Pull up a chair user, next round is about to start!

BAWLS

Why did we stop being radical bros.

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bawls energy drink I recognize the bottles.

Imagine the smell

Imagine the power bill

Like, that's so rad, gnarly bro! I pwn3d you! That's so gay.

You gotta be 18+ to post on this board user.

>Group assisgnments that turn to LAN parties
>Sneak in beer
>Tell stories about getting to second base with school slut
>Occasional card game break and pizza

Now it's just some cold lines of texts or empty mechanical keyboard sounds through a screen with some rando dudes who's too into anime VNs.

I wanna go back bros.

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BAWLS.
It was a staple of late 90s LANs.
It essentially is a caffeinated Sprite.

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It tastes 100x better than a sprite and is more like a half sprite half mountain dew blend that's slightly flat.

>all the monitors in there STILL have less input lag than current gaming monitors

>drinking beer at lans
>not chugging soda and energy drinks
not based my guy

Home...

if you never experienced this you are too young and may aswell kill yourself for never being able to reach this level of comfiness with your bro's

>Ywn play lan games anymore
I miss the old rts and the simple yet fun Counter strike cyber parties

Well it's not EVERY time.

Sometimes we celebrate a new game release or if a bro just broke up with a stacy. The important stuff

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Beer, hookah/shisha and raclette my dude. That's the real shit.

alright you get your based badge back bro

It's nice to see r/gaming is the reason why this place is fucking cancer

>LAN Party
>People trying to transfer multiple files through a shitty ISP modem/router
>The entire network locks up repeatedly

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>tfw never had friends to do LAN parties with

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>LAN party with Bawls energy drink as the beverage of choice

I know people meme about this, but it was really true. Shame you can only find it at Micro center anymore

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dilate

>that LAN member who disappeared for a few years and came back as a girl

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yup those were the days

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>a memegenerator image with the bottom cutoff to hide it
>compressed/resized to hell and back
you aren't helping your case

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>compressed/resized to hell and back

I just cropped it after saving it from google images, but it served it's purpose.
The fact that you went out of your way to autism it down for whatever reason is a whole different story

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I know exactly how awesome this is. They're even playing Unreal Tournament.

One of my buds in highschool's dad owned this tech place in town, loaded with high-end PCs. Sometimes we'd just stock up on junkfood and camp out in there all weekend rocking mostly UT. Actual best times ever.

the optimum gamer stance for proper posture

I miss Bawls. 7-11s used to sell them in the late 90s/early 2000s.

>tfw you are too stupid to install a browser extension for viewing images with google search

lol

>trip on cords
>multiple monitors crash to the floor
t-thanks for inviting me

your weak ass zoomer legs are not gonna carry 5 crts

You can tell he's an anti social seething zoomer if he thinks it's that easy to trip on cables anchored to CRT monitors.

At least I'm not a faggot

God I miss LANs, online play just isn't the same.

It is easy to trip on them. The monitors ain't what's gonna fall to the floor though, it's gonna be you.

imagine the smell

>there are people in this thread young enough to have never heard of Bawls

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It must of been so hot in that room. Just one early 2000s Nvidia GPU and a P4 equipped computer + CRT is enough to heat a room.

wc3 mods, halflife 1 mods..... where did it all go wrong?

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Thanks broskis! When does the chicken chopping start?

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>This amount of backtrack damage control

>i got it randomly on google images for some random reason and not reddit

I warned you, I warned you all. But you didn't listen.

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Do you not see that was a new IP in the thread? It was my only post before this one.

Those were the days. Can't say I've ever had so much fun being in a room full of sweaty dudes all night.

you're trying too hard

>friend spiked one of his bawls with 10000% or recommended daily vitamin C, thinking he would game better

needless to say he went home early that LAN

Does anyone even still play the old Unreal Tournaments?
I have them on GoG, would I still find servers or is it all hackers?

Official tier list of LAN games
WC3 mods > UT > Source mods > 1.6 > C&C Generals > CoD 4 > CoD 1 > Garrys Mod >>>>> whatever large scale RTS that one guy convinced everyone to play before everyone got bored in an hour.
An honourable mention goes to the guy that would always bring a console with Mario Kart or something like that.

I'm 26 and I don't know what the fuck that is. Even at 16 we drank beers cus we were not gay ass virgin pussies.

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Nope, my based Kroger has it now.

T. Gay ass virgin pussy

I miss these. I went to a 3 day lanfest and my friend had 30 bawls and stayed up for the whole thing

Okay timmy it's time to stop playing pretend and go to bed.

>not slamming bottles of tequila and redbull on ritalin
This is how me and my bro lan

If you're only 26 then you were too young

im 25 i just never knew anyone who actually drank them besides one guy who bought one cause he thought the name was funny.

>No HoMM 3
>Not Red Alert 2 over Generals
>No Quake
>No Diablo
>No Soldat
>No Wolfenstein ET

Step it up nibba

I do but then i remember having to haul my computer and big ass crt down to my friends basement and the hassle of actually getting the damn network to work. Modern windows is a blessing

my bawls your mouth

>view image doesn't appear
>have to get into reddit
>tfw you are too stupid to install a browser extension

it's ok user, at least you are a gamer.

Why was this shit at every LAN. I always thought it was mediocre, but everybody treated it like it was godly nectar. Was this some sort of CIA Op?

just kill yourself. don't waste this much time trying to prove your aren't reddit you fucking idiot

Yeah but when playing online you can't hook up a spare mouse to a person's computer, randomly shaking it and pretending that they have a virus.

imagine the smell

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honestly what's it like to relate to people?
i even feel like an outcast among nerds

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gayming had memes back in the 2000's, too

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you just enter Leddit to prove your point. It just prove that you are a brainlet gamer and you have to go back.

I was born in '92 and this is my first experience with it
I feel like I missed out.
I want to try that and eat butterfinger BBs again

>girl's desktop is 2 underage dogs making out
you just KNOW

i never really had lans because moving pcs was a fucking pain in the ass but we spent a shitton of money at the local cybercafe playing gta1 and carmageddon and 1.6

looks like a cat swiping at a dog desu

shut up

>A whole 64MB of HDD memory.
sweet.

no u

i miss these

>underage dogs
??

>People playing games
How to spot kids pretending they actually went to LAN parties.

Heres how shit really went down
>Friends show up
>Inevitably one dude forgets an important cord that no one has spares of
>Half the people dont have the game you are playing installed
>Have to download and burn a copies and track down a key generator that works from a shady russian site
>Somehow against all logic one computer will impossibly fail to connect to everyone elses despite directly hooked up to modem with everyone else
Then the Xbox age hit and someone brings theirs and everyone just plays Halo on two TV's.
God I miss those days

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Is that quakecon?
Only went once, but god damn that was fun.
We flew in from up north. I built my first gaming PC for it. We took our PCs on as carry-ons on the flight, probably weirded some people out. I was honestly surprised they let us. I wish I could experience something like that again.
That was back in 08 I believe.

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Real niggas used USB sticks or crossover cables.

>Sony Trinitrons

I swear those damn things are responsible for my fucked up back.

>Time to pwn some ub3r noobers!

Respectable list, the boys and I eventually worked through a good portion of these and also added SC2:WOL custom maps, pre-Manconony TF2, and CoD: WAW Nazi Zombies.

>Our highschool LAN parties, 2004 - /r/gaming
So... you browse Reddit?

>no battlefield 2 and 2142

How do I go back in time?

y2kaestheticinstitute.tumblr.com/

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imagine also the radiation poisoning from all these CRT

You just had retarded friends bro, I really don't know what to tell you. We always had our shit planned out for the weekend way ahead of time. Then again I'm a 28 year old boomer so we also had our CCNAs junior year of high school because there was a constant big push to flood the IT market.

>shirtless on a fucking social event

That's why I never liked LAN shit and only liked playing alone.

>Bawls energy drink

Based as fuck. A staple of lan parties everywhere. I miss these days, bros... laning promoted a certain social conviviality you just don't get with online gaming.

Vent.

Our lan parties were Surge (or later dew) and Redbull. We did try other drinks as they later came up though and when surge left.

There were no 100% recurring staples except dew and redbull. We always tried new stuff. Cocaine was a big drink we liked for a while.

Most people are shirtless around here, stop being a baby, especially since judging by their tans and hair colors it's probably hot as fuck before we even get into the fact that the heat loads for that building are probably way outside of what any hvac designer would have even remotely considered on sensible alone.

>all these normalfags that feel nostalgia over lan parties

fuck off you dont belong here.

>posting from phone without wifi

just get offline for tonight...

This shit takes me back.

Have you ever been in a place absolutely filled with computers running games for hours and hours to no end?
The heat from them is enough to make you sweat like fuck even during winter.

>2000 kid
>never experienced lan parties
god damnit, fellow kids
best i did was distribute halo CE during some 8th grade school party in the computer lab and we gamed for the duration

can you believe we used to chug on BAWLS

There was nothing like talking shit face to face

If only you knew how bad things really are

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>Nuclear launch detected

God I remember that stuff. I stopped seeing it in stores about... 2008 maybe?

Late 20s posters really are the most cancerous posters on this site. No one would host a lan without at minimum an extra monitor keyboard mouse and cat 5 cables out the ass. Setting up the network could be a nightmare but you wouldn't start lanning unless you knew someone who knew his shit and could work it and after a few times you would in turn become that guy yourself and could start hosting yourself

>tfw hated lan parties because my friends were scrubs and wiped the floor with them in quake and deathmatch
>got shat on by them when they got gfs and I didn't
>tfw my friends swore to never play fps with me again and now we only play MMOs

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Kinda sad I won't be able to do a LAN for ShB release with my friends. Just going to get a little drunk and enjoy it with my friends over voice.

Good fucking lord. So much terrible taste mixed with untapped design potential. I want to believe ecofuturism will return within the next ten-fifteen years

summerfag zoomer detected

well we weren't retarded burgerclaps so
>everyone shows up
>move router
>move tables
>connect it all up
>have everyone download the programs
>share around the game on cd or later usb
>play.

Beautiful

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>but you wouldn't start lanning unless you knew someone who knew his shit and could work it and after a few times you would in turn become that guy yourself and could start hosting yourself

Nigga just buy a switch

hell if I know
nothing beats the sweetness of solitude

Only time I can recapture this feel is at fgc locals

>I'm 26 and I don't know what the fuck that is
nigger what? im 21 and even i know what BAWLS is

>trying this hard to fit in

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exactly, the fucking bro fights, I miss it...

how the fuck did he even get taped up there
like yeah i understand you can get above the platform but how do you suspend yourself in mid air long enough to be taped to the ceiling

>Ukraine
It just makes too much sense

I don't remember the order but ours was something like Jasta, Surge, Bawls and Vault.

It's probably that weird slightly burned plastic smell most old computers give off when they heat, more than anything

Last time I had a true real LAN party was about 5-6 years ago, friend's brother bought us booze and we just played shit on our old PCs and swapped off MW2 occasionally.

It really is a "you had to be there" thing, I don't think there's anything else like it today. Just people lugging around desktops, table and chairs just to play games in a cramped, small sweaty room.

>WC3 mods

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Bawls kept you awake without the shakes.

Take me back lads.

The future is so shitty and gay.

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>No friends

>Never had any LANs in my teen

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Still better than a smash bros melee tournament

I wonder if kids nowadays play splatoon with their friends during recess

Jesus christ faggot OP give it up you're a fucking redditor fucks sakes

I filter this goddamn image all the time and yet it still keeps showing up. Fuck I hate you frogniggers

Die you fucking Redditfag

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>have friends
>buy 4 controllers
>force them to play shitty 4player games on PC
>fun wavers depending on game
Those shitters needed me because if i let them loose they'll play league for the millionth time like filthy animals.

>My brother did this kind of lan parties
>They now hate videogames and think its for children
>They left me alone with a hobby they dont like
End my suffering.

>phone poster
>LOL FUCKIN REDDITOR AM I RIGHT?

they talk about fortnite

>Those shitters needed me because if i let them loose they'll play league for the millionth time like filthy animals.
My friends are like this, the shitheads always ask me to recommend them games, they play them for 10 minutes and just play league instead. If I am not there forcing them to play something else they would just rot.

this plus being too poor for pc gaming back then. at least I had emulators...

It's like herding cats, my dude.
>one guy only wants competitive
>one guy doesn't like RPGs
>one guy doesn't like shooters
>one guy doesn't like pixel games
>one guy doesn't like getting griefed
Even though it's a clusterfuck, when we find a game we all like. It is a very fun time. Thanks THE FOREST for offering a wide variety of shit for everyone to do.