Bachelor LAN Party!

So I posted this on the NS forums, but thought you guys might get a kick out of it as well.

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:

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 :biggrin: ):




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...

Damn! that looks like a good time! Defiantly a good way to do a bachelors party too. I was playing starcraft with my brother in law on the day of the wedding

I like the sound of that! I have attended big weekend LANs, big like 450 people. Never had longer than a weekend tho...

Dual 20" monitors... omfg...

Mmm ... lan parties. Wake up and smell the cafeine.

<DIV>Jesus f**king christ. You have managed to reach a level of geek which I barely thought possible - not just a LAN party, a week-long LAN party; not just a week-long LAN party, your batchelor party. Hope you really enjoy computer games, though, due to the length of the party, I spose (and somewhat hope) that's not ALL you're doing...</DIV>
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<DIV>The actual theory seems like a good idea, though. A whole week would resolve all our usual conflicts of balancing sleep and gaming, FPS and RTS, and actually trying out everyone's favourite game with everybody present bothering to play (can range from 3 to 20 guys). Plus plenty of time for homemade "fireworks" displays, which have become customary at our LANs around 2am.</DIV>
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<DIV>Now to find a spare week...</DIV>
<DIV>Oh yeah, have fun getting married and good luck and all.</DIV>

Tidy that place up dammit! Looks like you had a great time. :smile:

I feel sorry for the dood who has to sit in the kitchen.. where do his legs go?

And remember, now you're posting pictures anyway: YOU W?LL POST TEH WEDDING PICTURES !

Oh mai, I NEED another LAN over this summer, I've missed them! I do
have a permanent 5 person LAN in my flat, but when its permanent its
not the same :smile: Hope you had an excellent time anyway mate, one hell of
a way to go into a marriage, as you won't be having them quite like
that once you've tied the knot!

And I thought my house was messy...

Yippie Ki Yay!

I do
have a permanent 5 person LAN in my flat, but when its permanent its
not the same

Oh, my heart bleeds for you, you poor thing.

(bastard...) :biggrin:

What's wrong with "Moby Dick"?

I'm just surprised there's power still in the neighborhood and that the place didn't burn down.

Man I do miss those LAN parties, once me and my friends got into higher classes they disappeared really quick.

yeah, that guy in the kitchen must have had to like, kneel on a short stool the whole time or something O_o. heh, me and my friends typically have 5-10 person lans, and occasionally i go to 20-30 person lans with extended friend groups, and very occasionally 300 person lans at UNI's :biggrin:

before networking worked in games.. we used a serial cable.. we played coop with Doom, Doom2, Heretic, Hexen, Quake, and Duke3d

48 hours was normal.. sadly i cannot play more than 20 minutes tops now.. i sure hope this isn't why

a bachelor party without strip teasers? aren't hiding something from us KFS ? :smile:

/points out closed curtains