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Ultimate Guide to Hosting a LAN Party

Posted by Hemos on from the planning-and-preparing dept.

WebWord writes "The title says it all. This really is the best damn guide to setting up a LAN party I have ever seen. They cover all the details from equipment to food to network protocols. Excellent!"

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  1. Projector fun... by Shanep · · Score: 4, Funny

    A mate and I set up a Quake2 party complete with a digital projector set up on a seperate machine on the network using the "camera where the action is" mode and..... no bloody one came. Everyone wanted to go see anyother stupid hollywood flick. :(

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    1. Re:Projector fun... by jamesidm · · Score: 3, Funny

      where I used to work we would play games on the projector every night, from MAME classics like Donkey Kong, to NES mario, all the way through to dreamcast games (soul caliber is much more fun when they are the same height as you are), and unreal tournament (though this we did not play much as we all got motion sickness from playing it on such a large scale). The volume was so loud (thanks to some very nice speakers) that you had to shout to the person next to you... I dont think that it will be easy to top those gaming evenings :)

  2. Pansies! by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 3, Funny

    Remember to allocate space for sleeping if your event spans more than one day because even the most hardcore gamer cannot play for 24 hours straight.

    Poofters! Wimps! It doesn't get fun until after you've been up for 24 hours straight. Then you turn the volume wayyyy up, and shotgun about 4 cans of Jolt... Blammo! Good God, I'm hit! The monsters, they're all around meeee

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  3. Don't plan! by rootedgimp · · Score: 2, Funny

    For some reason, whenever I write out a plan for an upcoming LAN event hosted by myself (using vi, of course) we never get around to playing the games I planned to play (Eg. AvP, Jedi Knight, Emperor battle for Dune, Summoner, CounterStrike), instead, everyone wants to play nothing but UT. But, when I use emacs to plan it out, noone shows up :(

  4. Re:bandwidth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. The first rule of the LAN party is that you don't talk about the LAN party.

  5. LAN Party? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well I've never been to a Lan party, but I presume they are pretty wild. Kids overdosing on Jolt soda, and snickers bars. I've heard of some so wild that police were called for fights over who gets to be the first to play the new Warez role playing game.

  6. jokes on you by CoreyG · · Score: 4, Funny

    This post was really a trick to get all of the dorks to confess. I will now be taking your lunch money and delivering wedgies.