| PIRATES OF THE RESNET The epic battles of X-Wing fighters never cease.
Sounds of tinny laser guns, distorted, bass-heavy missile blasts and rumbling rocket boosters echo throughout the afternoon.
A far-off galaxy in the year 2500? No, this is Sargent Hall, circa 2002. Three tech sophomores, PC gamepads in hand, boom battle noises from Boston Acoustics computer speakers turned up to level eight. Each player sits in a different dorm room, but yells profanely across the hallway, waging war in the same electronic arena.
The drunk guys who loudly play Tecmo Bowl in Elder would be cannon fodder for NU's Pirates of the Resnet, the school's electronic gaming elite. These unassuming males lurk in the background of NU's social environs, but when slouched in front of a 21-inch Sony Trinitron, they adopt identities of mammoth electronic proportions. With so much power at their fingertips, Pirates' egos and emotions run wild. Just imagine, turning an entire hall's worth of combatants into your "bitches" with one press of a button …
NU's Pirates took advantage of the concept of "needing a computer for college."
The McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, mother, is one of the most rigorous undergraduate technical institutions in the United States. For the problem sets, I'll need at least double the school's recommended gigahertz level, likewise with the RAM and hard drive, a 21-inch monitor, ATI Radeon 8500 video board, subwoofer and stereo speakers … or I could fail.
And the souped-up box ends up running Quake server far more than Matlab.
Outsiders might poke fun at Life On the Resnet, but think twice. The Pirate is the guy who knows 10 ways around NU's Napster ban. The guy who definitely has an extra Ethernet cable. The guy who might be able to fix your laptop when a beer gets poured on the keyboard. So lay off, OK?
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| At 3/17/02 10:42 PM, | | Red Beard wrote: | | Speaking of getting around NU's Napster ban... there's an on-campus Napster server that yields insane download speeds. http://lodge.res-hall.northwestern.edu/nunap |
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