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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>LAN party</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lamer.html" title="lamer"/><link rel="next" href="language-lawyer.html" title="language lawyer"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">LAN party</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lamer.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="language-lawyer.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="LAN-party"/><dt xmlns="" id="LAN-party"><b>LAN party</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/lan par<61>tee/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An event to which several users bring their boxes and hook them up
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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
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new hardware. Such events can get pretty large, several hundred people
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attend the annual QuakeCon in Texas. The theoretical rationale behind LAN
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parties is that playing over the Internet often introduces too much lag in
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the 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.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lamer.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="language-lawyer.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lamer<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>language lawyer</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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