That’s, like, $80 of duct tape in today’s money
Fortunately, wages have increased to match, right?
Right?
Funny enough duct tape ceiling guy is playing on an LCD monitor.
Probably they were the best player and they gave them all the handicaps available. 😅
that reminds me of when I was telling a friend about the kid who became lion king. he didn’t believe me and when I tried to find it, any trace of the story had disappeared from this plane of existence
I feel ancient that I was an adult when this was happening.
We played Unreal Tournament mostly because it ran really well on Linux. Rarely had LAN parties but it worked fine over dial-up. Kinda wild. Miss those days. We did a lot of dumpster diving because people would just throw everything out when they left college.
So, I missed LAN parties, but me and my buddies used to all get together (normally at my house) and play console games and d&d, and I feel like it has pretty similar vibes.
Some seriously amazing times. The thing I remember most distinctly, though, is the smell. A dozen 12-15 year old boys who don’t yet understand the necessity of deodorant, all crammed into a bedroom, basically sitting on top of each other. The smell was loud. My room used to reek of it for 5 or 6 days, just in time for next Saturday to roll around and stink it up again. Lol.
Me and my pals were pretty good about hygiene, regularly showered when we all spent the weekend at our pal’s, but good God, when someone would forget a bowl of some food or other over the weekend, or it’d get shoved back behind a wall of empty soda cans and bulky monitors for the whole week? 🤢
I mean, I don’t think any of us were particularly bad about hygiene? It was more just sort of boy-stink. Lol. In fairness, it was coastal Virginia, summer time, in an un air conditioned room, with the only time the door got opened being when one of us had to pee. Lol. To be honest, I remember it almost fondly. Like, the stale smell of it when every one was gone was horrid, but the smell of the room, the hot TV and console, and all my buddies crammed together wasn’t bad when it was going on. Just during the week afterwards. Lol.
That said, I have some unique opinions on smells, so grain of salt and all lol
But also, yes, God, the moldy Chinese food-- yuck
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.
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.
Halcyon & on & on…
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…?
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
With the current quality of MS products, every office drone works in the software testing industry.
Chad life.
Thank you for the reply! Amazing. I hope you’re still passionate about what you do!
Back in the early aughts, I worked for a company that did tech support for Adobe products. The company lost the contract to Adobe, and we all were laid off. For the couple of months before our final day we would play Quake while doing tech support. Our numbers were never better.
The entirety of my career was founded on my ability to build stable network and systems to run Duke Nukem 3d at lan parties using 10base2 networks and Rendition Verite video cards with a side of 3dfx.
at lan parties using 10base2 networks and
“Anyone have another BNC terminator? Oh, also the IPX network number we’re using is 11111111.”
Rendition Verite video cards
Nobody could afford the Canopus, it was a room full of Sierra Screamin’ 3D cards at best
with a side of 3dfx.
A dedicated 3D card in addition to a good 2D card?! We’d dream, but didn’t have that kind of cash.
I had one with a weird pass through cable. Mainly played EF2000 on it.
What if the guy had to pee?
Duct tape isn’t good at binding to skin, after it gets sweaty it can come off fairly easily. So this guy could wriggle free if he really wanted to.
Spoken like someone who’s made a harrowing escape or two.
There’s a bucket on the floor
diaper
Most logical.
Why is homie in the back duplicating
There are 3 monitors on the table so I think it’s two guys overlapping.
I don’t think so, same haircut, same clothes, same build?
It was 2002. There was only one haircut.
LAN parties were always a great place to hang out.
They still are! I throw two or three a year and never have an empty seat.
What about an empty ceiling?
Got it covered (Halloween LAN from last year)
Complete with a ribcage mounted AP
edit: Auto correct messed this up. 🌈
I would like to be your friend please
