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Are there any LAN parties happening these days on regular basis? How does one become part of that group?
https://www.insomniagamingfestival.com/lan
Still manages to capture some of that "old school" LAN feel if you bring your own PC.
It's 2023 and AMD couldn't run a Halo Infinite tournament at Quakecon properly. And one of the teams was out getting pizza anyway because they were off by an hour. My friend won a 7800X3D though. Cases must be windowed, very small or very large to be "credible" these days! Alcohol120 and a hard drive full of ISOs was the only way to get a large group of people playing the same game. Such as UT2004. Having Internet al…
Reminds me of serials.ws . It was pretty good at the time.
I remember writing a tool that blared a siren wav every time someone connected to your network share. It would be quiet at the start of a round, and then as people died you'd hear sirens going off left and right. Remains one of the few contexts where nerds would do drugs. Speed mostly. You ever played Quake with a bunch of dudes on speed? It's fucking nuts. The smells. Some LANs would go on for a week. Lots spanned s…
> It was great when LCDs came about. Once upon a time, I owned a 19" CRT that weighed less than a typical 17" CRT. Such good fortune. Still, I never did have the courage to carry my tower on one hip and my monitor on the other (and everything else in a backpack), so I guess it didn't really benefit me that much after all. > most lasted upwards of 12 hours. You're damn right. Imagine carting a CRT around and then only…
> If someone has shared their installation of Warcraft III over SMB it will run much faster if you copy it to your local machine first rather than execute it directly from the network folder. This one made me laugh. I'm really surprised it started that way at all. I think my LAN party time was a little later than most of what the author is describing (mostly Windows XP era), but I also remember the networking problem…
installing Back Orifice on people's computers so you could open and close their CD drives remotely...
So you turned their screen upside down, opened their tray and whatnot , then you would go their place and pretend to fix it (while your friend that was in charge of the lab actually fixed it).
It gave us nerds our 5 mins of "fame" with the ladies.
>A LAN isn’t legitimate unless at least one person has to reinstall Windows along the way. Never a truer phrase spoken.
we didn’t take photos because that would be stupid. our parents would find out what we were doing. which was mostly drinking and smoking way too much and playing video games until the sun rose.
It was a 90s and we met through our BBS systems. there was no debate what to play, doom. Warcraft came soon after. The Internet sounded cool, too bad actually kind of destroyed everything. some of us had pagers. we made plans, over land lines, and everyone actually showed up. we didn’t take photos because that would be stupid. our parents would find out what we were doing. which was mostly drinking and smoking way to…
Things went downhill fast after that.
Some personal memories: A switch might explode by using the wrong power adapter and still work afterwards somehow. At my high school, every computer was on unrestricted LAN divided by floors. Four classrooms playing Armagetron (the open source tron clone) was a LAN party I didn’t expect.
We had admin creds, though, so screw you Jordan and Phil.
Anyway, we played a lot of Warcraft 3.