Scuttlingb said:
I thought a LAN party WAS over the internet so why rent a room and fill it with computers and people and then try to connect with each other????
V. weird!!!!
no, that's the thing - kids these days custom fit their PCs like they're souped-up vauxhall novas, so they can show them off at these parties in the same way pikies do with their cars in mcdonald's car park!
you get custom PC cases now with names like "LANboy" and stuff, that are lightweight and have handles built-in so that it's easy to cart your "gaming rig" round a mate's house, and then laugh at them because they've only got single graphics card set-ups and can only manage 4x anistropic anti-aliasing..
it's a strange world we're living in, i tells ya!
please don't feel like we're taking the piss, djwellis! this is all just a bit foreign to us - even though i consider myself a hardened geek