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Average early 2000s LAN party (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 154 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Lan parties were basically the highlight of my highschool career. I learned how to set up and configure complex networks just so I could be 'that guy' that knew how to fix problems at lan parties. Sitting in someone's garage all night with 12-16 sweaty, sleep deprived people playing Counterstrike or Unreal Tournament or Worms Armageddon was the absolute pinnacle of good times in a rural small town.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 69 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A bunch of people in the same room beating Serious Sam from start to finish while someone played an eclectic playlist of hiphop on the aux for over 24 hours. Those were the halcyon days.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

Halcyon & on & on...

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I never really experienced this, I was mostly a console gamer.

Curious what you do for work now? Related to IT or games in any way...?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 37 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I did computer repair for quite a few years after high school, then worked in IT at a game company, and currently work in the software testing industry, so... yes! Hah

[–] superkret@feddit.org 11 points 5 days ago

With the current quality of MS products, every office drone works in the software testing industry.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 8 points 6 days ago

Chad life.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 6 days ago

Thank you for the reply! Amazing. I hope you're still passionate about what you do!

[–] ECB@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We used to do 12-hour, all-night Empire Earth games!

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago

Aww, man - I'd forgotten about Empire Earth, that game was absolutely the shit at the time. Wish it'd gotten more attention and credit.