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1. LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 10:53:12 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

   The social environment is transforming way too fast.

   When I was growing up, there was one past time for insane people like me, that I could theoretically use once per year to invite friends, and have a good time. But, when I was thinking about this, the entire concept of lan "party" is now DEAD. Completely dead. I doubt, I will be able to get 3 people to bring their PCs, and grab beers with me, when Discord and online lobies exist instead.

   What a fucking joke. No wonder people these days "lack social skills", when the social oportunities literally transformed world wide out of nowhere.

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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 10:57:22 JST xianc78

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     @LukeAlmighty I never had the experience. I always wanted to try a LAN match with Mario Kart: Double Dash but the network adapters for the GameCube were rare, especially after someone found an exploit with them.

   • LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 10:59:08 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     I had AVP 2 lan party, as well as one Age of empires 2.

     The AVP one was absolutely perfect 😭

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 11:10:53 JST xianc78

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     @LukeAlmighty I'm trying to think if I ever had one. I have played games over LAN before but it was always with one other person and I was living with said person at the time.

     I've heard of people having "underground LAN parties" at schools when the teacher wasn't looking (or if you had a teacher that didn't care). My brother told me that he played N64 ROMs through a network supported emulator with friends all the time during high school, but I never got the chance because by the time I was in HS, they installed Active Directory on all of the computers.

   • djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 11:11:16 JST djsumdog

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     The last Lan party I went to was in 2015. My friend Andrea wanted one for her birthday. Most of us bought laptops. Only one guy brought his gaming desktop. We played some Serious Sam and other random crap. We're all older, so we were remembering a forgotten era even back then.
     
     ... but I remember even in 2012 there were still cyber cafes if you wanted to game on one of the super high end machines and talk to other random gamers.
     
     ... It wasn't even that long ago.
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