Found this on Youtube: a clip from Sky TV from the Internet addiction clinic in Beijing. It's based in a military hospital and is run military-style--the kids even wear camouflage. I've tried to get an interview and a visit at the place but haven't been able to yet. The part where they set them up with real-life shooting games instead of virtual ones is brilliant!
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...interesting...military style..hehe
Posted by: 我的T恤 | January 29, 2007 at 11:49 PM
Last time I was in a 网吧 in Suzhou, my husband was trying to play the online game, Half Life. During the game, one of the players was doing really well and another player said in game "KEEP SHOOTING LIKE THAT AND YOULL GET INTO THE PLA IN NO TIME!"
(The fact that the rehab is military style reminded me of this.)
Posted by: Jenn | January 30, 2007 at 03:45 AM
hillarious - are they for real! I guess in this world there is always someone who will find a way to make money of everything - ex. militia are not exception.
Posted by: China Internet Market Blog | January 31, 2007 at 03:22 AM
This guys are all in rich family.The reason is the bad education.In China,15-18 students have to spend at least 9 hours in classroom everyday.(in grade 3,it will increase to 10-12 hours)NO time to playing basketball/football.if you do something else you will be criticized by teachers and parents.90% parents will send their child to high school and most of other school are full of BAD guys.Only poor guys will take Goldfarmer as a job.and also,most of them will doing it in servers abroad.seldom could earn $ in China.here is full of Tojans and hackers.90% of game gold is made by hackers.
Posted by: xiaotj | January 31, 2007 at 02:02 PM
Trojans,lost a r
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15-18,if they have good luck they'll get 1 day for a rest everyweek.if not,1 day in 2 week.most of officals believe that chain us in a room longer they get more campus students ,then more scientist .What a fantastic world i was live in
Posted by: xiaotj | January 31, 2007 at 02:12 PM
hillarious - are they for real! I guess in this world there is always someone who will find a way to make money of everything - ex. militia are not exception.
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they are just in a kinda summer camp.their parents paid to the army.the army train them.
an emigration country will hard to imagine why a Chinese/English/Korean soldier will doing a hard job with so less $.If you lost ur land you can go to some other land.but we couldn't.we live here for more than 5000 years.we love this place.
Posted by: xiaotj | January 31, 2007 at 02:28 PM
This is a very significant blog. Your discussion here is very reflective to the current situation we had in our community. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Keep up the good job in posting very good topics.
Posted by: Volunteer in Asia | June 27, 2011 at 11:01 PM