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The Promised LAN

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Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by ajcp »

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…

Big fan of both your LAN houses! One thing I noticed is that you don't seem to have any art/pictures/decorations on any of your walls. Is that an intentional choice?

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by hkon »

starkrights wrote: post #58
hkon wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think your definition/setup is the wrongest as it does not capture the spirit. You have a cyber café.

It doesn’t capture the spirit of a group of friends getting together to play video games in a shared space? Or there’s a different definition of the LAN party spirit that somehow entirely precludes that aspect? Like I could understand saying it misses out on the aspect of literally bringing your individual PCs, missing out on the neatness of everyone’s individuality as another commenter pointed out, but I don’t think…

You are trying to deconstruct something, keeping part of it and calling it the same. You seem to be making my argument for me, so I have nothing to add.

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Post by redn0vae »

xori wrote: post #26

I've been wanting to do this for ages. Originally I wanted to do this at the home router level, but that quickly got shut down when I got a test net up and running and my friends could control the Chromecasts in my house. For us a "tailscale" equivalent with SoftEther is what we used to manage the DNS/Tunneling for our fileshare/services. So cool to see more people playing in this space. Please post more! <3

Some people have just opened up their entire home networks, other people have VLANs set up and only share that VLAN with TPL. However, as written in the article, everyone knows at least a few other people on TPL and that interpersonal real life trust is what keeps people from screwing around on everyone else's networks. Everyone is also an adult.

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Post by brudgers »

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…

If you aren’t using IPX/SPX, it isn’t a real LAN party.

Or there’s true Scotsman all the way down to the turtle.

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Post by redn0vae »

sleepybrett wrote: post #51

Seems like this is a perfect opportunity to throw out all that custom jiggery pokery and just replace it with tailscale/wireguard.

The custom jiggery pokery is the point. This is like telling someone to throw away their hobby car they work on over the weekends and replace it with a new electric vehicle because it'll, "Just work." The configuring things, understanding the infrastructure, that is _the point_.

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Post by redn0vae »

xcrunner529 wrote: post #12

What an extremely technical friend group lol.

Yes, everyone is pretty technical. The author of this article (ptag) spends a decent amount of time helping the people out who aren't as well-versed in infrastructure/networking.

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by bongodongobob »

CursedSilicon wrote: post #49
bongodongobob wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Idk, probably this part? > it sounds like one big "no girls allowed" kind of treehouse

"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"

I don't see how this is any different from someone sharing a homelab setup or something.

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Post by IshKebab »

hkon wrote: post #50
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…

I think your definition/setup is the wrongest as it does not capture the spirit. You have a cyber café.

I think the spirit is people playing computer games with each other in the same room. I don't think it really matters who owns the computers.

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by thoroughburro »

CursedSilicon wrote: post #49
bongodongobob wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Idk, probably this part? > it sounds like one big "no girls allowed" kind of treehouse

"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"

“A friend group with an idea to share”

Re: The Promised LAN

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Post by endgame »

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…

Hybrid LANs are also pretty good. During the Christmas-New Year break, old school friends would often have a LAN party with ZeroTier or similar set up, so people who couldn't make it could still drop in and out. You'd get a great LAN party vibe from the room full of PCs and ethernet cables everywhere, but you'd also get much higher player counts. Everyone wins.
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