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! :-)"

Comments

Some DH stats..

[abelsson]

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.

Re:a 4 day commercial?

[ergo98]

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.

Re:4 days?? Is this as scary as it sounds?

[miu]

Is the non-showering of geeks the cause of them not dating, or is not showering just a result of no woman being interested in them?

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.