Agreed! The LAN parties I have been to / organized involved on the order of 20-40 people and had no fees. We organized it because we liked playing games, not as a business venture. Somebody orders pizzas and hopes people will reimburse them for what they eat. Everybody brings their own hardware. ( Or we use a lab at my college, those were the days... ) If you are just a group of gamers getting together, you know most people, and noone is an asshat, you don't need insurance.
As for games, I prefer the old-school variety: Couter-Strike, Warcraft II, Age of Empires II.
So I guess I am just an old idealist... back in my day we didn't have these fancy things called advertisements or sponsors, and to prevent copies of games on the lab computers from being wiped everynight we had to rename the directories using characters Windoze didn't recognize.
Often suspected spammers are clueless of the network abuse they're committing. Maybe a virus took over a customer's PC and secretly started blasting spam, or perhaps a computer-addicted teenager holed up in his bedroom is sending out bulk e-mail, unbeknown to his parents. "I usually ask if there's a young male in the house," Rush says.
Yes, the typical spammer is a slashdot-reading geek who lives with his parents.... Reminds me of a thing I read earlier warning parents about signs of their child engaging in dangerous hacking, such as use of Linux or requests for better hardware.
Just what a geek needs, another reason for parents to be suspicious of his computer usage. Help! I'm a computer addicted teenager who can't stop sending spam, and this is really a cry for help!
You cannot expect to defeat every patent that comes at you, any more than you can expect to kill every monster in a video game
Perhaps I should send this guy a screenshot of a Versalife bathroom ( Deus Ex ) filled with bodies of every killable NPC in the Chinese area.
I should really apply this attitude to my current Icewind Dale II game. Those damn shopkeepers and town guards just wanted to cheat me anyway!
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Agreed! The LAN parties I have been to / organized involved on the order of 20-40 people and had no fees. We organized it because we liked playing games, not as a business venture. Somebody orders pizzas and hopes people will reimburse them for what they eat. Everybody brings their own hardware. ( Or we use a lab at my college, those were the days ... ) If you are just a group of gamers getting together, you know most people, and noone is an asshat, you don't need insurance.
As for games, I prefer the old-school variety: Couter-Strike, Warcraft II, Age of Empires II.
So I guess I am just an old idealist ... back in my day we didn't have these fancy things called advertisements or sponsors, and to prevent copies of games on the lab computers from being wiped everynight we had to rename the directories using characters Windoze didn't recognize.
Yes, the typical spammer is a slashdot-reading geek who lives with his parents. ... Reminds me of a thing I read earlier warning parents about signs of their child engaging in dangerous hacking, such as use of Linux or requests for better hardware.
Just what a geek needs, another reason for parents to be suspicious of his computer usage. Help! I'm a computer addicted teenager who can't stop sending spam, and this is really a cry for help!
Perhaps I should send this guy a screenshot of a Versalife bathroom ( Deus Ex ) filled with bodies of every killable NPC in the Chinese area. I should really apply this attitude to my current Icewind Dale II game. Those damn shopkeepers and town guards just wanted to cheat me anyway!