I went to the LAN. There were, at one point, 8 people available for the DotA playing. For those of you who don’t know DotA is a player made map using the Warcraft III engine. It involves only hero combat, so it’s really nothing like Warcraft. We were LANing it up 4 vs. 4, which was pretty good. I was a noob and died more than anyone else, but I also didn’t stink so much as to be worthless, and it was entertaining. Much more fun than CS (Counter Strike, not computer science in this instance).
If someone had hidden a spy camera in the room they would notice that we devolved into a bunch of geeks. I don’t think anyone there really would talk like they do at the LAN if it wasn’t for the rep that it’s what’s supposed to be done. It’s all done as a giant joke. Never the less, within an hour of good LANing going almost no real words are said anymore. It’s all, “omg gank 4 teh win!! gg!*” and “LOLZ noob!**” and such. I found it humorous, although I didn’t partake much since I’m quite and not much of a joiner and all. Fun stuff, I’ll probably go back in the future if it’s convenient.
8 made a cake. She brought me noodles at the LAN. 🙂 She’s so domestic. It was funny. She showed up w/ 3 of her female friends and nobody said anything except Keston. All the other nerds just kept staring at their screens. 8 asked me later if anyone had said anything about them, and I realized that they hadn’t. 🙂
One of the other LANer’s had his gf their. She had the worst Dell computer ever with a monitor so old it had a constant green tint. They tried to replace her graphics card only to discover her computer was so poorly designed that no graphics cards bigger than the one she had would fit. 😛 She tried to play a bit, but didn’t really succeed.
I wish 8 to come in the future. I dunno if she’d enjoy herself though. She tends to get board after staying in one place more than a couple of hours. And sometime people get on her nerves, and at the LAN there would be people. Also, she’d be a noob in the games we played. If she liked it it would be much fun for me though. 😀
Puerto Rico is a cool game, although I don’t seem to be very good at it. Lunch Money is cool too, and nobody will ever be considered good at such a game I don’t think.
Cakes done! Better give Minerva back to 8.
* Either Oh my God. We just teamed up and killed you! We’re going to win!
or
Oh my God! You all just teamed up and killed me! It’s all over now!
** Quite humorous, I just did something to show how you are incompetent at this particular activity.