We can afford to buy massive PCs that will die of boredom as we play Minecraft. And if we can’t we sure as hell can afford a loan.
Lol, that’s the reason I wouldn’t LAN anymore. One, my computer is massive, and two, it’s been in the same place for the last 10 years. I’m pretty sure it’s bonded to it’s support structure.
Yeah baby, two more months until our next one.
Disposable income is awesome. Don’t care for the rum, but: Only the proper name brand snacks and drinks, good pizza, proper blow up mattresses, transportation is easy, people either have cars or can trivially rent some, and our computers are also way better these days.
Discord + online games means it still kind of happens
LAN and discord are entirely different vibes
Yeah, someone needs to invent a BO protocol.
Body Odor Over Internet Protocol, or BOOIP.
When I was 16 I could get 4 or 5 people to come over to my house on a week night with almost zero advanced notice. I am now 30 and
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I don’t know 4 or 5 people
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It would take 3-4 weeks to get everyone’s schedule to line up
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Half of everyone would cancel because they didn’t feel like going out
Sorry, I can’t make it. But only because I have no fucking idea why I agreed to it in the first place…
real :'(
I cri
True, these are valid problems.
Here is how I do it and yes I know I am very privileged.
- Have a DISCORD with everyone who might attend in it.
- Pick 3-4 dates at least a month in advanced. Have people list witch dates work for them. Pick the one with the most open spots.
- Tell my work building supervisor that I want to use our training room for a LAN party (We have a good history of this and it brings in other coworkers. So like team building stuff).
- (Optional but effective and makes it seems like you have a plan) Draw up a tentative schedule with which games you are playing and how long you are going to be playing. Add Chill Time/Extension time in case people want a break between games or want to play more.
Good Luck!
Man do I hate discord though
DISCORDMatrix /s
I bowed out of a friend’s recent LAN bc every time they just play Halo and Age of Mythology and they’re all super good at both and I’m terrible at both (and not interested in playing either game tbh).
Maybe it’s not everyone, but at 37 I feel much less interested in socializing in the first place.
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I bought 2 Xbox 360, can do 4 players halo lan party with friends now
Just need to buy 3 friends now
Are they cheaper if you buy a 6-pack of friends?
I don’t know, I don’t have a six pack only a single big pack of beer
Beer? We’re talking about buying friends!
Only up to 4 players with two 360’s?
Used to be able to have 4 OG Xboxes with 4 players on each back for Combat Evolved. I remember playing a full 16 player game, where the 4 TVs involved were only 13 inch black and whites. You had like the space of a GameBoy screen for your guy lol
Instagram is my trigger word.
Speak for yourself, the university student union runs weekend lans open to alumni and they sell 50 cent energy drinks
Its me. An Alum who didn’t hear de news.
Right, only get the pizza thats actually good and not a fake Instagram hype
It was work first in my day
I don’t miss carrying 20 kg CRTs.
This is such peak old school cool haha
I prefer red bull. Drinking isn’t conducive to all night gaming.
We actually always just went with coffee, even as teenagers. I guess as early millennials, we weren’t yet the energy drink generation.
I 100% agree, though: alcohol beyond a beer or two isn’t recommended for a LAN at all. Although I guess I have a “fond” memory of sitting there, playing Left4Dead with friends at a LAN, when one who didn’t play himself at that moment piss-drunkenly leaned on my shoulders from behind, slurring directly into my ear: “You have to shoot them! Shoot them! You have to shoooooot them!!”
I mean if anything balls existed back then, marketed specifically for that. I don’t know a ton of people who actually did but I mean, if it was anyone drinking energy drinks back then it was gamers.
Shit I was drinking red bull in 1996. Pretty sure it had been around for awhile at that point too.
Red Bull has been around since the 90s. I used to drink red bull, bawls, and surge during ye olden days of lan parties.
I was about those Jolt Colas, but Bawls were a good fallback at the LAN cafe when the jolt sold out.
We also had Vault.
*Volt, but I like your safe-themed version
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You start the night with a vodka redbull
No happy memory ever starts with a vodka redbull
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Whiskey & coke back when I was in college. Now it’s just beer. It was mostly a joke about vodka red bulls being what we drank when we were trying to get drunker than we’ve ever been.
Oooh, that sounds delicious! Amaretto is like the only alcohol i actually like.
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Nut lickers?
Hard disagree, next day is rarely pleasant but .
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No love for Bawls? When I was younger the best LAN parties had Bawls. I think they still make it; no idea if it tastes the same.
What about just coffee or tea? As a grown up you can ignore the marketed sugar and go straight to the caffeine.
+1, coffee and sativa 👌
Better yet just start earlier in the day. I don’t enjoy staying up past 10 anymore
But there’s people awake around you that can disturb your session at this time.
In what way? Who would disturb me?
Shadow people.
I like red bull.
in college, I was renting a house with 3 roommates who were all gamers. We used to host a LAN party every month or so. Our record was 30 people in the house playing at the same time.
I miss those days
we can LAN if we want to
we can leave your friends behind
cause your friends dont LAN
and if they dont LAN
well they’re no friends of mine
That’s fucking good bro I’m posting that on my social media
Well they’re no clan of mine.
Everybody look at their hands.
You can LAN if you want to You can leave your friends behind
Cause I wanna lan
and if you don’t lan, then you ain’t no friend of mine
Everybody look at your pants.
yeah but now we are working 6 day weeks, 10 (or more) hour days.
IDK I start getting real sleepy around 1:30. Especially if alcohol is involved. I can push through it but it’s not really a fun time after that.
