LAN#3 07/08 - Signup open! - December 2007

[Sid]

Signup for the third event of the 2007-2008 year is now open.

Free entry if it's your first LAN, so let your mates know about it!

Friday 30th November @ 8pm - Sunday 2nd December @ 8pm.

Friday night start! Arrive between 8pm and 9pm on Friday if you want to setup then. Otherwise - arrive Saturday morning between 1000 and 1100.

Signup here to add yourself to the list:
http://pausegaming.com/events.php?goto=details&eid=17 (http://www.pausegaming.com/forum/../events.php?goto=details&eid=17)

Tournaments
Counter Strike: Source
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Live for Speed Championship
[ World In Conflict (http://pausegaming.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1613)]

Sponsors
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/
Any purchases can be delivered to the LAN for free. They'll also bring down any kit that you might want to have a look at before considering buying, so just contact them to let them know what to bring!

Timetable
See below.

[Sid]

Prototype timetable added. What does everyone think?

[saladin]

Only an hour for TF2?

:(

[Sid]

We scheduled two hours at the last LAN and it seemed to kinda die out before the two hours was up. It is a popular game though, so it probably should get two hours. Perhaps 2 x 1 hour slots would work?

[Hex]

Another Source tourney eh? Same format? Timetable looks good IMO :-)

[GigaFuzz]

Prototype timetable added. What does everyone think?

Looks pretty good. A few spots for some random games, if people aren't playing certain things (e.g. I won't be playing Live for Speed, and last time a few of us had a bash at UT3), which is good.

TF2 might be ok for an hour, but I think we need to at least make sure that the teams are sorted out, and if using Vent, make sure that everyone's on, and in the correct channel. Last time felt a bit like a random pick-up internet match.

[Sid]

Yeah same sort of format for the Source tournament. We've basically tried to keep everything that went down well last time and add a few new things in that people seemed to want (organized WiC, BF2142 etc.)

We could make the 2-hour slot of WiC on the Sunday night into 1-hour of WiC and 1 extra hour of TF2?

[Fil2eFly]

1 extra hour of TF2?

no....

more games, less time seems to work tbh. timetable looks good. though i dont have 2142

[Greasel_burger]

Cant make it this time :(

Spent far too long lugging my PC the last few times, however, i will return after xmas!

[Sideshow]

Yay, 2142. Looks good. Will make it for BF2 this time, I promise!

[johnt447]

Do people play any other games apart from the ones on the list i mean like when live for speed is timetabled does anyone else play other games during this time? also is ok to take my pc home on the sat and bring bak on the sun?

[Strings]

Yeh, some of us will be having a big games of Worms, for example, during the Live for Speed timetabling.

And yeh, it's cool if you take your PC home on the Saturday, but why would you bother? It's not like we're going to rape your PC for components :P

[GigaFuzz]

Do people play any other games apart from the ones on the list i mean like when live for speed is timetabled does anyone else play other games during this time? also is ok to take my pc home on the sat and bring bak on the sun?

Yeah, there were a few game of Worms happening at certain times (other than the actual scheduled Worms), and I think the big game of the UT3 demo happened during the Live for Speed game.

If there's an opening, and there's a game a few people have access to, then there's always a chance it'll be played if someone suggests it.

[johnt447]

Yeh, some of us will be having a big games of Worms, for example, during the Live for Speed timetabling.

And yeh, it's cool if you take your PC home on the Saturday, but why would you bother? It's not like we're going to rape your PC for components :P

lol am pretty sure you guyz wouldnt do anything:P but i know for a fact that my dad will say "oh ure pc is goin to get stolen moan moan moan moan" lol so it would be a whole lot easier to take it home lol

[Fyndir]

New rule:

Anyone taking their stuff home and then bringing it back gets NO help carrying it all. =P

[Sid]

Hey John,

Yeah - while try to schedule something for everyone and encourage everyone to play all the games that are scheduled, we can't force people to play every game, and so usually for some of the less popular games, people will get a secondary game of something going in the background.

You're also more than welcome to take your PC home on Saturday night and bring it back on Sunday.

[Fil2eFly]

lol am pretty sure you guyz wouldnt do anything:P but i know for a fact that my dad will say "oh ure pc is goin to get stolen moan moan moan moan" lol so it would be a whole lot easier to take it home lol

well, i always stay overnite in the same room as the pc's along with a few other people; so there is always some one there to keep an eye on thigs. You could also stay over nite your self. its great play games untill the early hours of the morning, crash on what ever u can find, get a few hours of shit sleep then go to subway for breaky. its great!!

[YegaDoyai]

+1 staying over getting shit sleep. Please note the grey chairs with black cushions are FAR more comfy to sleep on.

[Hex]

+1 staying over getting shit sleep. Please note the grey chairs with black cushions are FAR more comfy to sleep on.

Aren't there sofas somewhere on level 3?

[Bluepixie]

Aren't there sofas somewhere on level 3?

Aye, in the TV room, but it's you'll likely have to fight for them..... :p

A sleep deprived, sugar and caffeine induced fight, could be amusing.

[saladin]

lol am pretty sure you guyz wouldnt do anything:P

Don't trust 'em. They'll put silly string in your motherboard.

Bastards.

[Hex]

Aye, in the TV room, but it's you'll likely have to fight for them..... :p

A sleep deprived, sugar and caffeine induced fight, could be amusing.

Hahaha, anytime anyone mentions sleep deprivation it reminds me of 2005 LANage and trying to play RISK at 4am with Strings and Pit. Around an hour into the game Andy actually fell asleep on the table....after which his behaviour became somewhat "erratic" :lol:

[YegaDoyai]

A game he won. I believe.

[Fyndir]

Aren't there sofas somewhere on level 3?

I was always under the impression that they were teeny tiny sofas the same as the ones at the other end of the food factory from us?

Perfect for Ru or Hobbit sized folks, not so great for Yega or Larry or Me sized folks. =P

[YegaDoyai]

fuck off troll

[Fyndir]

Shut the fuck up, dicklicker, or I'll ride you down with my case.

Think mongols and Ghengis Khan, but with Lian-Lis instead of ponies.

[Hex]

Perfect for Ru or Hobbit sized folks, not so great for Yega or Larry or Me sized folks. =P

(Possibly Unintentional) Jibe at Yega's weight

fuck off troll

Unneccesary response

Shut the fuck up, dicklicker, or I'll ride you down with my case.

Completely unneccesary antagonism. Really guys, get a life, you're both shocking trolls.

[Fyndir]

(Possibly Unintentional) Jibe at Yega's weight

Weight?

Yega isn't fat you morbidly underweight fool, look at the length of the couches and then look at the height of me, or Larry, or Yega.

We're all too tall to sleep comfortably on them because they're small couches, Ru is about the right height to sleep on one without complaint, as is hobbit. =/

[Hex]

Yega isn't fat you morbidly underweight fool, look at the length of the couches and then look at the height of me, or Larry, or Yega.


I am not morbidly underweight, I weigh a perfectly healthy 13 stone :-P

More to the point, whatever you meant, it seems pretty evident to me that Yega felt offended by your size based comparisons! And you're still a shocking troll!

[YegaDoyai]

Ru actually used 2 at the last lan and seemed 'cosy' at that. The idea that any of pauses heavyweight members could use them as anything other than slippers is laughable.

Edit:
Shocking troll is shocking in shocking news break shock.

[Fyndir]

Smaller than me, hence morbidly underweight, I worry about Pixie blowing away in the wind constantly. Not so much you, I'd probably cheer the wind on then lick your computer to lay claim to it.

Yega knows he's smaller than me.

I'm no longer talking about height OR weight.

[Hex]

Not so much you, I'd probably cheer the wind on then lick your computer to lay claim to it.

<3 you too man :-P

Oh and yes, we have spoiler tags now, get over it :-P:-P

[Fyndir]

Hex sucks.

[GigaFuzz]

It's like the Worms /anon all over again. :(

[YegaDoyai]

It's like the Worms /anon all over again. :(

Say what with the where now?

[GigaFuzz]

Say what with the where now?

In Worms, in the text chat, using /anon allows you to type anonymous messages to everyone. Much fun was had trading 'Yer Maw' jokes with that one.

Probably one of those 'You had to be there!' things.

[YegaDoyai]

You did this at a lan? Where people could see you, and probably hear you type.

[GigaFuzz]

You did this at a lan? Where people could see you, and probably hear you type.

Hey, I didn't say this was a flawless plan. :p

[Hex]

You did this at a lan? Where people could see you, and probably hear you type.

Actually there were so many people all spamming in at once it was pretty difficult to tell at time ;-)

[Strings]

"/anon [Phil's Maw]<text entry>"

Was awesome :)

[DJ_Evil]

Does anyone have a spare 4 pin molex to SATA Power convertor?

Debbie needs just the one for her PC, the fucking mobo didn't come with one and I don't have any on her PSU and I also don't have any spare.. :(

[Muppet]

I'll bring what i have along - i'm sure they'll be others that can give you a lead no bother to keep as well.

[DJ_Evil]

Awesome man, thanks a lot :D

[Muppet]

Awesome man, thanks a lot :D

Just to make sure, is it this..?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/images/300/a17gg.jpg

If so, cool - i'll bring one along to the LAN.

[DJ_Evil]

yeah from Molex to SATA :) thanks man :D

[Tiberio]

Won't be coming to this lan as I have wayyy too much work to do:(.
Will see everyone after christmas though:).

[Hex]

That sucks hobbit :-( gl with the work...

[DAve]

THere's a 50/50 chance I'll be along for Saturday until dinner-time. I'm moving house in mid-december and need to pack. Boxes a mile high in the flat at the moment.

It also explains why I've not been posting recently. :D

[Fyndir]

I thought you'd broken your hip, personally.

Fyndir's lewd comment has been removed.

[Strings]

Starting to see a more specific trend in Fyndir's posting.

[gor]

5 days folks!!! tell all yer mates.

I simply cannot wait.

[DJ_Evil]

3 days bitches!

[Sid]

It's my 21st birthday on Saturday so I'm not going to be around in the evening so I'm looking for someone else to run the CS:S tournament. It basically just involves working out how many people are playing, choosing a number of teams that the number of players divides into, choosing the best players as captain for each team, getting everyone else to pair/three-up and allocate them to captains.

Either that or we could scrap the CS tournament altogether?

What do people think?

[GigaFuzz]

It's my 21st birthday on Saturday so I'm not going to be around in the evening so I'm looking for someone else to run the CS:S tournament. It basically just involves working out how many people are playing, choosing a number of teams that the number of players divides into, choosing the best players as captain for each team, getting everyone else to pair/three-up and allocate them to captains.

Either that or we could scrap the CS tournament altogether?

What do people think?

First of all, an advanced Happy Birthday!

Secondly, I personally wouldn't miss a CS:S tourney, but would still be happy to play in one. I would have thought it would be sufficiently popular that someone could step-up and run it.

[TK-Maximus]

Have randomly generating spreadsheets, will travel. If you need me.

Also, you#re only 21? Damn I feel old.

[Fyndir]

I think that most of us are under 24. =S

I could be entirely wrong, but I know for a fact that I'm not even 20 yet.

[Octavion]

I think that most of us are under 24. =S

Aye but DAve pushes the average age up to 35. ;D

[GigaFuzz]

I think that most of us are under 24. =S

I could be entirely wrong, but I know for a fact that I'm not even 20 yet.

It's a university club. Most students at university are undergraduates [source: my arse]. Most undergraduates are under 24. So that makes sense.

You do get the occasional old fart around though. :)

[Fyndir]

Aye but DAve pushes the average age up to 35. ;D

I thought it was more like 45?

Or was that just a typo? =P

[Muppet]

It's my 21st birthday on Saturday so I'm not going to be around in the evening so I'm looking for someone else to run the CS:S tournament. It basically just involves working out how many people are playing, choosing a number of teams that the number of players divides into, choosing the best players as captain for each team, getting everyone else to pair/three-up and allocate them to captains.

Either that or we could scrap the CS tournament altogether?

What do people think?

I assume gor and Larry will still be about. If so, we'll make something work.

[DJ_Evil]

Sid, are we not good enough no? :)

[Octavion]

I have a plan:

When Sid gets up to leave we all grab onto his legs and shout "Sid, I love you! Please don't leave me like this!!! How are we meant to know the map rotation? You are our light in this fog draped maze, our lighthouse in the storm, our label with our name and address sown into the back of our shirts..."

Too much?

[YegaDoyai]

better idea, get him legless drunk so he cant leave. then get in some gogo dancers.

[Hex]

Lol, nice idea Yega ;-)

The question really is how many people besides Sid are gonna be away for the birthday outing? If Larry, Muppet, etc will be about then we've got a) enough people and b) enough organisation to have the tourney. If however half the committee is also going out then we might as well forget about it...

[Thanatos]

, get him legless drunk

didnt that happen on the Friday of the last lan anyway?

[YegaDoyai]

yes but the important difference was the [lack of] presence of half naked (fully naked is good too) women which is a requirement for a 21st.

[Bluepixie]

How much does it cost to hire such a performance? Wonder what the bouncers would think........come up stairs expecting geeks hunched over computers only to find a full on strip party! Hopefully just grab a pint and join in. :p

[YegaDoyai]

Tbh, I'm not sure we can do it this last minute, normally you have to get permission from the building owner and then you'd need to actually need to make sure you are getting what you ask for by getting a private session to 'test the goods' as it were. As it is I'm not sure we can, unless someone knows a stripper?

Man that would be messed up.

"Hey! Get your boobs out my face! This is the CS:S Final woman!"

[Sid]

I imagine that a few of the captains from last time might not be around for it, but I'm not really sure at this stage. There should still be enough for at least 4 teams of 5. I guess we should just wait and see what happens on the day.

It's probably worth doing a vote at dinner time to see who would rather play something else other than the CS tournament. If more than 50% would prefer to play something else then just organize another game to play - the only real requirement is that it has to be fun and something that everyone will take part in - since it's the 7-9pm Saturday night slot.

If the CS tournament does go ahead, it just means that by 7pm, a couple of you will need to take the bulls by the horn and stand up and organize it. Stuart, DJ_Evil and TK_Maximus: you guys wanna organize it between you guys?

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RE: Stripper(s) at the LAN:
Excellent! :D

[Muppet]

Me, Larry, Strings etc - the main CSS players - we'll make some kind of fair teams without needing random spreadsheets ;)

[Strings]

Aye, I'm sure there's something we can arrange. Maybe some fun 5v5s or something.

[Fyndir]

5v5 Para Only Aztec.

[Hex]

5v5 Para Only Aztec.

No :-P

[Fil2eFly]

No :-P

pussy

[IceWind]

can i get a lift from someone from queen street. Or a quote at how much a taxi will be

[saladin]

It'll be no more than a fiver, depending on traffic. Why not take the underground? Buchanan street's just beside the queens street station exit. Take it to hillhead and just walk round to the qmu :)

[Fyndir]

Walking + Underground + Computer = "OH DEAR THERE'S A KNIFE IN MY FACE AND MY COMPUTER IS GONE!" ;)

[Strings]

Walking + Underground + Computer = "OH DEAR THERE'S A KNIFE IN MY FACE AND MY COMPUTER IS GONE!" ;)

Or... not, as this case would be.

[Hex]

Walking + Underground + Computer = "OH DEAR THERE'S A KNIFE IN MY FACE AND MY COMPUTER IS GONE!" ;)

Rofl

Yeah man, taxi won't cost you much :-)

[saladin]

Walking + Underground + Computer = "OH DEAR THERE'S A KNIFE IN MY FACE AND MY COMPUTER IS GONE!" ;)

Yeah, those Byres Road types are rough as.

[IceWind]

what is the earliset i can arrive cause i dont want to be walking around glasgow with all my stuff

[GigaFuzz]

what is the earliset i can arrive cause i dont want to be walking around glasgow with all my stuff

I think they start setting up around 7-8. I was planning on going down about 8-ish and maybe help set up. Is that a reasonable time?

[IceWind]

i was hoping of getting there slightly earlier since i dont have transport. i dont really want to be carrying my stuff through glasgow at nioght.

[Fil2eFly]

yeah thats the kinda time im planning on being there, but all depends on trafic for me tbh

[Fyndir]

i was hoping of getting there slightly earlier since i dont have transport. i dont really want to be carrying my stuff through glasgow at nioght.

Seriously, just pay the extra to get a taxi from the train station to the LAN.

[Strings]

Yeah, those Byres Road types are rough as.

Did I tell you they stole my shoes and raped them?

[IceWind]

im going to. but il probaly be there before most people due the times of the trains and stuff.

[Fyndir]

If you say to the door staff / reception people at the QMU that you're here for Pausegaming they should let you in, just go to the far end of the food factory and hide in a corner until more people arrive.

[IceWind]

alright,

[Fyndir]

Just to clarify, by "far end" I mean turn left after you come out of the lift (or stairs) and walk right along.

[Muppet]

im going to. but il probaly be there before most people due the times of the trains and stuff.

There should be people from the committee there from 6pm onwards for setup.

[Sid]

IceWind: What time does your train get in?

There surely must be someone that will pick you up for the station.

[PeterKraus]

Is is possible to come for only one evening? I am at work at saturday, till 18.00, after that, I'd just pop in for few hours, maybe, and play something...

[Sid]

Is is possible to come for only one evening? I am at work at saturday, till 18.00, after that, I'd just pop in for few hours, maybe, and play something...
Yeah sure! Feel free to pop in and play for as long (or as little) as you like. It'll be your first time so there's no charge or anything.

I won't get to meet you as it's my 21st birthday on Saturday and I'm popping away for the evening just before 6ish, but you'll get to meet everyone else and get the feel for what's going on.

We're around all of Sunday until 9pm(ish) if you're not working on Sunday.

[IceWind]

think my maw is going to give me a lift now, im really not sure lol. if i do get the train its like 1834 it gets in

[Sid]

Is it a laptop or a regular PC you've got? If it's a laptop, a subway from Buchanan St (just next to Queen St station) to Hillhead is quick and easy.

[saladin]

Seriously, the underground is perfectly safe, even with a laptop. You'll be going from Buchanan street, middle class shopping Mecca to hillhead, middle class and student expensive food and drink mecca. I'm sure one of us could pop down to walk you to the qmu if you're still worried!

[Hex]

Indeed, it's perfectly safe to carry laptops around Glasgow - I have one in my rucksack most days of the week and I never run into any trouble. I wouldn't suggest taking a desktop on the subway (unless it's a particularly small one) just because it'd be hassle lugging the thing around, but you should be fine with a laptop.

[IceWind]

why does everyone think i have a laptop lol. its a full system

[Hex]

why does everyone think i have a laptop lol. its a full system

Well that's the first time you've said either way...

I wouldn't recommend trying to get a full system on and off the subway, get a taxi from the train station if you can't get a lift.

[saladin]

why does everyone think i have a laptop lol. its a full system

As Hex said, this is the first time you've actually answered that particular question.

A taxi shouldn't be more than 5-6 quid, depending on traffic.

[Bluepixie]

Hope guys have a great time, I'll be thinking of you as I slave over my report. :( I am seeing Apocalyptica tomorrow so it's not all gloomy, see you all at the next one. :)

[DAve]

Aye but DAve pushes the average age up to 35. ;D

I thought it was more like 45?

Or was that just a typo? =P
what? what?!?
I'll have you know I'm nowhere near middle-aged.

Damn kids, no respect. In my day it was different, we had the blah-blah-blah, yakkety-schmakety (trails off into the distance wittering)

[PaulRPG]

Might bring my ps2 for some gh3'age if no one else has brought theirs.

[IceWind]

bring it :D

[Fyndir]

The next person to play a game with speakers / headphones turned up loud enough that I can hear them OVER my headphoned music will suffer.

>=(

[Hex]

The next person to play a game with speakers / headphones turned up loud enough that I can hear them OVER my headphoned music will suffer.

>=(

Seconded. To quote the "what to bring" page on the website

"Headphones - No speakers please"

There is a good reason for this - bringing speakers to a LAN so that you can watch movies/play shit techno/play CS loud enough for the whole room to hear your AWP fire is FUCKING ANNOYING for the rest of the room. I would of thought basic courtesy would kick in here and people would use a bit of common sense...

[saladin]

Who comes to a LAN to watch movies?

Seriously.

[Fil2eFly]

ME

[YegaDoyai]

Using the forum to communicate at a lan. Poor show guys.

[Hex]

Using the forum to communicate at a lan. Poor show guys.

Epic hypocrisy, if it's such a poor show you should have come over and told me, rather than posting it on the forum :-P

[DJ_Evil]

Well quite clearly playing World in Conflict all night doesn't work for some people so we watched a movie, I would of thought a better projector setup would of been present at this LAN.

I also thought it was way too quiet in here a lot of the time, there is no where near the soul to this LAN as the first Pause LAN this year...

Hex, throwing a hairy fit like that when most people were eating and a group of us were watching a film wasn't that cool tbh, its not as if a tournament was on or anything else.

I will be bringing the speakers again, I haven't played music on it all weekend which I ended up doing at Scum LAN a couple of weeks ago without ANY complaints.

Also I don't appreciate people coming over that are NOT commitee members and taking my items without due permission from myself, I don't want to a be a dick here but I really don't like people touching my stuff when I bring a couple of grands worth of items, 2 computers etc is a fair amount of money for me to carry when there is the possibility of people helping themselves.

It made me feel very unwelcome the whole weekend with certain peoples comments that were not that well recieved by myself. I don't normally take offense but I have really been disappointed in some people this weekend so much that I would probably consider not coming back.

My speakers did end up saving people unable to play guitar hero also so at least some people appreciated that I brought them, not like I brought 200W fuck off speakers and left shitty rock music playing all weekend is it?

Wank.

[YegaDoyai]

Epic hypocrisy, if it's such a poor show you should have come over and told me, rather than posting it on the forum :-P

Irony

[Hex]

Hex, throwing a hairy fit like that when most people were eating and a group of us were watching a film wasn't that cool tbh, its not as if a tournament was on or anything else.


That's not the point, it's highly annoying having to listen to the sound of music/movie/whatever else. I asked you nicely to turn the sound off twice, and you ignored me, so I got annoyed and yelled at you, not really a huge surprise. Everyone here has headphones of some sort, so if you wanna watch a movie with ure gf bring a headphone splitter and do it without annoying everyone else.

[Fyndir]

Also I don't appreciate people coming over that are NOT commitee members and taking my items without due permission from myself, I don't want to a be a dick here but I really don't like people touching my stuff when I bring a couple of grands worth of items, 2 computers etc is a fair amount of money for me to carry when there is the possibility of people helping themselves.

Stick it up your arse. We were trying to play a game and I could barely hear my own headphones over the massive level of noise coming from your speakers, I pointed this out to you more than once and you continued with the level of noise, so I made my point more effectively since you seemed unwilling to actually listen to what was being said to you.

Speakers + Game != Good LAN.

Headphones + Game = Good LAN.

Watching movies late at night is fine by me, even with speakers, however compromise is essential to ensure that people can hear what's happening in the games they're playing to a reasonable degree. Perhaps you don't realise just how loud your speakers are sometimes but it really does intrude on the rest of our games, which you have been told, and our enjoyment of the LAN in general when we can't hear what the fuck is going on clearly because of excessively loud movies / someone elses' game.

The same issue has arrisen in the past concerning the level of noise from GH (and other console games), and the "no speakers" rule has been part of Pause from the start, and was part of GUNS before that because it makes sense that everyone bring headphones rather than have a cacophany of intruding noises from every side and angle.



You don't want to be a dick here, but it's too late for that, you were being a dick from the moment you ignored people telling you that your shit was too loud and to turn it down. =/

[--Mogwai--]

The same issue has arrisen in the past concerning the level of noise from GH (and other console games), and the "no speakers" rule has been part of Pause from the start, and was part of GUNS before that because it makes sense that everyone bring headphones rather than have a cacophany of intruding noises from every side and angle.

The same issue *has* arisen - but its only a complaint from people who like to complain. If people want to watch a movie with speakers they are perfctly entitled to - its hardly 'excessive noise' whe its only a movie or two and perhaps some GH on projector. The fact that you have headphones for games should mean you hear your game more than any surrounding noise anyway???

Stop being so hostile please - its not your place to dictate what others can and cannot do at LAN.

[Sideshow]

Stop being so hostile please - its not your place to dictate what others can and cannot do at LAN.

Exactly. It's not any member's prerogative to 'go off on one' or be abusive to other members who they have an issue with. If you have a problem then you should tell a committee member, who will be in a position to deal with it. Half the problem is people thinking they have the same authority as commitee members (or equivalently: mods on the forum), which they don't.

[Fyndir]

its hardly 'excessive noise' whe its only a movie or two and perhaps some GH on projector.

It is excessive noise when it's turned up loudly enough that my headphones are drowned out while I'm wearing them. Which happened. Hence the complaint. =/

[DJ_Evil]

That was during a "Fun" game of CSS I believe so your point is not valid imo, I did turn it down and off after being told.

Since you kept whining I turned them back on really loud, I think some people really can't take a joke which surprises me since you seem to have a good laugh on the forums most of the time ...

This LAN in comparison to Pause 1 has been a let down, and 99% of that let down is due to attitudes that I have seen to myself and also to my friends that came with me this time round, which really isn't on :/

The commitee and all the other people I have met before were top notch as always :D

Fyndir its still not very nice to take sometimes items off them that they bring to the LAN without just cause. Don't get me wrong I've had a good laugh with you at this LAN compared with the first as I didn't get to know you that well, please do not take my comments too personally but I think you were out of line.


None of the 4 people, yes 4 people watching the film heard you at all, you could of got up and come over instead of staying with your friends and raging about it Hex.

It was a quiet time of the night, the majority of people were eating dinner or away getting dinner/drunk so I really didn't see any issue with it. We all had headphones, hell Icewinds headphones were louder than my speakers mate.

I also put on normalization because as with most films when music was on it was loud as fuck but when people were talking it was quiet as fuck, I adjusted the volume CONSTANTLY to keep people happy you can ask any of the people that were over at my desk at any point during the film, so really grow a set of balls and confront me next time or just relax and not take games so seriously.

[Fil2eFly]

.... FORUM RAGE MORE? realy wtf? everyone should QQ less,,, eh? ( talking to every one btw)

[Chesire Cat]

Still, the Committee members should be there to handle MAJOR problems. Not every nitpicky "*whine* He's got speakers!" problem that presents itself. Similarly to Gumpcom, the use of speakers is not allowed at our LANs and this should have been rather obvious.
Sideshow, Mogwai, theres a big difference between abuse and shouting "turn ya speakers off ya cock." The way you seem to interpret abuse here would mean that the shouts of "fuck off you cock!", "you laggy cunt!", "Stop being a wank!" that are commonly heard during games should be stopped because they are abusive.
Back off seriously.

And Fyndir, don't get aggressive because someone says something slightly contrary. Its just silly!

[--Mogwai--]

Sideshow, Mogwai, theres a big difference between abuse and shouting "turn ya speakers off ya cock." The way you seem to interpret abuse here would mean that the shouts of "fuck off you cock!", "you laggy cunt!", "Stop being a wank!" that are commonly heard during games should be stopped because they are abusive.
Back off seriously.


lol wut? theres a big difference between in-game banter and out-of-game being a complete dick, which you need to recognise,as youre talking shite tbh. Noone should have to deal with people coming up and having a go - if someone does something you dont like, ask politely a couple times for them to stop - if they, don't, then tough luck, but you'll have to wait for a committee member to sort it out.
If people are thinking about not coming back to our events based on that attitudes of certain members, then its obvious those members are being out of line :)

[IceWind]

I enjoyed myself, minus the complaints i recived about my headphones, but hey what can i say, i need to hear everything that happens in the game even if it is a pin drop ( and lithgow will know about this more than others when is comes to CoD4 )

Everyone is complaining about Lithgows Speakers when my headphones were probaly the loudest things there.

I have to agree in certain terms, Speakers are not something that should be used at lans. HOWEVER, if you have been to any other lans ie Gumpcom or i series then you would relise that music is generaly played at quite a high level through out the day and most of the night. I would have probaly seen this more of an issue if there was more than one set of speakers on the go.

I tend to find however that regardless of how loud other shit is round about me all i hear is the game in front of me ( with the exception of CS:S cause i hate the dam thing and i lack all concentration in it ).

But regardless of how louds someones speakers are you should never confront them yourself. Always ask a staff/commitee member to do it for you, if you go off on one at the person with the loud speakers then you put yourself in the postion of possibly being asked to leave the event, where as if you ask a staff member to do it instead, the only person that is put in that postion would be the gamer creating excess noise using their speakers ie refusing to turn them down.


All in all, for the first Pause gaming that i have attended i would give it 7 out of 10 on a LAN scale. Not because of anyones attitudes towardes anyone else, but probaly due to the same one game being played longer than really schedueled, but as i said at the start of the post, still a good lan.

[GigaFuzz]

but probaly due to the same one game being played longer than really schedueled, but as i said at the start of the post, still a good lan.

Let me guess, World in Conflict? We did indeed play a lot of it. Thankfully, I enjoy it, but could easily see how others wouldn't. The trouble is, not enough people had copies of any other games that were suggested, so it basically came down to CS or WiC to fill any gaps.

[Octavion]

Aye, I think for next time we need a set in stone timetable out a week before the event so if people don't have a particular game they can get a copy and have it patched up read for the LAN.

Remember to put up you preferred games here (http://www.pausegaming.com/games.php) so that the timetable organisers can get an idea of what people want.

[Fil2eFly]

personaly i dont see what all the QQing is about?, there wer speekers on whooptyfucking doo,,

a movie on at dinnertime, i was right next to the speakers playing CSS and they dident bother me...

as for other times, they were turned off after asked, ,, end of...

I enjoyed myself, minus the complaints i recived about my headphones, but hey what can i say, i need to hear everything that happens in the game even if it is a pin drop



dude, yeah, pindrop at 50 million Db?, but no it was cool your headphones pissed me off when i was trying to play when u used them as speakers , i asked you to turn then down. you did, end of, there a big QQ thread on the froums? no, so i dont see the problem about the other speakers.


But regardless of how louds someones speakers are you should never confront them yourself.
...wut? dude, if some one is doing something i dont like, i will confront them and if they want shit il give it to them.Thats me personaly,i come to far to have some one fuck up my weekend but imo this is not the case at all and this QQing is all for nothing..

the commity is not there to fucking baby sit pople we are all adults, not fucking children

realy some poeple here need to grow a pair

[Fyndir]

if someone does something you dont like, ask politely a couple times for them to stop - if they, don't, then tough luck

Hai guyz, we have permissions to do whatever we want and ignore complaints. =D =D =D =D

That was a joke, incase people don't get it.

The main problem here is, as Sideshow said, authority.

Who can we turn to when the committee isn't there?

Time to be open and honest, I went over and hijacked the server machine late at night to get RCON access for map changes so that we could actually have fun. I did this because no-one with authority to do so was present.

In the same line of reasoning, I looked after the tuck shop when no-one was around, I would PREFER that I didn't have to do that, but if no-one from the committee is going to be there overnight then someone will have to do it.

I am asked to look after things like the Tuck Shop. I end up sorting out the server.

I'm seriously just not going to bother with the tuck shop at the next LAN, nor will I bother with server admin shit, and because I'm doing neither of those committee duties I won't take matters into my own hands.

Make your minds up as to what you want me to be, because I can't be fucked having to run to the committee when someone is pissing me off and I can't be fucked dealing with committee shit when they're not here.

You can't have it both ways, so make your minds up as to what you want me to be as far as attending LANs goes.

[Muppet]

I went over and hijacked the server machine late at night to get RCON access for map changes so that we could actually have fun. I did this because no-one with authority to do so was present.

We leave the server running and freely open without password for exactly this reason. There may/will be times when no committee member is about to deal with the server, i.e. map rotation etc.

The desktop is laid out in such a way that all servers and server settings can easily be found - and as Fyndir did, went and found out the rcon pass. Sure, someone could of told you the pass, but where's the fun in that? ;) Would rather have someone who knows what their doing with a server, to touch the server.

Anyway, thread closing - move the convo to Feedback please.

http://pausegaming.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1663