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LAN Party Upgrades

Jared — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:37:17 +0000

Time to upgrade my gaming computer. First upgrade since the initial paint and build all those years ago. The camo PC is dead, long live the camo PC!

It will be making the leap from an Athlon series AMD system with an AGP video card and DDR memory to a more modern multi-core AMD Phenom system with PCIe and DDR3 memory. The build went well except for a slight hiccup with the power supply and video card. The video card required a special 6 pin PCIe power adapter that is normally part of the power supply. Since I wasn't quiet ready to toss the power supply I found a nifty adapter on Newegg to convert two of the LP4 connections to one PCIe video card power connection.

See you at FITES.

New Years Eve HQ

Jared — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:10:09 +0000

Assembled in the forward HQ for a make shift LAN party to celebrate the coming of the New year. JB, AM, and VG.

Despite my best preparations there were a number of technical obstacles limiting the number of games we managed to play. My best computer with the best graphics card proved to run the worst, even after lowing performance settings. To make matters more interesting the lowest powered computer proved to run the best. After some last minute Vista Service Packs updates to AM's computer we managed to get in a couple solid games.

2010 LAN Party Follow-up

Jared — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:32:15 +0000

The LAN Party was a great success. Everyone had a wonderful time and despite UT 2004 being a new game for some of the players everyone managed to work through quite a few games of death match, team death match, onslaught, bombing run, capture the flag, and even a game of mutant. MA brought snacks to pass and around 10:30 PM we ordered out for pizza (thanks BL for ordering - great combination). By the end of the night some were giddy, some where tired, but everyone was fragged to satisfaction. Some arrived late and some left early but overall the roll call was as follows: JB, SH, JN, AM, MA, BL, MG, VA, and TN.

Oh, and everyone had their fill of nick name jokes, I.e. "You killed ..." or "... killed ..." I'd have listed the game handles but I couldn't keep track of them all.

Fall 2010 Unreal Tournament LAN Party

Jared — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:40:43 +0000

This coming Friday, October 29, a friend and I are hosting a Unreal Tournament 2004 LAN Party. If you are in the Northern New Jersey area and would like to join in please post a comment and I'll get the details to you. It's been over 2 years since my last real LAN party and I'm anxious for a great night of gaming with friends. Check out some of the past LAN Party events here.

If you can't make it this time but would like to be notified of any future LAN Parties in the Bergen and Rockland counties please let me know. Gaming online is fun but gaming with people you know and see face to face is even better.

See you on the LAN.

Call of Duty Lan Party

Jared — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:04:19 +0000

Interesting facts:

Qman, AvengerAce, Dungboy, MajCamper, Unknown Soldier, and Lord Servant were in attendance.
Qman owened with the German Kar rifle
AvengerAce was on the underdog team most of the time
Dungboy had the best system on the LAN
MajCamper is a master at wartime insults spoken in jest (so I hope, if not, he is a real pig f..... )
Unknown Soldier made a great target, and even managed to smoke a few baddies
Lord Servant is too humble to talk about himself

Thanks to everyone for coming. Unknown Soldier, I salute you - you gave it a shot!

Painting The Computer Camouflage

Jared — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:30:38 +0000

Painting the computer case camouflage doesn't make it run any faster and help out with the game, its just cool. Painting a computer case has been on my to do list for years and I finally did it. Before starting I checked out two YouTube videos that were decent. The first was pretty good but because the computer case was large and flat I didn't think this method would work very well. The second method was more fitting to my application and I liked the simple patterns so I adapted it for my own use.

You can see the results. I won't bore you with details about how I got paint on my fingers but here are a couple notes:

I used a expensive dark green spray paint formulated to adhere to plastic as a base coat. Then I painted patterns using a cheap flat black and brown.
Try not to use paper for templates, the paint causes the edges to curl up.
Be sure to get some overlapping colors, brown on black, and black on brown.
If lettering, use a stencil that has some variation to the letters and doesn't have many straight lines. It is harder to trace but hides imperfection better.

The LAN Party is going to be a blast.

LAN PARTY! Call of Duty:United Offensive

Jared — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:46:22 +0000

My friends and I decided it was time for a LAN party. Over the years there have been many good memories playing Call of Duty so for the same of good-old-times we decided to play it at the LAN Party. Its an older game but it should run great on everyone's machine.

If you are in the Ironwood, MI area and want to join in check out the LAN Party page for more information.

Company, Attack!

Jared — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:42:01 +0000

LAN Parties may be hard to setup and tedious because of hauling around equipment and hooking up cables but it sure beats playing online against some faceless foe. LS, MR, and myself got together for a little action playing Company of Heroes. WO couldn't join us because he was resting up. It was a good game, at the end of the evening we were holding our own in 3 vs. 3 against the computer. The computer skill level was expert, hard, and normal (hard/expert?).