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We really need a tool to flag and remove AI slop like this.
That is called the flag button. It works by majority vote. But beware: if you disagree with the majority too many times, your flag button is silently changed to a placebo.
It barely worked but we were ‘appy!
…after Cleese et al.
Then we realised we're the adults now, we can do what we want. So about once or twice a year, we'll block out a weekend and do an old-school LAN. Maybe just 4-5 of us. Order in nice take-away, drink nice whiskey, try and squeaze in as much game time as possible. Its harder now that we have kids, but worth it! Hardware is different, games are different, but still the same experience!
Both were fun. The magic the gathering was akin to a guys poker night.
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No modern LAN party discussion is complete without reference to kentonv's houses: https://kentonshouse.com/ https://lanparty.house/
I love this technically, but part of the magic was all setting up trestle tables, sitting in someone’s garage / outbuilding, and it all being a bit raw. I vividly remember cutting a hole in the side of a Shuttle XPC case to fit the fan of a GPU someone had bought over for me at one. That was all part of the experience for me.
> I do feel a lot of nostalgia for the days of trying to pack four people, four computers, and four monitors into one car on the way to a friends' LAN party, setting up machines on haphazardly arranged card tables with questionable seating arrangements, daisy-chaining power strips and network hubs. I'm a little less nostalgic for the experience of trying to copy game files over the network to get everyone on the same version, or pitying the one friend who inevitably has to reinstall Windows and doesn't manage to get in-game until after midnight. [...] Even the most enthusiastic of us didn't really want to do all that more than, like, 3-4 times a year, and a lot of people—even those who like games—really don't care to do it at all. I'm not even sure if I could do it anymore, as a 40-something with two kids!
LAN parties aren't dead! Some of us are keeping the magic alive. I throw LAN parties at my house about twice a year. The hardest part, as i've gotten older, has been scheduling. Now I need to send save-the-dates 2 months in advance, and the length is capped at about 12 hours. When I was a teenager we would go all night :) I am moderately obsessed with LAN parties, so I built a file sharing tool for LAN parties specif…
Are there any plans to open source it?