30-05-2002 21:20									#31
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Phoenixcager: Got it. I was a just dishing out names that I had connected to Asia.

quote: Originally posted by GP Chowlett. Finland-US < Japan-US I should have said "even more different" Or just said that they are not Western and that the primary culture on this board is Western.

Sidenote: According to most Finns, at least in the 90's "Finland was the most American country in the world." The promised land of the Bold and the Beautiful...

	30-05-2002 21:34									#32
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Japan has loads of stuff that never makes it anywhere overseas... surely the other way around is the case also? Perhaps no-one there has even HEARD of Civ....

I don't notice many (easy to spot) SE Asians here either. Yet Civ reached Malaysia when I live there probably before its official release. Maybe it's just not their thing?

	31-05-2002 00:26									#33
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I think the Japanese are for more into console gaming than computer gaming. They're probably all sat playing on their PS2's and Gamecubes rather than at their PC's.

I occasionally post at Final Fantasy Online (www.ffonline.com), which by all rights should have tons of Japanese people being that there are even more Final Fantasy players in Japan then the States & Europe. But there really aren't that many there, either (maybe 4% of the people). Although there are a fair number of people who have learned to speak Japanese, and there are quite a few SE Asians (mostly Chinese from what I can tell).

	31-05-2002 00:35									#34
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Even 4% seems a little high, SnowFire. I still check by FFOnline once in a while, but PC related threats became far less frequent.

	31-05-2002 04:10									#35
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Perhaps forums isn't their primary way of finding info on games and showing interest with others. Do they rely more on gaming magazines such as Famitsu for their info fix?

Or we could cite the Tom Green Monkey Hour MTV special shot over in Japan where he was on a subway and was being an obnoxious bugger while every Japanese person riding the subway was silent. Then one guys comes up to Green and tells him "We like quiet." or something to that effect. Maybe that type of preference to being quiet kind of stops them from being so much of a presence on forums. Who ever thought Tom Green would ever be able to present interesting facets to his viewers about other cultures?

But that may be just a Japanese thing since I think I heard that Finnish people do not really like to converse firsthand either but just look at all the Finns here. Or how they have so readily adopted the cell phone to communicate.

	31-05-2002 06:31									#36
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quote: btw, I thought Yin26 is an American living in Korea.

I'm pretty sure he is.

	31-05-2002 06:37									#37
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quote: then it follows there wouldn't be many people online with a further lacking in ISP developement throughout

quote: Saw some figures somewhere today that the percent of people with internet access in Japan is the same or maybe a shade higher than in Germany. Didn't see anything about price though. NTT must surely be involved in some way, and IIRC they are a bit pricey.

Well, Lodi and Adam Smith- I believe that is due to the pervalence of internet cafes. They're big in the east but PC's aren't as big. Although many Japanese people own palm pilots, etc.

	31-05-2002 06:44									#38
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This is a good point, AS. I think much of the internet in Japan is the text messaging type.

We should have a lot of Korean posters, though, considering that last I checked the internet has a quite high penetration rate in Korea.

Of course, we have the Finns, who I'm convinced are a collection of autonomous 'net bots conceived in the mind of Linus Torvalds. They're everywhere, man!

	31-05-2002 08:18									#39
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Its a 'feature' of Linux me-thinks

quote: quote: btw, I thought Yin26 is an American living in Korea. I'm pretty sure he is.

Confirmed. He is.

	31-05-2002 11:43									#40
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Everything I know about Japan I learned from watching "King of the Hill."

Gatekeeper

	31-05-2002 11:49									#41
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Its a 'feature' of Linux me-thinks quote: quote: btw, I thought Yin26 is an American living in Korea. I'm pretty sure he is. Confirmed. He is.

You're the modern day Ras.

	31-05-2002 18:04									#42
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quote: Originally posted by GP quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Its a 'feature' of Linux me-thinks quote: quote: btw, I thought Yin26 is an American living in Korea. I'm pretty sure he is. Confirmed. He is. You're the modern day Ras.

You taught Ras

	31-05-2002 18:11									#43
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quote: Originally posted by GP 2. Their culture is more insular and different than ours.

IRL, is GP's name George Dubya Bush? 'Cos this "their culture is more different than ours" is a great bushism...


just kidding.... i hope

	31-05-2002 21:11									#44
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AFAIK, Japanese is the second-most used language on the Internet after English (possibly only contended by German). But I also think they mostly keep to themselves, on Japanese sites

	31-05-2002 22:32									#45
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quote: Originally posted by aaglo IRL, is GP's name George Dubya Bush? 'Cos this "their culture is more different than ours" is a great bushism... just kidding.... i hope

GP is a scriptwriter for "America's President - the series".

	01-06-2002 17:17									#46
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Q Cubed is Korean, but he hasn't been on for awhile.


Andy,

I am not a Korean BTW I think Rogan Josh is German. He doesn't seem to be a gamer though.

	01-06-2002 18:54									#47
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Rogan Josh is Scottish, used to live in Germany but currently resides in south east France, near the Swiss border.

	01-06-2002 19:22									#48
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I always wondered how they came up with "U R a gay tw*t" when the original phrase is "UR is a gay tw*t"

	01-06-2002 19:29									#49
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In HARDMAN's first post, he actually wrote out in full "you are all gay twatz" instead of "u r"

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	01-06-2002 19:33									#50
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That post was actually a lurking one. I intended to find out who around is geeky enough to remember the original hardman post. It should have been obvious.

	01-06-2002 19:41									#51
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remember it?
God no. My registration date is the first time I entered the world of Poly/ACOL/owo and I was not even online in June '99 when HARDMAN appeared. I merely learned the legend quickly, and recently.

	01-06-2002 23:44									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat You taught Ras

1-Where is Ras?
2-Whatever happened to Rasputin?
3-Didn't AH,PH,and GP teach him together

	02-06-2002 08:51									#53
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I don't recall HARDMAN on ACS. IIRC he haunted only ACOL.

	02-06-2002 21:28									#54
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I think he visited Apolyton- it would be fairly inevitable since ACOL likes to attack forums

Mark probably permabanned him; (just like he did at Top40.com's forums )

	03-06-2002 04:26									#55
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HARDMAN has visited almost every forum every noticed by any of the former ACOLytes. And that's quite a few. Even the S Club 7 US forum has been "HARDMANed".

	03-06-2002 05:58									#56
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Adam Smith, how dare you forget itokugawa! Of course, he has forgotten us… profile says last post was in 1999.

	03-06-2002 07:11									#57
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I don't mind the short responses if they are witty. the really and obvious pcr ones, become annoying.

Wombat, my posts are rarely short except when I am chatting. And that is usually only on the OT, nowadays. Check out my posts on CBR.

	03-06-2002 17:59									#58
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yes. Good CBR posts

	03-06-2002 21:03									#59
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quote: Originally posted by Mercator AFAIK, Japanese is the second-most used language on the Internet after English (possibly only contended by German). But I also think they mostly keep to themselves, on Japanese sites

The Internet has changed during the past three years. Originally people thought that English would be the dominant language, but now the Internet has spread and divided into a multilingual universe. The Japanese, or any other non-English language group, would naturally prefer to talk in their native language. Hence the absence of Japanese people from these forums.

	03-06-2002 22:39									#60
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat HARDMAN has visited almost every forum every noticed by any of the former ACOLytes. And that's quite a few. Even the S Club 7 US forum has been "HARDMANed".

S club 7 US forum? What's that?
ACOLYtes seem to have gotten lax in recent years however, I provided them with several opportunities at Counterglow, then when they didn't take it, I decided to hardman up the site myself

I didn't get banned, but my posts were deleted

quote: itokugawa!

Wow. Even I remember him I feel old-
His last post at the Civ II universe branching forums was sometime July-Sept 2000, after conversing and sharing ideas for a time, he left, then I discovered Sidgames, registered, finally decided (after a year) to register at Apolyton after I found I liked Sidgames but that Sidgames was dying,,, and here I am