26 Oct The Reality
Category: Gaming, Personal

As you might have figured from my twitter updates, I spent the weekend at the locally hosted LAN party ‘the Reality’.

A LAN party is an event where a bunch of computer-loving geeks take their computers with them to play games and have fun together, which I certainly had. I made a little video to show what it looks like when over 730 people come together and go crazy. It’s HD – fullscreen playback is recommended!

While using Windows was a bit bumpy at times, the party was great and I’ve had a lot of fun.

Already looking forward to next year.

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10 Responses

  2. 1
    Jeff 

    I still demand a screenshot of the 15 terabytes of porn.

  4. 2
    Danielle 

    It was a great LAN party! It was the first time I went to The Reality, but I will be there also the next time! Great video!

  6. 3
    Javos 

    Oh boy, here in Germany they want to enjoin them because of these gun rampages! I still wonder how anyone could think these guys would hurt anyone :(

    Seems it was fun :) What games did you play?

  8. 4
    Bouke 

    Looks great, was this party at the WTC expo in Leeuwarden?

  10. 5
    sebastiaan 

    No, it was at the Fries Congrescentrum in Drachten. Most likely next year, too.

  12. 6
    Dan 

    Awesome. I really hope to see even more posts on these parties. Quite intriguing :)

  14. 7
    Thomas 

    I’ve been to various LAN parties in the past, but none as large as this. My dream is still to attend QuakeCon or something and see such a crowd go nuts for a few days!

  16. 8
    John Verkoff 

    Love the video. There’s something about seeing a hall full of computers that just seems eerie, and alienating.

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