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

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Post by Farbklex »

We also have two friends with dedicated LAN party basements. But it's way more casual. They have 10 old office PCs each that were available for pretty much free. We meet around every two months to play old games. Stuff like Half Life 1 DM.

I,ve also started playing with Linux and Lutris to pre-install old games. Still need to figure out the netboot part.

Also regarding the Steam / Epic situation: Steam has a PC Café program where you can buy licenses which then can be used by people with their own steam accounts while they are in your local network. I set it up once and it is a neat feature.

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

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Post by wiredfool »

compiler-devel wrote: post #93
laidoffamazon wrote: post #62

This is neat, but as a $NET shareholder and someone with another ~$1m in net worth that can't afford to buy a house for at least another 6 years this makes me think we should significantly increase taxation.

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

When health insurance is 10x cheaper because of it.

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

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Post by v3ss0n »

If you are doing lan-parties , this opensource AAA Game is the best . https://totemarts.games/games/renegade-x/ It is Command and Conquer Renegade , RTS + FPS Game with frontend backend opensourced rebuild from scratch in Unreal 3 . Needs a lot of teamwork and strategy to win and all gameplay is according to CNC Rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VHennwBhG8

Source code

https://github.com/TotemArts/Renegade-X https://totemarts.games/forums/files/file/7-renegade-x-softw...

Game Client

https://totemarts.games/games/renegade-x/downloads.html

They have a New game working in Unreal 4 Which have full build building and production RTS mechanic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzZ3GMerz4

They would use some help from you guys to spread around, they are fully self funded and voulenteers working full time , to build a game that is fun for hardcore playerbase.

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

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Post by kentonv »

amluto wrote: post #263
kentonv wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do a lot of biking, and TBH I've had an easier time finding enjoyable bike routes near my house in Austin than I did in Palo Alto. During the summer I go biking at dawn and it's great, and during the winter there are usually 70-degree days regularly enough. Of course, on that measure, Minneapolis blows both of them out of the water -- at least during the half of the year when biking is enjoyable.

I’ve never biked in Texas, but the routes even a short distance west from Palo Alto are excellent. You need to be willing to go uphill, though :). LAN party house v1 would have been maybe 15 minutes from where Page Mill starts to get spectacular, not to mention spectacularly steep. In the modern e-bike era, the hills are more accessible, too.

Oh I biked down Page Mill and into the hills a lot, that was my main bike route. And yes, it was great. But there was really only one part of those hills that was close enough to get to without driving first. In Austin I have a few more options nearby.

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Post by kentonv »

manbash wrote: post #225
kentonv wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are L-TEK Ex Pro X. Shipped all the way from Poland! They seem to work pretty well. Have been using them frequently for more than a year with no issues yet.

Is Stepmania still the go-to DDR clone? This is very nostalgic. :)

To be honest I've been using the same Stepmania 3 installation for decades. Never updated to Stepmania 5 because the step chart format changed and I didn't want to find all the songs again. I have not kept up on recent developments.

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Post by compiler-devel »

stemlord wrote: post #202
alchemist1e9 wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely embarrassing and a real life demonstration of a famous quote: “I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”

To be fair OP's website explains that most of the money isn't earned income. I'm happy for them though

What do you mean by “isn’t earned income” ?

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

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Post by alchemist1e9 »

blackqueeriroh wrote: post #224
alchemist1e9 wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect it will be interesting when people all realize too much fluoride is very bad and isn’t actually disinformation. It’s obviously not an intentional conspiracy to make people dumb but it happens to be outdated science to fluoridate city water at levels we do in the US.

This is factually incorrect. In fact recent studies show that up to 25% of cavities are still prevented by fluoridating water. On top of that, multiple Canadian cities are adding fluoride back in their water after 10 years of having it removed because of excellent evidence that the lack of fluoridation in the water is what led to the increase in cavities in those cities, since they had neighboring cities who kept flu…

What is significant political progress is that such measures are now allowed to be debated if they are justified or not. Western political culture clearly shifted far towards dogmatism and needed a course correction. We shouldn’t be afraid to question scientists and studies.

It is factually correct fluoride can be dangerous and studies have shown that. It is also factually correct fluoride in water reduces cavities. The debate is the risk rewards lines and safety.

https://www.newsweek.com/epa-fluoride-drinking-water-risks-c...

> Federal officials have recommended a fluoridation level of 0.7 milligrams per liter of water as of 2015. This is a decrease from the recommended upper ranger of 1.2 milligrams from the 50 years before that. Meanwhile, the EP has a longstanding requirement that water systems cannot have over 4 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water. For comparison, the international safe limit for fluoride in drinking water as stated by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 1.5 milligrams

The A/B testing you reference in Canada is interesting data obviously. It’s also possible reducing cavities with fluoride comes at an IQ cost isn’t it?

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

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Post by kentonv »

mschuster91 wrote: post #252

> The machines all boot off of a network drive based on this image. Each machine gets a copy-on-write overlay on top of the main image, so that guests can make changes to their machine which won't be seen by any other, and will be deleted at the end of the party. How do you deal with Windows licensing/activation in that scenario? I didn't see anything in the Github repository, and I can't imagine that not being the w…

Just buy licenses once on each machine and Windows figures it out from then on. I guess it phones home when it sees a hardware change and the server says "yep that serial number is licensed".

At least, that's how it worked for me in Palo Alto. For some reason with the new setup Windows complains about activation after every reimage, until I click "troubleshoot activation", and then it phones home and figures it out? I need to debug this.

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Post by vel0city »

esafak wrote: post #211

> The cabinetry around the game stations cost a similar amount to the computers powering them. Think about that! The cabinetry is just a bunch of wood, cut into fairly large pieces. Maybe a few screws and hinges. As a person redoing a kitchen, I am disappointed that each cabinet costs something like a thousand dollars. They've gotta be doing something wrong. The prices make no sense to me; this is centuries old techn…

It's the "custom" part that's very expensive. If you just want some wooden boxes with doors for you to hang on the wall and paint yourself you can get those for <$200/ea. If you want a crew of people to measure your space, design cabinets specifically for your space, cut out a specific order just for your one-off design, install them, and paint them that's a lot more labor charge. Labor is way more expensive than wood.

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

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Post by 15155 »

kentonv wrote: post #121
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…

I'm curious, what are the popular products/solutions that LAN centers use for this? I ended up putting together my own thing. I saw various products that seemed like they might be what I wanted but they always seemed... sketchy.

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