ThansalThe New ScumJoin Date: 2002-08-22Member: 1215Members, Constellation
edited July 2005
I am 22, and have never been to a LAN "Party"
however I was a CS major and we had the CS Lab as a LAN party going on just about 24/7
with periodic 'games nights' where we all jsut stayed in the lab all night <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Scribbles+Jul 29 2005, 07:02 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Scribbles @ Jul 29 2005, 07:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Allways keep an eye on your stuff. I've heard so many horror stories about people having hardware/CD's/CD keys stolen. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Heh, once at a PC cafe, there were some guys who were playing Diablo 2, and they went to smoke outside. Now this one guy went into the same game they were both in, went to their computers, drop their stuff and grabbed it, and left.
Those 2 came back and "OMG WHERE DID ALL MY STUFF GO" and they didn't know who took the stuff <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
<!--QuoteBegin-Petco+Jul 29 2005, 03:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Petco @ Jul 29 2005, 03:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Heh, once at a PC cafe, there were some guys who were playing Diablo 2, and they went to smoke outside. Now this one guy went into the same game they were both in, went to their computers, drop their stuff and grabbed it, and left.
Those 2 came back and "OMG WHERE DID ALL MY STUFF GO" and they didn't know who took the stuff <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> . <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yet another reason why smoking is bad for you.
egh we tried Starcraft (just PC stomping), CS (*bleeeech)* RTCW:ET and some NS which was the most fun until they (all except 1 total noobs) got tired of me, they are now playing AOE2, they didn't wait for me until I was done with installing :/ . Listening music, forum'ing, IRC'ing @ #ns, playing www.ogame.org. *grabs some more to drink*
<!--QuoteBegin-Zaggy+Jul 29 2005, 05:29 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zaggy @ Jul 29 2005, 05:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> egh we tried Starcraft (just PC stomping), CS (*bleeeech)* RTCW:ET and some NS which was the most fun until they (all except 1 total noobs) got tired of me, they are now playing AOE2, they didn't wait for me until I was done with installing :/ . Listening music, forum'ing, IRC'ing @ #ns, playing www.ogame.org. *grabs some more to drink* <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> was it ns or co?
<!--QuoteBegin-Metalcat+Jul 29 2005, 06:41 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Metalcat @ Jul 29 2005, 06:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Zaggy+Jul 29 2005, 05:29 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zaggy @ Jul 29 2005, 05:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> egh we tried Starcraft (just PC stomping), CS (*bleeeech)* RTCW:ET and some NS which was the most fun until they (all except 1 total noobs) got tired of me, they are now playing AOE2, they didn't wait for me until I was done with installing :/ . Listening music, forum'ing, IRC'ing @ #ns, playing www.ogame.org. *grabs some more to drink* <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> was it ns or co? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Both, too bad we only have 5 people :/, with 12 it would be excellent...
I'm not sure which they liked the most.
Steamless version of v3 beta 5 btw <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
NeonSpyder"Das est NTLDR?"Join Date: 2003-07-03Member: 17913Members
DRINK SODA UNTIL YOU EYES POP. DO IT NOW.
If you fall asleep during your first lan party you will be forever branded as a lesbian and will be exhiled from all cool lan-related activities. EVER.
<!--QuoteBegin-DragonMech+Jul 29 2005, 10:35 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DragonMech @ Jul 29 2005, 10:35 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The more Bawls you have the better. :D <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> As the kids say these days, QFT. Bawls owns.
Since its not a huge LAN, but rather just a small get together of friends, its really not that big of a deal. It's just hanging out w/ your friends, but w/ your computers too.
Since you're a small group, make sure you all have the same games! Nothing ruins a small LAN party worse than only 1/3 of everybody sharing a title, either cause they simply don't have it, don't want it, or can't run it. 8 person LANs w/ 4 people playing Quake, 2 people playing Warcraft, and 4 people stuck doing MS Hearts over the network because they can't play anything is no fun. After all what's the point of a LAN if you're not all gonna play the same thing?
Just be sure at least 1 person there really knows their stuff when it comes to networks. You will have connectivity problems. You just will. Have someone there in-the-know who can resolve it.
If you're hosting the shindig, be a good host. Otherwise, be good to your host.
You must play MS Hearts over the network at least 1 time.
And remember, "suck it down rocketslut" is perfectly acceptable LAN conversation.
The last on I had one of my friends decided it would be a good idea to bring his 5.1 speaker setup, on my table that can barely hold 2 computers but had 3 already.
Though it did play out well for me, since I could hear anything he was doing on his computer. Took the surprise outta alot of RTS games, since I could hear his units as he ordered them around <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
How to survive/enjoy your first LAN:<ul><li>Drink lots of Bawls</li><li>Bring a good power strip</li><li>Don't plug all of the electronics in at one room</li><li>Bring a nice noise-cancelling headset</li><li>Try to sleep a little</li><li>Don't try to leach porn off of other people</li><li>Don't try to leach illegal software</li><li>Try not to physically harm campers and hackers</li></ul>
<!--QuoteBegin-BaconTheory+Jul 29 2005, 08:52 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BaconTheory @ Jul 29 2005, 08:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> How to survive/enjoy your first LAN:<ul> </li><li>Drink lots of Bawls </li><li>Bring a good power strip </li><li>Don't plug all of the electronics in at one room </li><li>Bring a nice noise-cancelling headset </li><li>Try to sleep a little </li><li>Don't try to leach porn off of other people </li><li>Don't try to leach illegal software </li><li>Try not to physically harm campers and hackers </li></ul> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> How to survive/enjoy your first LAN:<ul><li>Drink lots of Bawls I got a lot of Golden Power here</li><li>Bring a good power strip It still works fine, I hope :o</li><li>Don't plug all of the electronics in at one room hmmm, it's all plugged in here.</li><li>Bring a nice noise-cancelling headset Mine has a good bass, noice cancelling hmm I hear others not that good anymore, my mic is loud 'n clear, as in LOUD!.</li><li>Try to sleep a little No sleep yet</li><li>Don't try to leach porn off of other people Haven't searched...YET</li><li>Don't try to leach illegal software I fail miserably, a sinner I (we all are) am</li><li>Try not to physically harm campers and hackers too much valuables around...oh wait the people themselves...ohh well...they probably hit harder than me.</li></ul>thank's though <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--># Don't try to leach porn off of other people<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->Yeah, I try to share at a 1:1 ratio... <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
NeonSpyder"Das est NTLDR?"Join Date: 2003-07-03Member: 17913Members
<!--QuoteBegin-BaconTheory+Jul 29 2005, 08:52 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BaconTheory @ Jul 29 2005, 08:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->How to survive/enjoy your first LAN:<ul> </li><li>Drink lots of Bawls </li><li>Bring a good power strip </li><li>Don't plug all of the electronics in at one room </li><li>Bring a nice noise-cancelling headset </li><li>Try <b>not to sleep</b> </li><li><b>Do</b> try to leach porn off of other people </li><li><b>Do</b> try to leach illegal software </li><li>Try not to physically harm campers and hackers </li></ul><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Fix'd
urinalcakeCan't work a sound cardUnited StatesJoin Date: 2002-11-08Member: 7799Members
edited July 2005
Awww. wittle zaggy's first lanypoo. So sweet. Edit: Yeah, pull an all nighter with Caffiene. Sleep kicks in about 10:00 or 9:00. and it kicks in HARD. Before that, you're wired.
Sounds like half of you guys are trying to kill him <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Drink lots of Bawls/Mountain Dew and eat lots of pizza if you want gut rot the next morning. I've been to/hosted well over 70 lan parties. Drink lots of water and eat some good food if you want to survive the next morning. It will also give you more energy to stay up later. Try to get some sleep. Its not always necessary, but even a one-hour power nap will go a long way. The worst I had it at a lan, up for 36 hours straight, lots of bawls and pizza in me. No good.
<!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo--> Bawls/Pizza/Lack of sleep
<!--QuoteBegin-Sandrock+Jul 29 2005, 10:07 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sandrock @ Jul 29 2005, 10:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Sounds like half of you guys are trying to kill him <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Drink lots of Bawls/Mountain Dew and eat lots of pizza if you want gut rot the next morning. I've been to/hosted well over 70 lan parties. Drink lots of water and eat some good food if you want to survive the next morning. It will also give you more energy to stay up later. Try to get some sleep. Its not always necessary, but even a one-hour power nap will go a long way. The worst I had it at a lan, up for 36 hours straight, lots of bawls and pizza in me. No good.
<!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo--> Bawls/Pizza/Lack of sleep <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> The lack of decent food I find disturbing (heh thats sounds polite) I NEED FOOD *bashes wooden stick*
Eechh a bunch of chips and some frikandel's
I'm starving, guess I'll be poking the "LAN-organiser" about the subject food.
It's good to have a little bit of decent food; some fruit or vegetables will help you not feel so crummy if you don't sleep. On that subject, I'm with the people who say to get some sleep. I remember hosting a LAN party; the day before, I was awake for about 24 hours (I flew back 3 timezones on an early morning flight), and I was awake for about 22 hours for the party. When I finally crawled into bed about 8:30 in the morning, I slept for 12 hours, woke up feeling crummy, then I played some NS until 11:30, when I went back to bed until 10:30 the next day. Bad sleep does not happy Shzar make.
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however I was a CS major and we had the CS Lab as a LAN party going on just about 24/7
with periodic 'games nights' where we all jsut stayed in the lab all night <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Go get ratassed in the bar, then challenge a pro, on their own game, on the map that they're unbeatable on.
Me, Alex Bond, WC3, and my **** getting spanked for 2 games...
I took about 40 bottles of Tesco's Kick with me, and drank them all by the end of the 2nd night...
Second one was between all mac users at the local apple store, that one was fun.
Heh, once at a PC cafe, there were some guys who were playing Diablo 2, and they went to smoke outside. Now this one guy went into the same game they were both in, went to their computers, drop their stuff and grabbed it, and left.
Those 2 came back and "OMG WHERE DID ALL MY STUFF GO" and they didn't know who took the stuff <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
Those 2 came back and "OMG WHERE DID ALL MY STUFF GO" and they didn't know who took the stuff <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> . <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yet another reason why smoking is bad for you.
Listening music, forum'ing, IRC'ing @ #ns, playing www.ogame.org.
*grabs some more to drink*
Listening music, forum'ing, IRC'ing @ #ns, playing www.ogame.org.
*grabs some more to drink* <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
was it ns or co?
Listening music, forum'ing, IRC'ing @ #ns, playing www.ogame.org.
*grabs some more to drink* <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
was it ns or co? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Both, too bad we only have 5 people :/, with 12 it would be excellent...
I'm not sure which they liked the most.
Steamless version of v3 beta 5 btw <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Started getting sleepy around 1:30 AM localtime
Nublet lategamer I am..
If you fall asleep during your first lan party you will be forever branded as a lesbian and will be exhiled from all cool lan-related activities. EVER.
As the kids say these days, QFT. Bawls owns.
Since its not a huge LAN, but rather just a small get together of friends, its really not that big of a deal. It's just hanging out w/ your friends, but w/ your computers too.
Since you're a small group, make sure you all have the same games! Nothing ruins a small LAN party worse than only 1/3 of everybody sharing a title, either cause they simply don't have it, don't want it, or can't run it. 8 person LANs w/ 4 people playing Quake, 2 people playing Warcraft, and 4 people stuck doing MS Hearts over the network because they can't play anything is no fun. After all what's the point of a LAN if you're not all gonna play the same thing?
Just be sure at least 1 person there really knows their stuff when it comes to networks. You will have connectivity problems. You just will. Have someone there in-the-know who can resolve it.
If you're hosting the shindig, be a good host. Otherwise, be good to your host.
You must play MS Hearts over the network at least 1 time.
And remember, "suck it down rocketslut" is perfectly acceptable LAN conversation.
Though, when isn't it acceptable conversation?
He's not the brightest crayon in your cereal.
I was just like "What the, are you retarded?"
Though it did play out well for me, since I could hear anything he was doing on his computer. Took the surprise outta alot of RTS games, since I could hear his units as he ordered them around <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Though, when isn't it acceptable conversation? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well...
I once said that to my dad...
I don't remember the beating at all...
</li><li>Drink lots of Bawls
</li><li>Bring a good power strip
</li><li>Don't plug all of the electronics in at one room
</li><li>Bring a nice noise-cancelling headset
</li><li>Try to sleep a little
</li><li>Don't try to leach porn off of other people
</li><li>Don't try to leach illegal software
</li><li>Try not to physically harm campers and hackers
</li></ul> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
How to survive/enjoy your first LAN:<ul><li>Drink lots of Bawls
I got a lot of Golden Power here</li><li>Bring a good power strip
It still works fine, I hope :o</li><li>Don't plug all of the electronics in at one room
hmmm, it's all plugged in here.</li><li>Bring a nice noise-cancelling headset
Mine has a good bass, noice cancelling hmm I hear others not that good anymore, my mic is loud 'n clear, as in LOUD!.</li><li>Try to sleep a little
No sleep yet</li><li>Don't try to leach porn off of other people
Haven't searched...YET</li><li>Don't try to leach illegal software
I fail miserably, a sinner I (we all are) am</li><li>Try not to physically harm campers and hackers
too much valuables around...oh wait the people themselves...ohh well...they probably hit harder than me.</li></ul>thank's though <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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</li><li>Drink lots of Bawls
</li><li>Bring a good power strip
</li><li>Don't plug all of the electronics in at one room
</li><li>Bring a nice noise-cancelling headset
</li><li>Try <b>not to sleep</b>
</li><li><b>Do</b> try to leach porn off of other people
</li><li><b>Do</b> try to leach illegal software
</li><li>Try not to physically harm campers and hackers
</li></ul><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Fix'd
So sweet.
Edit: Yeah, pull an all nighter with Caffiene. Sleep kicks in about 10:00 or 9:00. and it kicks in HARD. Before that, you're wired.
Drink lots of Bawls/Mountain Dew and eat lots of pizza if you want gut rot the next morning. I've been to/hosted well over 70 lan parties. Drink lots of water and eat some good food if you want to survive the next morning. It will also give you more energy to stay up later. Try to get some sleep. Its not always necessary, but even a one-hour power nap will go a long way. The worst I had it at a lan, up for 36 hours straight, lots of bawls and pizza in me. No good.
<!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo--> Bawls/Pizza/Lack of sleep
(double post sorry)
Drink lots of Bawls/Mountain Dew and eat lots of pizza if you want gut rot the next morning. I've been to/hosted well over 70 lan parties. Drink lots of water and eat some good food if you want to survive the next morning. It will also give you more energy to stay up later. Try to get some sleep. Its not always necessary, but even a one-hour power nap will go a long way. The worst I had it at a lan, up for 36 hours straight, lots of bawls and pizza in me. No good.
<!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo--> Bawls/Pizza/Lack of sleep <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
The lack of decent food I find disturbing (heh thats sounds polite)
I NEED FOOD *bashes wooden stick*
Eechh a bunch of chips and some frikandel's
I'm starving, guess I'll be poking the "LAN-organiser" about the subject food.