Video Games

skyhighflyer

Hey all,

Is there anywhere on campus where the PC's can be used for gaming? It'd be an awful shame for that bitchin' fast net connection to be used for just course work I presume some of the computer peeps have found a way to work around the no games situation?

uberwolf

this'd be against college rules and boards.ie isn't big into helping people circumventing such rules.

To answer your question they're (admins) getting smarter and so I don't think so.

OfflerCrocGod

In the computer labs we have games every now and then, Unreal Tournament and CS. You can't play with servers outside on the big bad internet as far as I know.

rainbow kirby

It'd be cool to set up a computer gaming society, with console nights and LANs organised...

Syth

Officially you can't (Why would the college buy PCs just for you to game on?), but there are many rooms where people play games. But only in the evening.

Gaijin

Evenings eh!...anyone care to pm me any details?!
Or would outsiders be allowed!! :eek: (i.e non computer science students....im assuming it would be over there!)

Clive

The back two rows of the computers on the top floor of Engineering usually have a variety of games and porn.

The final year elec project lab has an even wider variety of both, but outsiders can't get in there.

Of course it's all against the "rules".

blondie83

Clive wrote:

The final year elec project lab has an even wider variety of both, but outsiders can't get in there.

I'm in there right now, "working hard"! :cool:

(I actually am though for some reason - must be the two 10 page reports due in, presentation due in, project to do...dont you just love elec!)

Syth

Anywhere not in Arts basically.

Arts student are amoung the most technically illiterate and yet need them the most.

seamus

Syth wrote:

Anywhere not in Arts basically.

Arts student are amoung the most technically illiterate and yet need them the most.

There's a correlation there. It takes them 5 times longer to write the thing. Poor typing speeds notwithstanding, their (lack of) technical ability hampers them too.
I remember one girl having trouble printing a 20 page document, written in plain Word format. It was about 3 o'clock, and she had been in there before I was (and I worked there) typing this up from sheets. And she wasn't alone.

Ah, I had a good laugh in there. Pity the money was a load of my arse.

In my whole time there, I had 3, maybe four people offer me money if I'd type up their thesis/essay/project, after they saw me typing quickly, as I do. Mostly men, who realised that they possibly couldn't/didn't want to afford the amount I charge to do work for other people in my spare time (and it's not *that* expensive).

Syth

Another reason I'd suspect is that (a) there is a lot of Arts students (prehaps too much :rolleyes:), and (b) the have to type every thing. I did maths & maths physic for 1st and 2nd year and (obviusly) noone had to type em up. Same goes for biology/chemistry write ups. With the exception of physics for their write ups.

Alana

well i'm not too sure about the whole not viewing porn thing in the arts block..was in LG4 the other day (the one with the evil macs that are the slowest contraptions on earth id b quicker swiming to&back from england to give my mate a lettr..anyway) and there was this dude quite obviously oggling at porn...slightly disturbing..what was even more disturbing was that the room was rather full(an unusual occurence...but also that i was in LG3( i think..not too sure of the room no's-but the one next to the large long one that the commerce ppl use now and again for lec's) and he was there again-looking at porn again....slightly disturbing..nothing against porn but...c'mon

OfflerCrocGod

Alana wrote:

nothing against porn but...c'mon

Ye, that's a bit rude, looking at porn in a public area and not sharing it with everyone else, some people!

rainbow kirby

You've obviously never heard of Question Boy then.

Mr.Nice Guy

Nice to see people who stay up as late as me,rainbow kirby.

I should be doing an essay for Monday but I have to devote Sunday to it now....

blondie83

Alana wrote:

well i'm not too sure about the whole not viewing porn thing in the arts block..was in LG4 the other day (the one with the evil macs that are the slowest contraptions on earth id b quicker swiming to&back from england to give my mate a lettr..anyway) and there was this dude quite obviously oggling at porn...slightly disturbing..what was even more disturbing was that the room was rather full(an unusual occurence...but also that i was in LG3( i think..not too sure of the room no's-but the one next to the large long one that the commerce ppl use now and again for lec's) and he was there again-looking at porn again....slightly disturbing..nothing against porn but...c'mon

You'd be amazed how much porn you see in the eng building. Well I suppose not too amazed considering its mostly guys there, but some of them are really really into it! After a while you learn that its just safer not to sit in the back two rows of the comp room!

Syth

rainbow kirby wrote:

You've obviously never heard of Question Boy then.

*shudder* The memories...

Alana

Sorry i'm a late night radio fiend...question boy...?

rainbow kirby

His name is *****. the poor chap has serious social problems.
He was caught in G15 watching porn and jacking off... In a crowded computer room.