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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we dont play at least one match of Age of Empires 2 Im not coming!

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So good. I think we also did Warcraft or Warcraft 2. I would personally add Unreal Tournament to the list.

[–] JustMy2c@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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).

[–] KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Did you need a crossover cable for that back then? I think later on the NICs could figure that out themselves.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Fiddling with network settings to get it to work is literally why I remember Warcraft.

[–] Naura@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Day of defeat!!!!

I used to play so much of that with my now spouse lol

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, LAN parties. Those were the days.

[–] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Shialac@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] instamat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So make it a regular party instead of a housewarming one

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If a guy asked me on a LAN date he'd never find himself lonely again

[–] techt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not smart enough for SC :3

[–] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

don't worry we can do a stupid league

Bro you just have to macro better

[–] Dalinar@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Gotta get those apm up

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, Greg has a key list for StarCraft they'll work as long as we only play Lan.

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago
[–] devil_d0c@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

My Owen was a Philip. Boy those were good times 😢👍

[–] butter@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is weird to me because I used to have go to lan parties at my friend Owen's house

[–] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I bet you were far from lonely too!

[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It just might be.

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.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure the cure to male loneliness is HRT....