Sixblade writes "The world's largest LAN party opend its doors this morning. With more than 6200 places, Dreamhack should be quite fun. Check out the webcams, Arwen, Eowyn, Haldir and Beren"
Why not just meet on the internet?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Insightful
With so many participants, one of the main attractions of a LAN party is gone, the friendly competitive interaction. If #52 and #6101 frag each other how likely is it they will interact much irl at this event?
This event is to a LAN party as the Super Bowl is to a friendly neighborhood backyard football game.
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.
I think it's the anonymity of the event that really counts. You could very well recreate a very large scale war with 6k people participating. After all, during war, about how many people are you going to know personally?
If all these computers were hooked up to a central server, and had some extremely modded version of say... Battlefield 1942 running on each computer, imagine the chaos of war that would be happening on each screen! It could be a real-life representation of what the war was like, ignoring the "Let's fly this plane to the enemy base then parachute out" taxi strategy type ideas that float around Battlefield 1942.
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not just a LAN gaming party
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spir0
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· Score: 3, Interesting
what I like about these events in Europe is that they are also demo parties, like Assembly in Finland.
There is some info on Dreamhack's site about the demoscene portion of the party.
All in all, being stuck on the other end of the planet (I'm in New Zealand), I'm very jealous of the demo sceners and the parties that go on in Europe.
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With so many participants, one of the main attractions of a LAN party is gone, the friendly competitive interaction. If #52 and #6101 frag each other how likely is it they will interact much irl at this event?
This event is to a LAN party as the Super Bowl is to a friendly neighborhood backyard football game.
If all these computers were hooked up to a central server, and had some extremely modded version of say... Battlefield 1942 running on each computer, imagine the chaos of war that would be happening on each screen! It could be a real-life representation of what the war was like, ignoring the "Let's fly this plane to the enemy base then parachute out" taxi strategy type ideas that float around Battlefield 1942.
Slashdot, the only place where intellectuals can act like idiots... and still sound intellectual.
what I like about these events in Europe is that they are also demo parties, like Assembly in Finland.
There is some info on Dreamhack's site about the demoscene portion of the party.
All in all, being stuck on the other end of the planet (I'm in New Zealand), I'm very jealous of the demo sceners and the parties that go on in Europe.
The reason girls and Windows users don't understand UNIX is because all the documentation is in Man files.