Average early 2000s LAN party

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Lan parties were basically the highlight of my highschool career. I learned how to set up and configure complex networks just so I could be 'that guy' that knew how to fix problems at lan parties. Sitting in someone's garage all night with 12-16 sweaty, sleep deprived people playing Counterstrike or Unreal Tournament or Worms Armageddon was the absolute pinnacle of good times in a rural small town.

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I never really experienced this, I was mostly a console gamer.

Curious what you do for work now? Related to IT or games in any way...?

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A bunch of people in the same room beating Serious Sam from start to finish while someone played an eclectic playlist of hiphop on the aux for over 24 hours. Those were the halcyon days.

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What if the guy had to pee?

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LAN parties were always a great place to hang out.

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The entirety of my career is founded entirely on my ability to build stable network and systems to run Duke Nukem 3d at lan parties using 10base2 networks and Rendition Verite video cards with a side of 3dfx.

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Why is homie in the back duplicating

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There's a bucket on the floor

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Back in the early aughts, I worked for a company that did tech support for Adobe products. The company lost the contract to Adobe, and we all were laid off. For the couple of months before our final day we would play Quake while doing tech support. Our numbers were never better.

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I did computer repair for quite a few years after high school, then worked in IT at a game company, and currently work in the software testing industry, so... yes! Hah

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15 Years Later, Here's Why A Gamer Was Duct-Taped To A Ceiling

Few photos from the forum ages of online gaming live in greater infamy than one of what appears to be a human duct taped to the ceiling of a dimly lit basement, his arms reaching out to lightly graze the keys of a Dell mechanical keyboard.

Kotaku (kotaku.com)

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There are 3 monitors on the table so I think it's two guys overlapping.

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So, I missed LAN parties, but me and my buddies used to all get together (normally at my house) and play console games and d&d, and I feel like it has pretty similar vibes.

Some seriously amazing times. The thing I remember most distinctly, though, is the smell. A dozen 12-15 year old boys who don't yet understand the necessity of deodorant, all crammed into a bedroom, basically sitting on top of each other. The smell was loud. My room used to reek of it for 5 or 6 days, just in time for next Saturday to roll around and stink it up again. Lol.

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Me and my pals were pretty good about hygiene, regularly showered when we all spent the weekend at our pal's, but good God, when someone would forget a bowl of some food or other over the weekend, or it'd get shoved back behind a wall of empty soda cans and bulky monitors for the whole week?

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Thank you for the reply! Amazing. I hope you're still passionate about what you do!

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I don't think so, same haircut, same clothes, same build?

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They still are! I throw two or three a year and never have an empty seat.

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What about an empty ceiling?

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Chad life.