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.
That’s fucking good bro I’m posting that on my social media
Everybody look at their hands.
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.
We can afford to buy massive PCs that will die of boredom as we play Minecraft. And if we can’t we sure as hell can afford a loan.
Lol, that’s the reason I wouldn’t LAN anymore. One, my computer is massive, and two, it’s been in the same place for the last 10 years. I’m pretty sure it’s bonded to it’s support structure.
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
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
DISCORDMatrix /s
real :'(
I cri
Yeah that’s the main problem. I don’t know if I’m unusual but it seems like everyone I knew died or moved to a dozen different places thousands of miles apart.
Being autistic, disabled, plus ptsd I dk how to make friends being middle aged and non religious. People are too busy working, kids, health issues or on phones to interact. If I didn’t get married young I would not know anyone within hundreds of miles of me.
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).
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 bought 2 Xbox 360, can do 4 players halo lan party with friends now
Only up to 4 players with two 360’s?
Used to be able to have 4 OG Xboxes with 4 players on each back for Combat Evolved. I remember playing a full 16 player game, where the 4 TVs involved were only 13 inch black and whites. You had like the space of a GameBoy screen for your guy lol
Just need to buy 3 friends now
Are they cheaper if you buy a 6-pack of friends?
I don’t know, I don’t have a six pack only a single big pack of beer
Beer? We’re talking about buying friends!
Right, only get the pizza thats actually good and not a fake Instagram hype
Instagram is my trigger word.
I prefer red bull. Drinking isn’t conducive to all night gaming.
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
Hard disagree, next day is rarely pleasant but .
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.
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.
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?
Shadow people.
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!!”
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.
Red Bull has been around since the 90s. I used to drink red bull, bawls, and surge during ye olden days of lan parties.
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
It was work first in my day
This is such peak old school cool haha
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
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.
Speak for yourself, the university student union runs weekend lans open to alumni and they sell 50 cent energy drinks
Its me. An Alum who didn’t hear de news.
This meme was made pre-tariff.
yeah but now we are working 6 day weeks, 10 (or more) hour days.
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.
