No, the "fun" is in the eye of the beholder.
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No, the "fun" is in the eye of the beholder.
It's strange talking of the old days of LAN parties with the other local computer nerds we all knew and classed as mates. I have a few friends now that I've known for over 6 or 7 years through playing various games together, we keep in daily contact over Discord. Voice chat through Teamspeak, Discord and VOIP in games...we know our wives names, our kids birthdays...send each other bits and pieces of computers via snail mail...even sometimes chip in as a group to buy any one of us who might be less flush on a month, a game, a new graphics card or even a subscription to something the rest of us have....
We all class each other as the best of friends...yet most of us have never met in person
We all class each other as the best of friends...yet most of us have never met in person
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Is it true you're so close that some of you know each others wives names and kids birthdays too?
I sometimes have trouble remembering my own wife's name...I'm almost convinced that I picked the wrong woman up from the carpark after shopping at a supermarket 15 years agoIs it true you're so close that some of you know each others wives names and kids birthdays too?
Based on a true story BTW...a woman got into my car at Tesco one day as I was waiting for my wife and started chatting away after dropping the shopping in the boot of the car...We were halfway out of the carpark before we realised we didn't know eachother
It turned out that her husband and I had the same colour and model of Land Rover...
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And that's all they have - imagination. Very little will find it's way into code, much less actual gameplay.
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Baldur's gate (1 and 2) are still available on Steam with Steam workshop mod support...I tried playing through Baldur's gate 2 a few months ago but couldn't quite get the vibe from it I had from back when we all dragged our PC's around to eachother's houses on a weekend
Anyone else still miss LAN parties? T'interweb is fine and dandy sometimes... but the opportunities for chucking half eaten Doritos at a mate when he's concentrating on something in game are sadly lacking
At our old office it was Baldur's Gate LAN party every Thursday afternoon for the best part of a year, guessing it was around 2002. Awesome memories.
I still get together with my uni friends for regular real (no C) RPGs, but since we all use virtual table tops we still bring computers (laptops mostly). Fortunately I live somewhere covid free so I'll be seeing them today.Anyone else still miss LAN parties? T'interweb is fine and dandy sometimes... but the opportunities for chucking half eaten Doritos at a mate when he's concentrating on something in game are sadly lacking
You live in the ISS?!
Western Australia. 160 days with zero transmission and still counting.
States to the left are also zero transmission.Viajero
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The movie was so good that it just looked bad imo
Same here, we've had zero transmission throughout the outlying islands...5 on the main island with 2 fatalities at the beginning of the outbreak in March, zero since then.Western Australia. 160 days with zero transmission and still counting.
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Those were more simple times of discoveryI used to love BG LAN parties
Plus all the rig admiring, network creating, cable crafting, keeping the ex-gf supplied with enough Archers and lemonade to let us nerds stay up just a bit longer and promise not to disconnect the Sky box, and sending Whiffy Jimmy off to the off-license to buy more crates of beer as it'll take forever to install BG on his dual-speed CD relic and he forgot to bring a 10base2 t-piece yet again!!!
Fun times!
I remember playing for the first time 1v1 PvP Doom in a lan party decades ago with a buddy. My friend would complain that I was cheating because I was moving constantly too fast. I clarified to him that what I was doing was actually pressing the key to "run". - "Hold on, there is a key for running! Whoa" 
Anyone else still miss LAN parties? T'interweb is fine and dandy sometimes... but the opportunities for chucking half eaten Doritos at a mate when he's concentrating on something in game are sadly lacking
Back in the early '00s, I was in a UT clan with a bunch of classmates and we used to "borrow" the school's IT lab during free afternoons for group training sessions (those 800Mhz-1Ghz Athlons were faster than most of our home desktops, and of six people only two of us had a blazing fast 256Kb ADSL at home)...those were absolutely the most fun times. From time to time, someone of us shouted the loose equivalent of "mother load on $player$!", and everyone instantly united to give all the misery that was possible to said player for a few minutes, both in map and real life, throwing whatever at him, or whatever of his away from him...the running gag got known outside of our afternoon lab sessions and we got to a point were sometimes while we were there, some random guy passing by just opened the door, yelled the mother load at one of us and enjoyed the show from the others. Yeah I miss LAN parties.
GO FOR THE EYES BOO!Baldur's gate (1 and 2) are still available on Steam with Steam workshop mod support...I tried playing through Baldur's gate 2 a few months ago but couldn't quite get the vibe from it I had from back when we all dragged our PC's around to eachother's houses on a weekend
Anyone else still miss LAN parties? T'interweb is fine and dandy sometimes... but the opportunities for chucking half eaten Doritos at a mate when he's concentrating on something in game are sadly lacking
Played BG1+2 loads back in the day have them on my steam wishlist.
Yup LAN party were fun 10 base T and all that faff....and the old "I can see your PC...can you see mine".....Mainly Diablo and Duke Nukem 3d was played, bit of Quake.