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
I don't know 4 or 5 people
It would take 3-4 weeks to get everyone's schedule to line up
Half of everyone would cancel because they didn't feel like going out
real :'(
True, these are valid problems.
Here is how I do it and yes I know I am very privileged.
Good Luck!
Man do I hate discord though
~~DISCORD~~
Matrix /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).
I cri
Sorry, I can't make it. But only because I have no fucking idea why I agreed to it in the first place...
Maybe it’s not everyone, but at 37 I feel much less interested in socializing in the first place.
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
Well they're no clan of mine.
That’s fucking good bro I’m posting that on my social media
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.
Red Bull has been around since the 90s. I used to drink red bull, bawls, and surge during ye olden days of lan parties.
What about just coffee or tea? As a grown up you can ignore the marketed sugar and go straight to the caffeine.
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.
This meme was made pre-tariff.
The only sucky part is, of course, that a lot of games no longer support LAN play.
Though I suppose you could just stick to ones that do.
I'm so happy seeing so many indie titles that are all about LAN and split-screen play. It's definitely happening! You just won't always see it front-paged and have to keep an eye out. :)
Edit: Plus, GoG brought back stuff like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Unreal Tournament 99 and 2k4, that are still an absolute blast. :D
God damn it, you made me listen to my childhood again.
Not sure who was drinking cola and eating pizza on LAN nights... We were drinking vodka and eating beer, then polish with weed.
Right, only get the pizza thats actually good and not a fake Instagram hype
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
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
Instagram is my trigger word.
It was work first in my day
This is such peak old school cool haha
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.
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.
I bought 2 Xbox 360, can do 4 players halo lan party with friends now
Just need to buy 3 friends now
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
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.
If I get drunk I get extra sleepy. Unless I get really drunk, then I get insomnia despite feeling sleepy as fuck
I’d rather sleep ay night
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.
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