I do not recall how I became a part of this group initially and I've never really took advantage of it...
Anyway, anyone interested in a real life LAN party this Saturday? KDR is hosting and there is much fun to.be had for the taking.

I'll be in Phillips from around 6 PM. I hope to see you there! :D

Hey guys: would people be interested in a LAN on Tuesday?
Games on the choppin' block:
- Blacklight (f2p FPS)
- TF2
- (recommend your own! - I'll have my usual stock o games)

http://www.twitch.tv/pandaloons streaming again @__@

http://www.twitch.tv/pandaloons
Streaming Amnesia now!

Just finished the testing. I can and will be streaming Amnesia: The Dark Descent this Friday @ 6PM. I'll keep posting about it on facebook + steam throughout this week. If you don't know what Amnesia is: it's basically this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4w0_n1Yras
Feel free to pop in and say hello - and laugh at my expense!

Dota 2 has most gameplay time!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOxVjbGvUpI oh ♥♥♥♥ I forgot to show this to everyone. Hope everyone had a good time at LAN! :D
Who has my harddrive o__o

http://www.moddb.com/mods/goldeneye-source - who doesn't have a copy of HL2?

i just realized that the internet connection at my grandparents is less than stellar... so i probably won't be able to play any games, but I'll try to arrange some gaming sessions for everyone? i'll make an event for thursday for people to play TF2 (or whatever they want to play). Stay posted and merry christmas :D

Have a great break / holiday!
We may have events (SC2, LoL, TF2, etc.) so keep posted here and on the fb group! :D

Just in case you didn't get the email:

Greetings, fellow gaming enthusiast!

I write to inform you that the Cornell Computer Reuse Association will be holding a LAN party this Friday (10/14) in Stimson G25 from 9pm to 2am. At said establishment, we will be engaging in electronic stimuli such as: Starcraft, Warcraft3/DOTA, Call of Duty, Team Fortress 2, Battlefield 2, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Rock Band, a XBox Kinect, and many more! To enter the celebrations, a one-time entry fee of $5 per person or $20 per group of five shall be requested at the time of your arrival. But worry not! Your hand-earned wages will not be in vain! We will use the aforementioned coinage to facilitate the donation of computers and computer accessories to help flood relief in various schools around the area! Thus, I urge you to join us as we revel in merriment and forget the pains of prelim season.

Sincerely,

Jason Wang
President, Cornell Computer Reuse Association

PS: B.Y.O.H. (Bring your own headphones)

So I was wondering what kind of special things we can do during LANs to make them more fun for everyone.

For instance, I'd really appreciate it if people posted their thoughts on certain games so I get a better feel for what was popular / what was not (since my opinion of how well a game is received is based on which team I was playing on).

I also am considering doing tournaments so we get a better idea of whose good at what (i.e. FPS and RTS) so we can balance teams better (and obviously cause a little competition is fun).

The last thing I thought might be cool is to do other stuff besides LAN as a group. Not really sure what, but I thought like a Nerf fight or a sledding day (obviously when its snowy) or something else might be nice.

It's sort of hard to gauge what people are thinking since everyone apparantly thinks I'm a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mindreader. SO ♥♥♥♥♥♥' POST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTEHqAeanw

We are also instituting a new policy for LANs. From now on, I will pick games before the LAN itself. Feel free to suggest titles of games you wish to play or veto ones I pick BEFORE the LAN but DON'T come in whining that you don't like one of the games chosen. This policy is instituted because I've come to realize we're all very lazy and indecisive, and someone's gotta "organize" this or else we'll all just end up whining about how we hate game X and love game Y.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
unfortunately battlefront2 won't support LAN (unless one of you is very clever with hamachi or the like) >___>
Medieval Total War - Neil instinctively knew that he was at a distinct advantage when he started surrounding me on 3 sides (whereas I decided to walk straight in, thinking "what's going on")

yea i'll try to keep this updated as well as i keep the fb group updated
Sorry!

cruddles i keep forgetting to update the steam group:
here are the past few updates:
I feel like GLaDOS - cuz I CANT STOP TESTIN'
Today's menu:
L4D - 2 versions neither work - will continue the hunt
COD1 - works excellent, sniper battles ftw
StarCraft - me and Neil are rubbish
WarCraft - DoTA? huh? wut? where?
Quake 3 - Quake Live better

tf2 is go

Stronghold Crusader Extreme - Rei and I had no idea what was going on. It was a weird RTS where the outcome seemed essentially random.
Team Fortress Classic - Symantec AntiVirus deemed it a Trojan, so that wouldn't work.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 - LAN doesn't work as Rei and I were unable to connect with one-another. Level rendering in this crack seems broken as the draw distance seemed to barely extend to about 10 feet in front of our skaters. Creating our custom skaters was fun at least.

instead of downloading tf2 is there a way to copy it and then sync it with the steam cloud?

So me and Neil be testing games out - We've added a bunch of racing games to our repertoire, mostly because Neil loves racing games and because I am intensely amused by smashing my car into his. Found some promising games (a potential L4D and obviously tf2 needs retesting) - will keep you guys posted! Hope you guys are having awesome summers!

testing tf2 on the Cornell Phillips Computers... well we've been here since 7 and the game has downloaded... 76% so uhh... yeaaaa

Hey, I work at CIT on campus. Not sure how often people in this group use the labs on campus for gaming but I wanna get the feedback from some students that do on how that works out, and get some further feedback on some ideas being tossed around at CIT. If you do LAN in labs relatively frequently and are interested in providing feedback toss me an email at ajs394@cornell.edu.

Thanks guys

Another one of those "long term" RTS's
http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/SI/Solium_Infernum.html
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/01/25/the-complete-gameboys-from-hell/

So there are a buncha options for summer fun.
We can always get together via steam and play games like L4D and the like.

Personally I'd like to try one of the following 2.
Neptune's Pride: A larger "long term" space RTS. Simplified down to focus more on player interactions.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/03/18/the-complete-pride-and-falls/
http://np.ironhelmet.com/
Die2Nite: A zombie survival "long term" RTS.
http://www.die2nite.com/#index
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/11/15/die2nite-horrifying-harbour-of-crime/

Let me know if you're interested.

hey dudes. So I've gone through all my links and have made a huge list of games (both freeware and... uhh not) to try out. I will try to find ones that would be fun to play during the school year and try to arrange something fun for the summer.
BUT I could use some help. My list involves a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of games and it'd be nice to have some volunteers who're willing to try out some freeware and let me know whether they think it'd be fun to play as a group. PLEASE PM ME IF YOU WANT TO VOLUNTEER (I'll send you 1-3 games for you to try out).

So an update on what I've played:
Liquid War 5 - a fun game where you basically control a blob (think of it as an army) and you fight against another blob, where the idea is to surround and absorb your opponents blob. Might be fun as like a 10 minute warm-up while we download some other game. 2-6 Players
http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/v5

Realm of the Mad God - a faster paced MMORPG (lvl capped at 20) that's a great timekiller.

Simple, fun but gets boring fast. Definitely not LAN material, but I recommend it if you've got some time to kill.
http://www.realmofthemadgod.com/

Quake Live - FUN. If you don't know what Quake is or never have played (like I had), give it a shot. Heavy emphasis on aiming and strafing, it's tons of fun. Definitely LAN-able
http://www.quakelive.com/#!home

I'm still in the process of picking a game we could play over the summer. I'll try to have that ready ASAP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncsHQ_psTEg&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le23bsVURds

@ObeseMonkey - I'm ok with it, but if people start ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about how hard TF2 is, it wasn't my idea.

Also: http://kotaku.com/5800409/spyparty-beta-starting-soon-heres-how-to-sign-up
I think this might be pretty cool to try out - we could set up a informal tourney style of thing.

So we should totally do a TF2 LAN. Just saying.

If people want to? We could even start earlier if people want it. Tell me what you people wannnt

Are we holding a LAN event on Slope Day? If so, we should have pizza to celebrate

D:

bfbc2 doesn't work :(

I will be there. I play everything kthx.

i believe it's just a standard LAN sadly >< sry

@ Ryan - Sorry to hear that. I recommend that you stop by this Friday + join us for some Diablo 2 you can definitely play that game with one hand. I am sure we can find some other games for all of us to play as well, iffn Diablo's not to your liking.

Reddit post has been updated with new room info (so I can stop going down there and putting it on the board).

bring COD with you; we'll see it into rotation. Maybe later you can get mw2. But i think we've got plenty for tomorrow :D thanks!

got cod4 to work :D, might get mw2 if anyone wants to

that is true. Well this week will probably feature diablo 2 and of course the games we've got up and running in the past :D

bad company 2 might be too graphics intensive for the computers

got diablo 2 working (at least on a computer)
working on getting battlefront up n running

so we now have a facebook group, cuz the steam group is clearly not notifying people quickly enough (also because this past LAN, we suddenly had to switch locations, and we realized we had no way to really tell participants where to find us, besides leaving a message on the whiteboard). Right now the group is called Cornell LAN - name is subject to change, but it'll at least have those 2 words in it. I think our goal for next week is to have a running copy of Diablo 2 (the one we had didn't work).

we do have a copy of bad company 2, but we never did try it out ><
our numbers are kinda small for it too. LANs are weekly (Friday Nights 7-Saturday @ the Upson basement computer lab - i.e. engineering quad. If you know where Duffield is - walk inside - all the way to the back of the Atrium, thru the glass doors into upson, down the stairs, down the hall towards the vending machines - lab is across from machines) Bring Friends!

hey guys, i'll definitely show up at the next lan party! anyone have battlefield bad company 2? currently one of my faves and it makes for intense squad play/team tactics.

more games continued:
tony hawks pro skater 4
dawn of war
battlezone 2
star wars battlefront 1 & 2
Diablo 2
Borderlands
Tribes

So yea, a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (standard, not metric) of games. Now we just need players!!!

we've been having great success in the number / variety of games at the LANs (listed below), but we're having a huge problem with getting a decent number of people to show up. Obviously people are often busy, but we've only really gotten the word out to maybe 7 people. If you know of people who might enjoy playing some pc games with a bunch of nice guys, please spread the word!
Here is the list of games we have / played:
Age of Empires 2
Command n Conquer Generals / RA2 / YR
Counter Strike 1.6, Source
Half-life DeathMatch
Halo CE (mod halo)
NFS Underground 2 / HP2
Quake 3
StarCraft + BroodWar
Unreal Tournament
Warcraft 3 & Frozen Throne
Age of Mythology
Burnout Paradise
Call of Duty
Conflict Global Storm (a new favorite XD)
Coassacks - Back to War & European Wars & The Art of War
Day of Defeat
Ghost Recon
Grand Theft Auto 2
Civ 4 Colonization
Half life 2 deathmatch
midnight club 2
serious sam 1 & 2
soldier of fortune 2 double helix
stronghold Crusader
SWAT 4
TF2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVg-ruQmKL8&feature=player_embedded

o forgot to mention - this week we managed to successfully implement battlezone 2 (an RTS / "tank" game which kept us up until 5 AM) and try out halo CE (a community-mod open source halo game). Next week I will also have some mod maps for us to try out.

Sorry Vortor - like a fail admin I only read your comment from the first LAN today. If you still don't know - Upson is in the Engineering quad on the southern end of campus. It is directly connected to Duffield - if you know where that is (big building at the end of the main road going through campus)