Thread 12159240

How cool were XBOX LAN parties in the early 2000s?

Very macho, toxic, try-hard, sexist, racist, and sweaty. You would have hated it.

>>12159340
>Very macho
lmao bro everyone in the OP is either a skinny nerd or an obese one

>>12159240 (OP)
Sweaty at the start, crusty at the after-party. You can see some Ace of Spades guys there.

>>12159240 (OP)
By pretending to be more cool they somehow came off as bigger dweebs than the homies at the cyber cafe. Still pretty cool.

You were okay as long as you weren't an autistic smash bros player.

>>12159353
Didn't stop them from being macho among their own kind. Lotta gun owners in that cohort.

>>12159452
yeah...you weren't alive for the early 2000s i can tell lmao. video games were still for losers back then.

>>12159452
I was literally like 10 and my friend was 14, none of us owned guns we just thought games were fun. Think what you mean is that in America everyone owned guns so it's hardly a distinction amongst lan party fps players

>>12159503
you don't know what you're talking about kid
>>12159505
you weren't part of the main LAN scene, which was mostly college students.

>>12159505
>I was literally like 10 and my friend was 14
When I was a kid in the 90s I knew several 14 year olds with real guns.

Annoying, noisy, smelly, boring.
Soulless.

>>12159240 (OP)
they weren't cool at all
they were very hot and smelled like raw onions

It was fun but it was also not fun.
I regret associating so long with communities were in-game performance was strongly associated with IRL respect among peers.

>>12159517
It's actually weird that the common stereotypes were about pc gamers but in reality the smelliest weird ones were console players. I guess because the barrier to entry for pc games was higher then.

>>12159240 (OP)
Had a great time, usually won. System link contributed massively to Halo's success, without needing a network connection to play against a lot of people.

>>12159528
Source?
Any gathering of a lot of men enclosed on a space where they spend a lot of time is bound to smell bad. Moreso if they are video game nerds.
PC nerds not being smelly? Nice try at rewriting history, lard.
Back to your hats and ASSFAGGOTS.

>>12159503
i didn't know a single kid who didn't have at least SNES or Sega by 1995. Everyone had something by the turn of the millennium, when the year number was big and round :O

>>12159537
Source is not being a zoomer faggot.
>PC nerds not being smelly? Nice try at rewriting history, lard.
Trying reading comprehension sarjeet.

>>12159503
>video games were still for losers back then.
you're an idiot

>>12159240 (OP)
Look at all those neat Crts man, where are they now?

>>12159556
Mexican landfill.

>>12159556
that picture has gen 9 pokemon posters

>>12159240 (OP)
why spics love halo?

>>12159240 (OP)
not good. its basically a place for casuals and wannabes. the actual cool kids went to quake lan parties. I say it how it is because I was there at the time.

>>12159340
Sounds kino

>>12159340
The fuck, kek, you homo.

>>12159240 (OP)
we need a full thread with 500 images from lan parties from 1994-2004

>>12159898
>>12159902
I remember during the late 2000s/early 2010s every Halo CE server was overrun with Spanish speakers.

>>12159340
Why do zoomers lie so fucking much? I don't understand this bizarro idea of gaming they want to go back to. If you played games with anything more than the decided level of enthusiasm of the cool kids, you were considered a loser.

>>12160271
If you were a millennial.
Us Gen Xers played games, ran D&D campaigns, and then got high and fucked a punk chick.

>>12160274
Unc is cringe posting again guys

>>12160289
Sucks to suck.

I didn't know people thought playing video games was loser activity until well into the 2000s. It had never been a thing in my life. Instead you were mocked for reading books or actually being smart or being smelly or dressing like a loser. I think there was a lot of false correlations going on in confused millennial's minds.

>>12160297
>still trying to convince 4channers in his 50s
Yikes

>halo lans
i found these fascinating because it always seemed like the types of people who would be into this would just do it on pc instead. i was the only person in my circle of friends who had an xbox. they were primarily ps2 and werent into shooters anyway.

>>12160305
Concession accepted.

>>12160310
What? Console bros were definitely a thing, were you even there?
That even carried on into the later console generations. There were many guys who would only touch a console.

>>12160319
I got the ick from you

>>12160325
Please, tell me more.

>>12160329
Sneed

>>12160339
That's it?
Best of luck, Chuck.

>>12160341
Thanks for bumping my thread dungeon lord

>>12160274
>lies
It's getting to the point where normalfags are going to start claiming that they were the original incels or wizards.

>>12160348
Didn't do dat. :)
>>12160394
I've been endlessly amused over the years that normal things are considered fantasy to you rejects. I've been on the internet longer and I've played more games than you, I just wasn't a loser with no friends. You guys are the invaders here.

>>12160394
What else are 50 year olds on 4chan going to do? Spend time with their families?

>>12160408
My kids are in their 20s. My wife is dead. Plenty of time to kill. Please don't worry about me, you're the one wasting your youth.

>>12160414
Nice blog, just keep the thread bumped grampa.
>you're wasting your life!
Imagine pulling this card when you're still here with a dead wife. Holy kek.

>>12160425
This is my thread. It's about me. :)
>Imagine pulling this card
I didn't, I played a Reverse on it.
Try to keep up, kiddo, you've gone softbrained from lazy memetic immersion.

>>12160408
It's bizarre, it's like they're not satisfied with having everything and they just need constantly need more.

>>12160408
The only place that would have 50 year olds unironically would be SA. Even if nobody left 4chan and it's been the same posters since 2004, the oldest anons would be in their 40s.

>>12160448
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kt2IzpxnCw

>>12160460
There were a lot of election tourists after 2016. I wouldn't be surprised if there were losers in their 50s and 60s here.

>>12160460
Hey, if they want to assume I'm 50-something, that just makes it funnier. Causing ressentiment and butthurt with mere facts is p. funny.

back in high school I would have bullied both of you faggots into suicide. not even joking.

>>12160489
Look someone in the eyes with a (You) when you are talking to them, toughguy. This "talking to the air" shit is weak.

If I'm still here when my kids are older I hope someone just ends me.

>>12160505
Posting on the internet is srs bizness, huh?

>>12159537
>Source?
He doesn't have one. It's a zoomer trying to sow pointless division. The fact is that anyone that were into video games enough to go to gatherings more often than not had shit hygiene.
t. went to Quakecon in the early 2000s, the smell in the LAN rooms was nauseating

>>12160520
Buddy this isn't the 2000s anymore. We're past the "everyone here understands that nothing should be taken seriously" stage. In the last 10 years this place has become infested with miserable schizos that thrive on picking fights wherever they go because it's their only source of a dopamine hit.

>>12159340
Bullshit. They were Sum-41 punkrock scumbag normie retards.

>>12160576
ngl you are pretty much inviting these kind of people with your post here. big 'pls bully me' energy coming off from you.

>>12160569
t. faggot smasher defense force
(notice how no one said pc gamers smelled nice)

>>12159340
>Very macho, toxic, try-hard, sexist, racist, and sweaty.
you're a massive faggot

fpwp

>>12160634
I'm not the one wasting my time fighting with them like (You) are anon

>>12160639
You were so butthurt by >>12159517 bringing up the smelly stereotype that you immediately assumed he was talking about PC gamers and then started seething about consoles. I can only imagine how fucking fetid you smell. You probably make jeets smell like fragrant roses kek

>>12160750
seethe

>>12160576
Brother, I've been doing this since usenet. Nothing should be taken to heart precisely because some people take it seriously. It's just a website, it's just a diversion, nothing can affect your soul here.

>>12159550
What the fuck...

>>12159505
Well, I'm as old as your friend.

>>12160810
Yes you are seething from getting found out, stinky. Go take a bath

>>12159240 (OP)
haha look at those losers, probably none of them know how to use a mouse

>>12160874
seethe

>>12159340
trying too hard
>>12160274
no you didn't

>>12161065
>no you didn't
Did. It's not even impressive.