"The thing is, when you bring your own machine, you tend to have to spend time setting it up, installing games, updating drivers, etc. There's always that one p

"The thing is, when you bring your own machine, you tend to have to spend time setting it up, installing games, updating drivers, etc. There's always that one person who has to reinstall Windows from scratch. I remember many LAN parties where we couldn't even get started until late at night. LAN parties had to be overnight affairs otherwise you couldn't get any gaming in. " Exactly, that's half the fun of it :)