[Noisebridge-discuss] LAN party gaming group: Please stop using Noisebridge resources for your own personal enjoyment of computer game play

[Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson]

On Oct 4, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Quinn Norton wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2010, at 2:42 AM, Rubin Abdi wrote:
> 
>> Speaking as a hacker, a member of multiple spaces, and someone who has
>>> enjoyed several large lan events...  I call bullshit on your suggestion that
>>> all hacker related activities be "productive".  Hacking is a hobbyist
>>> venture as much as lan gaming is... and the overlap in culture is so strong
>>> we share the same slang.
>> 
>> I'm not arguing what a hacker should or shouldn't do. I'm just pointing
>> out that Noisebridge has a vision and my observation of the LAN party
>> cave doesn't really fall anywhere near it.
>> 
> 
> "In the future, if you're wondering, 'I'm just pointing out that Noisebridge has a vision' is when I decided to kick your ass."
> 
> 

“Games, boy, I don't know.”

Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, Dr.rer.nat.
Postdoctoral researcher
mik at math.stanford.edu