When I was 16 I could get 4 or 5 people to come over to my house on a week night with almost zero advanced notice. I am now 30 and
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I don’t know 4 or 5 people
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It would take 3-4 weeks to get everyone’s schedule to line up
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Half of everyone would cancel because they didn’t feel like going out
real :'(
True, these are valid problems.
Here is how I do it and yes I know I am very privileged.
- Have a DISCORD with everyone who might attend in it.
- Pick 3-4 dates at least a month in advanced. Have people list witch dates work for them. Pick the one with the most open spots.
- Tell my work building supervisor that I want to use our training room for a LAN party (We have a good history of this and it brings in other coworkers. So like team building stuff).
- (Optional but effective and makes it seems like you have a plan) Draw up a tentative schedule with which games you are playing and how long you are going to be playing. Add Chill Time/Extension time in case people want a break between games or want to play more.
Good Luck!
Man do I hate discord though
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DISCORDMatrix /s
Maybe it’s not everyone, but at 37 I feel much less interested in socializing in the first place.
Sorry, I can’t make it. But only because I have no fucking idea why I agreed to it in the first place…
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I bowed out of a friend’s recent LAN bc every time they just play Halo and Age of Mythology and they’re all super good at both and I’m terrible at both (and not interested in playing either game tbh).
Oof, your loss mate. Real shame.
I cri
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The only sucky part is, of course, that a lot of games no longer support LAN play.
Though I suppose you could just stick to ones that do.
I’m so happy seeing so many indie titles that are all about LAN and split-screen play. It’s definitely happening! You just won’t always see it front-paged and have to keep an eye out. :)
Edit: Plus, GoG brought back stuff like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Unreal Tournament 99 and 2k4, that are still an absolute blast. :D
God damn it, you made me listen to my childhood again.
Coop console games support LAN play, even if they don’t support it on PC
You can LAN if you want to You can leave your friends behind
Cause I wanna lan
and if you don’t lan, then you ain’t no friend of mine
Everybody look at your pants.
we can LAN if we want to
we can leave your friends behind
cause your friends dont LAN
and if they dont LAN
well they’re no friends of mine
Well they’re no clan of mine.
Everybody look at their hands.
That’s fucking good bro I’m posting that on my social media
Not sure who was drinking cola and eating pizza on LAN nights… We were drinking vodka and eating beer, then polish with weed.
Yeah baby, two more months until our next one.
Disposable income is awesome. Don’t care for the rum, but: Only the proper name brand snacks and drinks, good pizza, proper blow up mattresses, transportation is easy, people either have cars or can trivially rent some, and our computers are also way better these days.
yeah but now we are working 6 day weeks, 10 (or more) hour days.
Right, only get the pizza thats actually good and not a fake Instagram hype
in college, I was renting a house with 3 roommates who were all gamers. We used to host a LAN party every month or so. Our record was 30 people in the house playing at the same time.
I miss those days
This meme was made pre-tariff.
It was work first in my day
I don’t miss carrying 20 kg CRTs.
This is such peak old school cool haha
IDK I start getting real sleepy around 1:30. Especially if alcohol is involved. I can push through it but it’s not really a fun time after that.
I prefer red bull. Drinking isn’t conducive to all night gaming.
What about just coffee or tea? As a grown up you can ignore the marketed sugar and go straight to the caffeine.
+1, coffee and sativa 👌
I like red bull.
Same. I get the sugar free ones. It just tastes good.
Better yet just start earlier in the day. I don’t enjoy staying up past 10 anymore
But there’s people awake around you that can disturb your session at this time.
In what way? Who would disturb me?
People living in the same home.
Shadow people.
You start the night with a vodka redbull (or a Cosmo with redbull is my preference) and go from there. That’ll keep ya going 😘
You start the night with a vodka redbull
No happy memory ever starts with a vodka redbull
We lead very different lives, my friend. Coffee amaretto might be more your speed?
Oooh, that sounds delicious! Amaretto is like the only alcohol i actually like.
I keep some decaf coffee around just to occasionally make coffee amaretto after a rich meal. It’s really quite a good after dinner drink! Booze aside, the flavors just pair very well. You can try other nut liqueurs, too.
Nut lickers?
Whiskey & coke back when I was in college. Now it’s just beer. It was mostly a joke about vodka red bulls being what we drank when we were trying to get drunker than we’ve ever been.
Ahhh see I’ve just made different associations. Vodka redbull is my go-to first drink and sometimes only drink when I’m going out dancing from midnight to dawn. I used to be able to do that without any stimulants, but in my mid thirties I need a little boost to help get me going before the dance endorphins kick in.
Not with that attitude.
Hard disagree, next day is rarely pleasant but .
Have a Gatorade before and after you are drinking. No more hangovers, or at least drastically reduced headaches. I use Brode electrolyte pills, but it’s really the same thing, the pills are just easier to carry in the pocket to the club.
We actually always just went with coffee, even as teenagers. I guess as early millennials, we weren’t yet the energy drink generation.
I 100% agree, though: alcohol beyond a beer or two isn’t recommended for a LAN at all. Although I guess I have a “fond” memory of sitting there, playing Left4Dead with friends at a LAN, when one who didn’t play himself at that moment piss-drunkenly leaned on my shoulders from behind, slurring directly into my ear: “You have to shoot them! Shoot them! You have to shoooooot them!!”
Red Bull has been around since the 90s. I used to drink red bull, bawls, and surge during ye olden days of lan parties.
Maybe it was just my circle of friends, we used to all hate Red Bull irrationally and didn’t know anyone who liked it back then. It just felt like a crappy, “juvenile”, “non-nerdy”, “commercial” brand somehow. Might have been a subcultre thing.
I was about those Jolt Colas, but Bawls were a good fallback at the LAN cafe when the jolt sold out.
We also had Vault.
*Volt, but I like your safe-themed version
I meant Vault, it was essentially Mountain Dew with 50% more caffeine.
I mean if anything balls existed back then, marketed specifically for that. I don’t know a ton of people who actually did but I mean, if it was anyone drinking energy drinks back then it was gamers.
Shit I was drinking red bull in 1996. Pretty sure it had been around for awhile at that point too.
Wow it’s been around since 1987, had no idea lol. It didn’t gain the popularity it has now til the 2000’s tho.
No love for Bawls? When I was younger the best LAN parties had Bawls. I think they still make it; no idea if it tastes the same.
Instagram is my trigger word.
I don’t have an account there, so it’s surprising to hear that it has pizza smeared all over it.
Discord + online games means it still kind of happens
LAN and discord are entirely different vibes
Yeah, someone needs to invent a BO protocol.
Body Odor Over Internet Protocol, or BOOIP.
