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zoomers are now appropriating, romanticizing and daydreaming about the LAN Party culture of the early Y2K era. how does that makes you feel, oldefag bros?
Imagine the smell
>how does that makes you feel, oldefag bros?
i was in my 20s and getting pussy and drinking hard. these stinky homosexuals were playing shit games on PC while getting nothing but body odour and possibly another man's penis. i feel great.
i don't want to.
You missed out fag. You can put your peepee in stinky puspus during literally any era of humanity. 90's LAN parties were a unique and limited once in a lifetime experience.
i was too old for that shit and all my friends weren't into that. we were into demo scene, console gaming etc. we'd link up consoles but that was as much as we could give a fuck about. some dudes would have their PCs playing quake/doom/unreal tournament (god i loved that game). some dudes still had amigas as well.
>we'd link up consoles but that was as much as we could give a fuck about.
nagger that’s a LAN. Do you think consoles use totally different networks than PC?
Consolefags are generally straight up retarded, as you can see
>nagger that’s a LAN. Do you think consoles use totally different networks than PC?
connecting consoles together wasn't called "LAN". that's PC homosexualry that came in the 2000s, zoomy zoomzoom. no wonder he was getting pussy and you homosexuals were sucking on teen boy penis. you will never be an oldfag.
There are still guys who play vidya on LAN in cybercafes in my country, anon. Technically, it's not dead.
>Nooooo muh soulful lan parties!!!!
How are lan parties any different from co-op mode or DS download play other than that you have to hook 2 consoles together physically?
You did more than play games and it involved being able to do shit in your downtime in the same room as well.
You missed out, LAN parties were incredible. Beer, snacks, pizza, laughs, good games. We even had women at ours.
They have been doing that for a long time here, and tbh I'm on board with them.
>i was in my 20s and getting pussy and drinking hard
Where did that left you? Don't answer, I know that it made you dumber, I say this as someone who drank 30 cl of whisky every weekend and maybe some inbetween.
>i feel great.
Sure you do, yup.
drinking that amount did not harm your brain in any perceptible way
It did, at least when I wasn't clean for a long period of time. Couldn't grasp new knowledge just as easy, now it's getting better, but I still regret pissing away my neurons.
Either way, I sometimes end up not remembering something that was there a year ago, like where's some stuff at home, or some common knowledge things.
age
That's like half a standard bottle, right? That's not much at all, rather reasonable, actually.
me doc said 25cl is the absolute maximum of what should be consumed at once 🙁
Your doc is kind of a lightweight, probably brown and/or a woman. The healthy amount of alcohol you can binge each weekend without becoming an alcoholic is officially a standard 12 pack of American piss beer. Doing the math:
12cans * 355mL * 5%alcohol = 213 mL of ethanol
You were drinking:
300mL * 40% alcohol = 120mL of alcohol
213-120 = 93mL left
93/x mL = 0.4 -> 93/0.4 =232.5mL ~ 23.3cl
So, with 30cl drank, you still had about 23 cl to go before it would be considered sad. So drink up friend.
Thanks. Can't do it anymore, idk why. Get headache and sleepy for 16 hours after 0.5 beer. So it's just so not worth it, losing half of a weekend to it.
I'm not the dude you were talking to, but you do excersise, right? Your problems sound like something I had when I didn't move much.
He's an amerifat posting on LULZ, ofc he doesn't exercise much
>i was in my 20s and getting pussy and drinking hard.
bet you never fucked a girl under the age of 14 though, while three (3) of my old lan party bros have been to don't-drop-the-soapville so far.
yes "maverick" I am talking about you.
Cigarettes. Kids wouldn't understand.
kek this, zoomer idealize lan parties because they don't know the smell of it.
you mean the creature in OPs image?
i don't need to imagine.
t. 35
When's your funeral?
not him but probably after yours as your zoomer ass will be on the front lines in ww3. pwnd
>implying I meet the minimum IQ standard to be drafted
touche
Not soon enough. Getting old sucks.
same age, i actually asked people to go home and shower or use deodorant if they smelled.
So, has this been created? Otherwise it's a pretty good idea ngl.
>how does that makes you feel, oldefag bros?
Sad, those were good times. People actually had valid reasons and longing to be around eachother. We had cookouts in this one computer shop we partied at every weekend.
Usually on tap we had some COD2, CS 1.7, Some Quake 3. Sometimes people just had the latest singleplayer game and we all got in on checking it out.
We had a massive on-site storage drive full of pirated software, anyone could grab an iso of just about anything and install it. Played just about everything.
Yeah,...
34, btw.
Shit got really fun when someone got some hot new hardware. At the time, the HD4850 and HD4870 had just came out and one dude had two HD4870's in crossfire. Had half the shop crowded around his Desktop in the back giving shit advice and almost spilling beer in his desktop, being shits.
Yeah...
>CS 1.7
missed out on lan parties because none of my friends like computers or gaming as much as me
i hate it so much so i absolutely understand zoomers fascinations with it
same shit for me I am 36. always wanted to go but no one was doing it
That shit was soul as fuck. I don't know what you are talking about.
How would you do that, wouldn't that require permissions from everyone in the picture if it features their face?
twitter screencap thread
I'm all for the idea, not her retarded attempt at trademarking it. It was pretty damn comfy getting with the bros and playing shit like NFS, CS 1.6 and MMO. Such a simpler time.
It's always bizarre seeing zoomers fetishize the most banal, day to day millennial experiences. To think something me and my friends didn't think much of would stir up endless pages of nerdessays by depressed zoomers is hilarious really.
you'd be clamoring for boring day to day experiences too if you had to be isolated all day with a slab as your only access to the world
i think they crave the more social aspects computing had back then more than anything
nowadays they play multiplayer games over the internet, in their room, alone, with people they probably don't even known in real life
now that's depressing
Kids right now are having their "good times" just like you did 20 years ago.
That feeling comes from a lack of responsibility and concerns, not from a specific activity.
kids are awfully concerned with their social media appearances and are depressed, anxious and killing themselves
Yeah, precisely. Societal mores shit, not gaming or whatever.
Sounds like the 90s but social media instead of school hierarchies.
their good times look fucking miserable mate
As did ours
>you're spending your youth hunched over that damned computer! go outside!
my dad bought me videogame magazines and took me to LANs on the days he had custody...
I guess my parents sucked, then
she just needs to make one chapter as a pitch and send it to the right people. so far she is just an ideas guy and the publishing industry has more than enough of them already.
times were good
now times are shit
videogames are shit
world is shit
society is shit
but WOW I can post while taking a shit cause smartphones. how nice.
I miss LAN parties not gonna lie.
I don't miss lugging CRTs around though.
I miss CRTs in general
I don't, and I still keep a very high end CRT at home.
The only feature of CRTs we won't be able to replicate is arbitrary resolution.
They've been surpassed in every other metric by other technologies.
what surpassed motion performance? every modern technology is blurry as fuck in motion unless it strobes, and that gives me a headache.
OLED has an almost instant response time.
CRTs can blur when a bright object is moving across a black background, it was always apparent just moving the mouse cursor on a black background.
The phosphorous has to have some amount of persistence. And it's not like a CRT at 100Hz doesn't have detectable flicker, because it sure has.
My gaming buddies from HS all moved out our hometown and have families now.
We used to play online until about 7-8 years ago, but we stopped doing that too.
The pic is from 2007 btw, it's not even from that long ago. The first LAN parties we did were in 2003 when we finally got our own gaming PCs by saving lunch money.
I preferred my CRT to my oled
also my CRT still works after 20 years and oled shit the bed after a few.
There are plenty of annoyances with CRTs that I just don't want to put up with any more.
The ever present flyback transformer whine, the ever changing geometry, the slow warm up time, low contrast in a well lit environment and low brightness in general, high reflectivity etc. etc.
And I only switched to LCD in 2011, I held out for as long as I could.
I don't know, I don't remember having any annoying issues other than it took a lot of space
think I swapped my secondary to LCD 5 years ago
You're remembering CRTs though rose-tinted glasses.
I've got one of these bad boys btw, weighs 30kg.
Anyone remember the joy that was the advent of flatscreen CRT? I fucking hated coming to class and the naggers had taken all the flatties. Fuck.
>5 years
>rose tinted glasses
nigga its like yesterday.
not like it was 20 years ago.
>OLED has an almost instant response time.
But it's capture and hold, fast phosphors light up for a ms or so.
A 175hz OLED has a lot more motion blur than a 60hz CRT.
It's due to sample&hold.
>blurbusters
>the blog that optimizes their cameras for CRT displays then uses the same settings elsewhere just to shill for dead tech
Wrong https://blurbusters.com/motion-tests/pursuit-camera-paper/
>have technology like ultra thin gaming laptop, thunderbolts graphics cards
>no more LAN party or even LAN games in recent years
'97 birth here
I was able to participate in a singular LAN party in the early 2010s
It was a magical moment of all my friends having enough money for passable PCs and the internet in our shitty town not being good enough for us to game entirely online
Lightning in a bottle that will probably never be captured again
'93 here
I didn't have many friends growing up so I was never at a lan party.
Cherish that memory.
they can still do it?
Hell there are now microbreweries that throw lans and just let people setup laptops and shit. fuck everything is so stupidly portable now im surprised its not bigger.
There's no reason to do it anymore is the thing
Internet has become too good. It just isnt worth the effort
nagger I'm a zoomer and i was on lan parties as a teenager. I sat there with a terrible laptop and with friends and played cs 1.6 all night and later mw1.
Hell there is one every year in my dormitory too.
I didn't grow up with lan parties, but split screen multiplayer in the late 2000s was just as good, and you could lan Xboxes together the same way to play halo, cod and gears.
I had tons of fun and now no shooter games even offer split screen anymore.
it fucking enrages me that splitscreen isn't a thing anymore even though it would work much better on modern consoles because of how big and high resolution tvs are these days
As s zoomer, I wish more people in my area were into this sort of thing. That said, my older brother and I sometimes play games together over LAN. Dying Light over LAN is the shit.
zoomers have no future. they have nothing but phones and tik tok. i would feel sorry for them but they rejected the culture millinials tried to bestow to them in favor of nagger culture so fuck em. i can honestly say zoomers are the most zogged generation in history. even worse than the fucking baby boomers.
>some random woman over a fucking year ago said something on twitter
How do you know this person is a zoomer and why do you think this warranted a thread
>I know this is true because some retard on /misc/ said it
Yeah, I'm guessing that's the entire point of this thread. Whiny retard millenials making shit up about zoomers to whine about while talking about a twitter screencap.
it's true in my experience
this makes zero sense. i'm on a college campus full of zoomers and literally everyone has a laptop they use to study
*Chromebooks
aka smart phones in a laptop form factor
>i'm on a college campus full of zoomers and literally everyone has a laptop they use to study
I can show you an entire country with Chinese people driving cars.
>I can show you an entire country with Chinese people driving cars.
Australia?
Millinials have no future. They have nothing but college debt and simpsons quotes. I would feel sorry for them but they rejected the culture zoomers tried to bestow to them in favor of instant gratification culture so fuck em. i can honestly say millinials are the most cucked generation in history. even worse than the people born in the 1700's, or the 1800's, or the baby boomers, or the millinials.
I'm 22 (I guess that's zoom zoom) and I've joined a ton of lan parties and even went to big event lan parties in city hall. I live 3rd world though so maybe we're behind the times and are just entering the lan era.
was about to call bullshit at city hall until I saw 3rd world. well done, you are more civilized than the average zoomer
Great
Another thread derailed by a crt turbo fag with his infinite homosexualry
yeah, look at how derailed the thread is now!
GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Take this from someone doing so called normalfag activities, meeting people face to face to do something you enjoy is 100000x better than doing it online in your room.
If you like vidya, then getting together even if you won't be playing over LAN is a way better feel than if everyone is playing from their own homes.
So if anything, LAN parties should come back.
Yes, Fortnite lan parties with your frens!
>how does that makes you feel?
Kinda good? To be fair I went to like 4 LAN parties back in the day and it was some of the most fun moments I had during my adolescence. The marihuana and cigar smell on the other hand...
part of the experience anon
03 zoomer growing up in a poorfag shithole we had cs1.6 lan parties where we hosted a local server and a few friendos would bring their laptops, it was comfy but considering that internet improved and most of us grew out of it we eventually stopped doing it
Lmao when I was in college and my friends invited me to a party, it was always implied that it was a LAN party. That was my crowd.
OP kys
?
they can grab their computers and do a lan party if they like it so much
>tell zoomer girls stories about LAN parties
>show them scans of the easthetic photos I took with point and shoot cameras
>they let me rawdog them and cum inside their young fertile pussies the same night
based, if something gains nostalgia value you should surf the wave to have as much sex as possible
it's that easier to get a zoomer harem, their m*n are too busy being gay
I still do lan parties at my place its for stellaris. 3 sets of couples.
totally normal
>twitter screencap thread but OP used nitter to avoid the autodetectors
KYR (kill your router)
You niggas need to get some friends. We have lan party/board games once a month at the very least, usually more like once a week unless everyone gets busy
is that before or after sucking everyone's dicks?
no one has friends in the smartphone era
those quads don't lie
>9999
Very nice, anon.
I'm an oldfag, I remember going to Best Buy in the 90s and seeing these two girls scream at their dad that they hate computers and wanted to leave. And as evident by the pictures in OP girls were not into gaming and not into computers AT ALL. So why the FUCK would a girl act like this the halcyon days of computing when the only thing girls did with computers was use Word Perfect?
cause it brings people together. she feels like a 'nerd'.
this. I still do Lan parties. most people are on laptops
Because for some reason the 90s was the greatest era ever. Despite the music and culture at the time depicting otherwise.
imagine how gen alphas of the future praise hte current era of tiktok and fortnite as the greatest era ever.
>god why did those zoomers get to listen to the same 5 seconds of shitty mainstream music looped over and over again until insanity it's not fair!! I want to go back
Now I want to live to be old enough just to read the mental gymnastics that generation is going to conjure to romanticize the zoomer era
yeah you're right, the present is the greatest time ever
Roasties didn't show any interest in gaming or computing until it became extremely profitable. Notice how many roasties abandoned gaming on twitch after just chatting came along? Give them the choice and they'll always choose not gaming.
bitches loved arcade games and home consoles in the 70s and 80s
if you watch the SICP lecture videos from the 80s, half the students are female
>bitches loved arcade games and home consoles in the 70s and 80s
They liked the NES and all my female cousins had a NES but that was extent of their interest. 90s women just didn't care. You'd think Wizard would contribute but nah.
textbook incel
>getting this buttmad over onionsoy shit not being gatekept
for fuck's sake you redditards are just an embarrassment
fuck off your gay foam sword 20-die shit is not worth protecting
That's a /tg/ picture and the state of modern D&D proves them 100% right.
That said we never needed to gatekeep shit in the 90s because even just telling girls about anime or LAN parties made them disinterested even if they thought you were hot.
MTG/DnD/Any videogame or anime was not made by a handful of friends but by a giant company.
And companies make money by selling products that appeal to people, the more the better.
But I guess you are too stoopid to understand it...
> no one steal my idea for 90s nolstagia lan pics!
Have fun paying the people who took the photos.
People don't need to do this anymore. Just find activities people do together if you want a similar experience anons.
>we now just get together to build robots, battle bots and random electronics. You dont need to be an engineer to do this shit. You just need to want to make something thst requires working together in the same room, like you did with lan parties. You could have this experience building a shed with some friends.
>had a lan caffee in the neighbourhood
>skipped classes together with my mates to play warcraft 3
It was pure SOVL
They were a pain in the ass to set up, but the social aspect and in-person shit talking was pretty great. Born in '85, so at the perfect time.
I've never been to a LAN party, but I've use a NAS.
darude - sandstorm.mp3
None of you linked to her book? OP just posted year old screenshots, no link?
https://vol.co/product/lan-party/campaign/
Only issue is that she is running all the pics through gigapixelAI to bring them up to printing DPI/PPI norms.
Damn, impressed she actually made it happen.
How do the gigapixeled images look?
I missed out on these because I was already a social recluse back then and didn't want to hang out like that with the 4 or 5 nerds I would rarely hang out with (maybe 5 days a year).
You do know you can still have a LAN party if you want one right? Plus decent laptops and wifi make the experience a lot easier now.
The only trouble is finding games that support LAN play. But Counter Strike still runs if you want it to.
I'm still pissed that Dying Light 2 doesn't have LAN. Fucking bullshit.
The cracked version has LAN.
why is this roastie making money with other peoples photos
i miss his collab Mobo
>how does that makes you feel, oldefag bros?
umm, you can still go to csgo lans? they're actually way more enjoyable than the dogshit setups in op?
i graduated hs in 2005 and can assure you this roastie would have been disgusted if she saw our lan parties.
>roastie
Anon, I…
till this day i dont even know what "lan" is. I remember seeing it as an option in some game menus but never understanding what it was.
Local Area Network
Basically devices connected together through a single switch making one network. Everything connected to your home router is on a LAN.
I was in the army. We set up a lan in the barracks that grew to probably 100 people. Everyone had share folders. Glorious. We'd have knocked out tournaments isome nights or just a couple of fellas playing a game drinking on a Friday night.
no they aren't
30 years old is not an “oldfag” you fucking child.
I'm 39, can I be an oldfag? Because you're all fucking homosexuals. Respect my authoritai
Most zoomers who have computers these days have laptops that are more than capable of running current day esports games as well as a lot of older games. Nothing stops them from getting together in the same room and just playing those games together while drinking a beer or two. Hell, it's way easier for them practically speaking than it ever was for us. Laptops back in the day sucked for gaming and we had to haul our desktop PCs to the location.
>now
no they have been for years
>Born in '99
>Be too late to experience this greatness
If someone gets around to making timetravel possible, I want to go there. I will literally give my entire life savings just to do it
I don't see what there is to romanticize - I had LAN parties almost every weekend throughout middle school and early high-school, the difference being we were all using shitty windows laptops rather than PCs and were playing modded Minecraft and CS:S instead of Quake. There is this tendency to assume strict generational cultural boundaries: anyone born after x year didn't experience y thing.
t. '03 baby (not even kidding)
nooll cultural apropiation D:
Why do I find this bio so insulting?
I don't even care that it is a women, just the bio feels fake.
Someone should steal this and tm it.
>She
https://kotaku.com/its-time-we-put-the-bald-space-marine-away-its-time-to-5973806
>Mattie is joined in this ‘revolution' by other like-minded game designers like Merritt Kopas, a queer trans woman.
man you guys are really bad at this
cute
GO HOME GAMER GURL
if she was born in time to attend one of these parties she'd be calling these guys gross nerds and making fun of them for sitting indoors playing Unreal Tournament in a basement instead of loitering in a parking lot drinking beer and smoking pot with the high school football team.
You just know she would have started a hissy fit the moment you called your friend a homosexual for killing you in CS.
Nah, even women hated homosexuals back then. Back then, it was considered a serious discussion whether or not we should allow gays to get married. Now, it's considered a HUMAN RIGHT to kill unborn fetuses and let your 5 year old get hormone pills from your local school board's Drag Queen Advisor (DQA)
Yes, ~~*they*~~ delete history and rewrite your memories, imagine going back in time to 2005 and telling people about trannies. Anyways, what I meant with my post was that if her (2022 normie) was present in a late 90s LAN party she'd try to thought police you and your mates and then make a blog post about how dangerous "male dominated" spaces are for women in tech.
Can you even publish LAN capable games on steam nowadays?
any game that uses steams' online multiplayer system can be turned into a LAN game by means of a steam lobby emulator
>LAN party
It wasn't really a thing in my 3rd world shithole.
If we wanted to play computer games together, we would go to an internet cafe.
It fills me with nostalgia, rage, and regret. I was 16/17 when I went in the early 2000s.
Nostalgia for the surreptiously shared drive with porn, pirated games, and movies. Also getting infected by fucking Nimda thanks to enabling file sharing in the first place.
Also nostalgia for UT2003/4, Desert Combat, CS 1.6, and much more.
Rage at the shitpile that modern gaming has become. No more LAN support. No more fun mods. Instead it's ladders, centralized servers, games that can be shutdown one week to be replaced with an inferior version (Overwatch)
Regret that zoomies can never experience the early 2000s internet in its prime. Regret that Lan parties will never come back in their classic form.
Why don't have modern shooters have LAN?
>Why don't have modern shooters have LAN?
it's simple: corporations wanted people to always be online and play over the internet so the corporations could govern every aspect of the game and how you play it, just to milk more shekels out of players and also to fine tune the game to fuck you harder.
can you imagine being a zoomer and growing up never having experienced the comfiness of a LAN Party in your teens?
We used to do this at my old high school. Teacher who taught computer class was cool. Long as you did your work, didn't give him any shit then friday was game day. We played UT 99 and Q3A on the school lab computers.
Did anyone here play Asheron’s Call?
This MMO in the early 2000s is the best gaming experience I have ever had.
sup lore
you think zoomers have it bad? think of the generation after them: imagine being raised by an ipad from birth because mummy's too addicted to facebook and insta
in retrospect, the Darktide server was a social experiment that I don't think can be successfully repeated today.
What makes you think she is a zoomer?
Also the 1k comments and 98k likes are from people who are just concerned with LAN parties, not here idea for a coffee table book.
>he will never play aoe 1vs1 over crossover cable
Ah, the smell of cigarette smoke, copying mp3s, and my cousins beating the shit out of me.
It was fucking stupid.
>zoomers are stupid
It makes me feel the same way I've always felt: abortion should be legal up to the 66th trimester.
what's coffee table book?
Ever been to a barbershop/hair dresser salon/etc., in a European city? It's the books on the low glass tables that nobody reads but the employera put their nespresso cups atop of, staining them.
in barbershops in the usa we would have news papers or magazines with "pop culture" or medical news for a dentists office or w/e.
Literally a book you place on your coffee table.
More for decoration than for real function, but when there is a dull moment (for example because you're preparing coffee on your V60) guests can casually flip through it instead of staring at their phones.
Usually with lots of pictures and some weird eye catching subject.
>appropriating
Never use this word in this or a similar context again. Stop.
OP is a zoomer seething that zoomers wished they were a part of something great. OP is insecure about being a zoomer. I for one welcome zoomers to care more about LAN connectivity though I know it's not gonna happen.
I wish LAN pc cafe's were a thing in my country. I'd love to go to a random PC cafè and find a bunch of people playing CS on LAN or something and just hop into their game and start shittalking each other and shooting shit knowing that we're all in the same room, even if most of them would probably be strangers.
Did LAN parties as a kid, but it's not feasible anymore. Nobody wants to when they can just play online, people got lazy. If it was already a big thing at PC cafès though, maybe. There's none here though.
>I wish LAN pc cafe's were a thing in my country
You dont have many asians in your country? Although the asiatic lan cafes are mostly them just playing korean mmos and dota/lol.
That screenshot is unrelated to what you proclaim.
no cap shit seems bussin fr fr
was born in the sus generation
Kinda amused.
I'm a zoomer and I had Lan Parties from the late 00s to late 10s
why should this make me feel old?
I still do Lan Parties now in University
It's way better to sit in the same room, drinking beer and playing the whole night
And I'll never stop, I'll be playing games locally with my friends until my retirement and further
Also I will never miss dragging those ugly monitors and PCs around
Laptop all the way
whats stopping zoomers from doing lan parties today? computers still have ethernet ports
When you are young you don't know shit about how stuff works
A lot of them probably don't know there is such thing as "piracy" and torrents, for example
LAN parties happened because people were looking for a way to play videogames together. Maybe they had an internet connection but it was shit. That prompted them to find a better way. The social aspect of sharing the same room playing videogames is a consequence of that. People realized that it's a better time when you put in the effort to get together after the fact, but the original goal was always to play games with your friends. Zoomers can do it easily with their stable fiber internet. They have never had the problem that led to LAN get togethers. Therefore the idea won't cross their mind unless they hear about it somewhere.
it's not just the games, either
there's also the "party" part of lan party as well
not to mention all the downtime spend sharing files, nowadays i can download anything i want quickly from a torrent, but back when most people i knew used dialup, being able to connect everyone's computer to a 100Mbit/s hub and use DC to copy files between ourselves was a way faster way to get stuff
playing multiplayer games was really only one facet of lan parties
Fearmongering parents.
They are taught that the moment they step outside they will get kidnapped and raped by a Muslim pedophile.
phone addiction
current vidyagames don't support LAN mode, you have to play online and party up against randoms through the online matchmaking service instead of hosting a custom server vs each other
It was genuinely more fun than playing over the internet.
Meeting in person meant you ate together and drank beers together, there is no substitute.
I feel sorry for kids today, locked away in their suburban houses.
>a troon going on about lan parties
lol as if we'd invite homosexuals back then.
Being nerds 'n' geeks didn't mean we wanted to hang around creeps.
Playing CS 1.4, AVP2, Tibia (fucking mmos there I will never know why), sharing pirated movies and meme clips, playing the lastest pirated vidya (including singleplayer stuff like GTA3), Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena, Warcraft 3 custom maps, Age of Empires 2, Starcraft, Age of Mythology, someone bringing an N64 and playing Mario Kart 64 and Smash Bros, drinking too much Jolt Cola and near the end of the era Red Bull, Liero, Soldat, Jedi Knight 2.
Probably forgetting something but that's my nostalgiaing out.
>Mario Kart 64
i got so good at mario kart 64. it's a lot of fun.
how are you this jealous of such an oldfag? embarrassing. you might as well slit your wrists while you are at it. things aren't going to get any better for you.
>how are you this jealous of such an oldfag?
it's a fucking joke anon jesus christ settle down.
so many people who went to lan parties with me turned out to be literal pedophiles and sex offenders, and i guarantee other anons had the same experience.
i knew a guy who called himself "maverick" who was arrested for fucking a 13 year old girl at the age of 20.
LAN events are still a thing, I know of a bunch in Europe, but they are mostly big events. The people who'd rent out a community/town/school hall and just have a big LAN with their friends are kinda out of it now though.
Well if it got them to ACTUALLY MEET PEOPLE IN PERSON it would be an improvement. But I know they never would and if they did they'd insist everyone wear masks for no good reason.
The chad self built vs the virgin gaymer laptop scam
I mean, the real LAN chads have foam inserts for a travel case they can wheel instead of manually carrying stuff.
How people would do it in the current era? Wifi Party?
Just bring a hub / router that can connect to the internet obviously.
We did have internet during the last few years of LAN parties.