Yesterday was the day of Lachlan’s Lach LAN (Local Area Network) party. We had twenty 16-18 year olds here to connect up with each other on XBox and Playstation for eight hours. It’s becoming a trend here. A LAN party every school holidays. Lachlan’s getting it down to a fine art, with a business plan, budget and online registration. There’s a basketball hoop out the front for breakout time. (Pity it rained most of the day) Way too much Pepsi. And a quiet room just for conversation. A card table. And then scattered through the house – an assortment of connected Xbox and Playstation consoles, televisions and projectors.
One of Lachlan’s friends blogged about it at Gifted Twit.
“I’m going to a madd-hizzhouse Xbox party tomorrow at a good friend’s house. This plans to be a grand event, possibly with much cursing and shared hatred, and skinny nerdlingers throwing controllers at each other and screaming prolific phrases like “OMG WTF U HAXOR N00B SHOTGUN WHORE!!!”. Roughly translated, this implies that the target is apparently cheating and appears to favour the shotgun weapon. I used to have a serious Counter-Strike addiction, and you would be astonished by the number of pre-pubescent geeky poofburgers that use this terminology. This however, presents the upside in entertainment, as there is simply nothing funnier than listening to two 12 year-olds facing off (with voice communication) screaming at one another actually saying “double-u tee eff” and “oh-em-gee you noob”. Sigh, no wonder we haven’t cured cancer.”
See my post from the last LAN party.
Take a look at the Lach LAN registration page.
That’s pretty cool Duncan as we do the same at nccc.
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