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11/09/2007 November LAN is canceled
OK, so just to make it official the November LAN is canceled. No big deal, we normally don't do them in November and December anyway. We'll start discussing January dates in mid-December then.
Happy holidays everybody!
DeadTOm
OK, so just to make it official the November LAN is canceled. No big deal, we normally don't do them in November and December anyway. We'll start discussing January dates in mid-December then.
Happy holidays everybody!
DeadTOm
10/20/2007 November LAN
The October LAN was all kinds of fun. We played FF the first part of the day, then shortly after Reader's arrival in the afternoon we all teamed up on some online CS Source servers for some good healthy ghosting. We still managed to get owned by the 2MAN clan on their server but it was a blast. We decided to go ahead and do a November LAN this year and after some discussion in the forums we settled on November 10th. The sign-up page has been updated and a thread started on the forum. See you there!
DeadTOm
The October LAN was all kinds of fun. We played FF the first part of the day, then shortly after Reader's arrival in the afternoon we all teamed up on some online CS Source servers for some good healthy ghosting. We still managed to get owned by the 2MAN clan on their server but it was a blast. We decided to go ahead and do a November LAN this year and after some discussion in the forums we settled on November 10th. The sign-up page has been updated and a thread started on the forum. See you there!
DeadTOm
09/27/2007 October 13th LAN party
Ok lannies, we've got a date for the October LAN party. Saturday the 13th is far enough away to get things organized but not too close to Halloween. It comes right after the release of the Orange box and the full blown Quakewars, so let's plan on trying out one or both of those this time. We all had fun playing Fortress Forever so I can see some of that being played as well. Last month we had nine people show up, let's see if we can break the ten mark this time. Thanks to Damien for bringing extra chairs and a table, even though we didn't need them. Hopefully one of these times we will! Also, everyone brought their own chairs which worked out pretty well. For those that can't do that, I always have those rather uncomfortable lawn chairs.
I've submitted us to lanparty.com, bluesnews, lanfest, lan addict and I've put an ad on craigslist. I've been doing that for the last few LAN parties and it hasn't yielded much of a response, I'm still of the opinion that word-of-mouth is our best bet. So tell your friends, your co-workers and that quiet, creepy, pasty white neighbor that's always walking around muttering to himself about noobs and loot ninjas.
That's about all I've got. Thanks to everybody that came last month, I hope to see you all on the 13th. Maybe this time we could organize a breakfast or something before we get started. Meet at a diner somewhere and get in a good meal in before spending the afternoon blasting each other into a fine red mist with rocket launchers. Let's talk it over in the forums.
See you at the LAN!
DeadTOm
Ok lannies, we've got a date for the October LAN party. Saturday the 13th is far enough away to get things organized but not too close to Halloween. It comes right after the release of the Orange box and the full blown Quakewars, so let's plan on trying out one or both of those this time. We all had fun playing Fortress Forever so I can see some of that being played as well. Last month we had nine people show up, let's see if we can break the ten mark this time. Thanks to Damien for bringing extra chairs and a table, even though we didn't need them. Hopefully one of these times we will! Also, everyone brought their own chairs which worked out pretty well. For those that can't do that, I always have those rather uncomfortable lawn chairs.
I've submitted us to lanparty.com, bluesnews, lanfest, lan addict and I've put an ad on craigslist. I've been doing that for the last few LAN parties and it hasn't yielded much of a response, I'm still of the opinion that word-of-mouth is our best bet. So tell your friends, your co-workers and that quiet, creepy, pasty white neighbor that's always walking around muttering to himself about noobs and loot ninjas.
That's about all I've got. Thanks to everybody that came last month, I hope to see you all on the 13th. Maybe this time we could organize a breakfast or something before we get started. Meet at a diner somewhere and get in a good meal in before spending the afternoon blasting each other into a fine red mist with rocket launchers. Let's talk it over in the forums.
See you at the LAN!
DeadTOm
08/23/2007 September 15th LAN Party
So for you slackers that haven't been keeping up with the forums, the first LAN party of the season is scheduled for Saturday, September 15th from noon till I get fed up and kick you moochers outta my garage. If you want to go then please, please, please sign up. Space is somewhat limited and parking is extremely limited (still not sure how we're gonna manage it) so knowing how many people are coming will help us organize things better. There will be tables a-plenty but I've only got eight chairs so if there are more than eight people on the guest list you might want to consider bringing your own chair. Also, the chairs I have are plastic lawn chairs so if your sensitive bum can't handle it, bring a pillow or your own comfy leather chair. Personally, I'll be sitting in my high-backed, arm rested, leather shiatsu massage chair, because I'm that important. It's the kind of chair that makes you want to point and say "engage" when you sit in it.
LAN goers will be free to use our kitchen and toilet, as well as a small grill if you want to BBQ. There will also be a few coolers in the garage, that is unless someone wants to bring a fridge... I will have lots of extra little things like CAT5 cable, PC power cables, mice and keyboards so if you forget the little things I've gotcha covered. There will also be three dedicated boxes for game and file servers and a 7mb DSL connection. All of the servers are live so we may or may not have guests via the internet.
There are two games coming out the first week of September, Medal of Honor: Airborne and Enemy Territory: Quakewars so I'd imagine that we'll be playing a lot of those. I'm currently working the kinks out of a Synergy server so if anyone else is interested I'd love to play some Half-life 2 Co-op. Naturally, there will be all of the usual games like Counter-Strike Source, Call of Duty 2, etc...
If you have any questions, suggestions or just need to get something off your chest drop in the forums and say hi.
See you at the LAN!
DeadTOm
So for you slackers that haven't been keeping up with the forums, the first LAN party of the season is scheduled for Saturday, September 15th from noon till I get fed up and kick you moochers outta my garage. If you want to go then please, please, please sign up. Space is somewhat limited and parking is extremely limited (still not sure how we're gonna manage it) so knowing how many people are coming will help us organize things better. There will be tables a-plenty but I've only got eight chairs so if there are more than eight people on the guest list you might want to consider bringing your own chair. Also, the chairs I have are plastic lawn chairs so if your sensitive bum can't handle it, bring a pillow or your own comfy leather chair. Personally, I'll be sitting in my high-backed, arm rested, leather shiatsu massage chair, because I'm that important. It's the kind of chair that makes you want to point and say "engage" when you sit in it.
LAN goers will be free to use our kitchen and toilet, as well as a small grill if you want to BBQ. There will also be a few coolers in the garage, that is unless someone wants to bring a fridge... I will have lots of extra little things like CAT5 cable, PC power cables, mice and keyboards so if you forget the little things I've gotcha covered. There will also be three dedicated boxes for game and file servers and a 7mb DSL connection. All of the servers are live so we may or may not have guests via the internet.
There are two games coming out the first week of September, Medal of Honor: Airborne and Enemy Territory: Quakewars so I'd imagine that we'll be playing a lot of those. I'm currently working the kinks out of a Synergy server so if anyone else is interested I'd love to play some Half-life 2 Co-op. Naturally, there will be all of the usual games like Counter-Strike Source, Call of Duty 2, etc...
If you have any questions, suggestions or just need to get something off your chest drop in the forums and say hi.
See you at the LAN!
DeadTOm
01/06/2007 LAN Party - January 20th, 2007
This next LAN will be at Warhawk's place in Florence on Saturday, January 20th. He has a decent sized basement which we have used many times in the past and it's always been lots of fun. Warhawk says his door is open at noon and we can go till we drop. I've been in contact with Roadhog of the Bitteroot Laners and some of them may be coming up to join us later in the afternoon. Sign up here for a map and driving directions to Warhawk's house and also so we can get an idea of how many people will be coming. For those needing a ride or wanting to carpool, email me at deadtom@mtlaners.org or post in the forums.
For updated information please keep checking the forums under “LAN Plan”.
See you at the LAN!!
DeadTOm
This next LAN will be at Warhawk's place in Florence on Saturday, January 20th. He has a decent sized basement which we have used many times in the past and it's always been lots of fun. Warhawk says his door is open at noon and we can go till we drop. I've been in contact with Roadhog of the Bitteroot Laners and some of them may be coming up to join us later in the afternoon. Sign up here for a map and driving directions to Warhawk's house and also so we can get an idea of how many people will be coming. For those needing a ride or wanting to carpool, email me at deadtom@mtlaners.org or post in the forums.
For updated information please keep checking the forums under “LAN Plan”.
See you at the LAN!!
DeadTOm
09/26/2006 Opening weekend of the 2006/07 LAN season
The September/06 LAN kicked off at 9am at the University Center. Normally we don't start things this early but it was a Griz game day and we had to get started early to get parking. I got there around 10am and Ripspinner, Reader and a few others were already there and getting set up. The room was nice, good lighting, a white board, wired tables... perfect for a LAN. By noon we had 8 people and got in a few good games of 4 on 4 Counterstrike: Source. Geekess, our newest LAN goer made it in and spent the morning and early afternoon with us. Some of the guys from the Bitterroot LAN group made it in later on in the day. It was great to see all the new faces and we're certainly looking forward to seeing them again at future LAN parties. We played mostly Counter-strike: Source and Call of Duty 2 with a spattering of Medal of Honor and FEAR: Combat. We had just enough people to play all team based games. Traditionally, we've stuck to older games to accommodate everyone's hardware capabilities but this time we were able to play a lot of newer games and it was a great change of pace. As usual there were dough nuts, pop, Gatorade, chips and cookies strewn all about the room and the occasional break to go to the tail gate parties for food and fun. We had the room till midnight but Reader and I, being the old fogies that we are and not having the LAN stamina that we used to, cut out about 10:30 and the rest were still going strong at that point. We had about 12 people in all, a better turn out than we've seen in a long time and it seemed that everyone had a really good time. I'd rate it as the best LAN we've had in the last year. I got a few pictures and those will be available on the media page later today.
At the moment, the plan is to have the next LAN at either Warhawk's house in Florence, depending on his schedule, or the Lolo community center if we can work out a deal with them. Of course the Bitterroot LANers are having a get together this weekend and everyone is encouraged to go, I'm sure they'd love to have us. For our next, a date has not yet been set but we should have something solid by the end of this week. Remember, our best advertising is word of mouth. Tell your friends and co-workers, invite that guy at the coffee place that's always yacking about gaming. The more the merrier.
Good LAN everybody! See you next time!
DeadTOm
The September/06 LAN kicked off at 9am at the University Center. Normally we don't start things this early but it was a Griz game day and we had to get started early to get parking. I got there around 10am and Ripspinner, Reader and a few others were already there and getting set up. The room was nice, good lighting, a white board, wired tables... perfect for a LAN. By noon we had 8 people and got in a few good games of 4 on 4 Counterstrike: Source. Geekess, our newest LAN goer made it in and spent the morning and early afternoon with us. Some of the guys from the Bitterroot LAN group made it in later on in the day. It was great to see all the new faces and we're certainly looking forward to seeing them again at future LAN parties. We played mostly Counter-strike: Source and Call of Duty 2 with a spattering of Medal of Honor and FEAR: Combat. We had just enough people to play all team based games. Traditionally, we've stuck to older games to accommodate everyone's hardware capabilities but this time we were able to play a lot of newer games and it was a great change of pace. As usual there were dough nuts, pop, Gatorade, chips and cookies strewn all about the room and the occasional break to go to the tail gate parties for food and fun. We had the room till midnight but Reader and I, being the old fogies that we are and not having the LAN stamina that we used to, cut out about 10:30 and the rest were still going strong at that point. We had about 12 people in all, a better turn out than we've seen in a long time and it seemed that everyone had a really good time. I'd rate it as the best LAN we've had in the last year. I got a few pictures and those will be available on the media page later today.
At the moment, the plan is to have the next LAN at either Warhawk's house in Florence, depending on his schedule, or the Lolo community center if we can work out a deal with them. Of course the Bitterroot LANers are having a get together this weekend and everyone is encouraged to go, I'm sure they'd love to have us. For our next, a date has not yet been set but we should have something solid by the end of this week. Remember, our best advertising is word of mouth. Tell your friends and co-workers, invite that guy at the coffee place that's always yacking about gaming. The more the merrier.
Good LAN everybody! See you next time!
DeadTOm
07/27/2006 Bitteroot Lan
The folks of Bitteroot have invited us to there LAN August 26th.
See the forum for more details.
Also some of the games we would like to play at our LAN September 23rd include:
CoD2, HL2, CSS, and Quake 4 as well as the older games.
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The folks of Bitteroot have invited us to there LAN August 26th.
See the forum for more details.
Also some of the games we would like to play at our LAN September 23rd include:
CoD2, HL2, CSS, and Quake 4 as well as the older games.
RiPSpinner
07/18/2006 Fall Priemer LAN
The fall priemer lan party will be September 23, 2006. The location will be The University Center confrence room 210. The room will open at 10:00 a.m. expect to start at our usual time of 12:00pm. The party will end as usual by 12:00 midnight. A map is posted under LANinfo. Keep an eye on the forums and here for more info concerning games, themes etc.
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The fall priemer lan party will be September 23, 2006. The location will be The University Center confrence room 210. The room will open at 10:00 a.m. expect to start at our usual time of 12:00pm. The party will end as usual by 12:00 midnight. A map is posted under LANinfo. Keep an eye on the forums and here for more info concerning games, themes etc.
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07/16/2006 New Website Template idea
Here is a screenshot of a template I have been considering changing the site over too,
It is a semi-ripoff of a template I found on a free webhosting site.
What do you think. No content is currently displayed.
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Here is a screenshot of a template I have been considering changing the site over too,
It is a semi-ripoff of a template I found on a free webhosting site.
What do you think. No content is currently displayed.
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