I'm in the mood for a LAN, ladies and gentlemen.

I am willing to host and provide food and drinks if you will provide your table and seating, and of course your huge, powerful, large...computers.

Is there a time that works best?  Maybe this weekend? Saturday?

How about next weekend?

X

Next weekend works better for me.  What are we playing?


-b0b
(...votes for TF2!)

yeah, I vote for next weekend too

Games I vote for,

Frisbee (its nice out!)
Settlers of Catan, very fun and strategic board game
TF2 and 1 new RTS that no one has played before..        

I've been dying to play Catan, and seriously thought about picking it up a couple weeks ago.  The $45 price tag is a bit of a turn-off, though.

Do you have it?


-b0b
(...hasn't played a board game since 1924.)

no, unfortunately, I don't have it, but I know 2 people who do, so it might be possible to borrow it for a day from one of them.  We might even get the 2 expansions, seafarares and cities and knights, which would be great!

Let us plan on next weekend then!  Sweet.

Ironman wrote on Mar 24^th, 2009 at 7:14pm:

yeah, I vote for next weekend too Games I vote for, Frisbee (its nice out!) Settlers of Catan, very fun and strategic board game TF2 and 1 new RTS that no one has played before..

Outdoor physical activity at a LAN? o.0

Chair motions to have Ironman removed from the floor, all those in favor?

The_Fat_Man wrote on Mar 25^th, 2009 at 12:54am:

Chair motions to have Ironman removed from the floor, all those in favor?

Aye.

Anyone up for Call of Duty 4 and or 5?
Halo?
classic SMAC?

X

settlers of catan sounds like fun, X you just want to play smac so you can be the white dudes.

SMAC is kinda "meh" in my book.

Halo on PC is complete, totally, powerfully retarded.  It's so incredibly bad that I don't understand why Microsoft even bothered publishing it.

I'd be up for some good ol' Call of Duty 4, though.


-b0b
(...will rock your face.)

Ok folks 1 week and day till the LAN.  Can I get a for sure count on everyone?  Does 7PM still work or do you guys want it sooner?  Bob, will you bring the network equipment still?

X
(annnnnnnddddd...BREAK!)

Can I get away with bringing the good ol' Linksys 16-port switch?  Pulling the 24-port Cisco enterprise switch out of the rack is a real pain in the butt.

-b0b
(...mounted a tape drive on top of it.)

Absolutely.  I'm guesstimating about 8 people total...10 tops.  Thanks again, Bob.

X

Whatever happened to the first switch we bought? Way the hell back in high school, the one Alex picked up.

I think its at our house.

I'll plan on being there.

I may show up with a dessert of some sort (devoid of fruit, in accordance with Studabakerian regulations) as well as a machine lacking any of the games mentioned above. This may limit participation level and length of visit, but it would be nice to see you guys nontheless.

*I taught a four-year-old how to play Contra last night, and between the two of us and the Konami code, we made it halfway through the game. His dad started him off on his old Atari system, and he's now able to handle the early Nintendo consoles. Gotta start 'em early, right?

Stick wrote on Mar 28^th, 2009 at 8:59am:

I'll plan on being there.

I call BS.

My gf is planning on making meat balls, crab dip, something else I can't remember and I'll be making taco dip.  So a food run might not be necessary.  Does Mountain Dew and Grape work or do you guys want anything else?

Ya, Marie, feel free to come and you can always gank the games from us.

X

X wrote on Mar 29^th, 2009 at 10:09am:

So a food run might not be necessary.

But... but... but... food runs are mandatory!  Even if they're completely unnecessary!

If you can find some table space for Mere and I, we'll bring all of our camp chairs.


-b0b
(...w00t!)

I have one card table and three chairs...and lots of empty room.

Can anyone else bring tables?

X

X wrote on Mar 30^th, 2009 at 9:19am:

I have one card table...

SHOTGUN!


-b0b
(...isn't sure that works with tables.)

I think if you call "shotgun" at a table, you have to play Russia Roulette

X wrote on Mar 30^th, 2009 at 12:22pm:

I think if you call "shotgun" at a table, you have to play Russia Roulette

I'm game, but only if I can bring the guns.

-b0b
(...and choose the ammo!)

speaking of, any chance of going to the range in the hours before the lan?

We might be able to pull something off.  I'm not sure I'd want to keep my gats locked up in the apartment parking lot, though, so we'd want to plan the trip earlier in the day so I could make the trip back to TR.


-b0b
(...3:00pm'ish?)

ya i could come in at noonish. patrick you got anything going on during the day?

I think I'll be making food for you guys so count me out.  I could go on Sunday and I can take people to the club I'm a member of.

X

X wrote on Mar 31^st, 2009 at 8:26am:

I think I'll be making food for you guys so count me out.  I could go on Sunday and I can take people to the club I'm a member of. X

Actually, that might be a better idea.  I've got an exam to complete this weekend, and time will be crunched as it is.

What club did you join?


-b0b
(...might want to join, too.)

Paw Paw Conservation Club.  It's like $36/year to join.

Are you still living off Kilgore Pat?  If so and I get the chance I'll try and drop in and say Hello.  No guarantees since I have a lot of stuff going on right now but I'd like to hang out for a bit and shoot the breeze.

-Corey

Now the NSA knows where you live Patsy.

Please, the NSA always knows where I live!

X
(HACK THE PLANET!!!)

Thanks for hosting a sweet LAN, Stewie!

After watching you play Fallout 3 this weekend, I had to fire up my saved game last night and give it another run through.  It still has some life in it!

I think we should get together more often to play a board game or two.  Risk was awesome, and I'm ready to throw down on Briney for his last-round antics!


-b0b
(...sweet!)

Fallout is good all around.

Risk was fun, eric played hardcore, but we all ganged up on him for his arrogance!

---

After watching you play Fallout 3 this weekend, I had to fire up my saved game last night and give it another run through.

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You're cute, you intelligent bot. You almost had me there!

And then you realized that it was a girl's name and then realized that's how you knew it was a bot!

X

I thought this forum was like protected from bots. Pfft. Crappy forum.  >:(

Not from these Bots, Stick.  These bots were created by our new Overlord - IBM's Watson

Banninated!

The bots have to pass a Captcha test and respond to an e-mail, so it's fairly rare that any of them make it through.  Does happen, though.


-b0b
(...also blames Watson.)