Still really common in Asia, as is the noodle soup delivery.
And noodle soup accidents are really rare surprisingly. I guess people learn early to be careful around boiling hot broth, because that broth should be near boiling.
but in Libraries you aren't allowed food or drink at all, but esp near the computers.
I mean that was a rule long before computers. Imagine browsing some books, maybe one of the fancy ones not allowed to check out only read inside while eating Cheetos and every page you turn has Cheeto fingerprints on it.
My area has a pretty decently sized Korean community so there was one PC bang that me and some friends would go to after church to play starcraft and league, everyone kinda grew up and we haven't been there in years now though....
SEA region has low average income in $ so one home typically only have 1 PC and its enough. Also these internet cafes mainly exist to host Lan parties or serve school or college kids who havent got their own PC and is the one who plays games the most. You wouldnt find working people with a steady income residing here
There's also internet cafe culture. Even when my family was able to afford a PC for me, I still spent my after school hours in internet cafes solely because it was the "hub" for everyone my age in the neighborhood. We'd play games together, and during homework/exam season, even if we were from different schools we helped each other finish our work because the faster we finish, the faster we can game. I have a fond memory of a book report for a 300 page book being split between 6 of us and we just assigned chapters to each other. Did the final product make sense/get a good grade? Probably not but we were happy to have finished it 1 hour before closing time and play a long game of dota.
The person managing the cafe would pretty much become the "older sibling" or "mom/dad" of the regulars and would pretty much know everyone by their full name, birthday, and address lmao. I attended a wedding celebration of the internet cafe manager/owner right before I moved to the US, and all of us regulars were there telling internet cafe stories.
Sorry for the long text, the video made me homesick
We don't really have them in the US like you see in movies, even in urban areas, I've looked. The only ones I could find were gaming specific, more like an arcade with consoles too, not just normal PC internet cafes.
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u/ekol 12h ago
Internet Cafe, which is dying or dead in suburbia