Dreamhack 2001 296
flagg writes: "One of the world's largest LAN-partys is taking place in this very moment, Dreamhack 2001 in Jonkoping, Sweden. Take a look on this picture and ask yourself a question: Do I wanna be there?"
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson
Do I want to be there? (Score:4, Insightful)
Going to these hangar Lans with thousands of people just doesn't have that kind of intimacy... it's more geared toward people that just don't have broadband access and wanna get a couple of days of some lag-free gaming in.
How many people does it take... (Score:2, Insightful)
Or does "Local Area" refer to bandwidth in some wierd way?
a little too big? (Score:3, Insightful)
Nor would I trust logging into anything on that network. Probably sniffers all over the place.
I like 'em small, like at a friends apartment(or a party room) where you can just chill, eat food a few feet away, etc.
Re:Tux (Score:1, Insightful)
Fuck Tux.
homebrew lan parties (Score:1, Insightful)
That was fun to me. Playing games against 1000+ other anonymous people seems like it wouldn't be much different than playing online.
But I don't really play games, anymore, so maybe I'm just lame.
NOT a lan party you fucks. (Score:5, Insightful)
for hacking out that great 4k intro with the full
first level from decent. Or faking that multiple light source "phong" with a picture of your mate holding a coke can. Not for playing videogames.
I wish people would grab a clue. Gamerlamers used to get chastized or beat up for going to demoparties, sadly this isn't the case anymore.
I doubt i'll even bother ever going to asm if this is what they have become. There's no thrill in watching some dorks play videogames. There *is* a thrill in seeing the latest wizzbang effects on the screen and figuring out for yourself just how they worked so you can do that plus more in your next demo.
mmm ./ is all about flaming these days. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:NOT a lan party you fucks. (Score:4, Insightful)
Btw, I'l bite and answer two other messages:
There's no snow at all in Jönköping atm (or in any town in south sweden).
Sweden is a _long_ country, so this it's-dark-all-winter-and-bright-all-summer doesn't apply that much at all to e.g. Jönköping. But anyway, what does it matter when you'r in a building four days in a row, with ponly the light of thopusand monitors to guid you?
DH used to be in another, more northern town (borlänge) before, but even there, there where no snow and quite bright...
Btw, if you want to go to a _real_ demoparty, visit The Gathering in Norway!
More about The Gathering (Score:2, Insightful)
Some people has been complaining about "the stench has to be awful"
Ok, for those of you that are complaing about things getting too anonymous
DreamHack looks really nice this year, hopefully there'll be a few good contributions to the democompos and we'll see some nice showdowns in counter-strike and Q3
.. and to end it all up; go there!