I found out about this LAN-party-optimized house (https://kentonshouse.com/) from a previous discussion on HN, and thought it was the coolest thing ever.
The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party
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#22I found out about this LAN-party-optimized house ( https://kentonshouse.com/ ) from a previous discussion on HN, and thought it was the coolest thing ever.
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#23I remember showing up at my first LAN party, ~20 years younger than my online friends. They just couldn’t believe I was actually 13. They were really nice. One woman had a son my age that I went to a music festival with when I was 20. Another got me my first job as a programmer. Somehow I just don’t see that kind of stuff happening nowadays; sending your kid off to some unknown destination with his PC to sleep in a g…
This seems specific to your family. My family would never allow that unless they knew the parents of atleast a few people at the place I was sleeping over.
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#24I went to so many LAN parties at friends houses during high-school in the mid 2000s. Without this experience, I doubt I would have pursued electrical engineering and moved to silicon valley.
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#25LANAllNight in Dallas is happening this weekend, it happens twice a year now. 200ish people, good old-school vibe. Minimum red tape. Quakecon is this July or August in Dallas. Several thousand people. A sight to see, but a lot more bullshit these days, lots of security, metal detectors, etc. In fact, I'm wearing a Quakecon shirt right now! LANs even today are so much fun, just to escape reality for 2-3 days and play…
Does Helldivers 2 have a LAN mode? The first one didn't.
Or does this LAN have Internet? Where I am at LAN parties are completely offline, so genuinely curious.
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#26Another thing that DRM (and always online) killed...
Being online just hasn't the same feeling when you could hear screaming within earshot when your plan executed to perfection...
I miss the raw simplicity of IPX. Not the NE2000 IRQ hell, though
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#27> Lee’s Summit, MO (USA), 2002
I wonder if that person ever got to meet Lowtax lol
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#28LANAllNight in Dallas is happening this weekend, it happens twice a year now. 200ish people, good old-school vibe. Minimum red tape. Quakecon is this July or August in Dallas. Several thousand people. A sight to see, but a lot more bullshit these days, lots of security, metal detectors, etc. In fact, I'm wearing a Quakecon shirt right now! LANs even today are so much fun, just to escape reality for 2-3 days and play…
Does Helldivers 2 have a LAN mode? The first one didn't. Or does this LAN have Internet? Where I am at LAN parties are completely offline, so genuinely curious.
I can’t speak for other events, but QuakeCon and Dreamhack have had internet access (and quite good access all things considered) for a decade or more now.
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#29It's amazing than reading the comments here makes me realize that even in "1st world countries" we all play the same ol' games (one flavor of UT, Other game that became a must for that specific LAN Party like Delta Force, and some other strategy game).
I used to be "the young guy" in my local group back in the late 2000's and I often wondered what games we would play if everyone had access to a top class PC back in the day.
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#30I remember showing up at my first LAN party, ~20 years younger than my online friends. They just couldn’t believe I was actually 13. They were really nice. One woman had a son my age that I went to a music festival with when I was 20. Another got me my first job as a programmer. Somehow I just don’t see that kind of stuff happening nowadays; sending your kid off to some unknown destination with his PC to sleep in a g…
This seems specific to your family. My family would never allow that unless they knew the parents of atleast a few people at the place I was sleeping over.
In North Branch MN there was an old movie theater with the seats taken out and tables setup - The BattleShack. parents would dump kids there and they'd be there for days or weeks just gaming and hanging out at the Denny's in town. My buddy had a workshop addon to their house where the same thing would occur. Summers around us were just a solid LAN Party.