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

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Post by ethbr1 »

leptons wrote: post #147
Multiplayer wrote: post #49

As the former proprietor of LanParty.com (which I mistakenly included in a sale to IGN) I must salute you. The absolute genius of the provided lan equipment and particularly the management thereof is an inspiration. I think the lack of any standing offerings of variations of Quake is a glaring mistake but easily rectified. :) It's really heartening to see lan gaming continued and offered in such a way that the amount…

Quake is still so much fun. Been playing for years with a group and it doesn't get old.

What changes after years of playing? I assume everyone has every inch of the maps memorized?

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

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Post by compiler-devel »

lostlogin wrote: post #140
compiler-devel wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When have increased taxes directly contributed to your take home pay?

How would that even be possible? Presumably some people get a top up if they are on a tiny wage, but ‘direct contribution to take home pay’ really isn’t the point of tax. It also sounds a fairly inefficient use of money. Have I missed something in this conversation?

Yes you have missed something but don’t worry about it.

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

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Post by toast0 »

syntaxing wrote: post #41

> Jade and I needed a bigger house, but we really could not afford to buy (much less build) anything bigger in Palo Alto. I’m really surprised about this, really shows how ludicrous the housing market is in the Bay Area. How high does your income need to be to afford a bigger house?!

One issue with wanting a big house in Palo Alto is that most of the lots there are fairly small. There's not that many lots that can accomodate a larger home, so at best there's not many options, and sometimes there are none.

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

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Post by valzam »

valzam wrote: post #61
syntaxing wrote: post #41

> Jade and I needed a bigger house, but we really could not afford to buy (much less build) anything bigger in Palo Alto. I’m really surprised about this, really shows how ludicrous the housing market is in the Bay Area. How high does your income need to be to afford a bigger house?!

Also considering 1400 sq ft (130 sq m) too small to raise a family is peak American... That's bigger than 99.9% of apartments people live in in Europe and raise a family just fine.

In fact, calling 1400 sq ft a bachelor pad and then complaining about housing is unaffordable there is hilarious on many levels.

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

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Post by XCSme »

Random thought: would a gaming streaming service like GeForce Now achieve a similar result for a lan party? Assuming you have the network bandwidth, I am curious what the difference in input lag/quality would be, and if, when doing a blind test, anyone would notice.

I guess you could even test this, by running GeForce Now on all computers vs native.

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

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Post by XCSme »

XCSme wrote: post #155

Random thought: would a gaming streaming service like GeForce Now achieve a similar result for a lan party? Assuming you have the network bandwidth, I am curious what the difference in input lag/quality would be, and if, when doing a blind test, anyone would notice. I guess you could even test this, by running GeForce Now on all computers vs native.

That could be the poor's man, on-demand, lan party.

If not for the PCs, you would still need some devices to run the games.

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Post by kentonv »

XCSme wrote: post #155

Random thought: would a gaming streaming service like GeForce Now achieve a similar result for a lan party? Assuming you have the network bandwidth, I am curious what the difference in input lag/quality would be, and if, when doing a blind test, anyone would notice. I guess you could even test this, by running GeForce Now on all computers vs native.

Ehh... I'm very skeptical of those streaming services.

I tried Stadia once. Played Celeste. The results were very interesting. I didn't exactly perceive latency, but I did perceive that the game felt wrong. As a result, my favorite game of all time was not fun when playing on Stadia. If I didn't have the local version of the game to compare against, I would probably have blamed the game, because again, it didn't feel like latency was the problem.

I dunno, maybe that experience was skewed by the fact that Celeste is probably one of the most timing-sensitive games out there and I'd played it a lot... but now I'm worried that anything played via one of these streaming services is just going to be subtly less fun. I think I'll stick to local gaming.

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