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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! :-)"

227 comments

  1. The energy companies... by smaug195 · · Score: 5, Funny

    must be weeping with joy

  2. The First Thought to Pop into My Head? by Murdock037 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anybody care to imagine the B.O. that's gotta be emanating from this place?

    No? Me neither.

    On the plus side, there can't be any shortage of munchies lying about this place.

  3. Marketing Slogan... by LaNMaN2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the biggest fragfest outside of Afghanistan!

    --

    ByteMyCode.com: A Web 2.0 code sharing community.
  4. How much power are they using? by b1t+r0t · · Score: 5, Funny
    That's a lot of monitors running at the same time there. All those computers have to be pulling a lot of juice that has to go through the building's electric wiring. Just getting power for all those computers is a feat in itself.

    I feel sorry for the guy who kicks over the wrong plug in that place. :-)

    --

    --
    "Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
    "Open source is evil." - Microsoft
    1. Re:How much power are they using? by blair1q · · Score: 5, Funny

      Uh, you do realize the lights are not on, right?

      --Blair
      "Coincidence? Or conspiracy..."

  5. Do I wanna be there? by kirkb · · Score: 5, Funny

    You bet. I hear these LAN parties usually have a decent internet connection. Since @Home is gonna leave me in the dark any minute now, I'd love to be anywhere else but here.

    --
    Slashdot: come for the pedantry, stay for the condescension.
  6. Higher resolution image by Tack · · Score: 5, Informative
    A higher resolution version of that picture is available here. There's probably around 1000 people in that one picture. Wow.

    Jason.

  7. Do I wanna be there!? by ucblockhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    Sweden? December? Are you nuts!?

    Let me know when they have one in July...

    --
    The cake is a pie
  8. Chicks? by Spackler · · Score: 5, Funny

    All 7 women in the room have strategically placed laptops right next to the door, for quick exits.

  9. athlon heat by staeci · · Score: 5, Funny

    The town that it is hosted in is flooded by melting snow from around the building.

    --
    'Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson...'
  10. NOT a lan party you fucks. by Wojtek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    dreamhack is a DEMO party. For art, not for playing retarded videogames all night. It's
    for hacking out that great 4k intro with the full
    first level from decent. Or faking that multiple light source "phong" with a picture of your mate holding a coke can. Not for playing videogames.
    I wish people would grab a clue. Gamerlamers used to get chastized or beat up for going to demoparties, sadly this isn't the case anymore.

    I doubt i'll even bother ever going to asm if this is what they have become. There's no thrill in watching some dorks play videogames. There *is* a thrill in seeing the latest wizzbang effects on the screen and figuring out for yourself just how they worked so you can do that plus more in your next demo.

    1. Re:NOT a lan party you fucks. by W2k · · Score: 5, Informative

      It may have been a demo party. Once. Today, those art/animation/demo compos are merely a bit of a distraction from the gaming, although some people (obviously) come for the demos rather than for the gaming. Still, they're quite obviously in minority, and I for one don't care. If they want to spend four days in front of their C compilers, let them.

      But hey, do tell me, if we're only supposed to be programming, why do we have a 1 GBIT Internet connection? Why is Microsoft here hosting Counter-Strike servers? Obviously, neither is neccessary for exchanging 64 kBit demos. The DH Crew are the ones organizing, so they decide what kind of party DreamHack is, at least officially. From the looks of things, they don't agree with you.

      I don't know if we here at DreamHack have the pleasure of having you among us, but if we do, please stand up on your chair and shout your opinion. There are ~4 999 "gamerlamers" around you, it'll be a blast.

      --
      Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
  11. An Inside perspective :-) by iolaire_in_swe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hi all, I'm sitting in the picture that's linked in the little article.. and it's cool. I recently moved to sweden from the UK (where we have nothing on this scale). A little info:

    1. We haven't noticed any /. effect.. we've got a 1Gbit uplink here (although how they got that to an exhibition center is beyond me).
    2. Wintertime is a GOOD TIME for this sort of thing - it's 27C (80F) here just now. The other big swedish LAN (Remedy) is held in the summer, and it's a real sweatfest by comparison.
    3. Yes, there is a bit of a discrepancy in gender... there are about 20 girls here, out of the 4500 people here (luckily I happen to be going out with one of them :-).
    4. The most popular game here is Counterstrike, the half-life mod. the main tourney is 5v5, 128(!) teams. Q3 is also popular. There's also a history of demos here, and we've seen (and heard)some very cool stuff on the big screen. Microsoft is also here with some Xboxes - and a competition to win them (played on the machines themselves).
    5. You can buy Jolt Cola by the 24 pack slab :] These people know who they are dealing with it seems - very popular. There's also a smattering of hamburger/hot dog/sandwich places around the halls.

    All in all, I'm having a fine time - and so are most other people. Apart from some horror stories with DOA machines, it's all going splendidly.

    You're all welcome to come say hi on IRC - irc.quakenet.org #dreamhack has about 700 of us.

    iolaire (Qnet oper, gamer, blah blah)

  12. Some Observations... by CaptainCarrot · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. I would love to have the Coke/Jolt/Whoop Ass concession at this thing.
    2. Not to mention the pay-urinal concession. Get 'em coming and going!
    3. But not the condom concession. All those boys, and not a single one of them is going to get laid any time soon. The only use for those things in this picture are as balloons.
    --
    And the brethren went away edified.
  13. Some DH stats.. by abelsson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  14. penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    super-penis. it's very large.
    why don't you suck on it?
    like that zac guy in # on dalnet.

    1. Re:penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      ;o

    2. Re:penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      hey yeah i do suck cocks, but i fucking hate you, you goat-sucking mother fucking asshole

      linux rocks (this is a blatant attempt to get the mods to 3 me.)

    3. Re:penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      zac, is that you? cmon, suck on it...... you know you wanna.
      lewl!!!

    4. Re:penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      omg wtf r u think en i h8 u j6raxis becuz u r teh suxor and i kik u cuz u r suxor

      oh oh guess what oh oh kickban oh you feel that oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh kickban oh yeah bitch kickban oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh.

      # @ DALnet
      zac

    5. Re:penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Whoah there, boy. Get that dick out of your mouth and try to post a little more coherently. If we're going to try to kill Slashdot, let's be coherent about it, mmkay?

      Loool.
      (J'raxis.)

    6. Re:penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      wat u kal mi ``boy'' (see the LUNIX quoting? that's skills, baby. skills.)

      i paxor ur mom

      lolz pwned

      # @ DALnet
      zac

    7. Re:penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You packeted no one, you impotent little pischer. And stop trying to talk like a God-damned "Lunix" kiddie. Here, I shall "lool" at you in the windows-1256 charset just to show my complete, abject hatred of you:

      áææææá. áæææææææá.
      (J'raxis.)

  15. Damn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I though my 8 person Lan Party was hard to put together...

    1. Re:Damn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      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

    2. Re:Damn... by Peterus7 · · Score: 1

      Actually, the F-lan in vancouver, a huge LAN party thing just ended... Wish I was there... ::sigh:: Why do canadian LAN superparties get shorted?

  16. Wow, can't you just SENSE the utter... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Lack of VAGINA and complete revolting rancid SMELL of FILTHY GNU HIPPY? Well, I sure hells can!

    1. Re:Wow, can't you just SENSE the utter... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, it's just a bunch of kids playing games, trading warez and showing off their mad caze modding skillz. "Dream Hack" my ass.

      Why is this on Slashdot?

  17. I would approve only if they didnt trade "Warez" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know how many TB's of appz, mp3z and other stuff they exchange while there?

    Anacceptable.

  18. Geez by Junky191 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats seriously a lot of fucking jolt. Dear god. I mean really, holy fucking shit. Damn.

    1. Re:Geez by kaxman · · Score: 1, Funny

      It's like 500 gallons of Jolt. Now, if you figure 100 mg of caffeine per 12 oz. can, that's like a pound of caffeine. Of course I'm probably so far off it's ridiculous, since I started with a really really rough guess at how many cans were there, and used the words 'about' and 'like' a lot. Propagated error...I seem to remember some professor or another mentioning something about that...

      *sigh*...I should probably just go to sleep, huh?

      --
      Everyone on slashdot has a journal.
    2. Re:Geez by inode_buddha · · Score: 2

      Any chance you could spare a straw?

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      C|N>K
    3. Re:Geez by zapod4 · · Score: 1

      If you give each one of the 5000 people twelve cans of Jolt (modest estimate; 4 cans a day per person) there would be 6 kilos (13.2 pounds) of caffeine.

    4. Re:Geez by packeteer · · Score: 3, Informative

      I was about to call a repost when i realized it has been about a year since i saw this story. Oh yah i saw last year's story on slashdot. You can check out pics from last year at Dreamhack 2001. That overview pic is one of the coolest things i have ever seen.

      Also i could repost all the stuff that got modded to +5 in the last story and karma whore like mad or you can just read it here.

      --
      unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
    5. Re:Geez by packeteer · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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
    6. Re:Geez by packeteer · · Score: 2

      I checked and once you exchange to US dollars its about $1.10 for a can of jolt. look like one guy is set

      --
      unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
  19. trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you guys mean it, if you say 'suck my dick' even if the other person is male too?
    I never say that, because I think it's disgusting..

    1. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      homosexual sex is like a godsend

      every time i take a large, veiny penis into my mouth, god i cream at the thought of doing it just one more time

      the nice taste of manjuice in my mouth and in my throat makes me feel so fucking alive

      god, i'm masturbating now at this thought. really. wipo-style.

      # @ DALnet.
      zac.

    2. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "WIPO"-style? So you mean you've drowned yourself in your own semen? Lool.

      -- J^raxis

    3. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      i must say, yes, i enjoy drowning in my own semen. a nice bath filled with my manjuice.

      as the mighty never once said "manlovely."

      that is all, sir j^raxis.

      # @ DALnet
      zac

    4. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Go rape a young boy. A nice, naked young boy.... Mmm, young boys.... Excuse me a moment.

      -- J^raxis

    5. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      i love midgets

      a midget can't fight back

      the ony thing better than a midget is a midget with no arms or legs. in this case, they can easily fit in backpacks. imagine that, a travel-size sex toy that lives!!!!!!!

      # @ DALnet
      zac

    6. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      *splat*

      Aauuuuuugggggghhhh you interrupted me!! I just blew my load all over the ceiling and the carpet. Dammit. Clean it up, boy.

    7. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      *slowly licks it up*

      you must drink a lot of orange juice, eh?

      # @ DALnet
      zac

    8. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Why, yes. You know, I should log out or something or I'm going to eventually forget to hit [x] Post Anonymously. That would be most annoying.

      Penis for you: 8===========D

      Slashdot seems to have something against long penises. Called mine a "junk characters."

      -- J^raxis

    9. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      we all know that's a fake representation

      assuming each = is about a cenetimeter long, of course, that's quite the unfair representation

      10cm? drastically overestimated

      # @ DALnet
      zac

    10. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      ok yah fuk offf or i hak u now
      lewl
      ok shutup MR FUCK! :]
      everyone pls join #riptail
      JOIN MY CHANAL

    11. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      op op op op
      plz 2 op me!!!1
      i tell jraxis :>>>>>

    12. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      piss off ya troll

      oh wait, i'm trolling

      your mom: (_._)
      me: 8=============D
      your mom after me: (_O_)

      thx 2 ur ma 4 dis goat se mo ment :)))))

      # @ DALnet
      zac

    13. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Your trolling is no match for my "Mad Arab Newbie" speak. Back off, foul troll, or I shall penis you most vigourously! You shan't like it!

    14. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      this troll thread has degraded

      fuck off and die in a pit of riptail and el

      ass wipe

      # @ DALnet
      zac

    15. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I call death upon this thread. You, sir, are a Nazi. I invoke Godwin's Law!! I WIN.

    16. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      i lost my post here because of the god-damned 2 minute thing Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment i quote it for no fucking reason
      • hi
      # @ DALnet zac
    17. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      dalnets faggot shit you cock goblin.

    18. Re:trollfeeding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sorry mods, that's not a -1 Troll, it's -1 Off Topic. And so is this post.

  20. Vicki by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Vikki was 19 when she came over that Tuesday. My wife and I had been
    separated for quite some time. Vikki used to visit me about once a
    week. I'm a good-looking man and she always enjoyed being around me.
    She was a lot of fun and we would drink beer and I'd answer questions
    that came up in her life. She was doing a lot of fucking--that much
    we shared--and it was clear she was horny all the time. It was her
    birthday so I gave her a gift certificate that she could use at one of
    the fanciest stores in Berkeley. She was a cheerleader at her college
    and needed some new skirts for the practice sessions after school.
    She was surprised to find that the store had some lingerie. Without
    telling me she bought a pair of black spike heels, some long black net
    stockings, a garter belt and a pair of wispy black panties and bra.
    She needed a D-cup and her large breasts nearly spilled out of the bra
    as she tried it on. The lingerie was mostly silk and quite expensive.
    Vikki felt sexy wearing it. Her nipples got hard and exquisitely
    sensitive, while the crotch of the black silk panties began to moisten
    with the juices from her pussy. She looked at herself in the mirror
    in the dressing room and it entered her mind that I mustn't ever see
    her dressed like this! But when Vikki came back, I asked to see the
    purchases and was very surprised and turned on by what she had done. I
    asked to see her in her new clothes. She explained to me it was very
    erotic and it might not be a good idea to model for me. I replied
    that if other men were going to see it, why not me? I kept coaxing
    her and finally she gave in. Vikki is slender, with huge breasts that
    belong on a girl with a much bigger frame. Her nipples are dark
    brown, thick and meaty, getting very long when aroused. She went into
    my bedroom and changed into her new things. She looked kind of like
    Megan Leigh on my favorite porno videos and when she walked out of the
    bedroom my eyes almost popped out of my head. I could see her thick
    nipples getting hard under the transparent silk bra. Her tits were
    practically falling out of it. Her pussy hair was completely visible
    under the panties and a thin line of hair ran up to her belly button.
    I immediately started to get a hard-on, my cock pushing against my
    levis. "You really look nice, hon, why don't you model a little bit
    for me." Vikki smiled at me and began to shake her ass as she paraded
    her body in front of me. She held her arms up over her head to lift
    her breasts and shook them in front of my face. Her pussyjuice was
    darkening her black panties and the scent of her was driving me crazy.
    She could see my cock getting harder, bulging out my pants. Turning,
    she began to buck her ass in fucking motions and squeezing her ass
    cheeks together I said "I never realized just how beautiful you are".
    She seemed a little shy and said "Thats all you get to see"...My eyes
    locked with hers and before we knew what was happening she was in my
    lap and our mouths joined, tongues lapping each other. Vikki's pussy
    was dripping on my crotch, soaking my hard cock through my pants.
    "We'd better stop" I croaked, "I have to go to the bathroom". I ran
    to the toilet and leaned against the wall. Pulling down my pants, I
    grasped my hard cock in my left hand and started jacking off, dreaming
    of Vikki. My cock was long and thick and hot in my hand as I stroked
    it harder and harder. Cupping my balls in my right hand, I slid my
    fist up and down the shaft, stopping at the head to caress it as the
    pre-cum lubrication oozed out of me. My eyes were open watching
    myself masturbate in the mirror in front of me. God, do I love to
    jack off. Leaning onto the sink counter, I held my hand tight around
    my cock, and fucked my fist with my hips plunging harder and deeper,
    faster and faster. Suddenly, the door opened and Vikki stood still in
    front of me, watching my cock slide through my hand....I couldn't stop
    masturbating, and the knowledge she was watching made me stroke
    harder, moving my hips to face her so she could see more clearly.
    Vikki dropped to her knees in front of me, my cock just millimeters
    from her face. I jacked off, stroking myself slowly so she could see
    exactly how much she turned me on. When her eyes came up to meet mine
    the young lust shone from them, her mouth opened up and my cock was
    sucked into her. We didn't say a word as she sucked me off but I
    pulled her tits from her bra and cupped them in my hands as she drew
    my cock deeper and deeper into her mouth, running her tongue over my
    cockhead, and sucking the shiny lubrication from me. My cock seemed
    to grow in her hot mouth and my balls were bulging with anticipation
    of cum shooting down her throat. Sensing my abrupt hip thrusts into
    her mouth, Vikki pulled my cock out and starting sliding her tiny hand
    up and down my cock, imitating my own masturbation with her tight
    little fist wrapped around my huge, red prick. Now I began to fuck my
    hips forward harder as she put a hand under my balls and began to
    squeeze them in sync with her fucking motions on my cock. The cum
    began to blast up from my balls as her pretty fist jacked me off in
    front of the mirror. Opening her mouth just in time, my hot cum
    jetted out of me in long white ropes, landing on her tongue on the
    first big spurt and then falling in strings across her face, down her
    tits and over her hand. Time after time I splashed cum on Vikki's
    body, until all of it had been drained from me and her hand ceased its
    rhythmic fucking of my cock. Licking my cum off her lips with her
    tongue, she shyly caught my eye. Our eyes locked again and sweetly I
    laid my cock back in her mouth for her to suck out the last of my cum.
    Her eyes never left mine as my cockhead rolled against the back of
    her throat, her swabbing tongue cleaning my shaft. The sweet warm
    sucking action of her young mouth wrapped around my cock slowly got me
    hard again. Gently squeezing my balls Vikki lovingly drew my cock into
    her mouth to both suck the last of my cum down her throat and also to
    feel it harden up as her hot tongue laved the underside of the shaft.
    Slipping my hands and fingers through her hair, I pulled her mouth down
    over my prick, thrusting and sliding over her young tongue. Forcing
    more and more inside her mouth, I looked down and saw her full lips
    banging up to the balls. Holding the back of her head tightly even
    though she was gagging, I slid my cockhead into the back of her throat,
    feeling it slip down the tight softness of her. Probing as far in her
    mouth as I could, I savored the sight of the sweet young face that was
    sucking me off again while my cum still dripped down her chin. Her
    innocent eyes were half-closed, obviously loving the feel and taste of
    me inside her mouth. Pulling my hips back, I drew my cock from her
    mouth and stood Vikki up. Twisting her around, I bent her over the
    sink. Quickly I reached into the cabinet and pulled out several
    towels. Dropping behind her, I spread her legs wide, exposing her
    young pussy under her thin silk panties, and tied each ankle to the
    base of the bathroom cabinet. Protesting, she tried to turn around,
    but a few swift hard smacks to her ass soon corrected that attitude.
    Grasping Vikki's wrists, I wrapped a towel around each and fastened her
    arms out wide to the wall. Stepping back, I gazed at the beautiful
    sight of her young body bound and immobile. She was open to my desire,
    and my cock was ready to mount her from behind, hot to fuck that little
    pussy until she begged for my sperm again. Bending down behind her, I
    pulled her panties aside and pushed my face between her cheeks. Her
    sweet scent floated up my nostrils, my nose buried inside her crack
    sniffing the odor of her most private place. Pushing in, I opened my
    mouth and slid my tongue from the bottom of her pussy all the way up to
    the top of her asscrack, carefully swabbing her asshole as I went past.
    The shudder of pleasure as my tongue stimulated her butthole convulsed
    her body. Holding her cheeks apart, I opened her pussy and dived in,
    licking the clit with tiny flicks of my tongue tip and then running
    inside her, first cleaning one side of her pussy, then the other.
    Vikki, moaning slightly, thrust her butt back into my face, encouraging
    me to swab deeper inside her young pussy. The juice from her cunt had
    completely soaked my beard when I stood up, grasped my hard cock in one
    hand, and pushed inside her wide-open cunt, driving my prick balls-deep
    in one thrust. Jesus, she felt so hot...so tight and so fuckable.
    Pausing as I was completely inside her, I took a few seconds to savor
    the sweet pulsations of her pussy as it began to milk my cock. Vikki's
    head was thrust forward, and her upper body hung on the bindings tying
    her to the towel racks on the wall. I realized I was taking her weight
    on my cock--she had actually lifted up and was riding my staff for all
    she was worth, practically willing it in deeper and harder. Her legs
    were spread-eagled by the towels around her ankles but that didn't stop
    her from trying to squat on my cock and take a little more deep inside
    her young cunt...Mounting Vikki was a dream come true...here I was, my
    cock fully imbedded inside of the teen-ager that lived across the
    street. Pulling out of her about 5 inches, I could see her pussy lips
    clinging to my shaft, only reluctantly allowing me to escape her. TO BE
    CONTINUED... Slowly but rythmically, I stuffed my cock back into her
    sweet cunt and dragged it out of her, holding her small hips firmly to
    better control her. The bindings did a perfect job of inhibiting her
    free movements while at the same time keeping her legs spread wide to
    allow me free access to my style of fucking. Slapping her buttocks
    hard, I thrust back inside, twisting my cock from side to side, then
    sliding all the way in and swishing around. Vikki's pussy was wide
    awake now, and voluntarily or involuntarily, she was gripping my cock
    like a vise. The grunts from deep down her throat convinced me of her
    sincerity, but freeing her from her restraints wasn't going to happen
    soon...Close by her asshole was opening and closing with each stroke of
    my cock. Reaching over her shoulder, I found the bottle of baby oil I
    use to jack off with and opening the flip-top, I pulled out my cock and
    the grunts from deep down her throat convinced me of her sincerity,
    but freeing her from her restraints wasn't going to happen soon...Close
    by her asshole was opening and closing with each stroke of my cock.
    Reaching over her shoulder, I found the bottle of baby oil I use to
    jack off with and opening the flip-top, I pulled out my cock and
    sprayed it with the warm liquid. Reversing the bottle, I put the
    nipple down to her asshole. Gently sliding the tip into her butt, I
    gave the bottle a healthy squeeze, sending a stream of lubricating oil
    deep inside her rectum. The glistening liquid dribbled out of her pink
    asshole, running down to her still-open and pulsating pussy. Giving my
    cock a few quick strokes with my hand, I laid my prick on the crease
    just underneath her asshole. Swabbing the pink hole with the end of my
    cock, I gently and conscienciously took my time, watching my cockhead
    slowly and carefully sink inside her butt. With infinite care not to
    injure her tight ass, my prick pushed in, first the purplish-red head
    was half-buried in her, and then the head popped in completely, her red
    ring closed so tightly around my cock I had to pause. The pulsations
    were wildly constricting her asshole and I thought she might be in too
    much pain but upon looking up and seeing her eyes glazed over in the
    mirror and her mouth agape in a mask of uncontrolled lust I began to
    slowly rock back and forth on my feet. My hard cock would sink in
    about a quarter inch on each forward motion and withdraw just a
    fraction of that to give her virgin asshole a chance to adjust to the
    intrusion. Thank god for that baby oil, for her ass was so tight and
    hot something would have given. As it was, the oil was being squeezed
    out around my cock and dripping down our joined genitals. Looking down
    at my cock fucking in and out of her tight ass was one of the most
    exciting sexual experiences of my life. Watching it sink all the way
    in took my breath away. The coral ring of her ass was clamped around
    my cock like a rubber band, constricting my prick but at the same time
    giving me the most fantastic fuck of my life. As I pushed inside, the
    walls of her ass evenly gripped my cock. The sensation of being
    encased in a band of muscle tightening convulsively and spasmodically
    on my cock was then heightened by her squeezing buttocks... Vikki
    gasped and sucked air in through her open mouth. "Oh GODDD! YOU'RE
    FUCKING MY ASSHOLE! AND IT FEELS...SOOOO GOOOD.!" "Don't worry, Vikki,
    I'll be gentle...but I WILL HAVE YOUR ASS!" With this I reached up and
    grasped her tits with both hands and bent over her back, driving my
    rigid cock as deep into her butt as possible. Now, my regular smooth
    strokes began to elicit grunts of pleasure from her when my cock
    stretched her asshole. "HUNNHH......HUNNHH...HUNNHH" And at the bottom
    of the stroke, my cock buried in her rectum with only my balls
    remaining outside of her butt, she would let a low moan slip past her
    lips. Vikki's body twisted to try to get away from my probing cock.
    Annoyed, I thrust back inside her ass four or five times, fast and
    hard. In the mirror, her eyes opened wide in shock at how deeply she
    was being buttfucked and she squirmed again. "No...no..please don't
    push it in so far!!!". Her lack of obedience made it clear to me that
    she would have to be trained to serve...trained to service me when and
    how I wanted. Pulling my shiny cock out of her butt, I slapped her ass
    several times. "You will learn to be my servant Vikki. You will learn
    to dream of the moment when I mount you for this will indicate you have
    pleased me. And this....SSSSMMMMMAAACCCCCKKKK!!!...is what you can
    expect.....SSSMMMMAAACCCKK!!...if you are not in your natural position
    submissive and obedient at all times!" Her reddened and steaming ass
    was glowing with marks from my calloused palm and her legs twisted to
    free themselves from their bindings but to no avail. Slapping more
    precisely now, a tantalizing fingertip slipped between her legs
    to...TTHHWWAAAACCCKK...flick on her pubic mound. Like an electric
    shock, Vikki's body convuled. Twice more I "allowed" a stray finger to
    smack her unprotected and wide-open cunt, getting closer to her clit
    each time. She quickly "learned" her lesson for today and said
    "Yessss, Yessss SSIIIIRRR!!! I will do whatever you want, when you
    want me to do it. I will be your sexual slave, suck your liquids into
    my mouth and willingly debase and demean myself in your presence.
    Please allow me to service you now!! PPLLLLLEEEEEEEAAASSSE!!!!
    Generously, I put my hand to her rosy buttocks and caressed them
    lovingly. The heat I brought to life in her ass was spreading through
    them to my hand, and reaching onto the countertop, I opened the Johnson
    and Johnson Baby Oil again and slowly dripped the shiny substance on
    each buttock. With both palms on her now, I rubbed her young asscheeks
    with circular motions, gently spreading her butt wider with each stroke
    until, her crack open and ready, I re-inserted my cock so sweetly back
    where it belonged in her rectum. Sliding in completely in one slow
    stroke, she moaned in relief from the stinging pain in her buttocks and
    began to readily accept the transition from pain to pleasure through my
    rigid cock now stroking faster and faster into her ass. Tears of
    deliverance from the Masters displeasure and deep satisfaction from the
    act of serving me persuaded her of the inevitability of her own
    nature--Vikki was born to serve and now her life would be devoted to
    delivering sexual service to me at my whim. Gasping with
    acknowledgment of her new role, she thrust her slim butt back to greet
    my hard cock on its journey into her...my new convert had been broken
    to me, but her spirit remained intact. Punching my cock into her
    intestinal canal, my cum began to boil from my balls. Gripping her
    hips, I bent my knees and rammed in one last time to the balls, then
    began to empty my cum into her asshole. Hot white cum squirted up my
    shaft, constricted by her own orgasmic jolts that convulsed her anal
    ring. Spraying out of my cock, I could feel her canal squeezing the
    length of me, drawing the cum from my cock. Hunching over her back, I
    rode her butt, sending jet after jet of sperm into her, into her
    asshole, into her most private place that now was only mine to enter
    and use. Cum began to be forced back out along my shaft as I pumped
    new loads into her. God, I had never cum so much in my life! Throwing
    my head back, I screamed as her butt milked me dry. Finally, my
    softening cock was popped out of her asshole, but it was still open and
    exposed with the combined sperm and oil comingling in a glutenous
    substance that dripped sweetly down and out of her ass to drip on the
    bathroom floor. Feeling generous, I loosened her bonds. Handing her
    one of the towels that proved to be one of the signposts to her new
    life, I ordered her to clean up the floor and prepare herself for her
    Master. Vikki and I will never be the same again...and she will be
    visiting me a lot more often now!

    1. Re:Vicki by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      I have to wonder what kind of a pathetic life a person must have in order to post porn to Slashdot.

  21. Wow... by EvilCabbage · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. and I thought there was a lot of pr0n & cola when only 20 of us get together. That thing is a pornography and caffiene industry executives wet dream.

    1. Re:Wow... by JTMON · · Score: 0

      That's right. And the execs have secret copyright police undercover who sledgehammer your pc on the spot when you get caught. :)

  22. a 4 day commercial? by Nefrayu · · Score: 1, Troll

    "a huge LAN party, is taking place this weekend in Sweden."
    "The goal is to create a cool Flash Demo highlighting ASUS component products and "jazz up" company image. The demo is to be use on ASUS company website. The theme of the demo will be "ASUS, at the heart of your technology.""
    I guess the Swedes have a lot of time on their hands... to be able to host a 4 day slumberparty/advertisement for ASUS...

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    1. Re:a 4 day commercial? by ergo98 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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.

    2. Re:a 4 day commercial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Someone's gotta pay for the Jolt & the 920MB/second internet pipe their sucking...

      Would you rather they pay it out of pocket and not even have the event?

    3. Re:a 4 day commercial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ok, so care to elaborate on the "positives?"
      If the positives are to get people who are normally only "getting together" virtually to play video games online to meet in a central location to play video games online, I fail to see the point.

    4. Re:a 4 day commercial? by ergo98 · · Score: 1

      Whether it's something that you personally would do is irrelevant: Obviously these people want to do this. Having said that, I don't see the original post saying "Man getting together to play a game is dumb!", I see it fingering the fact that ASUS is using this for marketing as instantly rendering it a big waste of time, regardless of what's happening at the event itself.

    5. Re:a 4 day commercial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Wrong moron. I don't see the original saying that it's dumb or a big waste of time. I see it saying that the swedes have a lot of time on their hands to host a four day commercial for ASUS. You're the one with the insecurities towards game playing

  23. So... by acehole · · Score: 5, Funny

    Any prizes for beating the 86 hour mark for gaming?

    Can't let Korea hold that forever ;)

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    1. Re:So... by silvaran · · Score: 1

      Yeah, a toilet with a respirator.

    2. Re:So... by npietraniec · · Score: 1

      I'm so depressed that I read slashdot enough to actually know what you're talking about.

    3. Re:So... by CBNobi · · Score: 2

      Any prizes for beating the 86 hour mark for gaming?

      So, are you suicidal or Darwinistic?

  24. Heart of Technology? by Anik315 · · Score: 1

    ASUS "Heart of Technology" FLASH DEMO COMPETITION The goal is to create a cool Flash Demo highlighting ASUS component products and "jazz up" company image. The demo is to be use on ASUS company website. The theme of the demo will be "ASUS, at the heart of your technology." My God... Asus has a seriously dorky marketing department.

    1. Re:Heart of Technology? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Coming from the region that gave us, "Hello Kitty", I am not all that surprised.

    2. Re:Heart of Technology? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Azzin.

  25. What are the wood things that forklifts carry? by welthqa · · Score: 1

    I think its something like pallet but can't remember the spelling and a quick look didn't turn up the spelling.

    but more importantly what are they for? are they the tables? the legs or what? a bonfire? how does a warehouse of them make me think of a lan party? jolt i get. wood i don't.

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    1. Re:What are the wood things that forklifts carry? by Tri0de · · Score: 2, Funny

      look closer, those pallets (or 'skids' for those east of the Rockies) are loaded with the latest and greatest porno DVD's

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    2. Re:What are the wood things that forklifts carry? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      you don't get wood? get off /. *NOW*

    3. Re:What are the wood things that forklifts carry? by cebe · · Score: 2, Insightful

      my first thought was.. it's the flooring
      Like how material is put down on a floor in a gymnasium for an event.. If you look at the very front of the picture theres some sheets of solid wood too.. I thought maybe those go over the pallets (sp?).

      OK but then when I was looking at that.. I found those guys putting the pallets 'together'. Look at what they're doing.. they're making little 'cubicles' out of them.. so theres a wall between your station and the person beside you.

      bah I want to go there.

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    4. Re:What are the wood things that forklifts carry? by cyberkreiger · · Score: 1

      They are the legs for our tables.

      The lucky participants are the ones who don't get a pallet where their knees should be.

      Cyberkreiger, reporting from Dreamhack.

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    5. Re:What are the wood things that forklifts carry? by enderak · · Score: 2, Informative
    6. Re:What are the wood things that forklifts carry? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      dunno about lame lanparties but you can't have a real demoparty without a campfire.

    7. Re:What are the wood things that forklifts carry? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You said "wood"!

    8. Re:What are the wood things that forklifts carry? by welthqa · · Score: 1

      ah they are catwalks for the sexy supermodels who love us gamers!

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  26. The Gathering by cstrommen · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the curious, there's also a similar event once a year (easter) in Norway. The event is called The Gathering, and had almost 5000 participants last year (not including the massive stab etc etc). For more information visit http://www.gathering.org

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    1. Re:The Gathering by zaffir · · Score: 1

      Wow. And i thought MPCON (shameless plug), with 150+ people, was big.

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    2. Re:The Gathering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, zaffir, turns out you were sadly mistaken. Pull your head out.

    3. Re:The Gathering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      WotC will sue your ass!

    4. Re:The Gathering by saddlark · · Score: 2, Interesting

      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.

    5. Re:The Gathering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      For those not in the know, The Gathering is not a LAN-party but a demoparty. Of course there are many people just playing games there, but the main focus is still on demos.

    6. Re:The Gathering by hovik · · Score: 1

      In 93 TG was a demo party, but since they moved it to hamar(96?) it has become lan party. (Seriously, people don't even turn down their music during the demo compos). Mekka&Symposium is the demoparty to attend around easter.

  27. The Art of Cunniligus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, I have a lot of respect for all you guys who like to eat pussy because there are too few of you out there. And I'm not the only woman who says this. Furthermore, some of you guys who are giving it the old college try are not doing too well, so maybe this little lesson will help you out. When a woman finds a man who gives good head, she's found a treasure she's not going to let go of him too quickly. This is one rare customer and she knows it. She won't even tell her girlfriends about it or that guy will become the most popular man in town. So, remember, most guys can fuck, and those who can usually do it satisfactorily, but the guy who gives good head, he's got it made.
    Most women are shy about their bodies. Even if you've got the world's most gorgeous woman in bed with you, she's going to worry about how you like her body. Tell her it's beautiful, tell her which parts you like best, tell her anything, but get her to trust you enough to let you down between her legs. Now stop and look at what you see.
    Beautiful, isn't it?
    There is nothing that makes a woman more unique than her pussy.

    I know. I've seen plenty of them. They come in all different sizes, colors and shapes; some are tucked inside like a little girl's cunnie and some have thick luscious lips that come out to greet you. Some are nested in brushes of fur and others are covered with transparent fuzz. Appreciate your woman's unique qualities and tell her what makes her special. Women are a good deal more verbal than men, especially during love-making. They also respond more to verbal love, which means, the more you talk to her, the easier it will be to get her off. So all the time you're petting and stroking her beautiful pussy, talk to her about it.
    Now look at it again.
    Gently pull the lips apart and look at her inner lips, even lick them if you want to. Now spread the tops of her pussy up until you can find her clit. Women have clits in all different sizes, just like you guys have different sized cocks. It doesn't mean a thing as far as her capacity for orgasm. All it means is more of her is hidden underneath her foreskin.
    Whenever you touch a woman's pussy, make sure your finger is wet. You can lick it or moisten it with juices from inside her. Be sure, by all means, to wet it before you touch her clit because it doesn't have any juices of its own and it's extremely sensitive. Your finger will stick to it if it's dry and that hurts. But you don't want to touch her clit anyway. You have to work up to that. Before she becomes aroused, her clit is too delicate to be handled.
    Approach her pussy slowly. Women, even more so than men, love to be teased. The inner part of her thigh is her most tender spot. Lick it, kiss it, make designs on it with the tip of your tongue. Come dangerously close to her pussy, then float away. Make her anticipate it.
    Now lick the crease where her leg joins her pussy. Nuzzle your face into her bush. Brush your lips over her slit without pressing down on it to further excite her. After you've done this to the point where your lady is bucking up from her seat and she's straining to get more of you closer to her, then put your lips right on top of her slit.
    Kiss her, gently, then harder. Now use your tongue to separate her pussy lips and when she opens up, run your tongue up and down between the layers of pussy flesh. Gently spread her legs more with your hands. Everything you do with a woman you're about to eat must be done gently.
    Tongue-fuck her. This feels divine. It also teases the hell out of her because by now she wants some attention given to her clit. Check it out. See if her clit has gotten hard enough to peek out of its covering. If so, lick it. If you can't see it, it might still be waiting for you underneath. So bring your tongue up to the top of her slit and feel for her clit. You may barely experience its presence. But even if you can't feel the tiny pearl, you can make it rise by licking the skin that covers it. Lick hard now and press into her skin.
    Gently pull the pussy lips away and flick your tongue against the clit, hood covered or not. Do this quickly. This should cause her legs to shudder. When you sense she's getting up there toward orgasm, make your lips into an O and take the clit into your mouth. Start to suck gently and watch your lady's face for her reaction. If she can handle it, begin to suck harder. If she digs it, suck even harder. Go with her. If she lifts her pelvis into the air with the tension of her rising orgasm, move with her, don't fight her. Hang on, and keep your hot mouth on her clit. Don't let go. That's what she'll be saying too: 'Don't stop. Don't ever stop!'
    There's a reason for that - most men stop too soon. Just like with cock sucking, this is something worth learning about and worth learning to do well. I know a man who's a lousy fuck, simply lousy, but he can eat pussy like nobody I know and he never has trouble getting a date. Girls are falling all over him.
    But back to your pussy eating session...There's another thing you can do to intensify your woman's pleasure. You can finger-fuck her while she's enjoying your clit-licking talents. Before, during or after. She'll really like it. In addition to the erogenous zones surrounding her clit, a woman has another extremely sensitive area at the roof of her vagina. This is what you rub up against when you're fucking her. Well, since your cock is pretty far away from your mouth, your fingers will have to do the fucking.
    Take two fingers. One is too skinny and three is too wide and therefore can't get deep enough. Make sure they're wet so you don't irritate her skin. Slide them inside, slowly at first, then a little faster. Fuck her with them rhythmically. Speed up only when she does. Listen to her breathing.
    She'll let you know what to do. If you're sucking her clit and finger-fucking her at the same time, you're giving her far more stimulation than you would be giving her with your cock alone. So you can count on it that she's getting high on this. If there's any doubt, check her out for symptoms. Each woman is unique. You may have one whose nipples get hard when she's excited or only when she's having an orgasm. Your girl might flush red or begin to tremble. Get to know her symptoms and you'll be a more sensitive lover.
    When she starts to have an orgasm, for heaven's sakes, don't let go of that clit. Hang in there for the duration. When she starts to come down from the first orgasm, press your tongue along the underside of the clit, leaving your lips covering the top. Move your tongue in and out of her cunt. If your fingers are inside, move them a little too, gently though, things are extremely sensitive just now.
    If you play your cards right, you'll get some multiple orgasms this way. A woman stays excited for a full hour after she's had an orgasm. Do you realize the full impact of that information? The potential? One woman was clocked at 56 orgasms at one sitting. Do you know what effect you would have on a woman you gave 56 orgasms to? She'd be yours as long as you wanted her.
    The last advice I have for you is this: After you've made her come, made her your slave by giving her the best head she's ever had, don't leave her alone just yet. Talk to her, stroke her body, caress her breasts. Keep making love to her quietly until she's come all the way down. A man can get off and go to sleep in the same breath and feel no remorse, no sense of loss. But a woman by nature requires some sensitivity from her lover in those first few moments after sex.
    Oral sex can be the most exciting sexual experiences you can have. But it's what you make it. Take your time, practice often, pay attention to your lover's signals, and most of all, enjoy yourself.
    The G-Spot
    This does exist. And in over half of the women out there, it works better than anything else you can do to cause a strong, prolonged orgasm. The original name is the Grafenberg spot, after a doctor, Earnest Grafenberg, who documented the area (which may have been known by people here and there throughout history) in the fifties.
    This "spot" is a small "mound" of tissue inside the vagina, between a penny and quarter in size, which responds to being pressed upon. It's almost certainly not the skenes glands, (which are located around the urethra, which is behind the G-spot area), as has been suggested by a few people. In fact, the G-Spot is the tissue in that raised area of the vagina, which has a higher concentration of sexual nerves, and produces hormones similar to those made by the male's prostate gland.
    A sort of map to the area -- Imagine your lover lying on her back, legs spread. Your position is between her legs. You would slide a finger inside her vagina, palm up. With your finger straight back, middle finger is best, you would curve it toward yourself, gently, as if you were gesturing to someone to "come here". In doing so, the area you press on should be pretty near her "G-Spot" area. If you know enough to follow the urethra (the tube that leads from the bladder to where the pee comes out), along the inside of her vagina, you may feel a slight swelling (if she's excited) at the point where the g-spot is.
    She must be excited, especially if either you or she is new to the g-spot, for the g-spot to have any real effect at all. It's not the ideal area for getting your lover aroused.
    But when she is excited, this area (more often than not) is the best way to bring her to orgasm. You work your way back to it gradually, teasing her (typically, this works best) with your fingers, slowly and gently. It's easier to hit the right area with two fingers, but this may not be comfortable for her, depending on how "tight" she is at that moment. When you have your fingers around the right area, try gently pressing, not too quickly. The movement should be fairly rhythmic. It's typically best if you're licking her clitoris (or near it, depending on the woman) at the same time...don't make a big deal out of the "quest", this will often make her feel self-conscious, or distracted. The licking should seem to be the primary activity.
    When you find the right area, she should respond by getting more excited. Most of the vagina's inside surface isn't really that sexually sensitive, believe it or not...most of the excitement of randomly inserting fingers is more psychological than from the actual stimulation.
    While more complicated techniques work with some women, some of the time, the best basic technique, upon finding the g-spot, is to continue to slowly, rhythmically press on it, while licking her clitoris (for a few women, the labia (lips) are sensitive to licking, too).
    This should cause her to build up to an orgasm.
    A G-Spot orgasm is different (always, when it works at all) than any other kind women have. It is possible, with some women, to have different qualities and kinds of orgasms from vaginal, clitoral, anal, and even breast stimulation...but with other women, those kinds of orgasms are all pretty much the same. But the G-Spot orgasm not only feels different; it also causes her body to react in a different way.
    First, it often causes a "push out" orgasm. The area around, or "above" (farther inside, that is) your fingers seems to swell up or to contract toward the opening of her vagina.
    If you find the right combination of pushing back when this happens, and slacking off to let it push out, you can cause (in perhaps half of the women) her orgasm to continue happening, long after normal ones would have subsided. In some women you can even keep her at a "plateau" (raised level) of sexual excitement, like a prolonged orgasm (or a little less than one) afterward, building up to an even bigger climax.
    That brings me to another important point; G-Spot orgasms sometimes causes a huge amount (relatively speaking) of lubrication (juices, wetness)...far more than even the most excited woman gets from "conventional" stimulation.
    When that extra wetness combines with the push-out orgasm, you get actual ejaculation...like a guy, but much better tasting. The built up juices can shoot out in such volume that you, or she, may be afraid that she lost control of her bladder. That is (almost always) not what happened. The fear that she peed can be enhanced by the fact that the urethra is behind the g-spot, so that in rare cases the woman can sometimes get the feeling that she needs to pee, even though she does not.
    In reality, in both men and women, enough sexual excitement prevents peeing, unless you try really hard. This is a built-in reflex, because urine is something of a spermicide. The "pee hard-on" that men get in the morning is partially his body taking advantage of this reflex, to keep him from accidentally wetting the bed with the urine that built up while he was sleeping.
    Taste
    Anyone who likes, say, coffee or beer should have no room to complain about the way most women taste. No, I don't mean it tastes like coffee or beer, genius...I mean that beer and coffee are, at best, acquired tastes...they are not naturally pleasant to a human being, no matter how much your addiction to one or both has convinced you otherwise. Most people, whether they remember it or not, had to learn to like the taste of beer/coffee, and had the desire to be Like the Adults to help them along. Well, I'd list taking pleasure in cunnilingus above drinking addictive beverages on the list of things that prove maturity. Aside from that, there's the fact that many people who give it an honest try genuinely enjoy the taste/smell.

    1. Re:The Art of Cunniligus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Thats nice too bad none of the weeners on slashdot even touched a pussy...

    2. Re:The Art of Cunniligus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sure they did. That is unless they were C-section babies. Women treat us like dirt and make us feel like shit anyway, so why even bother trying? It's not like you're going to find a woman that will not use for your money and not give a fuck about you. It doesn't matter how much you make, they will stomp on your heart and drain your bank account.

  28. Uh Oh by dirkdidit · · Score: 2, Funny

    A few hundred geeks, thousands of cans of Jolt, no sleep and fragging. What happens when one of them goes crazy and starts some real life carnage? I can't wait.
    *Goes to watch the webcam shot*

    1. Re:Uh Oh by istartedi · · Score: 2, Funny

      What happens when one of them goes crazy and starts some real life carnage?

      In a country with strict gun control? Probably nothing. Unless people actually break gun control laws. Naw... that wouldn't happen.

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    2. Re:Uh Oh by DAldredge · · Score: 2

      Gun control does work.

      That is why Washington DC has such a low crime rate.

    3. Re:Uh Oh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ya know, I've always thought that Washington, DC, a city probably swarming with FBI, SS, and other agents and police officers, plus quite a few tourists, would be the WORST place to commit a crime. The soaring crime rate just goes to show that the government agencies aren't even competent enough to stop crime in their own home town...

      </troll>

  29. 4 days?? Is this as scary as it sounds? by Woogiemonger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do you think any of the thousands of geeks bother to shower?

    1. Re:4 days?? Is this as scary as it sounds? by duncf · · Score: 1

      No

    2. Re:4 days?? Is this as scary as it sounds? by addps4cat · · Score: 1

      Do you think you just answered a rhetorical question?

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    3. Re:4 days?? Is this as scary as it sounds? by Rew190 · · Score: 2

      No way, dude.

      No way.

    4. Re:4 days?? Is this as scary as it sounds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      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?

    5. Re:4 days?? Is this as scary as it sounds? by miu · · Score: 4, Interesting
      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.

      --

      [Set Cain on fire and steal his lute.]
    6. Re:4 days?? Is this as scary as it sounds? by kliment · · Score: 1

      well, at assembly there are showers available, and all but the most addicted gamers (who do not belong at a demoparty anyway) use them nicely often. However, the stench comes when they decided to take of their shoes...

    7. Re:4 days?? Is this as scary as it sounds? by sabNetwork · · Score: 2, Interesting

      ...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.

    8. Re:4 days?? Is this as scary as it sounds? by duncf · · Score: 1

      No

      (Was that rhetorical too?)

  30. DROOOOOOL by JTMON · · Score: 0

    Me Want

  31. Hope we don't see a repeat... by barfarf · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let's hope we don't see a repeat of the guy who died after playing a game for 84 hours straight.

    News at 11:

    5000 people at a gaming conference died today after everyone forgot to go to the bathroom. Toxic waste officials said that the stench alone would be enough to keep all of Sweden's grass fertilized until 2022. The scene, as described by one passerby remarked, "It could only be described as disgustingly gross, yet strangely hilarious".

    1. Re:Hope we don't see a repeat... by Dylan_t_p · · Score: 3, Funny

      you know I'll never get slashdot moderation. insightful for this?? funny yes, insightful? oh well regardless I'd hate to be part of the cleanup crew

      "In related news stocks in lysol and charmin skyrocket, also the nerd population in sweden has unexpectedly dropped dramaticly."

      you know if this did happen it'd be kinda like that episode of south park where everyone decided to hold their farts and people started exploding.

    2. Re:Hope we don't see a repeat... by barfarf · · Score: 1

      I thought getting a +1 for being insightful was kind of weird too, but getting modded down to a -1 to compensate? Geez, it's not like I was trolling or anything. Sheesh...

    3. Re:Hope we don't see a repeat... by Dylan_t_p · · Score: 1

      I know I thought that was pretty harsh too I mean jeeze just mod it to funny or something don't mod it all the way to -1 thats like you getting punished for someone elses stupidity

  32. I see there still by Ratso+Baggins · · Score: 3, Funny
    Getting there furniture from Ikea....

    --

    --
    "we live in a post-ideological world..." - Billy Bragg.

    1. Re:I see there still by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
      I see you still haven't learned the proper usage of "their", "there", and "they're".

      Fuckwit.

    2. Re:I see there still by istartedi · · Score: 2

      Of course they are still getting it. By the time the hall is fully furnished, the first pieces that were delivered are already crumbling into little bits of particle board and glue, and need to be replaced.

      --
      For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
    3. Re:I see there still by ergo98 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      While the "grossly overpay for ugly furniture that you'll have at the curbside in three years" industry wants us to believe that Ikea products are poor quality, I've found quite the opposite: Not only are they overengineered and long lasting, but they actually use gorgeously smooth rollers on drawers, for instance. Just had to defend IKEA as I've noticed a pretty concerted attack on them lately (the bigger they get the more enemies they acquire).

    4. Re:I see there still by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I see you're still getting your education from the US.

  33. Just think.... by efedora · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the roof fell in there wouldn't be a single broken hearted sweetheart back home.

    1. Re:Just think.... by Tsar · · Score: 2

      If the roof fell in there wouldn't be a single broken hearted sweetheart back home.

      Au contraire! I'd wager that the wails of the bereaved would be heard all the way from Queynos to Freeport.

    2. Re:Just think.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hm..

      Would people at LAN parties play Everquest?

    3. Re:Just think.... by sirinek · · Score: 2

      *HAHAHAHA*

      I'm surprised not enough people caught this to mod it up, its got to be one of the top 10 funniest things I've read on /. this year. :)

      siri

  34. When I was younger, it was called computer camp... by dagg · · Score: 5, Funny
    And everyone there was a pale, weak, super nerd. Things have sure changed.
    --
    None of this at computer camp.
    --
    Sex - Find It
  35. Wait, that's not Jolt! by The+Bungi · · Score: 4, Funny
    Wasn't that Dr. Pepper?? I swear I can make out 'per' in the middle right end of the pic. [trembling] Slobber [/trembling]

    All Real Programmers (TM) know Dr. Pepper is the shit when it comes down to separating the men from the boys.

    Definitely integral to surviving those 35-hour debugging bugfest sprees armed with nothing more than a butter knife, some scotch tape and an MP3 player.

    Those who emerge from that hell with six functional brain cells (or more) are theretofore respectfully acknowledged as members of the Order Of The Pepper Willies, bless our tender hearts.

    1. Re:Wait, that's not Jolt! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In germany you can get liquid caffine and squirt it into your mountain dew. If you are real close to making it work.

      Wide eyed for two daze easy.

    2. Re:Wait, that's not Jolt! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      to bad that would kill you dead

    3. Re:Wait, that's not Jolt! by NuttyBee · · Score: 1

      Hey, the rest of us got by with Vivarin, Jolt, Mountain Dew, Mr. Pibb and even coffee before the advent of Red Bull..

      I could never survive a few of my college programming classes again. 2 1/2 solid days of coding and 4 hour of sleep intermixed just won't work anymore.

      But I did turn in a mostly working project!

    4. Re:Wait, that's not Jolt! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


      i agree, nothing tastes closer to dental mouthwash than a cool can of dr pepper, not than any true geek even knows what a dentist is

    5. Re:Wait, that's not Jolt! by kliment · · Score: 1

      Well, pure caffeine would kill you, but pure caffeine is in solid form. A liquid form would have to be diluted, and something like a 10000mg bottle of caffeine in a half-l bottle of water would be good. As long as you don't take the whole bottle at once, you'd live. However, I doubt that many of us need more that 500mg to stay awake for a few days

    6. Re:Wait, that's not Jolt! by jakobgrimstveit · · Score: 1
      --
      Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
      "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
  36. Gaming by mestoph · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?
    1. Re:Gaming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      MU*s have been having huge gatherings where large amounts of people get drunk and then play for aeons now.

      In reality, this is nothing new. Still, I hope it catches on more and more. I'd love to sit in at an Age of Empires convention.

      Bloody Mongols!

    2. Re:Gaming by TelcontarX · · Score: 1

      In scandinavia this is already *real* commonplace. Of those I know of, we have the two Dreamhacks in Sweden, Assembly in Finland, The Party in Denmark, and The Gathering in Norway. These were the first Demoscene parties that grew -big-.

      I don't know about the other countries but in Norway there have been various other parties popping up everywhere. There is at least one or two parties a year in almost every city with more than 15.000 inhabitants. There is also a few pure gamingparties that attract more than 5000 visitors which makes them larger than The Gathering (which until 1999 or 2000 was the largest party in the world).

      The Gathering stopped growing because the sports-arena in which it is held can't support more than 5000 people. If it could The Gathering could possible attract around 10.000 visitors. For a list of parties in Norway go to: http://www.kvasir.no/c/comp/clubs/party/ (Please note that this list is far from complete)

      --
      "Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex."
  37. Hi, this is God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yo, God here. I gotta say, LAN parties totally suck. As a matter of fact, Lucifer made them up. And while I was screwing Sophia between satin sheets, that devil was playing "Wack a mole" and "counter strike" with hundreds of other smelly, poorly hygeniated angels. Well needless to say I booted 'em down to your world.

    Earth is Hell

  38. I said the same thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    With 5000+ people, and the twilight of CRTs, a warehouse of jolt won't even make it through the night.

    ---
    Better living through solipsistic philanthropy.

  39. Degauss your monitor! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If anyone at the DreamHack LAN party is reading this, I dare you to degauss your monitor in the middle of a huge game. A guaranteed good time!

    1. Re:Degauss your monitor! by addps4cat · · Score: 1

      What would that do exactly, other than make your monitor do the happy dance for all of two seconds?

      --
      Don't eat shrimp candy, just a heads up.
    2. Re:Degauss your monitor! by seinman · · Score: 2, Funny

      Or, get everyone to degauss at the same time, and watch the place explode.

    3. Re:Degauss your monitor! by cypr355 · · Score: 1

      If I remember correctly, It'll make every monitor within a certain range do the happy dance as well.

    4. Re:Degauss your monitor! by parkanoid · · Score: 1

      Better yet, plug an Etherkiller into the main switch.

    5. Re:Degauss your monitor! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Isn't that the patented "fry by wire" technology?

  40. In Fascist USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Public Nudity is illegal!

  41. ROFL ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    did anyone else just see the cam pic with the entire bottom half of the monitors off? almost like when part of a power grid in a city is out, you can see which grid which buildings are on.

    get some 220v, some serious regulators, and some upses in there man!

    1. Re:ROFL ! by kliment · · Score: 1

      I ahve no idea if this has anything to do with it, but at least at demoparties ppl are required to keep sound and monitors off during competitions. Gamers hate it, but why come to a demo event if you don't like demos?

    2. Re:ROFL ! by TelcontarX · · Score: 1

      At The Gathering you don't have to turn of your monitor. And most gamers use headsets anyways, so the ones that has to turn off their speakers are the MP3 fanatics with insane speakers that play for everyone nearby...

      --
      "Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex."
  42. Live report by flaggzz · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm here, and everything rocks,execept that the whole thing is over in about 4 hours :/

    --
    Ring brother, ring for me | Ring the bells of hope and faith
    Ring for my damnation | I am at the gallows end
  43. I certainly hope... by bigfatlamer · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...that their network guys are better than their photographers. If not they'll be better off playing nethack over a 28K modem.

    BFL

    --
    There's one thing computing teaches you, and that's that there's no point to remembering everything.
    --Doug Copland
    1. Re:I certainly hope... by flaggzz · · Score: 1

      Yes, they surely are...

      Everything has been running extremely smoothly with a nicely segmented and configured network. Download speed (Free software or shareware, of course) usually is close to 100mbit/s as aspected - something that's not that easy to manage when 5000 geeks starts pumping stuff around :)

      --
      Ring brother, ring for me | Ring the bells of hope and faith
      Ring for my damnation | I am at the gallows end
    2. Re:I certainly hope... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, with 1gbit/s internet access everything is woorking smooth. The local network speed are very good as far as I can tell.

  44. wow by Dylan_t_p · · Score: 1

    and I thought th 20-30 person lan I went to at k-sate last tuesday was big.....wonder if I could get Asus to sponser one of my lans or get any jolt since you can't get it here, just goes to show though I can't do anything right I mean for crying out loud my lan this sunday will probably have 12 people at the most

    I wanna move to Sweden hot girls...huge lan parties, big bank accounts from people in other countries whats not to like??

    1. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mainland european girls don't shave their pits....

    2. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Instead they shave their pussies. For a good clam eating session that is very important.

    3. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Yeah, you really know what your talking about. Every swedish girl shaves both here and there. Probably the largest procentage in the world, _all_ ages. Germany and France are a bit different, even if it's not as bad as you might think useing tv as your main source of education.

    4. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      big bank accounts from people in other countries whats not to like??

      Actually, that's SWITZERLAND. In Sweden most rich people moves abroad as fast they can. We have the worlds highest taxes. Kind of scares all the money away.

    5. Re:wow by kliment · · Score: 1

      I have to disagree. I don't feel it makes any difference whether a girl shaves there or not... As long as she enjoys it there is no difference. IMO that is.

    6. Re:wow by kliment · · Score: 1

      Good point, and we have the same thing here in Finland. Some people realised that they get more money from unemployment than from low-pay unqualified jobs. And guess where the unemployment money comes from? That's right, taxpayers...

    7. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Aren't we lucky that Sweden is not part of mainland/continental Europe then. Don't you have maps where you live? It's part of the Scandinavian peninsula.

      I have heard that all US girls have silicone breasts and all British girls have buck teeth. You know it must be true. And we're all blonde in Sweden.

    8. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The problem isn't a working social security or high taxes. The problem is the people abusing the system.

  45. Heard a good one about Comdex by blair1q · · Score: 2

    Might as well post this here because there won't be any Comdex news on /. because nobody cares anymore.

    I was in a cab in Vegas the week before Comdex. The cabbie said everyone in town hates Comdex. "They all come here with one shirt and $20 and a week later they leave with the same shirt and the same $20."

    Makes sense. If that town loved Comdex, you can be sure it'd still be growing even if the technology industry wasn't (which it is).

    1. Re:Heard a good one about Comdex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Everyone knows that Vegas hates Comdex: It's considered the cheapest group of individuals that can get together. Having said that, the state of Comdex has nothing to do with what a bunch of hookers and illegal immigrant cabbies thinks of the group.

    2. Re:Heard a good one about Comdex by blair1q · · Score: 2

      The cabbie was just the first one I talked to. Everyone hates Comdex. Except the LVCVB, who still see it as a way to say that over a hundred thousand people will be in Vegas, although only about 80K are showing up these days.

    3. Re:Heard a good one about Comdex by blair1q · · Score: 2

      Damn. They should put the preview and submit buttons on separate computers.

      Anyway, to continue:

      Yes, the popularity of the convention among local merchants, and how it treats them, is important. If the convention was worth more in cashflow, competent managers would buy it and run it better and attract more participants and flow some of that cash to themselves. It's all interconnected. It's not more significant than the revelation that the telecom industry was telling lies, or the software industry's failure to keep up with the computing power curve, but it's significant.

  46. Live feed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm one of the 5000 participants here on Dreamhack and it's a blast. There have been lots of tournaments, and some events that you perhaps wouldn't have expected. For example there has been a Mr Paperbag competition, where participants have been dressing up in nothing more then small paper bags. ATM there's a stand up comedy competition and for a couple of hours ago there was a snowball war arranged outside. There's been all kinds of companies giving away free stuff like t-shirts and games. M$ has even given away a couple of Windows XP cd-roms. =D

    It seems like some of the readers here believe its main goal is to make a flash demo for ASUS, and well, I can tell you that that's far from the truth. I would estimate that there are 80%-90% gamers here, and I would be surprised if it turns out that even 1% participates in creating a flash demo for ASUS.

    If you take a look around you would probably guess that M$ has a big part in financing this event. There's a game corner where you can try different X-box games for free and M$ has dragged a bid Unisys server down here. There's even been an attempt to make an unofficial world record in max CS gamers hosted by the Unisys server.

    A pic of the server can be found here.

    O well, back to the fun, there's something going on at the scene again.

    1. Re:Live feed by devmike · · Score: 1

      M$ has even given away a couple of Windows XP cd-roms. =D

      My god! XP cd-roms! gimme gimme gimme!!

    2. Re:Live feed by zulux · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      M$ has even given away a couple of Windows XP cd-roms. =D

      My god! XP cd-roms! gimme gimme gimme!!

      Dear User #581881,
      Please make your Astroturfing(tm) a bit more subtle, as your curent methods may arouse suspicion. Instead try somthing anlong the lines of:

      Wow! That's real generous of Microsoft! Even at the low price of $295.94, is a great bargin, but for free. That's amazing! Thanks Microsoft.

      Or

      Nifty! I've always wanted to try the best in opeating system technoloy, and I know Microsoft is the one to give it to me.

      We know that you natural reaction is to preaise and worship, but please, keep in mide that if your too obvious you might actually disuage the Slashdot masses from our cause. Under no cercumstances are you to try the following:

      XP for free! Thank you glorious leader. I live to serve.

      or

      Free XP cd-roms? Wow! I hope they give me a stack of them so I can thrust my penis in and out of the hole in the center. I LOVE XP!

      Thank you for your attention to this matter.

      Certified Atrroturn(tm) Profecctional #2011, Glibert W. Feltcher.

      --

      Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.

    3. Re:Live feed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      M$ has even given away a couple of Windows XP cd-roms

      That's real nice of them to provide coasters for all that jolt.

    4. Re:Live feed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Did you see anyone play the leaked alpha? ;)

    5. Re:Live feed by castrox · · Score: 1

      LOL!

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      Fight for your digital freedom, join the EFF *now*: http://www.eff.org/support/
    6. Re:Live feed by AndyAMPohl · · Score: 1
      where participants have been dressing up in nothing more then small paper bags

      Hopefully just women... but something tells me that if it's called "Mr. Paperbag", that isn't the case.

      -Andy

    7. Re:Live feed by Any+Web+Loco · · Score: 1

      Dude - you're geeks. at a lan party. we already KNEW it was a SMALL paper bag.

  47. LAN games at Demo Parties... by ActiveSX · · Score: 2

    Gamers coming to a compo is bad enough, but actually inviting them is completely out of line. These are sad, sad times indeed.

  48. Biological Weapon? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    One non-hygenic nerd is bad enough...but what happens when you fill an aircraft hanger full of them?

    You'd need at least a biohazard suit to clean up the mess...

  49. ... In other demoscene news ... by The+Pi-Guy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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

    1. Re:... In other demoscene news ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey don't be confusing Dreamhack with a demoparty! Although they claim it is, i beg to differ. The party is mainly held for the organisers to make profit, PROFIT on a DEMOPARTY????

      also, the fact that 90% is gay-mers don't make it any better. Dreamhack sucks, for real demoparties in sweden, check out Remedy Scenezone (www.remedy.org)

  50. "information in english"? by Regul8or · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right. More like a cheap translation to english spit out from some language converter.

  51. Eyes..Burning... by Skippy321 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So...many...casemods...Neon...Lights... *seizure*

  52. Yikes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is anyone wearing their lead lined thermal underwear???

  53. Pricing by Woogiemonger · · Score: 2, Informative

    So for those who don't know what a Swedish Krona is (SEK), the full price ticket of 600 SEK is a bit over $55. There's a visitor price ticket which is a fourth of the price, valid for a day, unless you're a girl, which makes it valid for the full event. Furthermore, they provide a WLAN, so if you park your car just outside the building, you can probably join in for free with a laptop. Someone correct me if I'm mistaken.

  54. Let's see that bandwidth analyzer fly by rtstyk · · Score: 1

    Yeah people, just open few of those webcam shots and show them what we're made of.

    BTW it's Jolt based on this picture

    I must say... super duper...

    --
    I hate the fact that you people don't salute me
  55. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The trolls feed you!

  56. anyone who reads this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is a faggot

  57. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The cock sucks you!

  58. BFD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A bunch of geeks getting together to play games on their computers. The can do the same fucking thing at home, so what's the big deal if they get together at one place and do it there. It's not like they are going to meet women there that don't look like ugly guys. Like me, pissing in a toilet is the only thing their dicks are good for, so what's the point of all of this? To congregate and show the world what a bunch of fucking losers we are in hopes there will be some sympathy and a govt program to get geeks laid? Forget it.

    1. Re:BFD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A bunch of geeks getting together to play games on their computers. The can do the same fucking thing at home, so what's the big deal if they get together at one place and do it there. It's not like they are going to meet women there that don't look like ugly guys. Like me, pissing in a toilet is the only thing their dicks are good for, so what's the point of all of this? To congregate and show the world what a bunch of fucking losers we are in hopes there will be some sympathy and a govt program to get geeks laid? Forget it.

      I guess stating the truth now days means being a troll.
  59. Bad typo in the Asus daily report by WhaDaYaKnow · · Score: 2

    in the report for the 28th it says: blinking lights

    Obviously this should be blinken lights.

    Not to be anal or anything, but I think the lack of these type of errors is exactly what makes /. stand above the rest.

  60. Re:I would approve only if they didnt trade "Warez by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They should be careful, considering the event is sponsored by M$.

  61. $1,000 for a commercial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yes, a Flash demo on a commercial web site IS advertising, and I'd find offensive if the 1st motherboard maker in the world did offer me only $1,000 to make one.
    Ok, Flash isn't neither asm nor C but a crappy pseudo language that no real coder would want to use, but ..rats! I'd expect from a big company like Asus much more money for a demo thay'll use to promote the company image!

    Maybe all they want is to hire for cheap some poor young enthusiast developers, and decent prizes like $10,000, $8,000, $5,000 would help those poor young enthusiast developers start their own business.

    Nothing against Asus here, they make good motherboards and very good laptops (going to purchase one in the next months). I just felt offended from a developer point of view when I read about the competition "prizes".

  62. Biggest of them all? by cybercomm · · Score: 2

    I thought that the biggest LAN party in europe is Shrimpwars?(anyone know more?)

    And that the biggest championship is World Cybergames I mean look at the prizes!

    Total Players : 63

    Participating Countries : 33
    Purse :
    Gold US$ 20,000
    Silver US$ 10,000
    Bronze US$ 5,000

    Though the webcam view was cool :)

    --
    Live for the present, learn from the past, and dream of the future!
  63. A lot of work by Brad1138 · · Score: 1

    Almost everyday I play UT (and others) with my cable modem w/ pings under 100. What do they have that I don't? The whole world of broadbanders is my lan party!

    --
    If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
    1. Re:A lot of work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, they got something called "real people"

  64. tell us more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    how much did you pay to go to this?
    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? :) (ok you're reading /.)
    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 :)

    1. Re:tell us more by flaggzz · · Score: 4, Informative

      They are about to cut the network (DH2002 is almost over), so I answer a few of this questions briefly:

      >how much did you pay to go to this?
      500 SEK, about 55 US$

      >do you live there or did you travel to go to it?
      People live here during the event, but they come from all over Sweden.

      >whats the most popular game being played there?
      Counter-Strike :-(

      Q3A and Warcraft 3 are other popular choices.

      >whats on the big screen?
      Info, finals from game compos, demoscene stuff and other fun stuff :-)

      --
      Ring brother, ring for me | Ring the bells of hope and faith
      Ring for my damnation | I am at the gallows end
  65. Re:When I was younger, it was called computer camp by The+Tyro · · Score: 2

    Yep... computer camp rocked (and it was exactly as you describe).

    We had ours at a nearby major university, and got to play with all their big iron. The older geeks were very cool, and injected some computer-hacker evil into a group of young computer afficionados (none of us were even in puberty yet). I also think they enjoyed showing off their 31337 H4X0r cred (they didn't realize we were soaking up everything like little tape-recorders). We even got to live in the dorms while we were there (it was summer, so everybody was gone).

    Big fun indeed, and let me tell you, we were an intimidating group walking to the computer lab... short, pale, skinny, glasses (with tape). I was amazed that nobody messed with us, and this was waaay before it was cool to be a geek.

    We were incredulous... The differences between our various schools and the university environment were huge. None of us particularly wanted to go back to regular school... it really made college-bound believers out of all of us.

    --
    Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
  66. Reminds me of Ender's Game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This really brings to mind the first battle Ender has with the Buggers.

    You know- the one where they are all clustered together and they bop 'em with Dr. Device and get the whole steeking fleet?

  67. Touche! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sadly it is true, but they have strong points in common ie: no more than over-priced-tarted-up-recycled-packaging...

  68. Online report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There is an online report made by Sweclockers.com, Sweden's biggest computer site. The text is in Swedish, but there are tons of photos on case mods etc. Did you ever want to see a wooden case?

  69. New corporate trend? by Cheese+Cracker · · Score: 2

    Is this a new corporate trend? I mean... they get together some of todays best demo artists to create great flash ads for them. All Asus & co have to do is to pay a couple of peanuts for the whole thing.

    Just wonder if companies like IBM, Intel and Cisco will jump on to this trend of getting cheaper-than-shit quality ads to "jazz up" their company image...

  70. The ultimate evil? by drzero · · Score: 1

    Normally a lanparty webcam runs on the internet connection present at the site - and now that URL has been slashdotted.. geez that's nasty, now there will be almost no connectivity for the participants.. unless they use a seperate connection of course.
    To slashdot a 4 day lanparty connection is an evil thing to do!

    1. Re:The ultimate evil? by xipperhead · · Score: 0

      bahahahaha /.'ed - this place dosent serve out that many hits - hahaha

    2. Re:The ultimate evil? by LouCephyr · · Score: 1

      Accually, the webcam server was taken down by human hands due to the event beeing over. Sorry.

  71. Annoying development by kliment · · Score: 1

    This used to be a demoparty, like Assembly, but it seems to have degenerated into a simple game even...sad. It is not too nice, however, that people seem to often mistake demo events for lanparties ("Yeah, it was a great party, but all those competitions interrupting our games really sucked") Why come to a demoparty if you don't like demos? Anyone else have similar experiences?

    1. Re:Annoying development by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Exactly my thoughts. There should be regulations against gamers on demo partys :)

    2. Re:Annoying development by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Amen to that!

      Besides, dreamhack sucks bigtime since the organisers mainly host it to make profit! In true demoscene spirit, all money should be prize money once the housing and all that is payed for!

  72. Re:I would approve only if they didnt trade "Warez by DL3600 · · Score: 1

    Np. The Unix.se crew is there. Look for yourself .

    M$ dont sponsor this thing to make enemys. They yust wount to show there stupid xbox.

  73. Erm...aren't the big bank accounts in Switzerland? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm sure they are!

  74. Cool by TekReggard · · Score: 1
    And in the US you've got TPL which I went to. It was a great deal of fun but no where near the size of this. :) Must.... find... another 500 man[and woman] lan!

    Unforunately the TPL site appears to be down though :-/ It was a 500 person lan event in portland oregon on may 22nd 2002.

  75. crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    a large hall with only braindead gaymers. what's so special about that? bah, i miss mekka&symposium!!

  76. Not a LAN-Party by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sorry people, neither Dreamhack Winter or The Gathering is a "LAN-Party" (Dreamhack Summer is). Both parties were started as demoparties, and have evolved to computer parties. The focus was in the beginning 100% on demoscene - coding, graphics, music, drinking beer, having fun and getting to know people. Now, both events have become an in-between mix, called a Computer Party. See here for an in-detail comparison. The main idea is NOT to bring your computer and play computer games. The main idea is to come, meet people from all over Europe (especially at The Gathering), get new friends, etc. Hopefully you will also learn something new - programming, graphics, music, etc.. and relax. Many people live very far apart (this is Norway and Sweden...), and only see eachother at these events.

  77. Demo Scene goes /. ? by andr0meda · · Score: 3, Informative


    I can only welcome the idea, it seems the demoscene is once again on the edge of a major change in the public they are reaching.

    There was a time when scene-ing was a BBS-only thing, and parties were small obscure events happening in garages and local youth centers. Since the internet, demo parties have, together with LAN parties (and usually it's the same event anyway), grown to visitor numbers beyond the domestic range. For organisers it's getting more and more difficult to support such a load without sacrificing some of the I-know-you atmosphere that used to be present on these cosy events. Since a few years, demos (and lan parties) have been striving to entertain the general public, not just the underground scene. I think this is a good thing, but I also miss the sense of obscurity that stemmed from the hack and crack era, of which it was initially a subculture.

    For more news and references on these parties and the content they put out, see Scene.org

    ciao,
    a0a

    --
    With great power comes great electricity bills.
    1. Re:Demo Scene goes /. ? by The+Pi-Guy · · Score: 2

      I know - I'm an avid 8-bit scener. Although I don't like to admit it, yes, I released 'JWDEMO' for GBDEV2002, but EFNet:#gameboy is working on putting something together to blow you away for Breakpoint!!!

  78. Piracy by Cheese+Cracker · · Score: 2
    At the bottom of their front page:
    PIRACY IS A CRIME
    Remeber that it is illegal to use and spread unlicensed software.

    **PIRACY IS A CRIME**

    // DreamHack Organizing
    What the heck did they use all that bandwidth for, if it wasn't for warez, mp3s and movies?
    1. Re:Piracy by Jugalator · · Score: 2

      It's only to make them look good to the public, I guess. Inside the walls, it's more like this, ;)

      --
      Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
    2. Re:Piracy by Cheese+Cracker · · Score: 1

      LOL! The two cops doesn't know English, right?! :D

  79. Lan party? It used to bed a demoscene event by hasse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lamers!

    Greetings go to (in no particular order) Spaceballs, Virtual Dreams of Fairlight, CNCD, Complex, Silents DK, Lemon., Melon Dezign, Sanity, TRSI, Kangaroo, Bomb!, Andromeda, Rebels, Scoopex, Crionics, Stellar, Phenomena, Abyss, Cryptoburners, Mahoney & Kaktus, Pygmy Project, Artwork, Contraz, The Black Lotus, Potion and all we have forgotten

    1. Re:Lan party? It used to bed a demoscene event by Jugalator · · Score: 2

      Yikes, I can spot more than a few well-known groups in that list from the good ol' Amiga days. Spaceballs, Silents, Sanity, TRSI, Cryptoburners, Mahoney & Kaktus all ring a bell to me even if I'm not even following the demo scene that well. =)

      Hm.. Would be nice if there were some pictures of those classic groups somehere. :-/

      --
      Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
  80. Some pics from unix.se by Jugalator · · Score: 2

    Pics from unix.se I found "interesting".. ;-)

    Too much Jolt
    Fun with Jolt #1
    Fun with Jolt #2
    Crazy about Jolt
    Crazy about GTA
    As the comment says... busted!
    Nerd heaven :-)
    Oh god...

    --
    Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
    1. Re:Some pics from unix.se by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is gay and pathetic. Whaaaaat......!

  81. One Question... by Vortran · · Score: 2

    Why don't we have ANYTHING like this in the United States?

    Vortran out

    --
    Knowledge is like ignorance.. too much can be just as bad as not enough.
    1. Re:One Question... by TelcontarX · · Score: 1

      Because you are lazy and noone can be bothered to organize something like that...

      --
      "Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex."
    2. Re:One Question... by lithron · · Score: 1

      We do. Its called QuakeCon. Its held every year in Texas, and hosted by id software.

      QuakeCon

  82. For scene pictures.. by hasse · · Score: 1

    check out Slengpung.

    Lot's of handsome geeks.

  83. A hand gun or a Rifel maybe! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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.

  84. Looks like... by moonboy · · Score: 2



    Looks like it could also be a sting operation for the RIAA, MPAA and Microsoft.

    "Sure guys, come on in and have a seat. Play some games, share some movies, music, pr0n, etc. Don't mind the SWAT team members at the exits, they are merely promoting the newest Tom Clancy game. Enjoy!"

    --

    Co-founder and designer at Music Nearby: http://musicnearby.com
    1. Re:Looks like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To bad for RIAA MPAA that the copyright laws are different in sweden. ;)

      (And RIAA and MPAA are american organizations)

  85. Re:When I was younger, it was called computer camp by syrinx · · Score: 2

    damn. at our computer camp, we took many breaks from programming etc (breaks? horrors!) and went *outside* and did *physical activity*.

    well, some people did anyway, there were those that couldn't be dragged away from the computer room with wild horses. but not everyone was a pale weak supernerd.

    --
    Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
  86. Just my opinion... by aliusblank · · Score: 1

    In my experiance, I think its more fun to have lans with a smaller number of people. 5 to 8 seems to work out well. At that level, gaming just seems more personal and overall more fun. Try talking trash to an opponent on the other side of 5000 people, heh.

  87. We have entered... by FenrirWolf16 · · Score: 1

    Nerdvana

  88. Not Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I think this is fucking stupid, if the don't meant to accomplish something. Bunch of kids are there playing LAN games.

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