IE 6? Just upgrade. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
It’s great when the clan can get together online, even better in person!
FYI Snappers in South East Queensland. LanSmash, a long-running quarterly LAN gaming event have announced WinterSmash. This runs all day and into the evening. Set your calendars for the 9th of July, at the QEII stadium Mt Gravatt.
LanSmash Website: http://lansmash.com/
LanSmash Meetup Site: http://meetup.lansmash.com/
PS. Fumbles & shmitee have expressed interest in attending, which is good because Andy and I need a car driving Soccer Mom, to help get us to the event.
Andy requested a look at this. The video is hrrible, the sound is even worse
Kudos to Toby for the arrangement, and to whoever got that high note in at the end!
TP Lan
LAN this Saturday, RSVP frag_spawn, the address will be sent as a reply, if its not immediately obvious to you…
Last year saw the inaugural new year’s lan… Auld LAN Syne Episode I: Attack of the Bones.
This year delivers us a sequel… Auld Lan Syne Episode II: Revenge of the Vuvuzela.
Bring booze, trombone/vuvzela/noisemaker, bedding, teddy bear, night light, anything else you need to last you a day or two.
Pre-load as many of the following as possible:
| Game | Probability of playing? |
|---|---|
| Battlefield Bad Company 2 | Very likely |
| Blur | Very likely |
| Team Fortress 2 | Likely |
| Left For Dead 2 | Likely |
| Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising | Possible |
| UT2K4 | Possible |
| Worms Reloaded | Possible |
| Command and Conquer 3 Kane’s Wrath | Possible |
| Other… | Possible |
| Altitude or Global Agenda | Maybe if Fumbles falls asleep early… |
A commemorative spray is available from the members-only section (if you have RSVP’d a personalised spray is also available for you).
Other preparatory tips are available from the members-only lannage page.
In the grand tradition of SNAP LANs, we tend to mix gaming with other nerdy pursuits—often of a musical inclination—in what inevitably approaches even measure.
As you would be aware, ALS2:ROTV swiftly approaches and there have been questions raised as to what we might get up to between gaming, drinking and the odd bout of sleeping. Suggestions have included more tromfoolery, competitive crochet or some form of ironic musical fusion involving auto-tuned vuvuzela, trombome, handsonic, vocalisation and other sampled elements.
Which leads me inexorably to the only logical conclusion… It’s time for us to put together our very first Nerdcore Hip Hop track.
For the uninitiated, Nerdcore is a soon-to-be-thriving genre of musical expression for geeky types who are too white to be rappers or who have too much self-respect to be Eminem. Examples range from veterans MC Frontalot and MC Chris to these three white dudes—and then there are the gamerz…
There are many ways to contribute, we will need lyrics (start arranging your best smack-talk into iambic pentameter), musical ideas/influences/performances (for example: we know trombone and hip hop Just Works™), samples and eventually some in-game demos/footage in order to cut together an appropriately pimp video for the track.
But first step, we need a theme.
Some ideas:
What do you think?
