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Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by frollogaston »

kentonv wrote: post #28

Heh, of all arguably-valid definitions of "LAN Party" I think this one is as far away from mine as you can get. Traditional LAN party: Everyone brings their computers to one place to connect via a LAN, where they play games, swap files, demo stuff to each other, etc. My LAN party: All my friends come over to my house and use the computers that I have already set up for them. Nobody brings their own. The point is to i…

My definition was close to yours, but the guest computers were bad. Like, an iMac G3 in the year 2012 or some Hackintosh'd ewaste PC.

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by frollogaston »

CursedSilicon wrote: post #27
TheFreim wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But it sounds like one big "no girls allowed" kind of treehouse There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. It's actually completely fine, and good, for people to voluntarily form social groups based on a shared interests and traits. The movement to oppose this sort of thing has been a large factor in the deterioration of social life for many people. You are not entitled to membership in a community of close-knit…

Where did I say any of that? I was just bemused at the webpage bragging about hosting a "24/7 LAN party" but then not even mentioning what games they like playing

Yeah I was just wondering what they play

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by frollogaston »

ericdiao wrote: post #5

Really want to know the rationale of choosing IPSec over Wireguard. IPSec is really tricky to get right (IMO). Maybe legacy issue?

I use IPSec only because Macs, iPhones, etc have built-in support, and so does my router by coincidence. I don't want to install extra stuff.

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by nl »

sleepybrett wrote: post #52
jimmcslim wrote: post #40

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And a real risk of a shattered CRT screen! I remember carting my bougie 17” Viewsonic around in the back of my Hyundai Excel and wondering if it would pick up a crack along the voyage…

Back in the hayday of lan parties in like 1995-1997 my only monitor was a absolute boulder of a 21" viewsonic (this is pre flatscreen or rather pre decent flatscreens, you could get like 15-17s but they were expensive and absolute trash). One night coming home from the bars, half drunk, in an alley my friend and I found an abandoned (maybe..) horizontal-able handtruck. Made the lan party load unload so much better.

Also 10-base-2 [1] Ethernet where you always had to debug a dodgy terminator.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by fyver »

nl wrote: post #114
sleepybrett wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in the hayday of lan parties in like 1995-1997 my only monitor was a absolute boulder of a 21" viewsonic (this is pre flatscreen or rather pre decent flatscreens, you could get like 15-17s but they were expensive and absolute trash). One night coming home from the bars, half drunk, in an alley my friend and I found an abandoned (maybe..) horizontal-able handtruck. Made the lan party load unload so much better.

Also 10-base-2 [1] Ethernet where you always had to debug a dodgy terminator. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2

Or a shitty cable. Or the terminators were missing. Or both. Our rich friend buying a switch was a real life saver.

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by cindyllm »

FEELmyAGI wrote: post #116

Off topic I suppose but in the early 2000s there was a large LAN party / gaming tournament using this name. Several friends drove hours to attend. https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/pc-lan-tourneys-if-you... https://web.archive.org/web/20020605175253/http://www.thepro...

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Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by fc417fc802 »

omnicognate wrote: post #74
CursedSilicon wrote: post #49

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"We're going to write paragraphs about how cool this project is but also it's all on the LAN and it's invite-only so don't ask"

Read the manifesto, linked there and in the comments here. Its entire membership is 19 close friends and they won't let anyone new join who hasn't already been friends with one of them for at least 10 years. They're just sharing the idea because they like what they've built and think other people could have fun building something similar. It's like a treehouse enthusiast putting some pictures of the cool treehouse th…

> It's like a treehouse enthusiast putting some pictures of the cool treehouse they've made on their website.

At which point you might (reasonably IMO) complain that you're rather curious what use they find for said treehouse in practice.

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by scottlamb »

jimmcslim wrote: post #40
sleepyams wrote: post #35

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This is a pretty amazing setup! I think in 2025 I would definitely prefer something like this. However, I think back in "the day" part of what made LAN parties fun was that everyone's PC was so individualized. I remember all of my high school friends and I coming of age and building our PCs. I helped a lot of my friends build their PCs and we all chose different things (such as the amount of RGB LEDs, which I thought…

And a real risk of a shattered CRT screen! I remember carting my bougie 17” Viewsonic around in the back of my Hyundai Excel and wondering if it would pick up a crack along the voyage…

CRTs might tougher than we gave them credit for. I once dropped a Sony Trinitron from shoulder height when it hit a low ceiling. Didn't crack. Still worked. (And yes, this was at a LAN party.)

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by fc417fc802 »

> We're using our own non-standard and possibly ill-advised TLD, which is .tpl — short for The Promised LAN.

Not ill advised at all. The internet was never meant to be centralized; more should be done to resist the ICANN hegemony. The replacement for manually swapping host file entries ought to have been something that placed control over identity in the hands of the individual instead of selling it.

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