Man Brings Xbox 360 to Library to Play Halo
That guy is hardcore.
Gamers will go to unique lengths to play their games. While there are portables such as the Nintendo DSi and the Sony PSP, sometimes we just want to bring the big box with us, packing the console and cables to bring on us to summer vacation where we may end up. Others, however, take things to the next level.
A library patron and Flickr user spotted a man in a New York City library who spent 20 minutes setting up an Xbox 360, wireless bridge, monitor, controller and headphones in order to play Halo (and/or some other first person shooter) over the free Wi-Fi connection.
While bringing an Xbox 360 into the library to play games is frowned upon, what likely gave him away and eventually kicked out was that he was shouting into the headset to his teammates while playing online. Oops.
Read more about it at Kotaku.
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He is an idiot by definition. Get a labtop and play on labtop
Read a book, Not the sports page, not a magazine, but a book!
Free WiFi... nice
Shouting to your teammates while in the public library... hmm... not very smart.
Pfft.. i have lugged in my entire Full tower desktop with monitor to a library to play.
wow what a lifeless person
at least use headphones and dont use voice chat...i mean sheesh, i can understand desperation to play, but not stupidity
Think of the bragging rights. This is actually pretty funny.
I remember setting up multiplayer action at the library with Goldeneye on N64!
Those were the days!
He can't afford good internet but can afford a xbox live subscription.
Man of obvious f-ucked up priories.
Think of the bragging rights. This is actually pretty funny.
I am not so sure I would be braging...
He can afford a 360 but apparently not Wifi.
He should buy a laptop, even something with a not-so-great GPU, like 9600M, would compete pretty well with the 360 graphically
Could have been worse, had he brought either guitar hero or a wii and started wildly swinging the numchuks. Still, he should be sentenced to the internet addiction camp.
He should buy a laptop, even something with a not-so-great GPU, like 9600M, would compete pretty well with the 360 graphically
No it wouldn't. Not even close lol.
What a lamer. Nobody has respect for libraries these days.
This is news? I bet people all over the country do this all the time.
Oh man, that's priceless! They should have taken some cell phone video and put it up on Youtube (make sure they get the part where he's getting the boot). Like Picard said, "Sometimes you just have to laugh at the absurd."
Um, no. Library is a place to read and learn, not to play games. You can play games if it's quiet/mute. Stupid guy.
They should have banned him permanently. Get your own damn internet connection dude.
They should have banned him permanently. Get your own damn internet connection dude.
Either that or learn how to steal it effectively. Hell, if I lived in NYC or any other large metropolis, I'd setup a few directional antenneas and have the equivalent bandwidth of an OC-3 connection, and it wouldn't cost me a dime (other than the equipment).
thats the spirit =D
Everyone seems to be looking over the fact that he probably did this on purpose to draw attention and get kicked out. I wouldn't be surprised to find out he did it on a dare or bet.
He can't afford good internet but can afford a xbox live subscription.Man of obvious f-ucked up priories.
Just like most people who cant afford health insurance.. Most of them are not willing to give up their cigarettes, cell phone, cable, and/or internet..
*or XBOX live service.
Could have been worse, had he brought either guitar hero or a wii and started wildly swinging the numchuks. Still, he should be sentenced to the internet addiction camp.
Or better yet, Rock Band and he's the team vocalist. LOL!
I played Halo in highschool one time. Now THAT was awesome. This? Meh. I didn't even get a chuckle out of it.... >.>
He should buy a laptop, even something with a not-so-great GPU, like 9600M, would compete pretty well with the 360 graphically
No it wouldn't. Not even close lol.
Take COD4 as an example, The 360 runs it at 650p (i think, its below 720p) and then upscales it to 720p, 1080p etc.
A moderate laptop with a 2.4 GHz C2D and a 9600M could play COD4 at high settings at 720p, perhaps even higher
Maybe he came for the air conditioning...
I feel myself being choked out by idiotic comments. This article shouldn't even be allowed to be commented on because the ONLY comments being spewed out are all opinionated bullshit comments. That isn't an opinion, this is the TRUTH.
I feel myself being choked out by idiotic comments. This article shouldn't even be allowed to be commented on because the ONLY comments being spewed out are all opinionated bullshit comments. That isn't an opinion, this is the TRUTH.
Unless someone is standing behind you, holding a gun to your head and forcing you to read our "idiotic comments," then the solution seems rather obvious.
He should buy a laptop, even something with a not-so-great GPU, like 9600M, would compete pretty well with the 360 graphically
Ya but his dude was probably playing halo 3. And halo 3 is not for pc, because Bungie has to get gay about it.
Halo sucks anyways.