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JRE
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Joined: August 14, 2003
Posts: 570
|  Posted: 2005-06-30 04:17
someone should go to china and advertise DS. Kinda boring in the middle of the night with noone around. (Daytime in china night here)
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JRE
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Joined: August 14, 2003
Posts: 570
| Posted: 2005-06-30 04:18
Disregard, I just realized that is probably the dumbest post I've made.
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Banshee
Grand Admiral
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Joined: August 28, 2001
Posts: 2181
From: Philadelphia, PA
| Posted: 2005-06-30 04:45
Meko's in China, ask him 
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Sonlox ~hes that sexy~
Admiral
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: November 19, 2003
Posts: 76
From: Bedford, Nova Scotia
| Posted: 2005-06-30 05:04
it's been a long time... i miss u people and i'll be back soon.
i been playing WoW but i think i should resub and back become a full time lobby camper
never fear sonlox is here
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Meko
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Joined: March 03, 2004
Posts: 1956
From: Vancouver
| Posted: 2005-06-30 06:37
im in china and ive already downloaded it into three separit internet cafes.
three problems, in no peticular order:
- One, chinese kids as a whole cant speak english (even the ones that think they can).
- Two, the chinese internet service's are terrible in speed, and horrible in thier censorship (BBC news is not able to load on ANY china comp.)
- Three, the chinese have no money. litterally. the minimum wage in beijing (highest paid city) is 4.5 yuan and hour. most chinese make from 500 to 1500 a month. in US dollars, thats 187.5 a month. (1500 / 8 )
so, unfortunatly, youll have better luck in japan, australlia or with the kiwi's.
if only DS was in chinese... i could see a Ton of taiwanese and hong kong kids playing. (they speak different languages, but they can understand the same characters)
(edit to fix spelling, then decided i was lazy)
[ This Message was edited by: Meko on 2005-06-30 06:39 ]
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Coeus {NCX-Charger}
Admiral, I can't read,
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: February 16, 2004
Posts: 3635
From: South Philly
| Posted: 2005-06-30 12:55
*cough*DSAsia*cough*
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BackSlash
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Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-06-30 13:03
Darkspace asia isnt written using chinese characters.
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$yTHe {C?}
Grand Admiral
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Joined: September 29, 2002
Posts: 1292
From: Arlington, VA
| Posted: 2005-06-30 22:38
Im going to Hong Kong for a foreign exchange trip next year. If its still up, ill let em know.
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Meko
Grand Admiral
Joined: March 03, 2004
Posts: 1956
From: Vancouver
| Posted: 2005-06-30 23:20
honk kong?? ouch man. you really autta reconsider for shanghai or beijing.
i mean if your going to learn chinese you may as well learn the real language.
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$yTHe {C?}
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Joined: September 29, 2002
Posts: 1292
From: Arlington, VA
| Posted: 2005-06-30 23:58
Nah, Im going because my dad knows people there that may sponsor me, if I would choose just China in general, they might stick me somewhere out in the boonies.
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Meko
Grand Admiral
Joined: March 03, 2004
Posts: 1956
From: Vancouver
| Posted: 2005-07-01 04:04
haha they wouldnt do that. any foriegner would die. dont drink tap water, ask for "yi zi xing kuai zi" (pronounced "ee zz shing kwai zz"). those are disposable chopsticks.
i dont know how to say it in hong kong tongue.
but yeah, foriegners outside of a china city = death hahahha
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Fatal Rocko Willis
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Joined: March 01, 2003
Posts: 1336
From: Kentucky
| Posted: 2005-07-02 17:20
Been to Hong Kong.... many times.. good shopping in the Kowloon District or at least there was last time I was there....
Another good place to get some peps playing from is Korea.....
Games like this are really big .. especially in the Pusan area.... and Japan is a really big place on Sci-Fi games....
For this game to be totally into it the prosgam needs to interpret the english language and translate them to a foriegn language and vice versa... I mean if a person typed in German or Japanesse or whatnot then thier version of DS would understand and we would see the equivalent in english...
I know that is a daunting task but that is what alot of major programs can do... not just games.
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Lux (Polaris)
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Joined: April 20, 2004
Posts: 835
From: Asgard
| Posted: 2005-07-02 17:47
And that would increase the potential playbase a lot, no?
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Lord DowneyBUM (UK)
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Joined: January 13, 2003
Posts: 437
From: London England
| Posted: 2005-07-02 21:53
Try Singapore, that might work.
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Fattierob
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| Posted: 2005-07-02 22:02
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On 2005-07-02 17:47, Kit wrote:
And that would increase the potential playbase a lot, no?
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1 billion possible customers! =D
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