• SmoothLiquidation
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    2 days ago

    I miss LAN parties, everyone coming over lugging their desktops and CRT monitors, having an 8-port 10gps Ethernet hub (not switch), staying up late playing 4v4 StarCraft maps and Diablo 2 games at max capacity.

    Good times.

    • Glytch
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      2 days ago

      I’m a pizza delivery driver and three weeks ago I delivered to a party of 11-13 year olds who had a bunch of monitors and consoles together in a living room having a Halo LAN party. In the year of our Lord 2026. I thought I’d stepped into the past

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        23 hours ago

        11-13? So born in 2015-2013? So then those would be millennials’ kids, gen alpha.

        The millennials loved LANs so much, they gave it to their kids. That’s lovely.

      • Prox
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        1 day ago

        Did you at least stay for a round of CTF on Beaver Creek?

        • Glytch
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          17 hours ago

          Unfortunately it was the beginning of dinner rush and I need money