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Re:Why not just meet on the internet?
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The+Evil+Couch
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· Score: 4, Informative
kind of. part of the attraction is meeting new people or people that you only know by their handle. being surrounded by a crap load of fellow geeks in the flesh can be a great opportunity to meet new people.
in more than one large LAN, I ran into people that were a friend of a friend of a friend, that I thought were pretty cool and would likely not have met otherwise.
true, playing games isn't as close as it is in a smaller scale LAN, but in larger LANs, people tend to keep joining the same servers, often with people physically located near them, making it more of a bonus to have more people than a detriment.
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in more than one large LAN, I ran into people that were a friend of a friend of a friend, that I thought were pretty cool and would likely not have met otherwise.
true, playing games isn't as close as it is in a smaller scale LAN, but in larger LANs, people tend to keep joining the same servers, often with people physically located near them, making it more of a bonus to have more people than a detriment.
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