Dreamhack 2001

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?"

Comments

Do I want to be there?

[Vess V.]

Frankly, I don't. For me, the fun of a LAN party is being there pulling an all-nighter with my buddies, spilling drinks, making a mess, watching pr0n, and laughing it up all over the place...

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.

a little too big?

[British]

Seems a little too big to be a fun LAN party. You'd seriously have to do the buddy system there. At a LAN party, I woudln't trust leaving my computer for the time it takes to instal NetBus or BackOrifice.

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:NOT a lan party you fucks.

[redhog]

It _was_ a demoparty, and I used to go there, but now, to what reason? Last time I was there, there where gamers there, a lot of them, but they at least had demo competitions... I made a 512 bytes mini-intro (just for fun, there where no matching competition) with a friend...

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!