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Did you ever go to a lan party?

>> No.8809310

>>8809305
Everything from big LAN parties to taking my PC to friends and playing over null modem and playing all night.
There's still LAN parties to this day held annually. Example http://www.braindrainlan (DOT) nu/

>> No.8809312

>>8809305
We used to have to have them back when I was in college in the early 00s. Rainbow Six, Quake III, Unreal Tournament and Tribes 2 were big favorites.

>> No.8809314

>>8809305
School computer class was free for students after hours, we had gaming sessions late into the night, begging the housemaster to keep the doors open as long as possible. All the Quake games, UT99, Diablo 1/2, Age of Empire, Red Alert, etc.

>> No.8809325

Only once or twice in my college apartment
It was awesome

>> No.8809362

>>8809305
I used to host them at my house in high school, exclusively Diablo and Diablo II, usually D2. Had a lot of old Macs from various school auctions and whatnot, so I would provide machines for anyone who didn't have their own to bring. It was a blast, you just can't replicate it online.

>> No.8809380

>>8809305
I threw a couple at the end of the school year in the late 2000s in the conference room at a local side-of-the-interstate hotel. They only charged $50 a day. Got everyone to chip in $20 to cover the room, BAWLS, and snacks. Played a shit ton of Halo 3.

>> No.8809381

>>8809305
No. Must've been great.

>> No.8809385

>>8809362
>It was a blast, you just can't replicate it online.
This. It's a thing of its era.

>> No.8809392

>>8809362
>I used to host them at my house in high school,
>How big is your house
>How did your parents feel about the electricity bill?

>> No.8809398

>>8809392
Old computers weren't really that power hungry, a Mac or PC from the late 90's with a CRT takes less power than a modern low/mid-end gaming machine (just the PC).

>> No.8809403

>>8809392
My house growing up was a giant victorian, we did the LAN parties in just the dining room with space to spare. My parents never once bitched about the power bill, which is surprising because I must have been using a lot with 4-5 CRTs running all the time even when I wasn't having a LAN party...

>> No.8809408

>>8809305
My friends dad used to have 6 workstation PC's he copped from his IT job set up on two folding tables in the basement facing each other, two rows of three for a 6 person LAN room. Countless all nighters on Unreal Tournament 99 and 2004, Warcraft 3, Age of Empires 2. It was increeible.

>> No.8809417

>>8809398
and electricity bills in the 90's and 2000's were way lower than they are in current times, atleast in Europe

>> No.8809443

no parties but computer club after school which was just playing quake and liero for hours

>> No.8809447

>>8809398
>Old computers weren't really that power hungry
Come on now.

>> No.8809450

>>8809403
Sounds very comfy.

>> No.8809459

>>8809305
no but I played some CS at cyber cafes around 2002

>> No.8809483

>>8809447
What's your point?

The average 14 - 17 inch CRT of the time took about 80-100W when warmed up. If you mean the high rating on the sticker on the back, that's because the peak consumption, which happens when you power on the CRT, the stickers have to account for that.
A G3 or Pentium 2/3 CPU took usually around 20-30W under full load, the rest of the system with the graphics card took usually less than double that, if you account for bad PSU efficiency, that's still just around 100W and that's a pretty high end machine for the time then, most took less.

Now let's compare this to a modern system, just the computer, not even including the monitor like with the old system.
A 1060, which is the most popular gaming GPU according to the Steam survey (but still a low/mid end part), is a 130W card and the CPU is usually a 4 or 6 core part, so 65W, even for Ryzen 3 CPUs. Now that alone is almost 200W, now account for the other parts, SSD, HDD, let's say 20-30W and the chipset with supporting hardware, another 10-20W, plus add the losses, even a decent 80 PLUS PSU... We're way into 300W. Which makes sense since the 1060 recommends a 350-400W PSU.

So yeah.

>> No.8809512

My high school A+ certification teacher set up Unreal Tournament in the computer lab, a whole class of just killing your classmates

>> No.8809527

>>8809483
Did you just prove my point?... . Computers are performing a lot more tasks, while being more energy efficient. But in the end, yes, they've become bigger energy guzzlers than they were before. because the rising efficiency in which we use energy can't keep up with the faster rising amount of tasks we're giving them to perform.

I'm still right, in the end.

>> No.8809532

>>8809305
Ha ha, i would need friends before i could go to one of those.

>> No.8809537

>>8809312
Tribes 2 lan parties were so much fun

>> No.8809593

>>8809305
No but we did hijack my college's computer lab some nights and play Quake over IPX. Good times.

>> No.8809613
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8809613

I went to a halo one a couple times. It was pretty fun.

>> No.8809630

>>8809450
It really was. My folks sold the house a few years back and I was really sad about it; clearing out my entire childhood worth of stuff was hard too.

>> No.8809648

>>8809630
We're not your therapist teacuck

>> No.8809651

Yeah, but it was in the late 2000s. Shit was actively being killed off to sell online subscriptions by then, so sadly I missed the best of it. I'll have to keep ears to the ground and see if any more events happen around the area.

>> No.8809653

>>8809527
We're not talking about today though, we're talking about decades ago when anon hosted D2 LAN parties and his power usage. To him, computers of today weren't relevant, they didn't even exist.

You're right about computers being more efficient, but that was never the argument or the point. The argument was that computers back in the day weren't as power hungry as people think. It's actually the opposite.

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>>8809380

>> No.8809662

>>8809305
I hate that the convenience of matchmaking and online play killed lan parties. I remember that my local nerd friends lost interest in putting one together when they could just play xbox live. Early xbox live was still okay because people were chatty and there was basically no censorship, but the whole community aspect of online multiplayer didn't take long to die.

>> No.8809665

>>8809653
Wrong, faggot.

>> No.8809670

>>8809665
Wrong about what? The argument was literally: >>8809398
>Old computers weren't really that power hungry, a Mac or PC from the late 90's with a CRT takes less power than a modern low/mid-end gaming machine (just the PC).

So no, you talking about efficiency does not make you right, that wasn't in question.

>> No.8809674

>>8809662
matchmaking also killed comfy servers

>> No.8809676

>>8809662
Pre-Live Xbox multiplayer was even better since it forced you to take your console and go to your friends place.

>> No.8809679
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8809679

>>8809305
>Be born in '86
>Every day in the 90's is "20 kids around a console" day
>Arcade joints packed to the brim, Street Fighter 2 has a line bigger than a Metallica concert
>2000's
>Lan houses are a thing
>Pull insane all-nighters playing 20-man Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament
>Play Smash Melee competitively at tournaments, win prizes, practice the game vs. 3 friends every weekend all day all night while eating pizza
>Nowadays
>Can't gather friends if my life depended on it
>"Hey bro come on over for a few hours let's eat bbq have a few brews and play something"
>"Nah bro wife won't let me"
>Have to play toxic randoms online in whatever game it is I'm playing

Please kill me

>> No.8809695

>>8809679
The most toxic online people i ever met were csgo players.
I heard dota people are very toxic also.

>> No.8809703

>>8809695
>competitive people are toxic
wew really?

>> No.8809707

>>8809695
Yes I do play csgo
One thing I learned was that yelling at your teammates will never, ever produce a positive outcome to the match, nor will it make him magically learn to play
>>8809703
You can be competitive without mom jokes, you know

>> No.8809715

>>8809707
You just aren't yelling hard enough

>> No.8809725

>>8809679
>>"Hey bro come on over for a few hours let's eat bbq have a few brews and play something"
kek, I hear ya. For me, it's my friends inviting me to get into online gaming. They're all married and with kids. They'll never come over. But apparantly, they're having a community of online gaming where they talk smack about their wives. I've been thinking about joining it. Forgot the name of the game they're playing. I'd still go for a Quake III, you know?

>> No.8809748
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>>8809305
>play 1.6 for an hour or so
>start drinking and trading porn
>don't play anything else the whole time, just keep trading porn and music
take me back bros...

>> No.8809756

>>8809707
I was way better at socom and halo compared to cs. I always suck at cs. And the meanest thing they said to me was i play like a bot.

>> No.8809768

>>8809756
I got often banned since people thought I was using a aimbot, since apparently I aim too well at the head. That's what you get playing a FPS in the early 2000's online if you've played with mouse aim since the 90's as a teenager.

>> No.8809787

>>8809653
>The argument was that computers back in the day weren't as power hungry as people think
No. That's not what you stated. I don't want to be petty here, but you added something just so you wouldn't be wrong.

>> No.8809792

>>8809787
See: >>8809670

That was what the original post stated, nobody talked about efficiency.

>> No.8809794

>>8809305
No. Closest thing I've experienced is bringing consoles over to friends' houses, and having multiple TVs setup in one room while we played on weekend nights. We'd usually have three TVs going, one for each of us and whatever we were playing, and a third for Adult Swim.
I have gone to one of those "gaming lounge" LAN places where you can rent time to play games on their machines, though. It was surprisingly fun, but it was only like six or so years ago, so it wasn't the same magic. I remember walking past one in the mall in the early 2000s and wishing I was old enough to have money to go there.

>> No.8809796

>>8809792
Just ignore the retard

>> No.8809798

>>8809796
Nah it's fun to argue, they are just too dumb to even see that they moved the goalpost just so they can argue, instead of making a proper argument.

>> No.8809808

>>8809792
Doesn't matter, I'm still right.

>> No.8809812

>>8809792
I'm not giving in. I still think I'm right and you're an idiot. The most I can give you is we're both idiots and we're talking alongside each other. I've got more important hills to die on. Still, this frustrates me.

>> No.8809813

>>8809808
Right about what?

If you take the average modern gaming setup and the average gaming setup from 20 years ago, the past one will use less power. That's it.

>> No.8809818

>>8809812
>faggot
>idiot
So you're giving up and just posting ad-hominem now?
See: >>8809813

We're not talking about efficiency, we're just talking about setups.

>> No.8809819

>>8809305
I had a few at my best friends house with him, his younger brother and some mutual friends. Two when I was in HS in a programming and web design class where the teacher let us play UT 99, which was a lot of fun. I also would throw together the PCs I had at home every so often and play UT with my younger brothers. Good times that sadly are now in the past.

While we were not on a LAN it also was always fun to take my PS2 to my best friends house for some good local co-op, or later on the not retro 360.

>> No.8809823

I'm from slavlands so people only wanted to play counter strike 1.3 and star craft brood war
I always suggested we play some other games but nobody did
I'd get bored after a few matches and play singleplayer games on my own

>> No.8809824

>>8809818
Don't ruin the thread please, just stop replying to them, you are right anyways

>> No.8809826

>>8809824
Sorry, wasn't my intention to derail anything, no idea why it triggers them so much.

>> No.8809846

>>8809818
I'm not ad-homineming shit. Let's take this discussion back to its origins.

I was saying old computers were power hungry and you were saying modern computers are more power hungry.

>> No.8809848

>>8809648
what language is this?

>> No.8809851

>>8809846
>I'm not ad-homineming shit.
What do you think name-calling without arguments is?

>I was saying old computers were power hungry and you were saying modern computers are more power hungry.
Which is correct. Efficiency has gone up but so has by average the power consumption for the same market segment of part, like entry or mid level graphics card or CPU.

>> No.8809862

Like 10 or so in my town with anywhere between 5 and 50 people. Was pretty good, unfortunately LAN parties fell out of favor by the time I had a drivers license and a car so I missed out on the big ones in my country with like 3,000 attendants.

>> No.8809872

>>8809851
So you're repeating my first point to me while selling it as your own?

>> No.8809879

>>8809872
My point was never efficiency though, as you can see in my original post. Literally just power consumption for comparable market segment hardware.
Your point was efficiency.

>> No.8809881

>>8809879
Just ignore the autistic faggot for the love of God

>> No.8809885

>>8809879
Thanks for engaging
>>8809881
Post tits or fuck off.

>> No.8809887
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8809887

It always was like this.

>> No.8809897

>>8809657
>>8809887
At least 1/4th were always girls at our parties (who actually played and not just +1)

>> No.8809924

>>8809879
Also: I'm not the anon who called you a faggot. I think you're a faggot either way, but I'd rather have it come from me ;-)

>> No.8809931

>>8809305
Yeah, 8 players Halo matches and junk food all night with my high school bros.

Good times.

>> No.8809938

We would do lan parties where we all used spiked models to cheat and absolutely destroy servers in CS beta 5 era.

>> No.8809968

>>8809794
Having money as a kid would have been the best feeling and most fulfilling experience. By the time you become an adult. And have a job and money. its not the same.

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8810059

Yes but not really. When really quick internet hit my neighbourhood (around 20k people) and neighbours around us, internet infrastructure was build like all of us were in one big local network. We had DC++ server, team speak server and played whatever we wanted. Sometimes we did meetups. Good times.

>> No.8810091

>>8809881

Kill yourself faggot.

>> No.8810312
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>>8809305
LAN parties were the bomb.
>Be kid in the 2000's, boy scout troop does over nighter's. They allow us to bring anything, and eventually this event becomes one massive LAN party as everyone bring their own PC's, consoles of all generations, and games galore.

Some mad lad got their dad to bring a 60 inch CRT, he had to transport in a truck to get there. Smash bros and Halo were croud favorites, tournaments were set up with some of our precious video games as the reward (I won WarioWare for the gamecube). Some kids couldn't make it through the night without sleeping. Other's played on silent mode, some turned on movies and used the 60 inch as its own theater. When dawn came everyone got pancakes and packed up. Madlad Dad was too lazy and 'donated' his 'junk' TV to the scouts.
>mfw we arrived 1hr before every meeting for a good round of Smash Bros.

>> No.8810337 [DELETED] 

Yeah, regularly since 1995. Stopped somewhere around 2005.

>> No.8810364

>>8809657
lmao, not me but pretty accurate

>> No.8810378

>>8810312
>60 inch CRT
Those are projector screens not CRTs

>> No.8810397 [DELETED] 

>>8810312
That's a rear projection TV. Our family had one in the 90s. A pain to transport. Some arcade cabs also used them.

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>>8810312

>> No.8810532 [DELETED] 

>>8810312
>Rear-projection television
My father had a similar one, Mitsubishi something. Ungodly heavy. Needed a few minutes to warm up.

>> No.8810551

>>8809657
Based pic

>> No.8810557

>>8809695
DOTA people are definitely the worst. If you're new in CS people will usually catch on and rib you a bit or leave you alone, if you're new in DOTA people have brain aneurysms about it. Full on meltdowns. It's pretty hilarious to be honest

>> No.8810568

>>8809305
Did the standard taking PCs around friends houses quite a few times. Then one of the friends ran a 30+ man one for his business studies GCSE practical assessment. His Dad was co-owner of a company so could write off the cost of switches/RJ45 cable as company expenses. Massively successful, so one was run about every quarter for 2 years.
During that time also went with GCSE bro and other friends to the Insomnia Lan parties. i5 to i8, 200+ people, fucking massive for the time and still going to this day.
GCSE bro still makes time once a year to host a small 6-8 man one at his house.

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Played in different clans and went to a few, but mostly larger ones.

>> No.8810609

>>8809314
We used to play during study period and computer science. Counter Strike source and Halo. Shit was so much fun.

My friend would always use aim bots on Counter Strike and everyone would get so pissed lmao

>> No.8810649

When I was stationed in Japan, everytime there was a typhoon the whole base would shut down. This was around the time WoW classic dropped so we used to LAN it up all day.

>> No.8810681

>>8809305
Whoa didnt know this existed.
I used to do "lan" with 2 ps1's and 2 tv's on command and conquers: red alert retaliation with my best friend at sleep overs.

>> No.8810687

>>8810681
Forgot to mention with the PSX link cable*

>> No.8810760

>>8810681
>>8810687
Sounds like good times, anon

>> No.8810796

>>8809305
You bet. CS 1.6, UT99. Later BFV, and lots of Vietcong. There was also an Internet Café in my area with a separate gaming section. They officially closed at midnight, but that only meant that all the normies were told to leave while we would stay and play with the owners until 3 or 4 in the morning, they also were completely fine with smoking weed in there after midnight. Place is a Yuppie coffeeshop today

>> No.8810820

LAN parties also meant loads of sharing porn and music when you were taking a break

>> No.8810826

>>8809679
Arcade joints must have been hardcore, we never had them in my country

>> No.8810830

>>8810760
Truly was. We played it all night for many sleepovers.

Was something new playing multiplayer on 2 separate tv's (for us)

>> No.8810893

>>8810820
I remember a time before USB sticks and CD burners, I'd take my hard drive with me every time I'd visit friends and we'd throw it in their PC to share things we've gotten since the last time we met.

>> No.8811039

>>8809707
Genetics is what makes some people good at cs.

>> No.8811070

No, but we played counterstrike in high school computer science class. Shit was pretty cash.

>> No.8811083

My friend had one before he left for America.
I wonder how he's doing these days.

>> No.8811089 [DELETED] 

>>8811039
This or amphetamines.

>> No.8811153

>>8810312
my friend had a pioneer elite like that. only the rich kid's had those.

>> No.8811170

>>8811153
They were so shit though that people sold them pretty quick for pretty cheap.

>> No.8811179

>>8810312
These type of tv's were projector weren't they?
They were so muted in color and shit and everyones was always broken

>> No.8811829

>>8809674
I remember having good times on some rainbow 6 servers back in the day. earlier times filtered out the less passionate

>> No.8813204

>>8809305
What am I looking at? A router?

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>>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.

>> No.8813328

>>8811179
Yeah, "rear projection" sets. They're shit.

>> No.8813364

>>8813327
if you needed to be gay about piracy you could have just given them the halo demo that could still play lan on blood gulch

>> No.8813384

>>8809305

i went to a gaming cafe in 2004-2006ish where you paid something like $3 an hour to use their computers and sometimes there were lots of people playing a game on a LAN like counterstrike and warcraft 3. shit was fun. good times. had like 10 people playing at once.

>> No.8813389

>>8813204
Yep

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/864864/Gamester-Lan-Party-Rc73220.html?page=2#manual

>> No.8813392

>>8813327
I used to torrent and burn games for people for money. Was nice having DSL and a CD burner in 2001. Made lots of money and friends that way, made school much nicer.

>> No.8813395

>>8813327
We did that too, got a new game, legit or pirated? We installed it on every machine too to play in multiplayer.
Nobody in the real world really cares about piracy.

>> No.8813441

>>8813327
Bahahah fucking zoomers are so uneducated about the law. I dont know about your shithole but it's not actually illegal to download anything. Only uploading is illegal all the people you heard about being sued by the music industry for "downloading" music were only charged for uploading and making it available to download for others. You little fucks being so afraid of piracy is why the corporations are getting more and more bold their propaganda has got you scared shitless

>> No.8813501

>>8813441
>fucking zoomers are so uneducated about the law
>in high school
why would a child know anything about the law?

>> No.8813605

>>8813501
>high school
>child

>> No.8814174

>>8813501
Because you want to be able to know what you can get away with and still have plausible deniability.

>> No.8814871

>>8809305
Yes and i miss those days like you wouldn't believe...

>> No.8815048

>>8813327
Bro why you delete your post? It was an endearing story even if I gave you a hard time about being such a wimp about piracy. Reminded me of the time I brought my counter strike disc to school and would play half life death match in school with people in the library

>> No.8816004

>>8809305
Yes, about 2004-2006 in high school. Every time we would come with a whole bunch of games in mind, play 1 new FPS until we could no longer get creative kills on our flick-sniping actual competitive pro gamer friend (who is the reason I can't readily identify aimbotting to this day), then spend about 6 hours on Age of Empires 2 and getting into fights regardless of anything else that was brought.

>> No.8816060

>>8809483
I'd not sat down to think about this but yeah, as a teen I never cared how much energy my PC was using, we had multiple in the house with CRTs and the incandescent lights would have used more power. My first pentium didnt even have a CPU fan, so it can't have been chewing through much energy at all.
The CRTs did get nice and warm, the cat would sleep on them. From the temp i would imagine they used >100W, but <250W for the larger ones (17"+).
We use to have 100W lights in each room. I also remember having a 300W PSU in the late P3 early P4 era.

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>>8816060
Oh and, like someone earlier ITT said, electricity was about half the price it is now, TAKING INFLATION INTO ACCOUNT. It's fucked, really.

>> No.8816178

We had a few in high school but it got harder to convince people to do so as our tastes diverged and most of us only started playing a single genre or game.

I played mainly RTS and eventually fell away from classical FPS games, another guy played mainly CS:Source to the exclusion of everything else, two guys played nothing but Super Smash Bros, and the last stopped playing games entirely after a certain point. The only thing we could agree on was we all enjoyed Diablo II, but when Diablo III released, the people who still played were evenly split on if they should move to it or stay on D2. As time went on, because of the split in games, only easy stuff like RPGs were still something we could LAN on because no one could beat the guys who played SSBM every day, RTS just led to a stomp by me, and CS:Source guy could 3v1 us.

>> No.8816196

>>8809512
I did that when I worked as summer IT at my high school, I put UT04 on our file server so people just played it at any lab around the place. I left two years later when I graduated college and it took them another 8 to finally scrub it out of the FS.

I really miss a time when you could run modern releases with integrated graphics.

>> No.8816391

>>8816178
My favourite lans, whether 6 mates at someone's house or 100 people in a hall, were the times we rotated through games, and included a bunch of fun games like trackmania, soldat, armagetron, etc. Usually only 1 recent game in the rotation, the rest would be staples like quake 3 or jedi knight 2 or cs1.3/1.5/1.6/source.

>> No.8817504

>>8809657
Imagine the smell.

>> No.8817509

>>8809305
A few, but I don't think there would even be 10 of them.
What was far more popular in my area was simple hot seats, with 5-7 people playing some turn based game in hot seat arrangement. Always fun, always good, and far, far more convenient to organise.

>> No.8817518

>>8809679
>"Nah bro wife won't let me"
Man I'm glad this hasn't happened to my childhood friend yet despite having two kids.

>> No.8817526

>>8817504
>Big, open space
>Given the perspective, room is twice the visible size
Unless some of them started to smoke, there would be no smell of any kind

>> No.8817532

>>8810826
EVERYONE had arcade joints and the countries that didn't have them back then have them now, via "trash export". Said that, arcades were pretty much reserved to tourist resorts and cheap hotels in my country.

>> No.8817541

>>8817518
Nta, but part of the reason why I'm still hanging with a dude I've met during uni years is because both he and his girlfriend (and now wife) still play and play the same games as I do. I don't even like the guy that much (as in - we aren't really close, not that we have some beef or other shit like that), but I always have a perfect wingman to play with and if schedules stick, there is three of us to play together, which is always fun.

>> No.8819613
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>>8809305
Been to a few and the experience was great. To me the immediacy of having fun with friends and strangers in FPS, RTS, or even just simply showing off in any game/application was a fun time. It was an opportunity to see or maybe even get things you may not have had. While the internet has gotten faster and broadened the pool, it isn't as much of an event to me at least.

>> No.8820038

Yes. They used to host them every few months in a youth center when I was like 13. Small town but big locale so we ended up being like 20-30 people in one big hall. No internet connection in the hall so few of the people hosted shared around USB sticks with games on them we played. Usually shit like Diablo 1-2, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Halo CE, GTA2 Deathmatch, Twisted Metal 2, Rollcage and Serious Sam among other games. They had a second floor with a kitchen and hangout rooms so every now and then we'd chill in the kitchen and prepare junk food then sit on beanbags and watch movies.

>> No.8820039

Yes, LAN parties were an occasional thing during ms/hs. The trouble in the early 2000s was coordinating the setup and getting everyone’s gear working properly. No matter what there’d always be one or two peoples computers that wouldn’t connect, so you were guaranteed to spend some time troubleshooting before getting to the actual gaming. Most of the time, at parties, people just defaulted to console tournaments (Goldeneye, smash bros, wwf games) because it was easy to set up.

I remember Halo being the first to really popularize LAN’ing on a big scale for normie kids bc it was painless to link a bunch of Xboxes for big tournaments. But that only lasted for a few years before online started taking over.

>> No.8820042

Used to grow up with Slav immigrants and everyday I was spending my lunch money at internet cafes playing CS and some weird game i can't remember the name. It was mostly CS

>> No.8820056

>>8817518
>>8817541
I don’t understand how this happens to people. All my friends are like this now, very boring and set in their routines or controlled by their wives, acting like it’s bliss. I’m married w/kids and my life isn’t like that at all. Perplexing.

>> No.8820084

>>8820039
>LAN’ing on a big scale for normie kids bc it was painless to link a bunch of Xboxes for big tournaments
I remember our xbox lan being delayed by 2 hours because we only had patch cables and we needed a crossover IIRC. We found crimpers and spliced a crossover cable in the evening while eating. Our PC lans OTOH were always pretty frictionless.

>> No.8820089

>>8820056
Sometimes it's just an excuse "...the ol' ball n chain!".

>> No.8821837

I played FFXI with a PC and a few PS2s hooked up in the same room to power level with the guys. Fun times.
>game is 20 years old now

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No. I always saw them in magazines, but I was too young (12). I remember people on IRC saying LANs stink, and later I realised I should avoid them

>> No.8822869

>>8820056
I think you are projecting some unrelated bullshit on me here, but m'kay

>> No.8822873

>>8809305
Nah. I wanted to, but practically nobody I knew was interested in them. The ones who were were extremely protective of letting anyone in.

But hey I know a lot about the Bible and solo masturbation.

>> No.8825120

Not back when it was commonplace, but I went to my first one this last Saturday and it was a lot of fun.