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I was all about GoldenEye back in the day for me.
Afterwards, CounterStrike and StarCraft:BW was the cause of many nights lack of sleep.
Playing counterstrike and broodwar on the labs at the highschool <3
My English teacher used to come play StarCraft with us after school. Formative memories for sure
Some local hero installed Quake 3 on every terminal in my high school hahaha
Bullshit. It was Day of Defeat.
Otherwise, yeah, that about sums it all up.
DoD LET FUCKING GOOO. I still play DoDS every now and then.
I would kill for it to get the CS2 treatment. Source 2 baby! Altho I’d be sad if they fucked with avalanche too much. Won’t happen, but damn would it be cool.
#SteamAccounts #OldEnough #ToDrink
For me it was Mario Kart Wii…
I had a couple lan parties a while ago. That shit is so fun. Soldat was really popular.
Last year i had my cousins kids over for a tiny lan with them, me and my sis. We played UT99 for ages and they loved it.
UT99 - best choice! <3
UT99 is the goat. Ahh, the times where we’d play it on the school PCs during recess as kids until the teachers came and kicked us out of the library. Good times.
Ha. I worked at a place in thr 90s where lunch time was Engineering office Quake party.
I stopped chasing it and now I just get baked every weekend after the kids go to bed then sit and cry in my beanbag chair while eating oreos out of a cup of milk with a spoon
this is also the title of my isekai manga.
FWIW in my personal experience stoners make by far the best parents. And that’s without even contrasting them to the boozing and cigarette-smoking parents. I have no personal experience with the fentanyl and meth parents, but I don’t imagine they’re strong contenders.
Have you tried eating Oreos in a beanbag chair while playing Halo with your kids?
It’s pretty much the LAN party experience, but you will probably win more games 😜
too young for FPS games unfortunately.
you’ll grow into it eventually
We should have a fucking Fediverse game night somewhere.
Oh counter strike
♥️
Uhm, not Halo.
The peak moments were Friday nights with the gang; pizza ordered; Goldeneye, pyramid level, slaps only, no Oddjob; an ongoing Lego collaboration being worked on for the ones who there weren’t enough controllers for in that round (you’d cycle out that spot); and first-gen Super Smash Brothers waiting on the side.
For me it was all that you said, plus Halo.
Nobody plays RTCW anymore…
Can still have it. I have semi regular Mario Kart and Smash Bros nights. Loads of fun, always stay up until way too late. Finish off with a dumb movie.
You’re only chasing that high because you don’t embrace whimsy
More people need to just embrace whimsy.
Ah yes, let me just embrace whimsy with all these… friends… that I totally have!
I started the smash bros nights specifically to make friends post college as most of my college friends moved away. One of the guys I met online only one through a TTRPG discord and now he brings the good beer.
Also, whimsy can be everywhere. Step outside and watch a flower dance in the wind. Bam, whimsy. Go visit a cemetery and make up funny stories about what led to inscriptions on the tombstones as you map it for findagrave.com , bam, whimsy. You need zero friends for whimsy, but whimsy has led to many friends in my experience.
Missing the point and moving the goalposts all in one comment! Good job, here’s an award 🥉
I think we’ve found the real reason you’re talking about few friends on a thread about whimsy and fun…
Because you said “It’s easy, just start a LAN party” as if you were assuming everyone already has friends to start a LAN party with?
The thread is about nostalgia, not whimsy. You introduced the latter, and you did so as if it’s predicated upon having friends, and as if someone with no friends is really just failing to embrace whimsy, which frames it as a personal failure and not one that depends on the participation of other beings.
Dude, you’re defending a nostalgia bait “back in my day” post. Yes I called it out. Maybe instead of sitting around here complaining about having no friends you do some introspection and recognize that why you are being called out here for complaining about no friends and being called out in other threads for complaining about not being allowed to approach women have something in common, you.
Now, I set up another LAN party tonight and we’re gonna have fun. We’re going to experience that high the original post is complaining about chasing. You can stew on some response to this post by yourself, or redirect the energy to making friends and go have fun yourself. ciao
It’s clearly shitpost-oriented. Not a genuine “back in my day.” You can’t handle a little bit of self-deprecation so you had to be condescending instead. That’s not embracing whimsy.
And the irony is not lost on me that although you came here preaching about whimsy, you completely failed to recognize the whimsy inherent in posting a fucking spongebob meme as an act of self-deprecating humor. That’s not “complaining about having no friends,” that’s just whimsy; the exact thing you came here preaching about.
But since you clearly felt so strongly about it that you felt the need to stalk my profile to prove a point (i.e., by condescending), I can only infer that you have a habit of making yourself feel better about yourself by putting other people down. Is that whimsy?
And if your interpretation of that other thread was me “complaining about not being allowed to approach women” then you’re completely misreading it based on pre-conceived notions that you walked into it with. I was clearly saying “Yeah, women have expressed that they don’t want to be approached, so the right thing to do is to not approach.” And making self-deprecating jokes in a thread with other guys in the same boat is called “emotional support,” which is exactly what people say men need to start doing for each other. So if you really want to shame people about that, then you’re part of the fucking problem.
Enjoy your LAN party, where I’m sure you’ll spend a significant portion of your time talking down about people who aren’t there to defend themselves, because that’s how you manage to feel good about yourself in a world where suffering is the norm and empathy the exception rather than the rule.
“Those were good times, Rorschach. What happened?”
“You quit.”I embrace whimsy all the time, but a lot of people I know, don’t.
Men need to embrace their sassy side.
The “Aww” at the end got me. Thats great.
z snaps and sips my mimosa
Edit to add: love a good racing horse name
Having 4 or 5 PCs in different rooms at a LAN party is a whole different vibe than multiplayer, shouts coming from all the bedrooms, stuff like that.
That’s why we switched to smash Bros. Not everyone has a laptop or desktop they want to bring but I can pull out a bunch of controllers. It’s so much fun actually seeing someone groan when they miss a super smash.
We all bring our favorite snack and pass bowls around. Case of whatever beers. We’re debating setting up a running leaderboard.
I was an IT guy, had loads of crappy PCs I could scrap together. If you remember Half Life, it would play on a toaster. :) This conversation got me thinking I should setup my kids when I get them for Thanksgiving.
We played 16 player Halo a bunch in college. 4 TVs, 4 XBoxs, 4 players each, such a blast.
Mid 2000s was peak LAN era. Halo, CS, Starcraft, some guys playing Magic in the corner.
Battlefield Vietnam
StarCraft Brood war
Supreme commander
Unreal Tournament Edition
Counterstrike 1.6 (I think) These were my 2001 lan party gaming experiences I wish I could reclaim.
Tribes 2 was a staple for mine.
Yup.
Split screen Goldeneye my antediluvian friends.
Perfect Dark, laptop guns and proxy mines only. Makes for an extremely chaotic sort of survival mode as everyone finds increasingly harder to spot or avoid places to hide explosives/turrets.
Oh damn! I had forgotten about Perfect Dark!
Joanna Dark was my first video game crush!
Gone forever…
