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Mud City Savage · 10/1/21

Have you ever been to a LAN party? They're kinda nerdy and I don't think many people do them these days. But growing up, I was into PCs and gaming, and during a few times, I would go to a friends LAN party. If you don't know what a LAN party is, it's essentially a party or group event where people hook up a bunch of PCs and game together in the same room.

I remember the first time, we played Counter-strike source on PC. It was in our friends basement, and we just played for hours, drank and smoked. Was a blast. Sadly LAN parties are kinda dying out these days, but they still do them from time to time.

Have you ever been to one? Or even hosted one?

Jay · 10/1/21

Mud City Savage said:
Have you ever been to a LAN party? They're kinda nerdy and I don't think many people do them these days. But growing up, I was into PCs and gaming, and during a few times, I would go to a friends LAN party. If you don't know what a LAN party is, it's essentially a party or group event where people hook up a bunch of PCs and game together in the same room.

I remember the first time, we played Counter-strike source on PC. It was in our friends basement, and we just played for hours, drank and smoked. Was a blast. Sadly LAN parties are kinda dying out these days, but they still do them from time to time.

Have you ever been to one? Or even hosted one?

Maaan I started to do this a lot when the XBOX dropped because it made it so easy to do. No way I was going to be lugging around the big nerd towers we had as kids:

But yeah going over the homies house with 4 XBOX, TV's and Halo was so dope. You could play multiplayer without having to split the screen.

That was such a dope era.

Mastamind · 10/1/21

That's all I did during my first semester of college...my roommates were super nerds but we did that all the time

Blackgravity · 10/1/21

yup been to 2 in my life.. and I didn't enjoy it. first one I went to with my brother... out of about 2 thousand people we were the only Black people there, few years later I took my son and found one other black person there...I wasn't expecting a lot of us, but damn only 2-3, felt really uncomfortable.

sourgrapes · 10/2/21

This might be a bit embarrassing but I hung out with some nerds in my late teens. We'd have WoW sessions. LOL I saved up for my first computer and got it when I was 18 and started playing it. I thought it was stupid but then I really got into it. I stopped playing a few years after I started. It was too time-consuming. The LAN parties were fun though. We'd get pizza and just hang out for hours playing. We also did CoD parties with a few Xbox 360s and a few TVs. Was a simpler time. Thinking back now, I guess I was a nerd myself. Probably still am. lol

Blackgravity · 10/2/21

sourgrapes said:
This might be a bit embarrassing but I hung out with some nerds in my late teens. We'd have WoW sessions. LOL I saved up for my first computer and got it when I was 18 and started playing it. I thought it was stupid but then I really got into it. I stopped playing a few years after I started. It was too time-consuming. The LAN parties were fun though. We'd get pizza and just hang out for hours playing. We also did CoD parties with a few Xbox 360s and a few TVs. Was a simpler time. Thinking back now, I guess I was a nerd myself. Probably still am. lol

I still WOW from time to time, I'm a solo player and I don't talk to nobody.(too many racist in that game) I play it for the sole purpose to waste time, lol. it's fun at times but can get too repetitive so I'll jump on Quake Champions for a few matches. other then that I don't play like I used to. I've been playing WOW since warcraft(beginning) nothing to be embarrassed about. COD and BF were good games about 5 years ago, now they aren't as fun.

Jay · 10/2/21

Blackgravity said:
yup been to 2 in my life.. and I didn't enjoy it. first one I went to with my brother... out of about 2 thousand people we were the only Black people there, few years later I took my son and found one other black person there...I wasn't expecting a lot of us, but damn only 2-3, felt really uncomfortable.

sourgrapes · 10/3/21

Blackgravity said:
I still WOW from time to time, I'm a solo player and I don't talk to nobody.(too many racist in that game) I play it for the sole purpose to waste time, lol. it's fun at times but can get too repetitive so I'll jump on Quake Champions for a few matches. other then that I don't play like I used to. I've been playing WOW since warcraft(beginning) nothing to be embarrassed about. COD and BF were good games about 5 years ago, now they aren't as fun.

Anytime I brought up WoW outside my playing circle, I'd get ragged on for it lol

And yeah, I have not played CoD in years now. I think the last one I played was Ghosts and was not a fan of it. I loved Black Ops II though. That was probably my favorite game of the lot. My then-boyfriend and I would play the game almost every night. Had my own set up next to his with a smaller TV.

Blackgravity · 10/3/21

sourgrapes said:
Anytime I brought up WoW outside my playing circle, I'd get ragged on for it lol

And yeah, I have not played CoD in years now. I think the last one I played was Ghosts and was not a fan of it. I loved Black Ops II though. That was probably my favorite game of the lot. My then-boyfriend and I would play the game almost every night. Had my own set up next to his with a smaller TV.

ever played any of the Quake games? very fast paced! but fun. Quake Champions is the latest. (FPS)

sourgrapes · 10/3/21

Blackgravity said:
ever played any of the Quake games? very fast paced! but fun. Quake Champions is the latest. (FPS)

Nah I never played them but they look fun, I'll check them out. I have been trying to find a new FPS game to get into. The last one I was playing on the regular was DOOM 2016. The older I get, the pickier I get with my games. I have limited free time so I want the games I play to be worth the time.

Mud City Savage · 10/3/21

Jay said:
Maaan I started to do this a lot when the XBOX dropped because it made it so easy to do. No way I was going to be lugging around the big nerd towers we had as kids:

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But yeah going over the homies house with 4 XBOX, TV's and Halo was so dope. You could play multiplayer without having to split the screen.

That was such a dope era.

Haha, that's what the LAN parties I went to was like. Just towers on small desks. On top of that, the room we had the LAN party in, was so damn crowded. It was like 6 guys in a room that was really small.

Mastamind said:
That's all I did during my first semester of college...my roommates were super nerds but we did that all the time

Ha nice! Do you miss it at all? I had a lot of fun at LAN parties. Mainly at the time because I never had a decent PC growing up, so the LAN parties were also an excuse for me to play some PC games. I remember this one dude was playing Half-Life 2. I had heard of the game, but I was mesmerized by how cool the game looked back then.

sourgrapes said:
This might be a bit embarrassing but I hung out with some nerds in my late teens. We'd have WoW sessions. LOL I saved up for my first computer and got it when I was 18 and started playing it. I thought it was stupid but then I really got into it. I stopped playing a few years after I started. It was too time-consuming. The LAN parties were fun though. We'd get pizza and just hang out for hours playing. We also did CoD parties with a few Xbox 360s and a few TVs. Was a simpler time. Thinking back now, I guess I was a nerd myself. Probably still am. lol

I wouldn't say it's embarrassing. If you're having fun, who cares. I never played WoW, but I know it's very popular. I just never got into the RPG genre because I don't have the patience for them anymore. idk why. Maybe it's like you said, it was too time-consuming.

Hell yeah. I think it's kinda just an excuse to hang with friends. There would be times where we'd just drink, eat food, and just talk about life.

Nerd used to be a phrase that people hated, but now they've adopted it as a good thing about one's character. Like I'll admit, I'm a nerd. I get into tech, gaming, comic books, superhero movies, star wars, all that stuff people would consider nerdy. Same with geek, I think people are accepting of that word more now because it is kinda a characteristic of people now.

Blackgravity said:
ever played any of the Quake games? very fast paced! but fun. Quake Champions is the latest. (FPS)

I played Quake once or twice myself. But I remember it being so much fun.

Has anyone here thought of ever hosting their own LAN parties recently or in the future? I had considered starting one with a group of friends, but with covid I kinda put the idea on hold. But, I think I might revive that idea soon.

Jay · 10/3/21

Blackgravity said:
ever played any of the Quake games? very fast paced! but fun. Quake Champions is the latest. (FPS)

I played quake when it was a regular FPS, I remember when Quake Arena dropped I was like WTF is this? I moved to Unreal Tournament and got hooked on that.

Blackgravity · 10/4/21

Jay said:
I played quake when it was a regular FPS, I remember when Quake Arena dropped I was like WTF is this? I moved to Unreal Tournament and got hooked on that.

my brother tried to get me into UT... I couldn't get into it though.

Blackgravity · 10/4/21

sourgrapes said:
Nah I never played them but they look fun, I'll check them out. I have been trying to find a new FPS game to get into. The last one I was playing on the regular was DOOM 2016. The older I get, the pickier I get with my games. I have limited free time so I want the games I play to be worth the time.

QC isn't like doom (although the character from Doom is playable in Quake) it's straight up shoot to kill and it's Multi player not a story.

sourgrapes · 10/4/21

Mud City Savage said:
I wouldn't say it's embarrassing. If you're having fun, who cares. I never played WoW, but I know it's very popular. I just never got into the RPG genre because I don't have the patience for them anymore. idk why. Maybe it's like you said, it was too time-consuming.

Hell yeah. I think it's kinda just an excuse to hang with friends. There would be times where we'd just drink, eat food, and just talk about life.

Nerd used to be a phrase that people hated, but now they've adopted it as a good thing about one's character. Like I'll admit, I'm a nerd. I get into tech, gaming, comic books, superhero movies, star wars, all that stuff people would consider nerdy. Same with geek, I think people are accepting of that word more now because it is kinda a characteristic of people now.

You're right. I mean these days, it isn't a "nerd" thing to play video games, enjoy anime, be into comics, have a tech hobby, and so on. I feel like 10 years ago it still was considered a bad or off-putting thing but times have def changed. I mean I know some grown adults who are into things like Pokemon and have no shame of it and not many people will make bad remarks about it anymore.

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