Zoomers will never experience this.
>>531167653It's all on a phone now you weird faggot.
white people?
ZoOmErS wIlL NeVeR eXpErIeNcE ThIs
>>531167653imagine the smell
>>531167653they still have massive lan parties but you just can't be assed to chatgpt them
>>531167889Truly: undercooked pizza, ionized plastic, and sweaty hormones.
>>531167653imagine being a woman there
I actually still do this with minecraft. You have to have a family in the first place.
>>531167653>LANOnly retards didn't use XBC to play Halo 1 online in 2002.
>>531167653We have Assembly every year thoughbeit?
>>531167653I never got to experience that either. I was out being a cool guy with my cool friends at cool parties. By the time I was old enough to settle down, lan parties were well on their way out.
>>531167653It's best they don't. The smell was atrocious.
>MUH VIDYAfuck your video games virgin
>>531168105That was the last of the good times before vidya got cool and the wombs wandered in. Then it was nonstop racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and need for diversity and inclusion. Back then guys wanted there to be more *gamer girls", for selfish reasons but it wasn't cool so none came. That truly had no idea, no one could really.
>>531167653Atheists will never experience Heaven.
>>531167653I'm a zoomer and I managed to join a literal "anime" club in school where there were a mix of queer theater tumblerinas and the other kids that would go on the computer to play stuff to download for local Counter Strike 1.6, 3D Dragon Ball fights, and Minecraft. This was only 10 years ago btw.
>>531168154>he doesnt remember that HaloCE had online and was in the before DRM era so pretty much all the torrents played it.>low requirements so most PC's made after 1999 can run it.>MP "capable" on early post dial up internet.
>>531168625yeah youre not wrongI wouldn't mind women in games that much if they weren't so bad at it
>>531168695Kids these days never payed Liero and it shows.Then you see Doom being mostly grapling hook based gameplay and.....you wouldn't understand..
>>531167653Actually we still have LAN parties and they're all ages 14+ (with parental permission) including zoomers.
>>531167653The best part of the LAN party was the 4AM game of 8v8 Halo:CE - via LAN of course - in the side room where people would start dropping dead into sleep with the controller in their hands as the game slowly became 4v4 then 2v2 then 1v1
>>531167653I used to carry my xbox to my friend’s house…
>>531168672Neither will you because it doesn’t exist but go off on your Jewish fables
Went to the Gathering at Vikingskipet, Hamar in Norway a couple of times back in the early 2000s. It was pretty cool, but dragging around those big CRTs sucked ass. Back then high speed internet was still in its infancy so it was a pretty big deal for many and perhaps the only opportunity for an entire year to pirate as much crap as possible. Meeting other sweaty Quake players in person and people you only knew from IRC etc. Certainly quite a strange time in history. It got smelly as time progressed though, the showers I remember were quite empty.
>>531167746Boring
>>531168901Also great even if it's not a larger event, obviously.As an adult it's easier if you can bring your kids to an existing event like this for a WE tho and meet your old buddy there or something like that. Good if the events keep going.
>>531167653They still have lans you retard.
>>531168366You and your friends never had LAN parties. You weren't cool..
>>531169183>dragging around those big CRTs sucked assMost that weren't young and fit enough to use a load carrier rack backpack thing just used handcarts and trolleys tho. Some came with the CRT loaded in a car and poorly prepared to move stuff around on site but obviously there tended to be quite a few already unloaded handcarts and trolleys on site anyhow, people helped. Wasn't usually that tough.
>>531167653Imagine the smelle
>Zoomers need other people to play games so they can watch and pay them to say their names
>>531168765I swear this is one of my biggest issues with FPS games these days. It is such a faggy experience. Back in the good old days it was all about speed and powerful weaponry. Jump, strafe, know the power-ups, show no mercy to your opponents, spam the entryways and narrow passages with rockets, make them feel absolutely worthless and don't care if they are absolutely smothered. Get good or stop playing type environment, accept your standing or GTFO.Back in 2016 I was quite excited for the new Doom game and played it a lot in multiplayer as it released and it brought back memories from when I was a teenager, it actually replicated that feeling, but what happened? People on reddit, new age gamers complained that the "weapons were too OP" and as a result the developers nerfed everything and then it regressed into what jokingly were referred to as a Nerf Arena blast shooter.. incidentally I checked out that game recently and even that joke of a game made for kids seem less forgiving that what is paraded under the FPS multiplayer umbrella these days. Another thing is how Bethesda owning the rights to several of the old franchises have decided that one game should not "compete" with another product in their lineup making it so they have only gay game modes and not classic modes. Today everybody is supposed to feel like a winner so that means more random chance and dragged out awkward gun-play. Once they nerfed everything to appease zoomers on reddit the hardcore fanbase left as well.
>>531167653I went to Quakecon 2005 to play RTCW:ET on LAN but even by then it was a dying thing, huge LAN parties. But it was cool and a good experience.
>>531167653the internet is as fast as the LAN was back then.
>>531169732This is one of the many reasons why I pirate games and never play online with random people, only people I know via HamachiI played Morrowind multiplayer a few years ago, it was great
>>531167653Ironically majority of these assholes became extreme left leaning troons.
>>531167653That's me left of the monitor on the duct tape pic. Best of times.
>>531167653Damn that was me 2am in the back alley with the shady gook owned internet cafe runs 24/7 playing counter strike and bf1942 good times.
this is pre indian invasion
>>531168965I have seen God. Your point is moot.
>>531167653LAN parties were unironically some of the best times of my life
>>531169781ET was a great game, I still fire it up every winter on the first snow, Auf wiedersehen!
>>53116765316player halo on 4 giant crts 2 teams of 8 going head to head shit got nuts, also cs1.5/6 and starcraft, good times
>>531169781quakecon is fucking massive now
>>531169480You probably don't mean that but massed CRTs tended to have a whiff of ozone or something and the machines back when also tended to have more of a smell of flux and oil or w/e it was.>>531169732I remember. There were always some people playing so well that around 4-10ms latency difference started to make the entire game completely one-sided already. Some games actually only really worked without random stuff happening AT LAN parties for them and their equally skilled opponents.> Once they nerfed everything to appease zoomers on reddit the hardcore fanbase left as well.I'd say broadest possible commercial appeal, not zoomers only.
>>531167653this shit looks so fucking gay
>>531168831i honestly don't get the appeal of video games. they're boring and have no translation into real life. it's literally a complete waste of time. you learn literally nothing and just fry your brain
Even back then it was cringe for geeks who got bullied. Being a geek has always been a bad thing.
>>531170486what's worse than geeks are those that try to cosplay as geeks
LAN parties were always for faggots and I'm sick of pretending they weren't
>>531167653At least i'm not old
>>531167889smells like that smell a bestbuy or a gamestop smells like sometimes
>/pol/ never even got invited to LAN partieslmfao, losers
>>531167746Based. Now I can lie in bed instead of sit in a chair like it's a job.
>>531170532It’s the same thing. The ones cosplaying as geeks just enable things. Back then, being in front of a PC all day was considered something losers did unless they were making money. Today, a whore is in front of a computer. An influencer is in front of a computer. It’s normalizing being a dork which is unhealthy.Look at the people who are unemployed versus the employed. Unless they’re a criminal with a drug problem, chances are they’re a geek with bad health and social issues.Geeks and nerds sit and think all day. Men apply their thoughts into action.
lan is pretty popular in EU still and dreamhack exists in the US lil niggathere's a few lan/internet cafe style places in many big cities around the US though they're mostly for local esports teams
>>531170442> honestly don't get the appeal of video gamesMaybe you're more the type that gets the appeal of watching other people do ball sports? I don't get them. But either have been happening since times immemorial. Playing reaction or strategy games etc., or watching people play them.> have no translation into real lifeThat part is wrong, various bits translate into real life including less pleasant ones, e.g. vehicle operators including contemporary drone pilots in wars.I don't really feel like selling you on video games (you do you) but the interaction with the real world is indirectly and somewhat directly pretty huge. Also various pieces of direct geopolitics tied to this, for example it was very directly one thing where the Chinese govt decided to do a 180. Video game ban became video game production policy with the world's largest video game market. There are effects.
>>531167889Came here to post this.
>>531170486Get off the internet. Geeks allowed us in and look how they got treated.
>>531168625True, they got what they wanted
>>531167746End thread
Truly some of my best memories.Exchanging porn at lan parties.
>>531170442They train hand-eye coordination. It was found that surgeons who played video games had fewer errors in surgery than their non gaming counter parts.
>>531167653those monitors were fucking heavy
>>531167653They had one of those LAN gaming places by my mall growing up. You could just walk in and we'd go in just to look at and laugh at the nerds. There were guys that looked just like the WoW guy on South Park. They would just be glued to thise computers and not even notice we were laughing at them.
>>531171455me too
>>531171442>Maybe you're more the type that gets the appeal of watching other people do ball sportsNo. I like to debate and think a lot. This is why I come to pol. To have conversations/debates on various topics. I don't watch sports or play video games or anything of the sort for the most part. Except for flight simulator. But only because it's realistic. I don't fly crazy stuff in flight simulator. I only do ordinary common types of commercial flights. Paris - Madrid in an A350. Dubai - Doha in a B787. Istanbul - Baku in an A320. London - NYC in a Concorde (this was once realistic, OK..). But yeah for the most part sports and video games that can't be translated into real life (like zombies and aliens and shit) are really boring to me.
>>531167653I remember renting vcr suitcases and putting a deposit on the tapes you had to wait until a year after the movie theaters stopped showing a movie in order to get one to rent.Computers were basically a tv with a Tomy tape drive computer.
https://kick.com/waxiest
owning a home?no niggers?cheap hardware ever again?What the fuck am I missing?
>>531173186>no niggers>2000'sare you retarded or something?
https://kick.com/waxiestNYC livestreamers fighting homeless tweakers.
>>531172578>Mom i'm not wasting my time, i'm training to become a surgeonHoly cope.
>>531167653It looks like hell dude just go outside.
>>531173333honeypot
>>531167653Ponder the aroma
>>531169732>Get good or stop playing type environment, accept your standing or GTFO.On one hand I kind of miss it, on the other, you want a fucking cookie for playing a video game, you goddamn child?
>>531167889it didn't smell, aircon and lack of foreigners
>>531167820It was actually fun, you could bond with new people and make friends.It's not the same if you can't high-five your friends.
>>531167653I'm a millennial and I never even experienced it. Anything that involves social gatherings is something I avoid in general.
>>531175577At the lan it was pretty much anonymous, they didn't ask who you wereif you looked like you wanted to avoid, some just share their porn/vidya folder with you.
>>531169781Good times, I always felt like Wolf should've been up there with CS in team-based competitive shootan.
>>531167653What are you talking about? We literally grew up with this.
>>531175741Did you guys group up with laptops?
