One of many places on earth a gamer can get called a loser, but still feel like a winner, is a LAN party. On my semi-tri-annual trip to my old hometown of Troy, Michigan, my 30 pound computer comes with me. I tuck an LCD monitor into my pillowcase, throw a bunch of cables into my backpack with a change of underwear, and head off into the snow-covered suburbs.
The destination is computer paradise; usually a finished basement in an upper middle class neighborhood.
Check out the rest, after the jump!
Its population consists of both part-time and full-time geeks. The full-time geeks end up not playing at all, because they have to troubleshoot every computer problem that happens to come up (and write SG articles at 2AM). For example, we had two computers that were having overheating issues, but we only had one fan.
We had to yank the coax cable from the upstairs and route it through the ceiling, just so we could get to the internet in the basement. That’s gonna be fun to put back together tomorrow morning.
This network puzzle process is all for the good people of the LAN. Here is a young chap with an outdated Alienware laptop. It needs extra cooling fans and a small miracle to run any new games.
Here’s the adrenaline junkie.
The pot head.
The outcast (a rare sight, cherish this blurry photograph).
And, clearly, the most intelligent person in the room.
The game of the night (and the past week) was Call of Duty 4, naturally. We had been playing Battlefield 2 for years, and we figured it was time to make the EA to Activision switch. It was disappointing we couldn’t actually fly the helicopters in COD4, but we like to pretend it was actually us unfairly raping the masses from above.
Here is my intense gaming face. You can’t kill terrorists and/or Americans without a game face.
I’m totally ready to pass out face-first into some pie.
Gaming snacks are always important. Some like potato chips and pork rinds, but we’ve got what really counts.
It’s gonna be a great LAN. Now, I really have to get back to gaming. I’m being called a “writing pussy” for not playing, and I can’t help but think it’s true.
So stop being a little loner, screaming into your microphone at people on the internet. Find a bunch of rich white kids to play with, strain your weak nerd muscles lugging your rig around, and do it on a LAN, man!
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17 responses so far ↓
1 Doc // Jan 3, 2008 at 12:03 pm
These pictures have made me feel so much better about myself. Whever mixed the pumpkin pie with the cherry pie ought to be shot.
So THAT’S where you’ve been hiding.
2 clarky456 // Jan 3, 2008 at 12:08 pm
cant you do that thing where you have to click to see the pictures the “read more after the jump” thing. sorry but i dont have the best internet connection and that took a long time to load.
3 clarky456 // Jan 3, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Damn you to hell. Make me seam like a ass… changing it just before i hit post.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Anyways keep of the pies.
4 BlackBirdNL // Jan 3, 2008 at 12:26 pm
DOES MY EYE CATH A HP PAVILION!? Man I had one of those. Bought a new mother board, turned out it didn’t fit into the Pavilion’s case. Now I’m gaming and surfing with the most horrifying case ever to be witnessed by the eye of man, a ripped Fujitsu Siemens Expert’s case of 1998 :’(.
5 Lono // Jan 3, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Wow, look… A female!
6 Chi Rombuu // Jan 3, 2008 at 12:38 pm
It can’t be a female, nah - its like the blurry bigfoot pictures - I say shinnanigans to that.
7 Matt "Volkov" Schmidt // Jan 3, 2008 at 12:50 pm
BlackBird:
It’s just the case. He’s got a 1900XT in there.
8 AblativMeatshld // Jan 3, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Sure looks like a female.
Cute one at that. Why is she the OUTCAST? I’d think she’d have been the most popular one in the room.
9 Matt "Volkov" Schmidt // Jan 3, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Because at our LANs, women usually get shunned or are frowned upon. Unless one actually got a computer and joined us.
Now that’s a dream on cloud nine.
10 AblativMeatshld // Jan 3, 2008 at 1:31 pm
“Because at our LANs, women usually get shunned or are frowned upon.”
You need to LAN with better people. The ones you have are clearly insane…
11 Phil // Jan 3, 2008 at 2:28 pm
haha i have seen this scene plenty of times, our LAN looks the same, we are near Chicago… haha im the stoner of the group
12 hentai2021 // Jan 3, 2008 at 3:09 pm
its been months since i last lan(ned?) and there are girls who game, just not as many as guys. why do i lan you ask? because my time is worthless, always each for the middle kids.
13 clstirens // Jan 3, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Ah.. I’ve never experienced a pc lan, but I remember the good ol’ days of lan with my xbox… We used to lan in the band room, at church, and at my birthday party…
Good times.
14 commander121 // Jan 3, 2008 at 7:45 pm
a decent fan will cost you like $15 from BIG W. it cant be that hard just to get another fan
15 Alecsander_C // Jan 3, 2008 at 8:01 pm
We approach quietly to the geeks, as we look at their natural habitat and in their usual rituals.
WAIT! what’s that? a female!
Folks this is a rare sight indeed, we are so lucky.
16 AblativMeatshld // Jan 3, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Watch as I take his Mt. Dew… Aw he’s an angry little fella. Aw yeah, he’s pissed!
17 The Ploogle // Jan 4, 2008 at 9:13 am
Wow! That’s…what you look like? O_O
Well, it’s probably about the same amount of shock as what I really look like…
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