No. The cure to male loneliness is PC LAN parties where everyone hauls their giant-ass desktop towers to the school computer lab/similar space for Day of Defeat and Counter-Strike.
If we dont play at least one match of Age of Empires 2 Im not coming!
So good. I think we also did Warcraft or Warcraft 2. I would personally add Unreal Tournament to the list.
I’m in for wc2 but only after fiddling for 45minutes with a single lan cable to direct connect our 2 (heavy!) pc’s without a lan nor internet! (if i hear the word wifi i will turn my head sideways in confusion).
Did you need a crossover cable for that back then? I think later on the NICs could figure that out themselves.
Fiddling with network settings to get it to work is literally why I remember Warcraft.
Where the first two hours are trying to get the network stable.
Yes, the “this sucks, we’ll never get it working” period made the, “Holy shit, it’s working, we’re all on the same map!” period that much sweeter.
Day of defeat!!!
I used to play so much of that with my now spouse lol
Ah, LAN parties. Those were the days.
Yli can still make them happen!
I’ve had this plan to throw a housewarming lan party, but I’ve lived here for a year already so it feels a bit dumb lmao.
I would love to do a LAN-party, but all the people I know that would like to come to such a thing live 4+ hours away 🙃
At least we have the internet
This makes stuff difficult.
Some of my friends have moved to another europe so there’s only a small window that our schedules are free, and now everyone has kids, so you plan something but after you coordinate schedules it’s a month and a half away, but then someone’s kids are sick that day and somebody else forgot their in laws were coming to town, so you have to postpone another month.
So make it a regular party instead of a housewarming one
If a guy asked me on a LAN date he’d never find himself lonely again
StarCraft and chill?
I’m not smart enough for SC :3
don’t worry we can do a stupid league
Bro you just have to macro better
Gotta get those apm up
Don’t worry, Greg has a key list for StarCraft they’ll work as long as we only play Lan.
My Owen was a Philip. Boy those were good times 😢👍
It just might be.
This is weird to me because I used to have go to lan parties at my friend Owen’s house
I bet you were far from lonely too!
Legitimately though, nobody was lonely at my friend Kevin’s house staying up until 3 am on a Friday taking turns playing Halo on split screen (losers swap out, of course).
We’d talk about life and girls and stuff between rounds and teabagging. It was really good times.
I went to one of those at my friends’ high school when I was a teenager. It was a lot of fun and I knew most of the people there.
Trevor Noah did a good job talking about men’s need for intimacy on the Daily Show.
It is, it really is. There’s nothing better than gaming with the boys until 3AM lol
Also Halo 3 one of the best games of all fucking time.
Wiring up Xboxes and playing with the duke was great but those early days of wacky forge builds and revolving game modes like rocket race was peak Halo
Seems like the further we get away from LAN parties and towards everyone online in an open world from their own couch, the worse Halo gets.
Pretty sure the cure to male loneliness is HRT…
