Why do people think having kids will solve problems for themselves/others π
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I mean, if you have kids you can have LAN parties with them. π€·π»ββοΈ
If you go directly for a partner who games you can skip the kids and save the time and money needed for gaming. ;-)
And if too incel to get a partner you can find some flatmates who are gamers and run ethernet cables all over the house π(wifi will be too slow and unreliable with how many devices a flat like that will have)
And if too asocial, you can make an AI that does it!
Aka: a singeplayer game?
Played minecraft over lan for the first time around christmas with the kids ( 8, 6 and 5 ).
It was awesome until our youngest figured out how to pour lava on everyones buildings and refused to stop.
They can live vicariously through their kids and to try and make them into the person they never got to be? I donβt actually know.
Itβll solve your problems by giving you more important problems to distract you from them until your memory of who you miss being fades.
I had 11 years basically stolen from me when I married my first wife. She went from "spent time with your friends" to "you spend time with me now" almost overnight. No more LAN parties, no more gaming (because her brother got addicted to WoW and therefore gaming = bad), no hanging out with friends unless she ok'd it (spoiler: never happened), etc.
I should have left, but as a naive Mormon kid, I thought that's just how it was supposed to be.
I've since renounced any religion and am happily remarried. I game with my brothers and occasionally random strangers. It's great fun, and I can involve my kids.
LAN parties were great. We're living like shit without them.
Source: have wife and kid, still miss it
Man... Same.
Couch co-op is still rad. Don't know how old your kids are but we play Little Big Planet as a family and it rules
I haven't played that for ages but I should get it out. My 10yo and myself have plenty of games on the go but it's not nearly the same as a LAN.
Come over to mine. Bring the gaming rig (I have the monitor and KB+M). Bring the Mrs and kids too....they can chat/play too.
The bigger problem is having time and finding adult friends with similar interests locally. LAN parties can still happen, but finding friends and aligning their calendars is impossible. We've moved on from the days of college where time was infinite and responsibilities were low. I do look for "dad gamers" Discord channels (to find peers rather than shouty 19year olds), but have had little luck.
Sent you a message, sounds like my vibe
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I have βlan partiesβ with my kids. Itβs a great time and we all get to bond over our shared love of gaming.
We miss the games the most. Just like with Web1 when the games and websites were built for fun and not engineered to just push us to spend money all the time or keep playing as long as possible by any means necessary.
Come on, those games still exist. They might be overshadowed by a layer of slop but they are still there.
There's an era of gaming that is disappearing. It's the late XP to early 7 era, a lot of games, even ones that came on discs, don't work anymore because the servers that handled the DRM are shut down. There are things you can't go do anymore.
Oh, maybe I should clarify what I meant: we still get cool, enjoyable new games nowadays that are every bit as good as the classics we played and loved then. If not better.
I think my biggest tip would be to stay away from pretty much anything labeled AAA.
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I looked up Miniclip.com again just now. It now just talks about the mobile games it develops. Youβre correct that much of it still exists but theyβre right that itβs just not the same.
Remember when Bloons was available in a browser from reputable and popular website? Or that game with the little bubble game that you shot missiles at?
Wait was there some rule that you had to stop doing lan parties when you turn 30? Nobody told my friends and me.
I know a couple guys I went to HS with that never moved on. 40 year old, single, stoner gamers, working minimum wage jobs. I mean Iβm still a stoner and a gander but I got a career and a family now
I think this should not be viewed negatively. There's this pressure to 'grow up' and have a stable job and a family that many people don't fit into. I find it super hard to decouple the stuff I do because i want to and the stuff I do because it is ingrained in my by our societal expectations.
That's probably because it easier to not "move on". Having a family is responsibility not many people can handle - even those that have it can't handle it. Society pressures us into something we cant handle and it can end badly. I say fuck it, if they want to play games all day and flip burgers, let them. I'm personally not pursuing "the family life" because I don't think I'd be good at it and I dont think I could handle the stress. I make more money than most do, I have no responsibilities, no debt and no obligations so Im the outsider because family means something different to me. If I ever feel different, I'll move on when I want. It doesnt make sense to just do it at an arbitrary age set by society.
Aaah, back when a CD rack was an expected piece of furniture.
man lan parties were awesome but I do not miss lugging my 19" crt anywhere. and the reason they existed is now moot - we can lanparty from our homes.
The point of the LAN party was not to be playing games on your computer, the point was to be playing games with your friends, in person. No matter how good your connection, no matter how good your battlestation and headset, it will never compare to the sheer joy of hunching down over your computer while it's set up on a coffee table, a mass of messily-coiled cables around your ankles, a janky mouse-balled mouse in your hand, as you have the ability to turn and call your best friends slurs and share cold pizza, secure in the knowledge that you're going to go to sleep on a scratchy couch, wake up around noon tomorrow, and start the whole process all over again.
It's not the tech, it's the meatspace community that made it special.
21" Trinitron + stairs = "I'm gonna die here aren't I"
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This world no longer exist. Now we have laptop \0/
Little did Anon realize that in 10 years time he would still be posting on 4Chan, but now all his posts would be about how gaming just isn't as good as it used to be back in back in 2018 and that the internet "sucks now"
Also he will constantly bitch about how 4Chan just isn't the same since it was purchased by Amazon and incorporated into Meta
Truly dark times ahead
"/b/ was never good"
I'm having a great time playing CS with my friends almost every evening, just without the need to lug my entire setup around to a friend's house.
I have some grognard opinions of my own but this isn't one of them.
Kinda yeah. There are parts of the past that were excellent and that i miss. Some I'm no longer at the appropriate developmental stage for. So yeah it was excellent staying up all night as a 14 year old chatting with the next door neighbor, but it's also going to be lovely being a part of his wedding. I miss staying out rambunctiously in college with my friends on a weeknight. But the skills I learned the next day are even more valuable than those memories. And someday I'm going to miss being 30 and spending most of my free time with my wife. We cannot stop time, we cannot avoid aging. Where I am now is a time I looked forward to in wonder and excitement when I was younger. So I will cherish this time and live it fully, so that when it is a memory it can be a good one. And i will continue making my futures as wonderful as i can, because I can't avoid the reality that this stage of my life too is finite.
Says the loser on 4chan who supposed to have wife and children...
My last lan party was 2 years ago
As time went on we saw less and less of Teddy and Vern...
... until eventually they became|just two more faces in the halls.
It happens sometimes.
Friends come in and out of your life|like busboys in a restaurant.
I heard that Vern got married|out of high school, had four kids...
... and is now the SEO maximizer|at CrytoFreedom.
Teddy tried to get into the NSA,|but his eyes and his ear kept him out.
Last I'd heard|he'd spent some time in jail...
... and was now doing odd jobs|around Castle Rock.
Chris did get out.
He enrolled in the graduate school courses with me.
And although it was hard,|he gutted it out like he always did.
He went on to college|and eventually became a lawyer.
Last week,|he entered a shitpost community.
Just above him in the thread,|two trolls got into an argument.
One of them pulled a sealion.
Chris, who'd always made the best peace,|tried to confront him.
He was stabbed in the throat.
He was permabanned almost instantly.
Hah, I don't miss LAN parties because I never had anyone to LAN party with.
This picture is literally how men behave together
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