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Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-you-build-it-they-will-come dept.

Zothecula writes "Anyone who has a attended a LAN party — where people connect their computers on one network in one location to play multiplayer games together — can tell you that they can be both very fun but also kind of a hassle. Playing games with your friends all in the same room: fun. Having to organize all your friends to each haul their usually-oversized gaming rigs to one person's house, ensuring they all have the same software, and inevitably dealing with one or more people having trouble connecting: not fun. With that in mind, it makes sense that one Google employee decided to bypass all that inconvenience and just build a house specifically for LAN parties, complete with multiple networked computers and TVs connected to game consoles."

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  1. Party? by Toe,+The · · Score: 5, Funny

    I went to this LAN Party and everyone was wearing togas and drinking alcoholic beverages and making out and... and I didn't even see any computers anywhere. It was very strange.

    1. Re:Party? by SomePgmr · · Score: 5, Funny

      "What? You think just cause a guy reads comics he can't start some shit?!" - Brodie

    2. Re:Party? by Taty'sEyes · · Score: 5, Funny

      He didn't mention females in his description... you're making an assumption.

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    3. Re:Party? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I went to this LAN Party and everyone was wearing togas and drinking alcoholic beverages and making out and... and I didn't even see any computers anywhere. It was very strange.

      lanimal house

  2. Good ventaliation by Dyinobal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hope it has good ventilation and cooling. Nothing worse than a hot, smelly lan party.

    1. Re:Good ventaliation by Baloroth · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, one of the articles yesterday compared black holes to Cookie Monsters (as I pointed out), so... I would just be glad they didn't say something like "A LAN party uses a series of tubes to hook the play-time boxes together."

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  3. Re:Must be nice... by fsckmnky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't think of it as him spending his money.

    Think of it as him spending your personal information and search history. ;)

  4. 1999 Called... by TheDawgLives · · Score: 4, Funny

    They want their Internet Cafe back.

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    -TheDawgLives suckitdown
  5. Don't Matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The house won't be out of beta for at least 5 years...