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I dunno what it was like for everyone else but it always felt like 90% of my time during these was trying to sort out compatability issues and so we'd end up just pissing around. Still great fun that I look back fondly on though!
Two days of installing and bug fixing, half a day of gaming.
If you did it with the same friends more often, you got into the groove and everyone had the correct crossover cables, and the setup memorised.
But there Was always that one guy that never got it running.
Good ol local local area network
RIP in peace.
Gonna use my PIN number to get a bit of cash from the ATM machine.
Shaking my smh head, laughing my lmao off
I prefer wide local area network.
Actually now I’m curious. Could you do a lan game over a cell connection? Do carriers isolate devices?
It's 'Local area LAN network'. Didn't they teach you anything in school?
For our LAN parties we would always help our fellow players carry their stuff and set everything up. Except for monitors. Everyone carries their own. You want to be fancy with 19 inches? Sure, but you carry that yourself!