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stoicmaverick, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

Jesus Christ this hits home. We used to link 4 xbox, from the basement to the 2nd story. My parents, extatic that I was interacting with other people, would order bottomless pizza and soda, and kids WAY outside of my social tier would show up and be nice to me. Then, on Monday, I’d just go back to being the weirdo nerd again…

blanketswithsmallpox,

Yeah but at least you got to touch Becky’s tit and make out with her that one time. So at least you had that going on for you… Which is nice.

stoicmaverick,

Hell no! OTHER dudes got to touch Becky’s tit and make out with her in MY bedroom while I was diligently standing overwatch with a sniper rifle on Sidewinder in the living room.

Wanderer, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on
DragonTypeWyvern,

I actually never ran into that much toxicity with MW2. A little trash talk but not much cringe.

I think this was the kind of thing that happened when someone in the lobby started it first and let the losers feel like they weren’t alone.

PraiseTheSoup,

To me the most toxic part of og MW2 was all the cheaters. I played mostly free-for-all but you saw it in TDM as well. Two guys sitting in the bushes using “tactical insertion” to kill each other over and over and rack up killstreaks. It pissed me off that they never patched it out or even acknowledged the fact that nobody ever used tactical insertion for anything but cheating.

metallic_substance,

You absolutely did not have the typical MW2 experience then

LittleBorat2, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

It was quake3 but I get the feeling.

OldWoodFrame, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

This was definitely a Babylon Bee article. Can’t tell if they made it or just copied it from reddit. If they originated it, best Babylon Bee article by a long shot.

Honytawk, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

So what is stopping them from doing it today?

I still have plenty of LAN parties, and PLAY local multiplayer as well.

joe_cool,

Yeah, I played a round of Virtua Tennis on the couch with 3 friends and beers this week all in our late 30s. Was a blast!

LAN party is next saturday with about 70 people.

mathematicalMagpie, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

Nothing will ever match the feelings when you were young and things were new. It’s easier to accept that than face the constant disappointment trying to recapture it.

MaxVoltage,
@MaxVoltage@lemmy.world avatar

Yall are wak there are like actual real drugs and they just sell em at Walgreens

2 Tylenol PMs is stronger feeling than anything

Anticorp,

Not even close…

Katana314,

Y’all say that, but anytime someone makes even a decent approximation of an Ace Attorney game, I’m out here chasing the high of pointing out contradictions that pin a killer.

mynamesnotrick, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

Blood Gulch veterans Unite!

Mango, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

I never got mine. 😔

lightnsfw, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

One time back in Halo 3 in a FFA game I killed everyone else on the map twice before I died, and that death was from a grenade I threw to finish someone off when I ran out of ammo and had to melee him. I have never felt that powerful before or since.

UltraMagnus0001, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

Worked at BestBuy, we would link up and play on our own TV’s at the store monthly.

Crafter72, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on
@Crafter72@lemmy.world avatar

For me it was og Counter Strike which runs on anything. Even we managed to snuck flash drive filled with the game copy so it can be installed on School lab PCs :)

Funnily last time I did that, it was one year ago when I convinced my college friends to do one CS LAN game on our student lab room before everyone graduated, played it with whatever laptop and mouse they brought :)

Anticorp, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

It’s gone. Computers will never again be as exciting as they were in the early 00’s, because every new advancement now comes with an infringement, a “gotcha”, a sacrifice of your privacy, and a subscription to cap it off. Computers used to feel personal, they felt empowering, they felt like they were yours, and they were a gateway to a million little worlds created by people of all sorts. Now they feel like corporate advertising platforms that are just a gateway to other corporate advertising platforms.

jabathekek,
@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz avatar

Until you install Linux.

Emerald,

Or any free software really.

Jeremyward,

I dunno I have done a lot of work to cleanse my home of all of that. I have a pi hole for DNS blocking, I use Firefox with AdBlock on both desktop and mobile, I choose to not use ad riddled apps like TikTok or Instagram (fuck Facebook). I have a VPN which I use for most everything. My home is pretty ad and corporate free. As it should be. Granted I’m pretty tech savvy so none of this was hard for me but I could see my mom having problems.

Anticorp,

I’ve done all of that except for pi hole, and that’s just because NextDNS seems to be doing the job, although they probably sell my information too. I really should set Pi Hole up, especially since I already have a Raspberry Pi running all the time for my 3d Printer, running OctoPrint, and Klipper. I’ll need to test and see if it can run all 3 at once. Unfortunately that doesn’t really negate what I said. Every new exciting technology is rife with spyware, and the old Internet, while not gone, is certainly buried under a massive pile of corporate garbage. Google, Bing, DDG, hell, even Kagi have a hell of a time finding little useful websites built because of passion, instead of profit now.

Jeremyward,

Definitely agree with the Google and Bing, hell I have a better time getting answers to stuff from ChatGPT than Google these days.

Vordimous, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

My 16th birthday was a Halo 2 LAN party with a LotR marathon.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

Damn, that’s a once in a lifetime memory right there.

Vordimous,

I peaked early.

jabathekek, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on
@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz avatar

pain

Emerald, do gaming w Chasing the *frag*on

That experience is replaced with playing games in class these days. I remember one time in high school the whole class was finished with their work and so we got like half the class to play Shell Shockers. It was a chaotic time.

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