LAN party worth its troubles?

[fat bear]

LAN parties are very, very, very fun. You get to do the two most favorite things(except, well maybe a little, sex): hang with friends and play video games. But is it worth it?

Keep these in mind:

Bad Connections?
Faulty Equipment?
Game Available to all?
Moving Shit Around?
Loss of Sleep?
Whiney Bitches?
Computer Retards?

[Dødens Knekt]

I'm going to a lan party on friday

5 days with 120 people


:D

[wyrd_fish]

you may want to invest in some sort of firewall...

or unplug the HDD with any personal stuff on at a LAN of that size...

[Scribbly]

I went to a huge lan a few weeks ago.. friday (8pm) till sunday (4pm), 1400 people, 4 hours of sleep :p

it was my first lan and it was great fun..lots and lots of downloading at a rate of 6mb per second.. my HD's were filled to the last mb :)

[MissMoo]

We have a local gaming arena near where i live, you gotta pay to go but its like a constant party! great fun and they have all the latest games and specialist gaming PC's already there!!!

[Dødens Knekt]

Originally posted by wyrd_fish
you may want to invest in some sort of firewall...

or unplug the HDD with any personal stuff on at a LAN of that size...
taken my precausions

disabled all sharing, except for the music folders, and those are password protected

renamed the admin account and passworded it

made a new admin account with a password and no rights at all


the script kiddies can't be bothered to do anything to you if they have to do any work for it...

they usually target the ones who don't password or remove the admin account...

[wyrd_fish]

there's still no replacment for a half decent firewall

[HiTmAN]

yea, everyone at a lan i went to got blaster, and i had to go round aborting the shutdowns and explaining why it did it :(

[Dødens Knekt]

http://maggro.sksf.biz/discoconnect/dag1midnatt.gif

:D

[wyrd_fish]

thats a mint gif...

i really must get my ass to a LAN one day...

a big one with lotts of beer and salty snacks

[Dødens Knekt]

DK <3 LAN

[wyrd_fish]

i'm willing to bet that your smaller than 3 LANs

(PS i know its a hart...)

[Dødens Knekt]

only problem is we are 100 people sharing the same internet IP, so I can't chat with the other weeblites on quakenet

:(

[wyrd_fish]

surley it was routed???

EDIT: and surley there were planty oth other like minded folks to talk to???

[Evilone]

I'm at a LAN party right now, but its a smaller 6 person afair at a m8's house. Of course, the advantage is its very local, and i dont need much setting up because i know my m8s arent going to do any (lasting) damage to my machine :P

[Guy']

Guess what!! Im at the same LAN party!!! In fact, its at my house! Woo!

Also evilone, who says im not going to do anything bad to your computer hehehehe!!

[wyrd_fish]

when he nips to the john, put a crappy window in his case...

:eek: ;)

[Guy']

HEY!!! ive already got a crappy window in my case!

[Mystical Parrot]

or when he goes to the toilet install windows 95 and steal his soundcard if he has one

[wyrd_fish]

he'd have to be seriously constapated to have time to install windows... ;)

[Mystical Parrot]

lock the door

[Dødens Knekt]

I havn't slept for 36 hours

and I'm having great fun

LAN parties are teh fucking w1n

/edit

+ I've downloaded 1.5 gigs of music, 3 gigs of movies and 4 gigs of games

[Digga]

Originally posted by Dødens Knekt
+ I've downloaded 1.5 gigs of music, 3 gigs of movies and 4 gigs of games

/me informs the norwegian police.

[Dødens Knekt]

http://home.no/magnarmuller/snCAM.jpg
showing our 5on5 cs lineup

I'm hidden most of the time though...

/edit
That hot stud in the back who is quite hard to spot is MAx

/editedit
(MAx wrote that)

/editeditedit
NO I DID NOT!

[wyrd_fish]

i have a crazy idea...

why not all get seperate accounts....

(or see a siciatrist)

[Dødens Knekt]

he has a seperate account, he just couldn't be arsed to log in, so he used mine instead...

[Shadow_Keeper]

Argh Dødens, just realised its a web cam updating thingy. Was thinking I was losing my mind just then looking at it.

I've been wanting to go to a LAN party for a while now, something I've wanted to do. I think me and a couple others at Uni are going to go to one as a massive group.

Originally posted by wyrd_fish

(or see a siciatrist)
I can help with that part...

[wyrd_fish]

you know what else you krazy kids need at that LAN... a light...

i have an uber bright light next to my PC all the time... it stops my mouse from falling down the back of my desk and help me to see the keys on my keyboard

[Mystical Parrot]

i want to have a lan party but unfortuantly most of my friends arent 1337 enough to know where a network cable goes (wankers)

[wyrd_fish]

i have the smae troubles :mad:

i know about 4 people who actually play games

1 ian, not much of a gamer but more than most
2 pete, ians younger bro'
3 alex, uber gamer
4 me, another alex

[Twiz]

This'll sound stupid, but whats a LAN party? I've got a lan(but only 3 people on it) can I have a party with my Mum and Dad's computers with cake and party hats and fun? I hope so!

[Evilone]

heh

A LAN party is when a bunch of people go and play games together over a LAN, normally over the course of two days or something, and bringing their own pcs. Just get a few mates to bring PCs, plug em in and get gaming.

[Dødens Knekt]

http://home.no/magnarmuller/sN@dc2004.htm

the text translated says there will be uploaded a webcam picture that is updated every 10 seconds in one of six frames...

right now the cam is offline, but it will be updated tomorrow...)

[TEX_Cougar]

ive only been to one lan party, that was last july, me and a mate had to lug our machines and a monitor plus clothes up from bedfordshire to manchester via train! damn that was a chore, but hell it was worth it! we called it 'the geekend' ( a geeky weekend) but we managed to stretch it out for a week which was good, and there was 8 of us in total in one little room, it got a little cramped lol
we have another one in a month or 2 called 'lantastic' which is a bit closer to home, its gonna be held in a new double garage and we'll have a live broadcast up 24-7! cant wait!
if you want to see it for some particular reason check out my website for details!
not tryin to advertise or nothin lol but its www.utterwhack.co.uk!

[Twiz]

Originally posted by Evilone
heh

A LAN party is when a bunch of people go and play games together over a LAN, normally over the course of two days or something, and bringing their own pcs. Just get a few mates to bring PCs, plug em in and get gaming.

And if you don't have friends you can set up a AI bot on one of the computers and game with that.

[hyperboy]

I want a lan party but 1. I is 10 2. I only has 1 remotely computer nerdy friend like me and 3. My computer that I have is a load of SH*T so I is a bit stuck. *Am saving up for cheap PC*

[Boom Pie!]

Sometimes you only need one other person to have a decent LAN. Back when I was around 12-13, one of my friends used to bring his PC over every now and again, we'd link them up with a serial link cable (not recommended :D) and play Doom. These days we've progressed to having about 6-8 people and are playing all sorts of stuff, but start out with 2 if you can and build from there.

[Twiz]

Im 12-13!

[hyperboy]

Originally posted by Twiz
Im 12-13!

That's nice for you but doesn't have anything to do with LAN parties. (anyone know any cheap computer sites?)

[wyrd_fish]

Originally posted by hyperboy
(anyone know any cheap computer sites?)
That's nice for you but doesn't have anything to do with LAN parties.

try scan .co.uk
or google ;)