• Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 hours ago

    My last LAN Partay was in 2016, that one weekend where Overwatch wat F2P, and we wanted to play Dota but had a party of 6. It was fantastic

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    one of my great regrets (Of a great many, I’l concede) is that I never had the opportunity to attend a lan party in my younger days… In these days of the photo.

    I have always looked at this picture with a mixture of jealousy and admiration.

    • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Even if he was floating up in the sky in the most comfortable high tech invisible fluff pillow levitator, just being 3f/1m higher then everyone else will already feel quite a bit warmer. Maybe this is that one guy in your group that never wears socks and is always hot.

  • stinerman@midwest.socialEnglish
    15·
    9 hours ago

    I was once so broke that I couldn’t afford a case for a computer I had.

    So I brought my computer to a LAN in a trash bag and set it up on the host’s electric stove.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    24·
    12 hours ago

    Can you imagine how bad his neck must hurt by the end of the night? They could have at least spared another loop to keep his forehead supported

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        12 hours ago

        Oh, give him a break it’s probably a dual scan passive. He’s playing Doom through a gray smeary mess. But you didn’t have to log a CRT to the basement… So there is that

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    30·
    15 hours ago

    Yo even homies headphones are a throwback.

    You know he was using that with this on his trips to and from school every day.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    17·
    14 hours ago

    On the shelf next door is still the box with the hundreds of coax ethernet cables, the T-connectors, and 50 Ohm terminators from the LAN parties in the 90s. Before they were called “LAN parties” and used for gaming.

    • _stranger_@lemmy.world
      9·
      11 hours ago

      I remember making a serial cable so my friend and I could play command and conquer against each other. Good times.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 hours ago

        Oh yes! We had those, too (as my friend had no networking card), and playing with the red and blue CDs was fun! This must have been somewhere '95 or '96.

        And BTW: I made those networking cables myself, too. They had bright yellow sleeves, and the terminators and T-pieces had been painted yellow to tag them as mine.

        • _stranger_@lemmy.world
          6·
          10 hours ago

          Oh man, I remember after we got network cards trying to make an Ethernet cable out of a bunch of old power cords. The error rate was through the roof but it actually worked for like an hour. We eventually walked to the local RadioShack and bit the bullet on buying a cable 😆

          • Treczoks@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 hours ago

            I’ve done loads of coax cables back then, not just for those meetings, and later made quite a number of tp cables, too (as part of my job back then). But I had the tools for cutting, crimping, testing, and verifying them and the training, so that was not an issue.

  • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee
    21·
    16 hours ago

    I had some of those headphones like hat guy has. They were uncomfortable. Strange design.

    Damn I miss LAN parties. Ultimately it was World of Warcraft that killed them in my social circles.

    • ECB@feddit.org
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Weirdly, WoW was like a constant, ongoing lan party for us.

      We would all lug our rigs over to one guys house and play, even if we were in separate raid groups

    • sleepmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I had a pair too. They were roughly finished and would dig into your skin. Also didn’t sound very good. Cool idea though…

    • odd@feddit.org
      44·
      18 hours ago

      Probably they were the best player and they gave them all the handicaps available. 😅