The Bachelor Lan
KungFuSquirrel
Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
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<div class="IPBDescription">Pictures!</div> Yes, it's still going strong.* Except for right now, with a little lull in the action... meh. Anyway. I have pictures! First, for reference, are two pictures of my living room from just after I moved in (of note: the PC game collection has grown by about 13 games since then <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->):
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/apartment4.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/apartment5.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Now, after 6 months of habitation, it is invaded by computers:
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/bachelor_lan-1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
^^
The case on the right is "Moby ****," so named for the great white whale on the side and another of our friends, currently in Costa Rica and unable to be at this LAN party as well as my wedding. That's actually the original outer part of the case - my friend ground down the area around it to create the silver bits.
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/bachelor_lan-2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
^^
No part of the apartment goes unused. We are like the Native Americans with the Buffalo, except we are (with the exception of one actually of partially Native American descent) all white and we have no buffalo. No, the beer thing wasn't mine.
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/bachelor_lan-3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Better view of the computers at the kitchen. Note the Beyond Good and Evil PC copy on the table. 3 of those attending are my groomsmen (of 4), and my groomsmen gifts were games. The fourth is a Mac gamer, so I had to do some hunting, but the other 3 received UT2K4 and BG&E, with the best man receiving UT2K4 SE.
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/bachelor_lan-4.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
^^
The Dilbert boss and squirrel are actually mine, though my system is the one with the GIANT DUAL 20" SGI MONITORS OF DOOM!!!!!!. Had to put them up there when I started packing up my DVDs and had to move the TV, which was where they were previously stationed.
* For this, you must understand the way my friends and I LAN. We started with weekends like normal people. Then we said, "Hey, this isn't long enough!" Thus the one-week LAN parties were born. And then, after the last three of us graduated in 2001, we said "Hey, even that isn't long enough!" and ended up with a 2-week LAN party in the basement of my parents' house. I lived nocturnally the rest of the summer due to the strange sleep schedule...
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/apartment4.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/apartment5.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Now, after 6 months of habitation, it is invaded by computers:
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/bachelor_lan-1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
^^
The case on the right is "Moby ****," so named for the great white whale on the side and another of our friends, currently in Costa Rica and unable to be at this LAN party as well as my wedding. That's actually the original outer part of the case - my friend ground down the area around it to create the silver bits.
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/bachelor_lan-2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
^^
No part of the apartment goes unused. We are like the Native Americans with the Buffalo, except we are (with the exception of one actually of partially Native American descent) all white and we have no buffalo. No, the beer thing wasn't mine.
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/bachelor_lan-3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Better view of the computers at the kitchen. Note the Beyond Good and Evil PC copy on the table. 3 of those attending are my groomsmen (of 4), and my groomsmen gifts were games. The fourth is a Mac gamer, so I had to do some hunting, but the other 3 received UT2K4 and BG&E, with the best man receiving UT2K4 SE.
<img src='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/bachelor_lan-4.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
^^
The Dilbert boss and squirrel are actually mine, though my system is the one with the GIANT DUAL 20" SGI MONITORS OF DOOM!!!!!!. Had to put them up there when I started packing up my DVDs and had to move the TV, which was where they were previously stationed.
* For this, you must understand the way my friends and I LAN. We started with weekends like normal people. Then we said, "Hey, this isn't long enough!" Thus the one-week LAN parties were born. And then, after the last three of us graduated in 2001, we said "Hey, even that isn't long enough!" and ended up with a 2-week LAN party in the basement of my parents' house. I lived nocturnally the rest of the summer due to the strange sleep schedule...
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Are you even human? Two week lan parties? <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Still... two week lan parties...
/me wants. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Imagine a 2-liter bottle of mountain dew mixed with excessive amounts of kool-aid and other sugary things with god knows what else thrown in. It is very deep red and of varying consistency, but always... disturbingly sticky. I'll have to find some pictures from previous LANs where we have taken pictures of it.
Thats my favorite part about my friends who are getting married now, I start refering to their better halfs as "the ball and chain" or "the old lady", etc.
mommy, thats what I wana be when I grow up.
congrats KFS, you are now officaly my idol.
edit:
if my house mates didn't both use macs, that would have been my house <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
so, how exactly do you do 2 week lans?
do you just say, "ok, every one crashes at KFS's house for 2 weeks"
I guess you work (as I am rather sure your post about game posters was after the first bachelor lan post).
my puny mind can't coprehend the full geek potential that is KFS <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Thats my favorite part about my friends who are getting married now, I start refering to their better halfs as "the ball and chain" or "the old lady", etc. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Actually, she was around until Saturday (went back to start taking care of the final wedding preparations) and was hanging around here as well <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Mostly she was playing Prince of Persia on my Gamecube or something, but still was having a good time. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Did I mention I've gotten my fiancee to be a console platformer junkie yet? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> Hell, she even tried Ikaruga...
No, really, why dont you? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And if you want continual feeding but w/o rotting your teeth get a IV pack and fill it with sugar-water.
"JUST STICK IT TO MY VEINS!!!" <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
he works/worked at best buy or some other place that slls games <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Imagine a 2-liter bottle of mountain dew mixed with excessive amounts of kool-aid and other sugary things with god knows what else thrown in. It is very deep red and of varying consistency, but always... disturbingly sticky. I'll have to find some pictures from previous LANs where we have taken pictures of it. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
SuperDew we called it, mainly just by mixing Mountain Dew with Pixie Sticks - Turns black, drink too much and you go blind. We'd rate the 'proof' based on half the number of pixie sticks in it. Our record for a 2 liter is 120 proof (240 pixie sticks) before we were unable to drink anymore.
NOTE: Never EVER make SuperAmp (that Mountain Dew energy drink). Your cells will literally explode and your pancreas will die instantly if you touch it.
Lincoln, NE. Not for much longer, though. Hopefully all my friends can drop by Madison now and then for more of them, though <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Now, the Blood of the LAN Party... and really big pancakes. This was the most impressive batch ever made. EVER. Due to the graphic nature of these images, images are links only. View at your own discretion...
<a href='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/blood1.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/blood1.jpg</a>
<a href='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/blood2.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/blood2.jpg</a>
<a href='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/blood3.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/blood3.jpg</a>
<a href='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/blood4.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/blood4.jpg</a>
<a href='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/blood5.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/blood5.jpg</a>
<a href='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/reallybigpancake1.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/reallybigpancake1.jpg</a>
<a href='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/reallybigpancake2.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/reallybigpancake2.jpg</a>
<a href='http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/reallybigpancake3.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.kungfusquirrel.net/miscpics/reallybigpancake3.jpg</a>
Sure the really big pancake isn't scary now... But it sure is when you use Blood of the LAN Party as syrup!
No, don't try and play it off perv. I was at my first LAN Party a couple weeks ago, it was B33F's LAN Party.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>And I love it.</span>
And hell, next lan party, give old thiefy a holler, huh?
Looks like fun! Only a few days to go now. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
--Scythe--
thats.....
.....
sugar
with a little bit of water
and ALOT of food colouring....
you scare me <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I would have my bachelor party as something like this, but i'm unlikely to get married <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I remember my first one ever, I walked in to this building surrounded by swarms of geeks (what is the correct plural for geeks anyway?), all them hunched over their keyboards, squinting myopically at the screens the dim, smoke filled room, a haze of sweat hovering over their quivering bodies, clammy hands frantically twitching and jerking away at grimy, over-used peripherals...
All I could think was "I'm home, I finally belong"!
<!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Why is it if I get too descriptive it starts to sound a bit like a cheap porn story? I blame hormones... or possibly you guys <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->