Slashdot Mirror

NewsForNerds reports: "A teenager at the massive swedish LAN party DreamHack was recently caught masturbating on video. The video can be seen at the website Fiskpinne.com, feel free to enjoy it. The video was shown on the big screen for all the 3000 visitors after it was recorded.

Parody Flash movies in the spirit of Badger have already been created: Bavern Runkar. Do not miss out on them or you might miss the next new Big Thing(tm) on the Interweb Computer Screen(tm).

The culprit obviously tried to hide his actions by pulling his sleeping bag up, but no one could have missed his atrocious deeds.

The teenager, also known as Bavern, was watching something that looked like gay porn, according to witnesses. You can clearly see a man swiftly stroking his huge penis in the movie. Bavern rewinded the porn movie at that moment to catch it again. There are two groups of people right now, anti-masturbation christian heroes and filthy ring-loving hobbitses.

The police comments: 'The video can not be mistaken, this boy will be raped in the ass for the next 5 years. Public masturbation is a serious crime.'."

So, kids, what did we just learn from this? Never masturbate if all you have is a sleeping bag. Just go to the glory holes in the bathroom instead.

Notes for non-Swedish people(write it down, it might come in handy later on in your life):
Runka - Masturbate
Baver - Beaver

Actually, it is far from the world's largest. It is surpassed by The Gathering in Norway with 5100 people (plus guests, of course) and Dreamhack in Sweden with about 5000 people (including guests, if I remember correctly). If I remember correctly, Assembly has about 4000 people, but it sure is amongst the world's largest :-)

Note that all three events I listed are Computer Parties, not to mistaken as Lan (Parties). What's the difference? At computer parties, the organizers try to encourage lots of other events other than gaming like creative competitions - coding of demos, graphics, music, etc. There are often also lectures/conferences on development, linux/unix, security, etc. For more information: The Gathering Tech:Server Crew - Why TG is not a LAN page.

To conclude, check out this way cool panorama picture of The Gathering 99 (only with about 4200 people then, but.. yeah, cool): Panorama of TG99

Note: I'm not neutral in my writing in this case since I'm the leader of the Tech:Server (former Tech:Linux) crew at The Gathering since 1999. And yes, it's without pay.. just loads of fun and experience :-)

Firstly, this must be one of the most poorly written /. "news" items in the history of the website. "Tom's Hardware has an overview about one of the biggest Lan Parties". That sorry excuse for a sentence alone makes me sick.

Second, with LANs like DreamHack attracting I believe around 5000 visitors each year (actually twice each year, since there's both DH Summer and DH Winter nowadays), a LAN of merely a thousand peeps hardly qualifies as "one of the biggest" IMO. Reading the official website they seem to really think they're the largest LAN party in the world, judging from the "about" page. A bit US-centric are we? Morons.

I won't even go into how the whole thing seems more like a giant marketing gig (the people attending are basically paying $30/day to be fed advertisments from AMD, ASUS et al) than a LAN party.

I've been to Dreamhack twice now and they've estimated everything from 4000 to 6000 people.

How's that for a Lan, Tom'sHardware?

Or ~5000 seats, if you read the info.

Does this event actually fit one million people, or is that just hyperbole?

Dreamhack Summer 2003 had about 4000 visitors.

PIRACY IS A CRIME
Remeber that it is illegal to use and spread unlicensed software.

**PIRACY IS A CRIME**

// DreamHack Organizing

PIRACY IS A CRIME
Remeber that it is illegal to use and spread unlicensed software.

**PIRACY IS A CRIME**

// DreamHack Organizing

Nope. That's Jolt. See http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/foton/021123_snart_ dhw02.jpg and http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/foton/021126_jolt.j pg :-)

Nope. That's Jolt. See http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/foton/021123_snart_ dhw02.jpg and http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/foton/021126_jolt.j pg :-)

I checked and once you exchange to US dollars its about $1.10 for a can of jolt. look like one guy is set

I was about to call a repost when i realized it has been about a year since i saw this story. Oh yah i saw last year's story on slashdot. You can check out pics from last year at Dreamhack 2001. That overview pic is one of the coolest things i have ever seen.

Also i could repost all the stuff that got modded to +5 in the last story and karma whore like mad or you can just read it here.

This may be a hint..

http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/foton/021125_mer%20 bordsbygge.jpg

Yeah people, just open few of those webcam shots and show them what we're made of.

BTW it's Jolt based on this picture

I must say... super duper...

in scandinavia we have a long tradition of large parties

dreamhack in sweden had 5000 attenders last winter
the gathering usually has about the same amount aswell, taking place in norway

lanparties isn't for nerds at all tho imho.
even if dreamhack and tg has roots in the demoscene
they are looked down upon nowadays as just another commercial event.

there are 2 other alternatives among the bigger events that still has some sort of respect
them being assembly in finland
and theparty in denmark
with stronger roots and better connection to the demoscene still today,
thus being accepted even by most hardcore people

there are a bunch of events all around europe aswell,
but for the really big stuff,

welcome to scandinavia

/jonas

Parties with over 5000 people (and that's 5000 in ONE place, no cheating like this) have been around for quiet a while in scandinavia.

Dreamhack and The Gathering (couldn't find a URL) comes to mind.

We're bigger than you! :)

Actually both DH and TG has moved past that lable.

They both embrace EVERYONE that enjoys computers.
Be it Coders/GFX/Anims/Gamers, it does NOT MATTER as long as you have fun!

Now some people keeps on ranting about how this sub culture is ruining everything for that sub culture. Bullshit!

To all of you UberCoolHardCoreSceners , please stop!..you are NOT helping the recruitment to the demoscene by slagging someone for liking to play games instead of writing code,Making Grapichs,doing animations or making music..hey wait..ain't there a lot of so called "Game Lamers" that make VERY nice graphics for their clans Web pages, and what about level designers, skinners,Mod coders and so on!..

Also remember that some of the first Demos was actually Intros to cracked games :)..(still remember the long ass scroll text on the intro to Way of the Exploding Fist:)

But back to the issue at hand.
Parties like DH and TG are NOT focus parties, no!
we're parties that want ot include EVERYONE.
At TG I've seen everything from the TotalNewbieJustGotMyComputerForXmas to the Serious42YearOldEngineerWhoIsHereToPlayQuakeWithHi sSon

So PLEASE stop acting like jerks and can the Game Lamahs,Scene Nazi,Leecher Dood,IRC geek or whatever you feel you need to call your fellow Computer Enthusiast to feel superior.

Oh and Greets to all Old Amiga farts out there..
remember CryptoBurners Rule! :)

According to their website, on this page:

Toilets and showers
Toilets and showers are available in the hall. A crew team is cleaning the toliets 24h a day. Showers is 10 SEK per use.

Also, check out the games they're playing!

According to their website, on this page:

Toilets and showers
Toilets and showers are available in the hall. A crew team is cleaning the toliets 24h a day. Showers is 10 SEK per use.

Also, check out the games they're playing!

You are quite right, a few screens in this picture
resemble this screenshot, a file-sharing program that is popular in Sweden.

http://stat.event.dreamhack.org/

Quite elite..

Arrowhead in cooperation with Ebone
in combination with a Black Diamond :)

I'm on an ethernet connection in Sweden, 400km or so from Dreamhack, dunno really... Downloading at around 750k/sec from an ftp inside dreamhack... hehe ;)

Hugs
// _GNU_

Now look at THIS picture, and ask yourself the same question.

Asus is the main sponsor.
Sponsor list

I think I like this picture better.

-

Jason.

assembly '2k
SE '2k
dream hack
Scene

There are more..
I only wish that NAID (Montreal, where I live) still existed.. ):