/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8809314
>in high school in 2012 (inb4 "fuck you, le zoomer xDD")
>lots of downtime in computer media class due to teacher getting sick and getting bit by a Goddamn fiddleback at one point
>play lots of flash games to pass the time, but the shit-ass school web filter keeps blocking the sites I go to
>one day decide to bring pirated copy of Halo CE on a flash drive
>classmates wanting me to make them copies but I tell em to fuck off and download it for themselves from home because I don't want to be NARC'd for software piracy
>friend who sits next to me asks for a copy so I reluctantly hook him up
>next day my heart fucking sinks as I discover Halo is running on fucking EVERY computer
>"Holy fucking shit how'd it spread that fast!?" Turns-out another classmate got ahold of the Halo copy and had the brilliant idea to put it on the class's shared drive so every computer in the class can now access it
>my Goddamn principal is substituting for the class that day and I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown fearing the worst
>turns-out principal's a pretty based dude (he was only 30-something) and finds it amusing and cool that the sportsball dudebro jocks had the ingenuity to set up a Halo LAN party with the class computers using knowledge our teacher gave us
>I calm down and join the LAN party, have a fucking blast playing on filled LAN servers with the whole class for the rest of the semester
>try to get classmates into Quake III Arena too but they're filtered and casual, unable to process such a fastpaced arena shooter, oh well
>continue to hear stories from my underclassmen a year after I graduate about how they still have Halo on the shared drive and that it's even spread to the other town's schools and local votech kek

Thank you based sportsball jocks for teaching me just how based piracy is working in-tandem with LAN network shares.