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Eric: its an aston martin

So... why is this news? Because nintendo is offloading a block of land that has been empty for years and it finally figured out they wernt going to use it?

NINTENDO SELLS A BLOCK OF LAND THAT IT WONT USE! OMG MICROSOFT BID ON IT!

So what?

I would love pacman :)

If you people think you can trade in a broken console you are pretty damn stupid. They will test it before its accepted as a trade in.

"At any other LAN party it's confined to 10-100 people that you either know a fair majority of, or if not, it's in an atmosphere that encourages conversation and friendship. room with thousands of people is not conducive to meeting new people, or for that matter even being able to find the people you are playing against"

Um... The Lan room at pax is limited to abouts 250 people.

Only people who bring their computers are allowed inside.

Next year it will be larger but I dont know where you are pulling this "thousands of poeple" thing from. There are thousands of people that attend but that has nothing to do with the Lan room.

I guess you have never attended pax before.

"but I see the giant LAN party as sort of pointless...who wants to haul their PC rig several thousand miles to play PC games with people you've never met? You can do that right now without the hauling, it's called: the internet. "

Um... its the same as any other Lan. People bring their computers to socialize with other like minded people and play games with them at a lower ping than you can get online.
Its much more fun being able to yell insults and stuff across a room/isle.

Plus you get to show off your casemod, hardware, cool new thing, etc.