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DreamHack Winter 2002
JJC writes "DreamHack, a huge LAN party, is taking place this weekend in Sweden. Here's some information in English and a daily report from sponsors ASUS. This and this ought to give you an idea of the scale of the thing. Here's the obligatory webcam and their Internet bandwidth graph. It's a massively impressive event, wish I was there! :-)"
40 km ethernet cable.
15 km electical wiring.
6 000 chairs.
2 km tables.
1.5 Megawatts of power.
40 000 cans of Jolt cola.
Question is, when will events like this become real complace. I mean most of us that game online, have held our own little lan party's. Anywhere from 8 (your standard cheap ether-hub, and still okie on a 512k adsl modem) and 24, when you can manage a guild or clan meeting (which takes an age to organize). Games such as half-life and its many skins, probably wont be able to set them up. But with the likes of "Dark age of Camelot" Europe / US . Seeing so many users now, and ever expanding, with more and more servers, it can only be a matter of time till events become common place. Esp, if they offer prizes for either code or storyline.
--+> Life, is there any?
I guess the Swedes have a lot of time on their hands... to be able to host a 4 day slumberparty/advertisement for ASUS...
How does the fact that ASUS is using this for marketing diminish the event whatsoever? It's one thing to be cynical about marketing and "big business", but it's quite another to take that to the point that you fail to see the positives when you've overblown the negativity.
RIP Mekka. We will miss you. Apparently the organizers had some disputes they couldn't resolve. However, if you missed Dreamhack, Breakpoint looks like it's going to be the party to go to, with many of the organizers from mekka and other demoparties. (Note: FPS people need not apply - no gaming allowed, no warez allowed. sorry.) Hope to see you there!
--joshua
how much did you pay to go to this?
:) (ok you're reading /.)
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do you live there or did you travel to go to it?
I'm pretty sure it is BYOC.. is there a limit on how many computers one can take? (you'd think there'd be that guy who brings 10) It also looks like it would be a real "hot rod" show.
whats the most popular game being played there?
what are you all doing?
were there any technical problems throughout the party?
whats on the big screen?
I can't even imagine 5000 people online in the same room. sorry for the bombardment of questions.. i think I'll just post this anon
The non-showering variety of geek you are referring to are those who for some reason are very late to mature physically. What ten year old with a new toy is interested in taking a bath? Once puberty does start they are very anti-social because of unfair treatment because they lag behind their peers in social development. Once in puberty they are unable to pick up social and sexual cues - this includes hygiene motivation.
By the time puberty is done you wind up with comic book guy. He is now interested in women, but lacks the basic skills or attention to hygiene needed to attract them.
[Set Cain on fire and steal his lute.]
If you wanna talk to them to see how hopped up they are (or maybe inquire as to prices). You can meet them on IRC. Get onto Quakenet and go into #dreamhack. I talked to em last year and they gave a lot of insight to what you dont see on the webpage. Its also a lot of fun to listen to them talk.
unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
Ohhh... TG...
:)
Some of my pictures from TG01:
Overview 1,
Overview in the evening
TG02: Overview, right side, and right side
(Sorry for the norwegian text, but the pictures should be informative enough
There's a special feeling when you enter the hall the first day. The sound, the smell, the view...
You walk through the check-in, carrying some equipment... then you enter the main hall. Thousands of computers, row by row.... Ohh...
There's nothing like that.
Nothing like the scale but there is a big LAN party happening in Essex, UK. But this one big difference, its based in a nuclear bunker! only 100 people though. G2002
...hence the "geek syndrome", Asperger's Syndrome. Each geek lies somewhere on the Asperger's spectrum, between very mild to severe, primarily visible through degree of social withdrawal.
A hand gun or a Rifel maybe!
Thear are a lot of hunters in Sweden. But Realy! Geting a gun is hard and all gun owners most have a gowerment aproved steal locker and must be a member of a hunting party.