Illegal drugs, caffeine overdoses, and ridiculous load times: these are but a few of the terrors that await you in the Modern LAN Party.

I'm only a little surprised. Mostly disappointed. One reason I hang with geeks is that many of them are fairly puritanical about this stuff, preferring to remain in Spocklike sobriety. Those days are over, it seems.

You know you're in trouble when your gaming is interrupted by a scream of "come on you fuckers, who's first?" Things generally go south from there if, when you turn around, you find a completely naked man with a giant erection standing in the middle of the room, beckoning for someone to come over and sit on his lap.

Jesus christ bananas.

Even so, I wish the reporter had taken more of a gonzo approach to the whole event, as opposed to hanging back and making wry observations. I want more shock and awe, and many more uses of the word "horrible", a gonzo favorite. Eliza Gauger

Gaming's New Drug Culture [Twitch Guru, thanks Aaron]

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