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MillionManLAN Party: The Doors Are Open

Posted by michael on from the remember-to-eat dept.

socram writes "Tom's Hardware has an overview about one of the biggest Lan Parties. This event is sponsored by AMD, ATI, ASUS, ABIT, Cisco, NVIDIA, and the Hitachi storage division. Check this article out, more than 1000 people killing their brain cells! Presentation by ASUS, ATI's Q&A Session and more."

13 of 168 comments (clear)

  1. Smell by jrap · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hope it will be well ventilated. Even at small LAN parties, no matter how much cologne is sprayed, the BO from geeks quickly takes over the whole room. Hate to see what happens with one million nerds...

  2. What about the ladies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should provide bodyguards for the girls. If I were one, I sure as hell wouldnt want a million men...oops...nerds after me...

    1. Re:What about the ladies? by ciroknight · · Score: 2, Funny

      What ladies?

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    2. Re:What about the ladies? by reiggin · · Score: 4, Funny

      But the mothers don't count.

  3. hmm... by bravehamster · · Score: 2, Funny
    MillionManLan...more than 1000 people

    In a related story, organizers of the event displayed disgust with the "conservative" news medias "clearly biased reporting." Bob Roughhead gave this statement:

    While it is clear to us that we did fall short of our goal of 1,000,000 gamers coming together and celebrating their geekness in a public display, our counts put us closer to several hundred thousand gamers. That the conservative news media would stoop to such tactics to degrade this event sickens me.


    In an interview on Larry King, the Reverend Al Sharpton took the side of the geeks, pointing out in a rambling incoherent 12 minute statement that the Man also tried to keep him down.

    Police called to the scene for traffic control were adamant with their totals, saying that there were no more than 2000 geeks present at most. Tear gas and beanbags gun were put to use, however, when a college sorority on a scavenger hunt strayed too close to the pack. There were no survivors.

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  4. Waste of space by fobbman · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should have put the servers in the women's restroom. Might as well, as they wouldn't get used otherwise.

    1. Re:Waste of space by Cruciform · · Score: 4, Funny

      Then where would they put all the X10 cameras people brought?

  5. LAN party? by pasi · · Score: 3, Funny


    From Slashdot File: [slashdot]

    LAN party n 1: An event where all the {STFU N00b X11ter person}s collect together with massive amounts of energy drinks. The difference between playing at home and playing at LAN party is the smell and ability to actual throw things at your enemies. {IRC} access is restricted to Quakenet and overclockers are demigods.
  6. Million? by p3d0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, the thousand-man LAN party was a great success last night, as the sole attendee played Quake all by himself. Organizers were delighted with the success of the event.

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  7. Re:What's with the million? by forged · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they meant to reach the millionth megabyte of mp3/warez/pr0n traded over the network that day :-)

  8. Bathrooms for 1k geeks by dark-br · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the BO from the geeks could be unberable imagine the bathrooms!

    Those gamers that are able to place a round into the head of another player within 50 ms from 1000 feet are commonly unable to get their piss into a foot wide hole right in front of them.

    1. Re:Bathrooms for 1k geeks by British · · Score: 3, Funny

      Too bad Mennen isn't a sponsor at one of those parties. They could hand out free samples.

    2. Re:Bathrooms for 1k geeks by sean23007 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Too bad most geeks wouldn't know what to do with it. They'd probably drink it in the hopes that it would keep them awake...

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