2001 LAN party : 4chan

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 minutes ago

I had 11 years basically stolen from me when I married my first wife. She went from "spent time with your friends" to "you spend time with me now" almost overnight. No more LAN parties, no more gaming (because her brother got addicted to WoW and therefore gaming = bad), no hanging out with friends unless she ok'd it (spoiler: never happened), etc.

I should have left, but as a naive Mormon kid, I thought that's just how it was supposed to be.

I've since renounced any religion and am happily remarried. I game with my brothers and occasionally random strangers. It's great fun, and I can involve my kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago

My last lan party was 2 years ago

[–] Shardikprime 1 points 10 minutes ago

This picture is literally how men behave together

[–] [email protected] 2 points 45 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago)

Wait was there some rule that you had to stop doing lan parties when you turn 30? Nobody told my friends and me.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I know a couple guys I went to HS with that never moved on. 40 year old, single, stoner gamers, working minimum wage jobs. I mean I’m still a stoner and a gander but I got a career and a family now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago) (1 children)

Honk honk

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

[–] captainlezbian 4 points 2 hours ago

Kinda yeah. There are parts of the past that were excellent and that i miss. Some I'm no longer at the appropriate developmental stage for. So yeah it was excellent staying up all night as a 14 year old chatting with the next door neighbor, but it's also going to be lovely being a part of his wedding. I miss staying out rambunctiously in college with my friends on a weeknight. But the skills I learned the next day are even more valuable than those memories. And someday I'm going to miss being 30 and spending most of my free time with my wife. We cannot stop time, we cannot avoid aging. Where I am now is a time I looked forward to in wonder and excitement when I was younger. So I will cherish this time and live it fully, so that when it is a memory it can be a good one. And i will continue making my futures as wonderful as i can, because I can't avoid the reality that this stage of my life too is finite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I wish I could have experienced that. Was too poor to own a computer or Playstation 2 at the time. Moving around to different school districts. Seems like it was fun though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Aaah, back when a CD rack was an expected piece of furniture.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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... until eventually they became|just two more faces in the halls.
It happens sometimes.
Friends come in and out of your life|like busboys in a restaurant.
I heard that Vern got married|out of high school, had four kids...
... and is now the SEO maximizer|at CrytoFreedom.
Teddy tried to get into the NSA,|but his eyes and his ear kept him out.
Last I'd heard|he'd spent some time in jail...
... and was now doing odd jobs|around Castle Rock.
Chris did get out.
He enrolled in the graduate school courses with me.
And although it was hard,|he gutted it out like he always did.
He went on to college|and eventually became a lawyer.
Last week,|he entered a shitpost community.
Just above him in the thread,|two trolls got into an argument.
One of them pulled a sealion.
Chris, who'd always made the best peace,|tried to confront him.
He was stabbed in the throat.
He was permabanned almost instantly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

I'm having a great time playing CS with my friends almost every evening, just without the need to lug my entire setup around to a friend's house.

I have some grognard opinions of my own but this isn't one of them.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

Why do people think having kids will solve problems for themselves/others 😂

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago

They can live vicariously through their kids and to try and make them into the person they never got to be? I don’t actually know.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I mean, if you have kids you can have LAN parties with them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Played minecraft over lan for the first time around christmas with the kids ( 8, 6 and 5 ).

It was awesome until our youngest figured out how to pour lava on everyones buildings and refused to stop.

[–] anamethatisnt 19 points 13 hours ago

If you go directly for a partner who games you can skip the kids and save the time and money needed for gaming. ;-)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

It’ll solve your problems by giving you more important problems to distract you from them until your memory of who you miss being fades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

Says the loser on 4chan who supposed to have wife and children...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Lan parties still happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

OP just doesn't have friends

[–] Duamerthrax -2 points 9 hours ago

The games suck now. I stopped going because it shifted from arena shooters that could actually be played on LAN to "modern military shooters" played by gamers more interested in their army dude RP then game mechanics. These people do not have interesting enough personalities to hang out with otherwise.

I did hear that MAG Fest has a whole room dedicated to Quake3, so I might be making trip next year.

[–] mojofrododojo 24 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

man lan parties were awesome but I do not miss lugging my 19" crt anywhere. and the reason they existed is now moot - we can lanparty from our homes.

[–] GraniteM 14 points 8 hours ago

The point of the LAN party was not to be playing games on your computer, the point was to be playing games with your friends, in person. No matter how good your connection, no matter how good your battlestation and headset, it will never compare to the sheer joy of hunching down over your computer while it's set up on a coffee table, a mass of messily-coiled cables around your ankles, a janky mouse-balled mouse in your hand, as you have the ability to turn and call your best friends slurs and share cold pizza, secure in the knowledge that you're going to go to sleep on a scratchy couch, wake up around noon tomorrow, and start the whole process all over again.

It's not the tech, it's the meatspace community that made it special.

[–] noobface 4 points 8 hours ago

21" Trinitron + stairs = "I'm gonna die here aren't I"

[–] Soup 1 points 9 hours ago

Yea, I spend several hours once a week with my bestfriend a city over. We’d play together in person but mostly we do other stuff that we can’t do online when we hangout in person. That’s not to say that I don’t believe in a certain magic of a LAN party but it’s not like I can’t play 110hrs of Baldur’s Gate unless he’s in same the room.

People act like the only online games are Fortnite and CoD but it’s like, bud, it’s just that your friends are busy and find it hard to set aside time like that.

Oh also many PCs have glass sides and are risky to transport. Ain’t no way I’m risking my Fractal North unless I’m moving. MiniATX though I totally would, all the time.

[–] lordnikon 37 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We miss the games the most. Just like with Web1 when the games and websites were built for fun and not engineered to just push us to spend money all the time or keep playing as long as possible by any means necessary.

[–] BenLeMan 16 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Come on, those games still exist. They might be overshadowed by a layer of slop but they are still there.

[–] Soup 2 points 9 hours ago

I looked up Miniclip.com again just now. It now just talks about the mobile games it develops. You’re correct that much of it still exists but they’re right that it’s just not the same.

Remember when Bloons was available in a browser from reputable and popular website? Or that game with the little bubble game that you shot missiles at?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There's an era of gaming that is disappearing. It's the late XP to early 7 era, a lot of games, even ones that came on discs, don't work anymore because the servers that handled the DRM are shut down. There are things you can't go do anymore.

[–] BenLeMan 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh, maybe I should clarify what I meant: we still get cool, enjoyable new games nowadays that are every bit as good as the classics we played and loved then. If not better.

I think my biggest tip would be to stay away from pretty much anything labeled AAA.

[–] errer 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Problem is most of those games aren’t terribly mainstream and also you have no one who has the time to play them with you.

[–] BenLeMan 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, I'm mostly a single player kind of guy, so I enjoy my games like Return of the Obra Dinn, Dredge, Balatro, Dave the Diver, etc.

From what I hear, some older multiplayer titles can be made to run using cracks and some kind of VPN.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 46 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

LAN parties were great. We're living like shit without them.

Source: have wife and kid, still miss it

[–] dohpaz42 3 points 8 hours ago

I have “lan parties” with my kids. It’s a great time and we all get to bond over our shared love of gaming.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Come over to mine. Bring the gaming rig (I have the monitor and KB+M). Bring the Mrs and kids too....they can chat/play too.

The bigger problem is having time and finding adult friends with similar interests locally. LAN parties can still happen, but finding friends and aligning their calendars is impossible. We've moved on from the days of college where time was infinite and responsibilities were low. I do look for "dad gamers" Discord channels (to find peers rather than shouty 19year olds), but have had little luck.

[–] dohpaz42 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What games are you into?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

These days mostly playing Street fighter 6, Jedi Fallen Order, Balatro and Risk of Rain 2. I played Apex Legends till they blocked it on Linux.

I have SF6, Marvel rivals and Left 4 Dead 2 installed. Could do Overwatch 2 as well. Those would probably be most suitable to play together. Finding overlapping time and interest is tricky. I'm in UK timezone and get PC time after 1030pm on some weekdays or around midday most weekends.

[–] dohpaz42 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm in UK timezone and get PC time after 1030pm on some weekdays or around midday most weekends.

Weekends would be out for me because i don’t wake up that early. But weekdays might not be so bad, as I’m 5 hours behind you.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 2 points 10 hours ago

Sent you a message, sounds like my vibe

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Man... Same.

[–] badcommandorfilename 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Couch co-op is still rad. Don't know how old your kids are but we play Little Big Planet as a family and it rules

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

I haven't played that for ages but I should get it out. My 10yo and myself have plenty of games on the go but it's not nearly the same as a LAN.

[–] MrJameGumb 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Little did Anon realize that in 10 years time he would still be posting on 4Chan, but now all his posts would be about how gaming just isn't as good as it used to be back in back in 2018 and that the internet "sucks now"

Also he will constantly bitch about how 4Chan just isn't the same since it was purchased by Amazon and incorporated into Meta

Truly dark times ahead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

"/b/ was never good"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Hah, I don't miss LAN parties because I never had anyone to LAN party with.