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Hexbear Moderator meetup (pre-transition).

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Someone in that pic is a network admin making 6 figures.

and she posts here
The same one who spent the first hour or two of each LAN trying to convince each of their friends to stop playing random shit / playing by themselves while everyone is copying the game we were going to play in order to try and prevent finally getting to the last person and the first half of the people being "over it and wanting to play something else" only for the cycle to re-start.
Also the same one threatening all of the friends leeching random shit from each other that if they don't wait until at least most people have copied the game that they'll receive physical harm.
Also the same one that loves the bittorrent protocol almost as much for non internet reasons as they do for internet reasons. Hosting all the games we were going to play on a local tracker/seedbox at a LAN absolutely fucking changed the game entirely. That and getting a layer 3 switch and tagging/prioritizing torrent traffic over everything else.
- I actually missed out on LAN parties because no friends and parents didn't get the internet until I was almost out of the house so idk if this is a dumb question but is there a benefit of usinga personal seedbox over something like a network drive to share the game files?

Okay but actually though, where did you find this actual picture I took of my friends from high school and our computers before a lan party?

me, circa 2004

LITERALLY ME circa 2004 too

Best Friday night LAN party 2004 has ever seen. everyone got their own $5 Hot N Ready from Little Caesar's, and Curtis' Mom got us cherry vanilla Dr Pepper

cherry vanilla Dr Pepper
Aces!
I was a Livewire and Code Red grill, myself.
Jimmy snuck in some Jolt Cola!
doxxing myself to say president's choice pamplemousse.
$5 hot n ready
I can feel this in my gut

Unironically jealous of the size of that lan-party. I had one chance in my life at a Civ 5 lan party, but it was last second and I was working weekends.

"Is that a real machete?"

"No. It's just a movie prop."

"But it looks sharp."

"It is."

The guy that brought the Powermac G4 is tied up in the back seat I hope.

Just some dudes having fun

Edit: just realizing LAN parties are an old people thing

"Boys about to have a good time"

2005.jpg

They left someone out of the picture but included their PC.

The person taking it probably

I'd say this was me, but let's face it, I didn't have that many friends.

I'm not in this picture because I'm taking the picture.

Hi mom!

The resistance after beating Joe Biden's opsec

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999

LAN party! Where the girlies at.

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The Rise And Fall Of The LAN Party - Aftermath

Mid Towers of Power

DSA Central committee

obviously someone wasn't there to game with that pos mac

I want that powermac

First, they came for the Slushee, and I said nothing.

Then, they came for the Slim Jim, and I still said nothing.

Finally, they came for the Gateway 2000 that my father purchased without asking me what graphics card to get, and I grabbed my replica sword I stole from the state fair and I fought to the death.

The Computer Gang was also a band. They dreamed of themselves as a Korn-hip-hop hybrid. If only they could just figure out how to create better beats and hoppin' basslines. But Brad broke his foot, right after that Mike's mom banned band practice in her garage, and then Chris got grounded for his M-80 in the toilet stunt. They took these events as an omen and the gang disbanded as a musical group.