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LAN party
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/lan partee/ An event to which several users bring their boxes and hook them
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up to a common LAN (Local Area Network), often for the purpose of playing
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multiplayer computer games, especially action games such as Quake or Unreal
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Tournament. This is also a good venue for people to show-off their fancy new
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hardware. Such events can get pretty large, several hundred people attend
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the annual QuakeCon in Texas. The theoretical rationale behind LAN parties
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is that playing over the Internet often introduces too much lag in the
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playing experience but just as important is the special quality of
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trash-talking each other across the room while playing, and the instinctive
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social ritual of consuming vast amounts of food and drink together.
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