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Dreamhack 2001

Posted by michael on from the we-suggest-not-running-wuftpd dept.

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?"

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  1. Do I want to be there? by Vess+V. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Do I want to be there? by 3th3rn3t · · Score: 3, Funny

      the real question is : will i have enough storage to leech from 1000 people ? its time to pack those HP Ultrium drives...

      leech on !

    2. Re:Do I want to be there? by ardiri · · Score: 3, Informative
      • 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...
      have you ever been to a swedish party? this is pretty much what we do all the time! *g* the scandanavians surely know how to party.. but, unfortunately, wont be any strippers there.. that kinda stuff aint looked upon nicely here (in sweden)..

      • 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.
      um.. most people in Sweden HAVE decent internet connections. and, if you have ever had gaming parties over the sunet.se backbone - you wont complain about lag :) most people run at least 512kbps from their HOME (either cable or ADSL). i dont have many friends who use dial-up..

      and, when ADSL (2.5Mbit) is provide for a measly $25 a month (www.bonet.se)? who would be stupid enough to use a modem?
  2. Lets play spot the SPA enforcer by ultitool · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wonder how many people are gonna be spending the night at the local jail because they're word processor was using an illegal key.....

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    1. Re:Lets play spot the SPA enforcer by W2k · · Score: 3, Informative

      No-one. Using pirated (that's warezed for you l33t people) is not illegal in Sweden.
      Distributing or copying copyrighted works is, but if you download it from somewhere, it's the person you copy it from who's commiting a crime.

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  3. Re:Higher resolution image by adolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think I like this picture better.

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  4. Re:The First Thought to Pop into My Head? by not-quite-rite · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have always wondered why seemingly intelligent people do not understand the benefits of deoderant.
    Geeks wonder why normals don't like being near them...It's cause they friggin stink!!

    Every time I go to a LAN party or computer swapmeet, I just want to put tape on the top(so they are held de-pressed) of a few deoderant cans and throw them around the room like tear gas canisters.

    If only they made deoderant cans that would fit a riot gun.....

  5. I'd go but by ellem · · Score: 4, Funny

    A - I didn't see even one Aqua desktop
    B - I didn't see any BSD Grrls in red latex
    C - I didn't see Heidi Wall aywhere
    D - I can smell that room from the picture

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  6. Are you sure this is a lan party? by Afrosheen · · Score: 3, Funny

    It looks an awful lot like:

    1. An AOL tech support dungeon
    2. Microsoft's BorgCollective Coding Campus
    3. The Star Trek Official Storyline Accuracy Chamber

  7. Is that Excite@home's new business plan? by virtros · · Score: 3, Funny

    or maybe it is Ascroft's office.

    :-)

    everyday seems weirder than the next,

    virtros

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  8. They slashdotted a LAN party? Thats cruel. by sheetsda · · Score: 3, Funny
    Take a look on this picture and ask yourself a question: Do I wanna be there?

    As pipe is probably saturated with the slashdot effect now, not really. This brings a whole new meaning to "party crashing". Michael must be taking his revenge on them for not inviting him.

  9. a little too big? by British · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  10. Mod this dude UP^^^! by cr0sh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree with you - 100 % - I think the most humble I have ever felt was after seeing this intro - 256 bytes - aggh! - and it still runs under NT!

    Now, I want to see the same intro in Linux - I am not sure if there is a way to make it work and stay that small or not - I am just OK with x86 ASM, but not to that level!!!

    DAMN! I bow before 3 sc hardcore!

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    1. Re:Mod this dude UP^^^! by dstone · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sweet Jesus! That proggie is amazing! Definitely the coolest 256 bytes on the net. Why can't viruses carry sweet little payloads like this?!

  11. Tss... by Asmodean20001 · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    How many times do we have to tell you... Dreamhack is a DEMO party, hosting competitions in all sorts of areas as 64k DEMOs, Wild Music, and so on. The network itself is not laggy at all, of course. The equipment in here (sponsored by Cisco and other huge network companies) is worth in the > $25.000 range.

  12. Re:NOT a lan party you fucks. by redhog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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!

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  13. Mod that up by autopr0n · · Score: 3, Informative

    (clickable link, for the lazy) pictures of the setup of the site very cool

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