Average early 2000s LAN party

[superkret@feddit.org]

With the current quality of MS products, every office drone works in the software testing industry.

[oduffer@lemmy.world]

I had one with a weird pass through cable. Mainly played EF2000 on it.

[dungrad@feddit.org]

Probably they were the best player and they gave them all the handicaps available.

[dharmacurious@slrpnk.net]

I mean, I don't think any of us were particularly bad about hygiene? It was more just sort of boy-stink. Lol. In fairness, it was coastal Virginia, summer time, in an un air conditioned room, with the only time the door got opened being when one of us had to pee. Lol. To be honest, I remember it almost fondly. Like, the stale smell of it when every one was gone was horrid, but the smell of the room, the hot TV and console, and all my buddies crammed together wasn't bad when it was going on. Just during the week afterwards. Lol.

That said, I have some unique opinions on smells, so grain of salt and all lol

But also, yes, God, the moldy Chinese food-- yuck

[dungrad@feddit.org]

[frostycaveman@lemm.ee]

I had some of those headphones like hat guy has. They were uncomfortable. Strange design.

Damn I miss LAN parties. Ultimately it was World of Warcraft that killed them in my social circles.

[foggy@lemmy.world]

Yo even homies headphones are a throwback.

You know he was using that with this

[towerful@programming.dev]

Narrator: They hadn't.

[treczoks@lemmy.world]

On the shelf next door is still the box with the hundreds of coax ethernet cables, the T-connectors, and 50 Ohm terminators from the LAN parties in the 90s. Before they were called "LAN parties" and used for gaming.

[rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de]

I just thought they forgot the original dude on the ceiling and this is him now.

[icastfist@programming.dev]

Or witnessed one or two escapes

[qbus@lemmy.world]

Bro did u even kail

[dutchkimble@lemy.lol]

Please tell us more

[sleepmode@lemmy.world]

Kali did not exist my son

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Can you imagine how bad his neck must hurt by the end of the night? They could have at least spared another loop to keep his forehead supported

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

He’s the only one with a flat screen: serves him right

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Oh, give him a break it's probably a dual scan passive. He's playing Doom through a gray smeary mess. But you didn't have to log a CRT to the basement... So there is that

[ivanafterall@lemmy.world]

First game that caused me to accidentally stay up until the sun rose (multiple times).

[friend_of_satan@lemmy.world]

We played the hell out of q3 starting with beta because it ran on Linux, macOS classic and windows, and my crew had all those. Riva tnt, g3 tower, amd k6-2, 10-base-T hub.

[_stranger_@lemmy.world]

I remember making a serial cable so my friend and I could play command and conquer against each other. Good times.