No, I’m serious, this actually happened. The Ochbad depicted here offers more of an excuse then was actually given, not that any was really needed, because we’ve come to expect no less from him. This isn’t to say that we dislike him for it at all, in fact the hilarity of the situation more then made up for any of the inconveniences, and fortunately enough it only really inconvenienced him in the end. To say I had no prior knowledge of the issue would not be entirely true, I suppose the assumption was simply made that being “without windows” meant that some other suitable replacement would be in attendance. This would also not be entirely true. He ranks among the few people who I would not put it passed to show up for a LAN Party, huge computer and monitor in tow, without actually having any kind of operating system whatsoever. That’s dedication…or something.
I had gone through literally months of mental preparations and planning for the event, anticipating every flaw, every snag, every problem that could occur to derail the caffiene fueled locomotive of pure bliss. No amount of prescience could have prepared me for this particular situation, as unthinkable as it really is, but the loose nature with which I decided to plan out the weekend did not require all in attendance to be up and running 24-7. For this I am eternally grateful.
Eventually, and I mean that in the sense of roughly half-way through the LAN party, by nothing short of a miracle the gods of Windows XP parted the clouds and bestowed upon his computer the raw ability to operate. After which we did enjoy much ‘War that was Dawning’, and some of the ‘Crafting of War number 3’. Needless to say, this will go down in our history books for one of the best arrivals to a LAN Party ever. At least until it is topped by someone who shows up with a thousand lobsters in place of a computer.
Hmm, maybe your crowd of geeks is different than mine, but I wouldn’t have found someone showing up without an OS completely unreasonable. I know lots of people with “extra” copies of Windows who are happy to loan them out as necessary, and who goes to a LAN party without bringing their software library along?
As for myself, as someone who changes operating systems pretty frequently, there are many times when I’m between operating systems. I probably wouldn’t wait until I was at a LAN party to install one–but it wouldn’t be entirely surprising to me if I did, either.
Actually, I’d say that this proves our crowd is indeed similar to yours (and most others). Someone DID show up without an OS, I just saw fit to be an ass and make it seem like a great travesty and crime to humanity.
There is something so primally hilarious about coming to a party about playing computer games with a computer that is, in fact, not currently capable of doing just that (or anything else for that matter).
This should serve mostly as a warning: anticipate your friends not bringing crucial things to LANs. We knew this beforehand, but perhaps not quite to what extent it would go.
Lobster sticks to magnet
Computer sticks to magnet
Ergo Computer is lobster
I prefer:
Lobster sticks to magnet
Magnets will mess up Computer
Ergo Lobsters will mess with Computer!
Don’t put a computer on a plate
It’ll use it’s magnet to escape
Magnet loves lobster
In that more than just friends way.
Computer is sad.