OT(kinda): Porn, lies and videocard.

[Pilotasso]

Ok I got bored, these boards need 1 more interesting thread.

 

This thread is meant for you all to confess what dents in the law or reckelss actions you made for your gaming hobbies.

 

Ill give you an example by telling you all one story about me, and my friends with whom I organized some LAN parties. This happened some years agot but not too long ago. I was still well in half of my UNI course, I was arround 23-24 years old and my budies were 2 years younger to 5 years older. We did lan parties when we couldnt go out for vacations to the country side and have other enternaining activities such as gastronomy, beach, fishing, night clubs and all.

 

Se before vacations we met for having fun and release some tension from daily routine. One of my friends started working on his fathers PC shop. He was a PC assembler and NET/multimedia systems monitor/analyst.

 

One day we discovered we had one game we all liked to play, the game was STARCRAFT. I used to play Command&Conquer and my transition to that game was pretty smooth. There were a few times we organized those LAN parties, each time at one of our homes. But after a few parties we realized it was too much work to bring all the PC stuff. Had organized myself one in my house I spent a whole day setting up a room large enough to fit 8 players and their respective machines. In the day of a LAN party we usualy lost half of the time trying to solve conection problems that always plagued the network. Usualy they came by morning and we only stop playing the dawn of the next day.Cleaning up the mess and rearraging everything back to normal was a drag too.

 

Too much hassle but we loved to play and looked for alternatives. So my friend working on the shop had an idea. Theres one place where PC's would be plentifull arround and already swiched on and working on arrival: his shop!

 

Only problem was that his father obvioulsy wouldnt like to have these strangers poking arround on his clients PC's.

 

Friday nights we all met outside at the parking lot observing the bulding from inside the our cars like a bunch of bank robbers :D waiting for his father to leave the store.

The building was residential, and the store was on the other side on the first floor with back door access from the main hall.

As soon as his father came out we would wait 5 minutes after he had gone to make sure he wouldnt come back if he forgot something behind. Then we just entered the building like any local residents, passed the hall and and entered through the back door.

 

And so we did this for months. I though since I was using up that store to make LAN parties I might as well make it off for him by ordering a new PC there. It was a T-bird 1200MHZ, the first machine I played LOMAC with. :)

One night we made another LAn party and my PC was running burn in tests there. We were all playing Starcraft when the PSU died on me and fried every component sitting on the motherboard with bang.(260W out of 300 needed)

 

I though to myself. "Well this is convenient, it spares me the trip to the store and Im warranted." :D

 

One day though, the owner of the store found strange the sudden rearrangement of the furntiture at the store se we quit using it for LAn parties. Not too soon we found an alernative.

 

My friend had recieved an opportunity to work on a multimedia center months later in one of Lisbons old Universities turned into a museum. The security was breachable since the main gates were open at night to let the garbage truck to collect the trash. But someone of the museum had to stay to close the gate afterwards, usualy from the security or one of the geniters. But my friend volountered fridays night so we could sneak in and leave at night without raising suspicion.

 

We would enter late in the afternoon with our old school packs full of food and drinks pretending to be students from the underdeveloped interior of the country. :smartass: The Center was established inside a small pavillion that used to be a telescope obervatory. The interior resembled that to a light house. We layed low there closing all windows and lights when all employees of the museum left for home.

Then whith everybody gone...LETS PARTY!!!!:holiday: :yay:

 

We would stay all night long and leave only one hour before the Museum reopened the next day.

 

There was only one snag with all this scheme. Being a century old Obervatory, the multimedia center had no bathroom. And we couldnt exactly breach the main museum building to aleviate ourselves. :Flush: So we had to improvise. First we used the decoration plants vases, but after some time they started to loose color and leaves, se we swiched to Coca cola bottles.

 

One day just before the museum close its doors, we were already booting up the games, when this lady from the museum management comes in to schedule a special class for visiting students of African Portuguese language country. She knocks on the door, everybody recieves a dose of cold shivers down the spine. BUSTED!! :police: or maybe not, lets try to go arround this one.

 

My freind answered: "Im goin Im goin!"

he makes a signal to alt-tab STARCRAFT into something else more apropriate. Wich was a pain with the PC's back then. 1 minute of waiting and the door was opnened.

I thought to myself: "Argh we forgot to stash the food, yikes"

I mean the place looked like we were in a quite sizable picnic.

chocolate cakes Pizzas, Sandwiches pies candy bars and sodas. Enough to sustain us at least 12 hours of consecutive play. :joystick:

 

Did I say Sodas? Well 2 botles have been used as portable Bathroom already and they were someplace there I forgot exactly where, with their new...hummm "content".

 

At one stage the woman wonders..." you guys realy hungry and thirsty, must be helluva commited to that work heh?"

 

My friend working there says: "yeah we just thought we would do everything in one session straight, we had to get some food and a few beers for the guys " ***BEERS*** he says OMG. :drink:

 

Even more embarrasing than having beer at work was having "fake" beer with Coca-cola labels still on the bottles (2 litters each).

 

"that would have worked" --I said --"If only we didnt forgot to remove the labels"

"never heard about beer being so foamy under pressure either" :beer:

 

Well thats my story. Any braves to confess theirs? :D

[firesoldier845]

Well it doesn't top your story Pilotasso but a bunch of my buddies @ work we liked to play computer sims. I work as a firefighter\paramedic but I used to do computer repair and web design long before I started work in the fire service. We wanted to get online and play IL2 and WWIIOL but we were unable to do so at work because we didn't have internet access. The network @ work was a secure network so we were unable to plug in and get online. Well, I was able to bypass the security and make it appear that our computers were part of the network and we could get online and fly together. It was a lot of fun. LAN party's @ work every day in the evening. A funny thing happened though one day we got a call in the middle of flying and of course we ran to the trucks. I assure you that all of our gaming never interfered with us getting to a call in time. We are very serious about our jobs but just wanted something to do in our offtime. We'll needless to say we jumped up to get a call and the chief shows up on our call and basically asked about the hats we were all wearing and why they were not department issue hats? We'll the funny thing is we forgot to change our hats and we were all wearing our TrackIr hats on - LOL :) It was very funny but u kinda had to be there. anyway, we finally got wireless internet access at work so we don't have to go about sneaking into the network to get online and all is good.

 

cheers

 

firesoldier845

[TucksonSonny]

I have a friend who had once chat up a girl for playing falcon on her fast monster PC.

Of course after a week she was wise enough to see the fraud and believe me, not only her PC was a monster.

He was kicked out her house very quickly. :D

[Pilotasso]

Bump this

 

Im sure there are some stories arround but plenty of people with inhibitions. :)

[Kenan]

I once downloaded porn instead of playing Lockon.

[pschelchshorn]

kenan our most honest lock on pilot :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

 

Muahahah....

 

 

Flip

[Pilotasso]

or maybe not, for confessing getting porn imagine what else hes hidding. ;)

[Pilotasso]

Just to make something clear: Im not as filthy as this story suggests. :D Dont take this as an example of what we do (BTW dont let the wife/girl friend/kids read this) :D

 

Im a failry good behaved and civilized guy. Its only that we mess arround from time to time when certain circunstances are met. We can only live once right? The "beer" was just the result of not having a bathroom and was not a problem we anticipated. nature calls and we had to "go" period. I realise its a tad disgusting and that is not an habit I or any of us have. ;)

[hitman]

I confess too. Im addicted to kitty pr0n. I am a sick, sick man.

[Pilotasso]

You are not the only one, you would be surpised to know what kinds of people get pr0n.

 

Once I went to ask some help from a Computational Mechanics porfessor at uni. I came down to his office. Never understood why he kept this PC desk so cramped against the corner of the room with such space avaiable untill that day.

 

As I was making my points about my project, he kept mysterioulsy glued to the screen but acting casual.

"huhu hehe, yeah, yeah, yeah"

I couldnt see anyhting on his screen due to angle limitation on that corner of the room. But he was wearing glasses. In the middle of the conversation I saw unnusual movement being refleted on his glasses. I focused my eyes on it and...that was heavy duty hardcore pr0n he was wacthing (realy, realy, heavy like 400kg of it, wont say more).

 

That was not the end. I found accidentaly another teachers of the same subject similar habits by snatching an ANSYS CD from his office. There was a folder opened at the screen with suggestive file names. tsss tsss

 

You never realy know people these days. Your friends you can know because you spend so much time with them specialy when out in vacations. But theres no way we even get a glimpse of other peoples dark sides.

[Nomad]

I once tried to install Lockon on a tektronix oscilloscope at our uni but failed :geek:.

[Prophet_169th]

Yeah, I must admit, the only thing that happens with me is pissing the wife off because I play.

 

But she has a way of getting my to stop :)