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Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by Suppafly »

47282847 wrote: post #199
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #118

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You need to move, yesterday. Yes, moving sucks. No, ideally you wouldn't have to. But at the end of the day you are just plain shooting yourself in the foot if you continue to live in a place that absurdly expensive. Like dude, you could buy an awesome house in just about any other part of the country if you truly have $1m in liquid wealth. You have options to own a house, you just have to act on them.

What’s this fixation on house ownership? It doesn’t make sense rationally. Stock markets always perform better, easily beating ownership and the hassle and associated risks of managing property.

Even you don't care about owning, just the idea that you can afford 10x space for less money than a crappy studio in a HCOL area.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #356
redman25 wrote: post #115

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Normally, I’d be equally upset with excess but the fact that this is somewhat of a community building thing is actually refreshing to see from the wealthy (even if by community, it is just friends). It’s mild in comparison to the ultra rich. Jeff bezos, Larry Ellison, and Elon musk have more wealth than half of America. That fact is what we should truly be upset about. In comparison this is a drop on the ocean.

Should we really be upset about that in particular? It's not at all obvious to me that the more wealth they have on the top end the worse off we are at the bottom end.

It’s about the amount of value a person can bring as a consumer. Does the consumption of food provide more value to society than the consumption of mega yachts?

More equally distributed wealth increases the efficiency of spending (to a point) on the things that society needs to thrive.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by Suppafly »

kentonv wrote: post #60
echoangle wrote: post #56

This is so cool. But the keyboard disturbed me, wouldn’t you at least want a mechanical keyboard? > Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired — The world's cheapest keyboard at $13 a pop. Works perfectly fine for all gaming needs. I can’t imagine playing stuff like overwatch on a membrane office keyboard for $13 when having spent more than 100k on the setup. Especially when cheap mechanical keyboards are not that much more expen…

Honestly I've never felt it made any difference to me when gaming. I would never code on such a keyboard but for the old WASD it seems fine. That said, guests are welcome to bring any peripherals they want. There's a USB hub at each station to plug stuff in.

Don't you run into issues with n-key rollover with those old membrane keyboards?

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by Suppafly »

devenson wrote: post #103
kentonv wrote: post #36

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The cat room fans are standard bathroom fans. At present we just leave them on all the time -- you can see the switches taped down in the photos. I suppose it might be a good idea to rig up a sensor...

Constant fans are sucking outside air into your house. Could be part of your Heat/AC efficiency problem mentioned in your post. A timer to run every 10th minute would be a simple improvement.

A lot of newer building codes require fans to be constantly running anyway due to the other part of the building codes requiring high r-value insulation.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by Suppafly »

renewiltord wrote: post #52
somishere wrote: post #51

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to see that upside on a home requires you 1. sell and 2. buy somewhere cheaper (or not buy at all) ... Otherwise it's a zero sum game. Home for a home.

Indeed that’s what OP did. Bought in the Bay low, then sold high and moved to Austin, where presumably the increase in value is again sufficiently high because Austin prices skyrocketed in the last 5 years.

Yeah OP is winning at life about 10 times over.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by kentonv »

Suppafly wrote: post #363
kentonv wrote: post #60

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Honestly I've never felt it made any difference to me when gaming. I would never code on such a keyboard but for the old WASD it seems fine. That said, guests are welcome to bring any peripherals they want. There's a USB hub at each station to plug stuff in.

Don't you run into issues with n-key rollover with those old membrane keyboards?

Nope, I've never experienced that issue, in a decade of using these keyboards for gaming.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by Suppafly »

xyst wrote: post #50

I’m surprised people still have LAN parties. My lan parties were more adhoc. Plan to play at some dudes/gals house, bring pcs/laptops/consoles and other gear, run cat5 cable between rooms, hook them up to some shitty switch and go to town. Many hours of sweaty gameplay. Piss off the neighbors. Trip a few circuit breakers. This “lan party” has such a corporate feel to it. Almost reminds me of a typical work office. Ju…

>My lan parties were more adhoc. Plan to play at some dudes/gals house, bring pcs/laptops/consoles and other gear, run cat5 cable between rooms, hook them up to some shitty switch and go to town.

Those are almost impossible to organize once your friends are old enough to have kids. OP's removes all of the friction in getting a lan party together and just works.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by Suppafly »

voisin wrote: post #191
viiralvx wrote: post #187

Not gonna lie, this is really dope! Can I be your friend and drive from Houston for a LAN Party?

He answers this in the FAQ. You’ve got to get into his friend group or get hired by Cloudflare. Not sure which is more challenging!

I probably don't have the chops to work at cloudflare, but if I did, the lan party invites would be a huge selling point.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by Tabular-Iceberg »

redman25 wrote: post #362
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should we really be upset about that in particular? It's not at all obvious to me that the more wealth they have on the top end the worse off we are at the bottom end.

It’s about the amount of value a person can bring as a consumer. Does the consumption of food provide more value to society than the consumption of mega yachts? More equally distributed wealth increases the efficiency of spending (to a point) on the things that society needs to thrive.

Obviously more by a huge margin by consuming mega yachts. But that’s still pretty insignificant compared to the economic impact of the companies that they run, like Amazon, Oracle and Tesla.

Could you elaborate a bit on spending efficiency and how it relates to wealth distribution? I’m unfamiliar with that metric.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by asn007 »

_yb2s wrote: post #307
asn007 wrote: post #110

That's a sweet LAN setup you've got! The only few things that rub me the wrong way is the choice of peripherals and the lack of headsets. Must be pretty noisy in here! The tabletops also seems a bit too thin and wiggly for my taste, but, honestly, for LAN parties with chill people you personally know — it's ok As for the actual host setup with a singular disk image — great job! LAN gaming centres do something similar…

Why would you use headsets to play with friends in person? The whole point is that you can talk directly, usually with the sound completely off on everyone’s computers, and not too loud music playing in the background For one, if you get a bunch of nerds together a sizable fraction are likely to have sensory issues- and won’t come again if you don’t make it welcoming for them Some video games require some sound as it…

Honestly it's just that how I've always done this, other ways seemed too noisy for me and breaking the flow of the game :)

That might or might not be due to the games we've mostly been playing on our LAN parties are coming from a bit different profile than "chill co-op" — more MOBAs or tactical / arena shooters. In those styles of games visual cues don't really help and not having the clear audio puts you at a disadvantage

The music is still playing in the background, though — the headsets are not 100% soundproof and you may still easily communicate via VoIP

Yeah, the "live talking" aspect without headsets isn't there, but I've found it doesn't bother me in the slightest. You still are in the same room, you get the "shoulder sense" of your team there, you still celebrate and have fun as one and lose as one singular organism, and that's the feeling I've kinda been chasing on my LAN parties and in my LAN centre

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