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So you may have heard about the Peruvian Internet Cafe and you may think this is a joke or an exaggeration. It is really not. But its not Internet Cafes; its Public Internet Booths. Of course these are pretty global, but in Peru, more specifically on Lima (Capital of Peru for those that dont know) they are completely blown out of proportion, there is a staggering amount of these public internet booths, pretty much wherever you go you can find one of these, sometimes multiple in a single block. And these internet booths are especially concentrated around two places: malls and universities/schools.
To give you an idea of how massive this is, if you go to Wikipedia and look for Public Internet Booth you literally get Lima, Peru as an example. If you dont believe me, here.
Basically how it works is you go in, you pay a small fee that varies from 50 centimos to 2 soles (From 15 cents to 80 cents) depending on how ****py the computers (or the place) is. So you pay once and you can use one of the computers for, usually, an hour. As you may imagine, these are mainly focused around games, and the most popular of those games is well, Dota 2.
Lets say you walk into a Internet Booth in Peru, or like we say here Cabina (Booth in Spanish), you will probably see like in 15 people, at least a solid 9-10 are playing Dota 2, the rest cycle through counterstrike, League and ocassionally someone browsing for a homework or something similar.
Cabinas are, the vast majority of times, pretty dirty places, often crowded, really guetto places if I may. But people still go of course, to get their daily dose of Dota 2. And why? Because most of these players sometimes dont even have a pc at home, or their internet connection is something like 100 kb/s, etc; there are multiple reasons.
Now I am compelled to clarify, these cabina-visiting players are not all, but a big big majority of the dota 2 community here in Peru.
If you thought that was horrible you havent seen anything yet. Account Sharing, you probably think you know what I mean, but you dont.
More than often the owners of cabinas are dota players themselves, and before opening in the morning they boot up dota on all the computers (again, not always, but this happens and I want you to picture it well), and then people come in and just queue.
These are public accounts, they have nothing but Dota 2 in their libraries, names are either randomized by the owner or changed by the guy currently using the computer. They play a match and then their hour ends, and they just walk away and another guy sits in his place and queues for another one, changes his name and so on. People using these accounts have the default steam ? picture most of the time.
Because of this, people dont even care if they abandon a game, they dont get to play the low priority games, they just leave; or worse, they change computers if there are any available.
The classic pls finish is more than often because they want to play two games with just paying for one hour. And intentional feeding comes with it, ending a game faster to play another one.
Alright Goo I get it, but why the **** do they queue to Us east if they dont know basic ****ing English?!
Brazil is why. You know how having people that dont speak your language pisses you off? Well, this happens a lot in the south America server, when more than half of the players over there are Brazilian and speak Portuguese.
Some cabinas a worse than others, some have ****py connections and they dont have an option but to play in SA server, but when they can, they will queue to Us east just to get rid of the stupid Brazilians.
So every now and then you will come across these internet booths that are way more expensive, twice times as expensive most of the time, and that have better connection, etc; these are not the majority though, and I have found them near universities the most.
Students hang out there, part time do homework, part time Dota 2. In these fancy cabinas people actually have accounts and play ranked and such, and know at least an acceptable amount of English words, just enough to be able to play Us east and not be left isolated or muted.
Naturally, for the sake of this guide I went to one of these fancy cabinas, first off, they arent literally fancy, they are just a little bit less crowded since its more expensive per hour, and also I found a bit more League players, like 3 in 10 which was impressive.
You have surely heard this before, but SmAsh is a big thing in Peru.
Why? Various reasons, first off he is not from Lima, he is from Tacna, and Tacna is a way way smaller city than Lima; and he is pretty much the only important Peruvian player in the world.
He is the kind of role model cabineros follow, even if they have no idea how he plays. He is in fact so big here that he has been interviewed in big national tv channels, he tells his story how he became such a figure in young players from Peru, etc; you can watch it if you want even though its in spanish.
Thats mostly what I wanted to put in the guide but I am including this as well since I am already making a guide on the subject ffs.
Note that game terminology like creep is unchanged, they call it creep just as well.
Your own handy English to Peruvian Dota Slang Dictionary!
Anyway guys thats it, I think its a fairly informative guide. I am not sure if its going to be helpful at all in practice but I think its going to be, at the very least, entertaining.
This isnt a serious guide, you can check out my proper guides over here.
And now I have up and running a blog where I put all my guides, so far I have only ported my mid guide; but its looking good so far and Im the process of porting the rest over to there. Tell me what you think. And the direct link to the mid guide here.
Hope you like the guide, if you have further questions I think I'll be happy to answer them.
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