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me, circa 2004
LITERALLY ME circa 2004 too
me too except i didnt have that many friends
Someone in that pic is a network admin making 6 figures.
and she posts here
The same one who spent the first hour or two of each LAN trying to convince each of their friends to stop playing random shit / playing by themselves while everyone is copying the game we were going to play in order to try and prevent finally getting to the last person and the first half of the people being "over it and wanting to play something else" only for the cycle to re-start.
Also the same one threatening all of the friends leeching random shit from each other that if they don't wait until at least most people have copied the game that they'll receive physical harm.
Also the same one that loves the bittorrent protocol almost as much for non internet reasons as they do for internet reasons. Hosting all the games we were going to play on a local tracker/seedbox at a LAN absolutely fucking changed the game entirely. That and getting a layer 3 switch and tagging/prioritizing torrent traffic over everything else.
I actually missed out on LAN parties because no friends and parents didn't get the internet until I was almost out of the house so idk if this is a dumb question but is there a benefit of usinga personal seedbox over something like a network drive to share the game files?
It probably depends on what hardware you have access to. I feel like a nas with an ssd, and a 10 gig uplink would be much better. Then you could serve everyone files right from the server, and simplify things. You could use something like lancache and users wouldn't notice any difference. Go to steam (or wherever) and download, same as normal.
But if you only have a 1 gig switch (or the nas only has hard drives), you'd be splitting 1 gig from the server across all clients. If the clients can share files (and have unused bandwidth) then they can download and share with each other. Now instead of sharing 1 gigibit connection to the server, there are other connections they can make between the clients. Instead of 10 users getting 100mbps from the server, they can get 100mbps from the server, and 400mbps~ from other clients (and sharing 400mbps~ to other clients).
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Okay but actually though, where did you find this actual picture I took of my friends from high school and our computers before a lan party?
Teenage me also feeling extremely attacked
fr i'm quaking
Best Friday night LAN party 2004 has ever seen. everyone got their own $5 Hot N Ready from Little Caesar's, and Curtis' Mom got us cherry vanilla Dr Pepper
cherry vanilla Dr Pepper
Aces!
Jimmy snuck in some Jolt Cola!
I was a Livewire and Code Red grill, myself.
doxxing myself to say president's choice pamplemousse.
$5 hot n ready
I can feel this in my gut
"Is that a real machete?"
"No. It's just a movie prop."
"But it looks sharp."
"It is."
"Boys about to have a good time"
Just some dudes having fun
Edit: just realizing LAN parties are an old people thing
The guy that brought the Powermac G4 is tied up in the back seat I hope.
pc built inside a mac case, for mcgyver points.
Eventually forgiven cus he brought cd-r's with a cracked Starcraft installer
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Nah he leads this group of boring PC nerds
Based and PowerPCpilled
Unironically jealous of the size of that lan-party. I had one chance in my life at a Civ 5 lan party, but it was last second and I was working weekends.
Hexbear meetup (all the computers run Linux and have a Stalin bg)
I'm not in this picture because I'm taking the picture.
Hi mom!
DSA Central committee
First, they came for the Slushee, and I said nothing.
Then, they came for the Slim Jim, and I still said nothing.
Finally, they came for the Gateway 2000 that my father purchased without asking me what graphics card to get, and I grabbed my replica sword I stole from the state fair and I fought to the death.
I'd say this was me, but let's face it, I didn't have that many friends.
2005.jpg
The Computer Gang was also a band. They dreamed of themselves as a Korn-hip-hop hybrid. If only they could just figure out how to create better beats and hoppin' basslines. But Brad broke his foot, right after that Mike's mom banned band practice in her garage, and then Chris got grounded for his M-80 in the toilet stunt. They took these events as an omen and the gang disbanded as a musical group.
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Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999
The resistance after beating Joe Biden's opsec
I want that powermac
Aaaw this makes me think of simpler times. I had a couple of lan-parties in my teens and early twenties.
Battlestation meetup
Mid Towers of Power
obviously someone wasn't there to game with that pos mac
It's "Hot Pockets, Quake, and Mountain Dew" night for the Pawnee High School Computer Club
My man on the far right seems to have what is a Fellblade from GW1. Loved that skin to death and would often farm it for builds.
"Getting ready for Prom at the technical charter high school"
The secret meeting in Jekyll Island, Georgia in 1910 that lead to creation of the Federal Reserve as America's next central bank. [colorized]
BACK UP IN YO ASS WITH THE RESURRECTION!
"This was the first meeting of the Dev Team that would go on to make Duke Nukem..."
The barrel girl killers from Dexter
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