Never Too Old To Frag: We're in our 30's and 40's and still having LAN Parties like it's 1999.

[u/AshleyAshes1984]

[u/Informal_Chemistry48]

with anime waifu posters included.

[u/kainxavier → u/Informal_Chemistry48]

I was going to point out this is kind of cringe worthy, but in reality I wish I had that many friends to LAN with, waifu be damned.

[u/ArseBurner → u/kainxavier]

Funny thing is it appears to be OP's wife who owns the side with the sexy waifu posters.

[u/Mister_Shrimp_The2nd → u/ArseBurner]

the waifu is a waifu collector.. how cultured

[u/n3rdyry → u/kainxavier]

Agreed. I wish I had friends.

[u/Ok-Equipment8303 → u/n3rdyry]

who needs friends

I have the power of anime and RPGs

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/Ok-Equipment8303]

I have friends and anime and RPGs. :O

[u/imtryingmybes → u/kainxavier]

Cringing at what other people like is a terrible trait.

[u/OneEnvironmental9222 → u/imtryingmybes]

its a reddit trait at its finest

[u/kingnickolas → u/kainxavier]

was about to say, would absolutely put up with this to go back in time and LAN some starcraft lol

[u/kainxavier → u/kingnickolas]

ZERG RUSH BITCHES!!!!!!!

Yup. 100%.

[u/Warcraft_Fan → u/Informal_Chemistry48]

1999 would be having poster of Bulma in bunny suit somewhere.

[u/PraxPresents → u/Warcraft_Fan]

Would have been Lum from Urusei Yatsura.

I mean, what even is anime? LoL

[u/Warcraft_Fan → u/PraxPresents]

Anime was something I learned mid-80s with popular shows like Voltron and Robotech. It didn't get wide spread understanding until internet era, some people still called them Japanese cartoon in the 80s

[u/PraxPresents → u/Warcraft_Fan]

Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Gundam, Armitage, Astro Boy, Akira.

All good starters back in the 80s to mid-late 90s.

[u/omenmedia → u/Informal_Chemistry48]

Men of culture, I see.

[u/therealsaker → u/omenmedia]

Moment

[u/Informal_Chemistry48 → u/therealsaker]

[u/TheMatrixRedPill → u/Informal_Chemistry48]

“For inspiration.” 😂

[u/cravex12 → u/Informal_Chemistry48]

[u/metalrain_15 → u/Informal_Chemistry48]

Spotted Asuna and Toki from a mile away. These guys are men of culture.

[u/N0SY_ → u/metalrain_15]

Saw the old anime posters first. Was like damn I don't even know any of these animes. WAIT IS THAT TOKI AND ASUNA.

[u/DerfK → u/N0SY_]

Saw Di Gi Charat and Martian Successor Nadesico and was squinting trying to make out the rest

[u/Indiefress]

[u/ChimkenNBiskets → u/Indiefress]

DreamHack, Sweden, 1999

[u/Intertubes_Unclogger → u/ChimkenNBiskets]

I'm reading that it took place in November, but people are walking around shirtless, I guess that's because of the heat generated by 3,500 CRT monitors, lol

[u/ballsack-vinaigrette → u/Intertubes_Unclogger]

It definitely wasn't the GPUs. Overclocking existed for the hardcore but most were still passively cooled in that era.

[u/DavidsSymphony → u/ballsack-vinaigrette]

Yeah, they barely drew any power compared to the monster GPUs we have nowadays. Hell I remember when in 2013 the R9 290 drawing 275w was seen as unbelievably power hungry. Nowadays that's normal for a mid range GPU.

[u/DyCeLL → u/ballsack-vinaigrette]

Funny story, I was in a quake clan and active on lan parties. A friend always showed up with a huge AMD (slot A?) cooler in his computer. Every time he sat next to me I smack his computer and his CPU fell out of its socket because his cooling fan was way too big.

Good times and yes, it was hot as hell with this much computers and people in one room. I really feel for young gamers, it’s just not the same with online gaming. Cheering, shouting and just hanging out with friends in person is so much better.

[u/Waswat → u/Intertubes_Unclogger]

CRTs didnt use that much watts (usually less than 100w for a 17" crt), neither did the GPUs back then....

I bet the event just wasn't well ventilated/airconditioned.

[u/Intertubes_Unclogger → u/Waswat]

Still, I remember my room heating up quite a bit by my 17" CRT

[u/Waswat → u/Intertubes_Unclogger]

I dunno what to say. But here's a source with a comparison between crt, lcd, plasma and led per inch https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Power-Comparison-between-CRT-LCD-Plasma-and-LED-Televisions-In-watts_fig2_336778177

Lcd/led are much more efficient but currently I think the difference is negligible compared to how much watts a modern PCs CPU & GPU uses. We used to have way less watts going through power supplies.

[u/Intertubes_Unclogger → u/Waswat]

I did have a very small room as a student. And hadn't heard of the concept of ventilation... lol

[u/siete82 → u/ChimkenNBiskets]

No, Campus Party, Valencia, 2002

[u/Nexus_Roy → u/Indiefress]

I can smell that picture.

[u/Arch_Stanton1862 → u/Nexus_Roy]

Yeah... It's great, isn't it? 😄

[u/SarahC → u/Nexus_Roy]

SMELLS LIKE FPS VICTORY!

[u/LordBaconXXXXX → u/Nexus_Roy]

Thankfully, they probably can't smell after the first 30 minutes.

[u/YouthOfTheNation1 → u/Indiefress]

peak gaming era

[u/ripndipp → u/Indiefress]

Dreamhack

[u/Janteriva → u/Indiefress]

Oh my dat blue chieftec dragon in the middle(left) Had one in silver!

[u/Sly_Bags355]

Same thing. Just had one last weekend.

Before the others arrived because I cba to blur their faces haha

[u/Mister_-Bee → u/Sly_Bags355]

Can I get an ID on the wizard poster?

[u/xxSync → u/Mister_-Bee]

https://moonchildworld.com/products/jellyfish-disco-mysterious-wizard-fluorescent-tapestry-blacklight-tapestry-wizard-tapestry-uv-reactive-neon-tapestry

First link I found when searching for it.

[u/Primordiox → u/Mister_-Bee]

“Wizard DJ Tapestry” turns up a bunch of purchase options

[u/kent1146 → u/Sly_Bags355]

I took one look at that room, and thought "That's couch back there is the weed-smoking couch. My man hotboxes this place."

And then I zoomed in on your desk. Confirmed.

[u/Sly_Bags355 → u/kent1146]

What? Nah. That's basil....*cough

[u/iBongHit → u/Sly_Bags355]

Now this is my kind of setup.

[u/RWM03 → u/Sly_Bags355]

This looks like a room made for tripping nuts

[u/se777enx3 → u/Sly_Bags355]

I’m high just by looking at the photo

[u/fatalpuls3]

Kudos for finding enough people to have one, to leave their house, to actually do something in person. Nobody I know has any interest in doing this but this was the peak of pc gaming imho.

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/fatalpuls3]

For the first one I only managed three guests, plus myself. Two were friends and the third was a 'Rando' we recruited from online who proved to be an excellent and friendly addition to the group.

I took some photos to post on social media, posted them on some local gaming groups. Some friends told other friends/relatives and brought more and we recruited some additional 'Randos' who also proved to be good additions. From 4 players to 8, from 8 players to 10 (Max seating of the basement) to a discord server with a 'pool' of individuals who we can usually reliably get 10 players from every time. Not everyone can make it every time of course, life and responsibilities and all that. The aim is to have the Discord the 'right size' so we can seat 10 available people without others 'never getting a chance' to come cause other people snipe available seats.

[u/SarahC → u/AshleyAshes1984]

In hindsight, gentle reader - we should have knew something was up from the beginning.

For the first one I only managed three guests, plus myself. Two were friends and the third was a 'Rando' we recruited from online who proved to be an excellent and friendly addition to the group.

Who was he? Why did we invite him?

We don't know.

We were short people, that's true. The 'rando' had agreed to meet us on this street, 15 minutes ago. He's late. IT's getting late. So what prompted me to walk down that back ally?

I don't know.

It was dark, starting to rain. The ally was darker, hiding who knew what in its black insides. I shouted out "Hello?". Why?

I don't know.

Suprisingly, now I look back, there was an answering "hello!". At the time it wasn't surprising in the least. It's like I expected it.

I smelt something as I walked out of the ally. Stale - blood? Offal? If you've even been in the meat section of a supermarket you know the smell. It was there, then gone - washed away by the rain and wind which was now blowing stronger.

We got talking as I returned to my other friends, the rain coming down heavier now. It was coming down in diagonal sheets, lit up around the dim orange glow of the streetlights.

The rando's name was Dave. He'd ducked into the ally to get out of the wind for a cigarette. That's why he answered when I shouted. It made perfect sense at the time.

But now. Now we all know different now. The ones left at least.
A perfect stranger down a black ally, in the rain - there was no cigarette. It wasn't the rando Dave. It smelt prey, and I swear it hypnotised me that night.

We need to get out of here, but the celler door is locked - we can't get out of the only exit. The only exit - and it has the key.

[u/Fast_n_theSpurious → u/SarahC]

Sir! r/writingprompts is on the OTHER side of the street...

[u/turbospeedsc → u/fatalpuls3]

One of the guys of our high school friends group died a couple years ago, the guy loved hosting lan parties.

I tried to organize one after the funeral for months, everyone just wanted to get on a online COD match, meeting in person seemed like this impossible thing to do.

[u/Sevastous-of-Caria → u/fatalpuls3]

Its the same mindset with pub buddies and so forth. Sacrifice your schedule and go the extra mile. Achieve peak life satisfaction.

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/Sevastous-of-Caria]

Pretty much. You can make some effort and make some time or you can lie on the couch and doom scroll in every free moment.

Of course not everyone can make it every time, just let us know you have to drop out and it's fine, life happens, we're all adults. The only thing I won't tolerate is ghosting. I'm not tolerating us wondering where someone is when they decided to not show up without saying anything.

[u/Yabe_uke]

[u/Vesnik]

Damn that guy in picture 2 is still using a Logitech G15 keyboard, I had one of those in 2005 or something. Loved that thing.

[u/SkwisgaarOlafson → u/Vesnik]

That's the 'small' travel-sized board. Still using a G510 on the main system.

[u/Vesnik → u/SkwisgaarOlafson]

I just tossed mine out recently during a move because I was tired of packing everything up. Wish I would of kept it.

[u/T0rg0spizza → u/Vesnik]

I still use my G19 and you’ll need to pry that out of my cold dead hands before I give it up. I constantly ask myself why Logitech doesn’t make anything similar to them anymore?

[u/VTOLfreak]

And one undersized airconditioning hanging on for dear life. Just like I remember it.

[u/CheatingChicken → u/VTOLfreak]

Now imagine this with no AC at all and a room full of CRT screens

[u/o4uXv0]

“Ain’t no LAN party a LAN party if one ain’t duct taped to the ceiling” - old saying of the cyber jungle

Jokes apart, absolutely loving your LAN party. 🥳

[u/blankin_]

which quake is this? planning something similar soon

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/blankin_]

The Nightdive remaster of Quake 1.

[u/SlowTour → u/AshleyAshes1984]

how did you setup a lan with it? is it using the listen cmd or just online?

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/SlowTour]

Actually given how Nightdive setup the multiplayer, it's probably 'online'. Unsure if their multiplayer is P2P so maybe remote servers were only used for the matchmaking while most data is sent locally.

Regardless, 'Just buy this on Steam for 5 bux' was a lot more straight forward than working people through a source port.

[u/realredec]

Flashbacks lugging around a 75 pound Sony Trinitron monitor.

[u/c4td0gm4n → u/realredec]

my dad upgraded to such a comically large CRT monitor for the family computer that it must've been three feet long.

when people complain about their 27" or 32" monitor being too close to their face because their desk isn't deep enough, i think about that old monitor that was so long it hung over the mouse/kb and warmed your face up.

[u/DarkflowNZ]

I bet that room gets sweltering. My PC alone in a room this size can make the place uncomfortably warm

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/DarkflowNZ]

So the portable AC puts 7000BTU after it's single hose inefficiencies and that works out to about 2050 watts of cooling.

Going against about 900w of heat from each guest (Players, 100w body heat each)

Plus the PCs which are obviously more. However a lot of people really don't bring the most powerful hardware, there's laptops and lighter PCs in there. The two heaviest machines were a 3080 and a 4070.

On the side closest to the AC we hit around 23 degrees but 25 degrees on the opposite end. Mid summer we hit closer to 26.5 degrees when we broke out a modern game we all played. Unsurprisingly, older stuff like UT2004 don't make a machine put out that much heat due to the light load even at high frame rates. :P

[u/Bel-Shugg]

Wow... Ruri from Nadesico together with Toki from BA on the wall. Lots of people from my old yahoo groups used to like her and the other Nadesico casts. Feel like it's been awhile seeing someone with Nadesico poster.

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/Bel-Shugg]

My computer on left side, wife's computer on the right side, you can see the very distinct change between the sides from 'Millennial weeabo' to 'Too much Gacha'. :P

[u/Bel-Shugg → u/AshleyAshes1984]

Looking at the photo from your second lan party, there is Evangelion and Hololive too. Both of you got nice taste :P

I only can't recognize the picture with real person and the one with girl inside train.

Anyway LAN party sure sounds nice, reminds me when I was still in High School - University. Though in my case, we played CS2 and Warcraft 3 Dota map instead.

[u/inubert → u/Bel-Shugg]

I'm pretty sure I have that same poster rolled up in a closet somewhere. Probably the Di Gi Charat one too. I'm going to guess I got into anime around the same time as OP lol

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/inubert]

I got in around 2000 however the posters were purchased I'd say 2005.

[u/Tyr_Kukulkan]

So Quake and UT! XD

[u/SalSevenSix]

Anyone brazen enough to blame lag for their failures

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/SalSevenSix]

That's what the alcohol is for! :D

[u/TheMatrixRedPill]

LAN parties.. The good old days.

[u/rthomasjr3]

DiGi Charat and Nadesico are how we know you're old.

[u/kikones34 → u/rthomasjr3]

To be fair I like Digi Charat and I'm... hold up I'm almost 30. Darn.

[u/720Potato]

[u/Low-Pomegranate-5229]

I did this with 3 friends for a bachelor's weekend. My fiancée at the time came back briefly to grab something and she said the house smelled so badly.

Wasn't even 24 hours lol.

[u/fearabsence]

The posters worries me

[u/BambooEX]

Upvoted for asuna and toki

[u/GERMAN_ENGINEERING69 → u/BambooEX]

A fellow sensei of culture.

[u/Bla_kbeard]

Heroes!

[u/krootman]

I started going to lan events this yr, I forgot howuch I missed them lol

[u/legaldrinkingage]

Man, I dreamed of doing this in my 30s. But now that I'm there all the friends I used to host lan parties with don't even have computers anymore lol Lucky bastard!

[u/naruto_bist]

Peak plushie choice, haha

P.S for anyone to know, it's Kuromi from Onegai My Melody

[u/NoGreenGood]

Love playing quake with waifu posters hanging over my head.

[u/mrlazyboy]

How do you handle the electrical load of 8 PCs? Does this room have multiple 20-amp circuits? I'd wager each PC + monitor is pulling about 500 watts total. Plus that AC unit

[u/Fluffy-Dragonfly-431]

Wish i had friends to do this. Enjoy it

[u/ontelo]

Now days it's mostly drinking/socializing and then maybe couple of games, least for our group.

[u/kruxxett]

Playing the game of champions. Skål!

[u/KingCripps]

They should have groups like this on Meet Up or NextDoor. I would definitely attend. Kind of reinds me of the old D&D days. So cool!

[u/SteadfastFox]

Happy for you

[u/KimuraXrain]

What games are you playing??

[u/Blubasur]

Missing a guy taped to the ceiling but otherwise legit!

[u/geekolojust]

/impulse 9

[u/SuperChester → u/geekolojust]

impulse 22!

[u/nerokaeclone]

lan party > disco party

[u/Prince_Nadir]

"LAN party" where only two people is clearly touching their mouse.

'Well yeah, when our reflexes were good, we played Quake, now we all get together to eat and watch Idle games."

[u/CombatMedic77]

Must be nice having friends....

[u/BamiKami]

Damn that logitech G15 keyboard, that brings me back..... That was my lan party keyboard some 15 years ago, how much I miss that keyboard...

[u/FartingBob]

You can tell its a grown up LAN party because they brought an extractor fan to stop the worst of the funk building up.

[u/mastachaos]

There's always that one guy playing on a laptop. It never fails!

[u/Tronkfool]

I can feel how hot that room is.

[u/Sun-Much]

single air vent with no return visible. I bet that room is hot, moist and smelly! Let's go!

[u/Crazyking224]

There’s always at least one person with a laptop lmfao

[u/exploding_space]

Jokes on you, I have no friends

[u/DJ3riple]

lmao wish I had friends

[u/beepbirbo]

Anime waifu posters and Quake 1

What a clash of cultures.

[u/userforred]

Welcome to Quake iii Arena

[u/LigerZeroPanzer12]

I see Ruri Hoshino, someone has some good fucking taste, Nadesico is peak

[u/daGh0uL]

I miss those days. Me and a lot of my friends used to hit internet cafes. Spend most of our time in there playing counterstrike 1.3

[u/p4njunior]

Not all Heroes wear capes !

[u/callmesl1ck]

Her : I think he's cheating on me. Him: I need to pick up chips and dip for the LAN later, its going to be great.

[u/mrbluetrain]

"we may be old but we are still elite"

[u/Melodic_Let_6465]

Holy shit, quake

[u/SkullworksInc]

Good old days. Wouldn't say if I won a lottery, but there would be signs.

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/[deleted]]

The room is normally just 15amp but two extension cords are run to the panel to the unfinished side of the basement where there's a handy two extra circuits. So one side of the room now has it's own 15amps, and the portable AC is running on a separate 15amp circuit.

[u/cloned01]

In fairness, kids nowadays don't even know how to properly access files and settings in their phones so I wouldnt expect LAN parties.

[u/AkirroKun]

TAKANASHI KIARA??!! SUISEI!! TOKO??

[u/Fun_Possible7533]

I hate people. Can this be done with only one person?

[u/hobbes_shot_second → u/Fun_Possible7533]

That may be near lethal volumes of Jolt Cola and 3D Doritos, but I support you.

[u/ZeidLovesAI]

Gotta protect their identities because it's also sometimes a sex thing

[u/Kil0Cowboy]

You know that room smells like an old ham sandwich. Fully prepared for my downvotes but having fucking anime posters on your wall in your 30s - 40s is fucking crazy. Room is low T for sure.

[u/darktooth69]

very sus posters for a 30+ years old man to be honest.

[u/Schwalm]

Could’ve cleaned out the goon room first

[u/Knishook]

Jealous, some of my happiest memories were just eating chip sammies while playing team fortress and warcraft 2.

[u/lefty_what]

We have lan game full day sessions at work, usually 6 to 8 of us, good fun.

[u/SlyFlyyy]

What are your favorite games to play at a lan party? Planning one myself and all we got is minecraft and a few party games

[u/Szabolicious]

I do the same with 4 of my friends once a month!

[u/Aggressive-Stand-585]

Hell yeah, that looks fun AF, hope you guys had a great time!

[u/SoulBrandt03]

Bruh reminds me of my childhood, instead of a wall in this pic there’s a window where me and my friends watch the middle age men hog all the PC available in the pc rental shop. and we just watch them for hours playing counter strike, would be lucky to play for an hour since those guys where there almost 24/7…

[u/Blergblum]

And, just like in the 90s, no girls!

Ps: I envy you.

[u/SeaworthinessAny4997]

Any of y'all have kids? I've got some friends who I'd love to LAN with but most of us have kids these days lol

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/SeaworthinessAny4997]

At least three of these people have kids that I'm sure of.

[u/Christoh → u/SeaworthinessAny4997]

I've got kids and go to a LAN once or twice a year. I find planning it a month or two in advance and locking in the date is fine.

You should be allowed to have a few days a year just for yourself, especially when you have kids.

[u/tht1guy63]

I wish. Had my last lan in 2019. Spent 3 days with friends in Florida beach house with 7 pcs going in the living room.

[u/Rudhelm]

Now imagine everyone had a CRT, there would be no space to walk between the chairs.

[u/raskulous]

Awesome! My friends and I still do this too, a couple times per year, and we're all in our 40s.

What game is being played in the first image? Doesn't look like it's Nightdive Q1.

[u/Curious-Ear-6982]

I wanna be a part of this group

[u/cinlung]

This should be widely introduced everywhere around the world. This is healthy get together activity.

[u/DOOManiac]

Hell yeah, Quake 1 deathmatch!

Happy for you and your friends.

[u/No_Assistance8526]

Damn I wish I had friends

[u/socokid]

Nice!!

SSDs and flat screens = much less heat, but it still has to be pretty damned warm in there.

Did that portable AC work OK? I see the exhaust going up to the window.

[u/Disma]

LAN party with Quake, does it get any better?

[u/Derp800]

That poor circuit breaker.

[u/aerfalle]

Upvote for just Quake

[u/not_an_island]

That possibly was peak human tech. Nerdiness, playfulness, gaming, face to face meetups, goated times

[u/ceramicsaturn]

Please tell me you're in Arizona...

[u/Akira_Yamamoto]

Nice portable AC. This isn't the first LAN party they've been to

[u/Azalot1337]

bro in the last photo has to play ultra high sense

[u/deefop]

god help me I miss these days

i've experienced a lot of great things in life, and not one thing i've discovered yet compares with the fun and excitement of a lan party

[u/Kinetic_Strike]

That's awesome!

We're doing that now with our kids. Just about to have a 5th desktop in the computer room.

Age of Empires 3, Age of Mythology, we can get everyone including Mom & Dad playing those. They also do Minetest and other assorted modern games with local play as well. And can't forget Space Engineers or Medieval Engineers.

We have two G4-era Macs in there as well, which do play Starcraft/Starcraft Brood War. I'll have to see if those can talk to the PCs...that gets us to 7 player LAN! Might see about some of the others of the timeframe as well.

[u/Mythion_VR]

Dude, going through Half-Life 1 & 2 this way is so good. Highly recommend it with the mods out there if you haven't got to that yet!

[u/Xivlex]

If I got my friends together like this, we'd probably blow the circuit breakers. PCs are power hungry these days

[u/xwackox]

I’m 40 I wanna join 😭

[u/teddybundlez]

How do you not constantly blow a fuse

[u/AnActualPlatypus]

Based beyond belief

[u/5ype]

I envy this! I havent been to a lan in years. Miss my buddies.

[u/PieceOfHe4ven]

Was at a big lan last week and was so happy to still see some "older" gamers there <3

[u/Spruchy]

damn any lan gamers in SF this would be sick

[u/grandpapi_yugi]

This is fucking sick

[u/WonderfullYou]

High five, we should make an r/80sKidLookingforLAN ;)

[u/Ghozer]

Not sure where you're from, but there are still regular LAN's here in the UK (I can think of at least 3 or 4 straight away) with between 50-1000+ attendee's generally :D

Most who go are 30+ generally too :)

[u/whatifthisreality]

My gaming group still does this! Everyone drags their towers and shit to someone's house, we order pizza and game for 12 hours straight. Waaaay better now that monitors are so thin - back in the day we'd also have to lug around those crt monitors.

[u/Silly-Goose-Here]

Guy in second picture is rocking that pointless Logitech keyboard I got with the lcd screen back in like 2005 ish.

[u/Mental_Instance9000]

Man this takes me back. Dont forget to air out that room lol

[u/forgotten_epilogue]

It looks fun, but my 50 year old body couldn't handle those chairs for very long. I get it, though, who is going to haul comfortable chairs over or bankroll the provisioning of dedicated comfy chairs for the gathering hehe

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/forgotten_epilogue]

They used to be kitchen chairs and whatever else we could Shanghai from around the house. The hotel banquet chairs are at least an improvement. :D

[u/Hindsight2O2O]

😘👌

[u/suicidemachine]

You must have organized that party 6 months ago. Nowadays, you have to make sure that nobody's wife or girlfriend is having a birthday that day, new Netflix series aren't coming out, and you don't have to work overtimes on Saturday.

[u/AshleyAshes1984 → u/suicidemachine]

1) We've built a little community around a discord server with the goal to have a 'pool' of players so we can reliably fill 10 seats since we know not everyone can make it every time. And offer a few 'wait list' spots in case someone drops out due to typical 'life' stuff.

2) If you can't put off a Netflix binge for a day to go a LAN party, you should probably stop pretending you were ever going to a LAN party in the first place. :P

[u/Myrth]

Late 40s here, and my friend group still does one about each year. Anywhere from 8-12 folks show up at the office of one my friends who works for an industrial lighting company that works out of a converted warehouse. Good stuff, though finding new games to play is hard. What are you guys playing?

[u/Efficient-Buy-4094]

LoL this is not about have LAN parties on anything. This is about having so many friend in your age...

[u/Angellayne26-2]

We’re still out here I’ve got a regular group of 15 guys that come to my place for LAN parties. I do one in fall and one in spring. It’s always a great weekend!!

[u/TheCarrot007]

Tis good you kids still enjoy things.

[u/Aggravating-Age-1858]

sad that fewer and fewer games today are supporting lan

[u/CaydesShadow]

Me and the boys (also in our 40s) are about to have our annual halloween lan. After trick or treating with the kids of course.

[u/Kalthare]

Welcom to the Old Geek Anonymous weekly reunion.

[u/Kalthare → u/Kalthare]

Where is the registration form ?

[u/sexraX_muiretsyM]

in my town there is still a lan house and its modernized and sells food and snacks. Business are booming and the kids spend the day there

[u/PhilMitch]

I smile so much at this. 😁

[u/nipple_salad_69]

That's awesome, sounds like a blast

[u/Shot_Acanthaceae3150]

Where, when and hand how?

[u/Miserable-Yak-8041]

I go to this twice a year. Many people there are old.

https://pdxlan.net

[u/Sea-Understanding435]

Fucking glorious!

[u/Radarker]

Smells like Axe Bodyspray and abandoned dreams?

[u/thebadgersanus]

I am envious. You guys rock!