Texas gaming festival

He and his crew had a room set up for a member LAN that they had been working on for several days. The servers were engineered into a huge DJ hip-hop booth complete with the required wired sodas and lots of room for microphones, speakers, T-shirts, tournament prizes, and banner ads. The kids in attendance all seemed to be great and getting better. No goons, all geeks, and even three geek girls. As early as five on Friday, a lot of these boys were ready for war.

Their computer rigs had their own air-conditioning units, see-through walls, and four kinds of internal black lights. They had definitely pimped, in a pubescent-boy-hacker way, their virtual rides. Practicing nearby, there was one team of Sayonara bandana-ed suicide junkie gamers, thin and pimply year-olds, prepared to give the weekend and their clan their all. I looked away before they caught me staring. And of course they were, like, networking, only face-to-face. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press.

Support the Chronicle. Information is power. Support the free press, so we can support Austin. Oh I wish I could be there too. Sid , 4 Jan Joined: 14 Dec Posts: 4, Likes Received: Figure if I dissmembered my arms, legs, and cramed myself into a box and mailed myself and my rig down there, they would let me in the doors? Malvolio , 4 Jan I got details on the age limits for TXGF: -No one under 18 without parental consent -No one under 16 without parental consent and a guardian.

ZapWizard , 6 Jan Joined: 28 Oct Posts: Likes Received: 3. TX , 7 Jan I got some more info regarding modders coming to TXGF. Since some modded PC's are not fast enough for gaming PC modders will be allowed to bring two computers as long as one is modified to an extent. Simpler pre-mods do not count The moddified PC must also be in one of the contests.

But you will still only have space for one PC, so your second PC will have to fit under the table. Or in the allowed space on the table No servers though, the second PC must be used for gaming. ZapWizard , 11 Jan I really wish I lived in tx I would love to enter Idle Hands into a contest, see if I could get "most unorthadox idea" award or something. How big are the alloted table's anyway? Malvolio , 11 Jan Joined: 7 Jul Posts: Likes Received: 0. You can sure as hell count me in on the party I wouldn't miss it for the world.

Please forgive me if last sentence makes me seem like a free-loafer or leech of society. Well I guess you beat me to it Zap I didn't see your post on Pheaton till just now. Would you happen to know how far the place where the convention is going to be held is from an Amtrak train station? I may be riding the train from my city to yours.

That is if my mom doesn't take me like she says she might do. One other thing is the convention going to be 24hrs none stop from begining until ending? Joined: 31 Jan Posts: Likes Received: 0. Hate to do this to ya Zap but I'm gonna have to miss out on this one. The PC I thought I'd have built buy now is on hold until my college loan arrives Ohh baby its worth the wait!!