cartridge for 6 years.
>>55283944
Whhhaaaat?????
There was a league of legends tournament like 2 days ago at my local pc cafe.
You must be part of the shill and now know it because there's tournaments for everything out here. It's the mainstream fedoras that can't seem to find anything but speak like they know.
Tell more people, I need new team mates.
>>55286057
FOr the gigantic faggot getting fucked in the ass isn't enough. He has to declare to the world that he's a faggot and that his sense of self-worth comes from taking hard black cocks in the ass regularly.
You go there to install keyloggers to steal the details of people who browse facebook there.
Duh
>>55292503
Tell me how sore your ass is after you try that shit.
>>55292503
Try that in Asia as a non-foreigner and you'll be accused of a cyber crime where you'll spend at least a month in jail until your trial where you'll admit to whatever your interrogators tell you to admit to.
