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A 90s retroLAN would be great... Playing 90s games, that are rather cheap nowadays.
Probably one of the more viable options because just about anything worth playing in the last 10+ years doesn't have LAN support.
> The cool kids had a Barton Athlon XP 2500+ and a Radeon 9600. The rich kids had a 9800. This made me chuckle. For my computer I went though a bunch of local computer stores, going through all their CPU boxes and got lucky on the second day. There it was, an Athlon XP with AQZFA stepping. Overclocked twice as fast as the other models, and the coolest of CPUs in that generation. Overclocking of an AQZFA Athlon XP was…
So many found memories of Red Alert 2 and Quake 2 playing at lan parties in the 90s. I was lucky enough in the early 2000's where I could use my love of video games and lan parties as part of my job. I was responsible for the Flash community at Macromedia, and we would set up 4 xboxes with split screen for 8 player Halo 2 and 3 tournaments in conference rooms (which has multiple plasma screens already set up). I quic…
So many found memories of Red Alert 2 and Quake 2 playing at lan parties in the 90s. I was lucky enough in the early 2000's where I could use my love of video games and lan parties as part of my job. I was responsible for the Flash community at Macromedia, and we would set up 4 xboxes with split screen for 8 player Halo 2 and 3 tournaments in conference rooms (which has multiple plasma screens already set up). I quic…
I miss Macromedia, Adobe is just a corporate grey blob. Macromedia had character and good products.
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I dunno, I think Adderall was pretty easily available back then our crew never really did illegal or prescription drugs But we'd drink booze and/or achieve Adderall-like effects with caffeinated energy drinks. None of us drank coffee so we had like... zero caffeine tolerance. If you have zero caffeine tolerance and you slam multiple energy drinks the effect is NOT subtle of course, TODAY, my ruined body is so immune…
> of course, TODAY, my ruined body is so immune to caffeine I can chug coffee directly before a satisfying REM nap lol Going on a tangent: it takes a while for the caffeine you drink to make it through your digestive system, so even for someone without any tolerance at all, they could take a few shots of espresso on a full stomach and then have about a 30 minute window to have a nap, before the jitter starts.
BUT: On an empty stomach, or even if I've had a little bit of food, it feels like caffeine works fairly instantly for me? I'm the stereotypical "can't function until I've had a little coffee in the morning" type of guy. Is this purely psychosomatic?
I remember being terrified of applying my aftermarket Thermaltake cooler on my Athlon XP, so I waited until I went to a local LAN so I could get someone more experienced than me to install it. To this day I still get anxious applying CPU coolers, even though they're a lot easier to install. Thanks anonymous person from Auckland's LAN at Upper Harbour stadium (I can't remember the name of the event).
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The relatively poor man's version: the indestructable yellow or blue IKEA bag I forget if they actually sold the blue ones back then. I remember taking a few yellow ones (that weren't supposed to leave the store)
We didn't have IKEA in Ireland until 2007 (and that was Belfast, I didn't have one near me for another 2 years)... LONG after my LAN days were done.
Some of the best memories of my childhood.