Average early 2000s LAN party

[nikkidimes@lemmy.world]

I feel like the static buildup common on trash bags might not be the best for rawdogged computer components

[dr_fetus_jackson@lemmy.world]

Full disclosure: I was in my mid 20's and a factory worker in the later 90's, so I had a little more cash to afford my hobby. It still hurt though.

[koboldcoterie@pawb.social]

Aww, man - I'd forgotten about Empire Earth, that game was absolutely the shit at the time. Wish it'd gotten more attention and credit.

[stinerman@midwest.social]

I'm shocked (haha pun) that it still worked but it did.

Also the cord from the power supply to the outlet ran next to the sink.

[nikkidimes@lemmy.world]

I love this, and I'm so glad nothing went awry lol

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Wrapped in plastic and the heat rising from all those monitors - I bet that guy was sweating.

[theangryseal@lemmy.world]

We had a terrible old LCD projector we hooked the Dreamcast to for Quake III arena. It would overheat so you couldn’t keep the back on. To block the light and cool it down, we’d sit it in the window with a box fan behind it and taped cardboard up around it.

It lit up the entire street in front of my house.

Most of the guys i played with are dead now.

I’ve been playing Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 a lot recently and I wish so bad I could go back with the skills I’ve devolved and beat them.

Time flies and nothing is permanent. I really miss those guys bad sometimes. Been hitting me hard recently.

[deadpanslim@lemmy.world]

Buying a router from Best Buy and returning it the day after the party. Memories.

[volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee]

What?? What do you mean with a kid became lion king?

[a_random_idiot@lemmy.world]

one of my great regrets (Of a great many, I'l concede) is that I never had the opportunity to attend a lan party in my younger days.. In these days of the photo.

I have always looked at this picture with a mixture of jealousy and admiration.

[prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works]

Providing my weekend LAN party with the Warcraft 3 beta was the highlight of my early nerd career

[_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I bet his arms had fallen sleep from dangling for hours.

[gift_of_gab@lemmy.world]

Most of the guys i played with are dead now.

My friend, I am so, so sorry to hear this. I choked up reading it, I cannot imagine living it. If you want to share stories about them I would love to hear them.

[chee_koala@lemmy.world]

My last LAN Partay was in 2016, that one weekend where Overwatch wat F2P, and we wanted to play Dota but had a party of 6. It was fantastic

[chee_koala@lemmy.world]

Even if he was floating up in the sky in the most comfortable high tech invisible fluff pillow levitator, just being 3f/1m higher then everyone else will already feel quite a bit warmer. Maybe this is that one guy in your group that never wears socks and is always hot.

[rafikki@infosec.pub]

You might be interested in this book https://readonlymemory.com/shop/book/lan-party/

[grass@sh.itjust.works]

so I recalled hearing about some kid who watched the lion king and wrote about wanting to 'become lion king'. Part of the discussion where I heard about it was questioning if he meant becoming the movie or one of the lions.

Anyway, he wrote about having the movie buried with him, and maybe killed himself. I'm fuzzy on that part and never found it again to verify.

[sparky@lemmy.federate.cc]

Line go up so good.

[synopsistantilize@lemm.ee]

And just like that....I'm planning a LAN party for my birthday. Done. It's been close to 7 years but I want one.