Last Wednesday, with my wedding a mere 9 days away, I returned home after dinner with my fiancee to find my friends jumping out from behind their computers yelling, "Supplies!" They had a similarly titled sign up by the door and had changed all their desktop wallpapers to an impressive MSPaint rendition of the same name. Highly amusing. Thus, the bachelor LAN party had begun. Here's the remaining info from the NS forum post:
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Yes, it's still going strong.* Except for right now, with a little lull in the action... meh. Anyway. I have pictures! First, for reference, are two pictures of my living room from just after I moved in (of note: the PC game collection has grown by about 13 games since then
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Now, after 6 months of habitation, it is invaded by computers:
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The case on the right is "Moby ****," so named for the great white whale on the side and another of our friends, currently in Costa Rica and unable to be at this LAN party as well as my wedding. That's actually the original outer part of the case - my friend ground down the area around it to create the silver bits.
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No part of the apartment goes unused. We are like the Native Americans with the Buffalo, except we are (with the exception of one actually of partially Native American descent) all white and we have no buffalo. No, the beer thing wasn't mine.
Better view of the computers at the kitchen. Note the Beyond Good and Evil PC copy on the table. 3 of those attending are my groomsmen (of 4), and my groomsmen gifts were games. The fourth is a Mac gamer, so I had to do some hunting, but the other 3 received UT2K4 and BG&E, with the best man receiving UT2K4 SE.
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The Dilbert boss and squirrel are actually mine, though my system is the one with the GIANT DUAL 20" SGI MONITORS OF DOOM!!!!!!(tm). Had to put them up there when I started packing up my DVDs and had to move the TV, which was where they were previously stationed.
* For this, you must understand the way my friends and I LAN. We started with weekends like normal people. Then we said, "Hey, this isn't long enough!" Thus the one-week LAN parties were born. And then, after the last three of us graduated in 2001, we said "Hey, even that isn't long enough!" and ended up with a 2-week LAN party in the basement of my parents' house. I lived nocturnally the rest of the summer due to the strange sleep schedule... [addsig]
