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

[Jesse Zbikowski]

Interesting points Rubin. OT1H nobody wants to formally regulate
gaming. OTOH if somebody brought me to some new "awesome, creative,
collaborative space", I'd feel disappointed if it turned out to be a
bunch of guffawing nerds playing World of Warcraft with their backs to
the room.

Personally I see a LAN party as more of an annual thing. You know,
like people fly in from Denmark for it. Add in a 64K demo competition
and it'll be on Boing Boing for sure.

LAN gaming is just not a creative pursuit, hence by extension not a
collaborative one. I would be surprised if San Francisco did not have
enough geeks to support a dedicated 24-hour LAN party space though.

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
> I have yet to see any of you bring anything remotely interesting or
> creative to the space. Every time I've dropped by Noisebridge in the
> past two weeks you've been eating up one of our two classes rooms.
> You're sucking up Noisebridge power, I would suspect more so then the
> average person coming through the space (are you even paying members or
> giving anything back financially to the space?). You're also taking
> parts, things, gadgets, from other functioning things here to run your
> LAN games. I don't want to even think about sniffing how much net
> traffic you're using. One of you's gone to the extent of planting is
> personal machine into the space leaving it here when he's not around,
> demanding that no one remove or modify it since it's still in his
> possession.
>
> As a member of the space (and not acting as the space) I would
> appreciate it if your group did something a little bit more interesting
> with your time here other then blockading yourself in a classroom and
> play videos games. Or please just find someone's house you can continue
> to have your constant LAN party.
>
> And before any of you get all "bullshit Rubin you don't know what a LAN
> party is" on my ass, I've fucking slept under a desk nights in a row for
> some of the bigger couple hundred parties in LA when I was younger.
>
> Please stop before I get all fucking Burning Man up in your business by
> cutting mother board power supply cables in the middle of the night in
> the name of building a god damn robot. Thanks.
>
> --
> Rubin Abdi
> rubin at starset.net
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