Does anyone else remember LAN parties. They were wild because you’d drink an entire years’ worth of coke in one night and think nothing of it. I learned that I (someone who hates dex-based gameplay) become an absolute God at Counter-Strike at about 2am and stay that way until I finally get some sleep, after which I revert to being terrible at it. Everyone would set up their computers in one room and in the next room there’d always be some console set up where one person at a time would go to play the worst game you’d ever seen, or Halo, those were the choices. One person would always be doing this and if they stopped, somebody else would go and do it, like we were taking shifts or something. Someone’s little sister would be there and we’d have to wait for her to go to bed before we could start making the worst “coke = cock” puns we could think of. The pizza was ALWAYS meat lovers, which also got some cock jokes. We’d sing songs from the Avenue Q soundtrack while the Computer Guys would help the one person who didn’t know how to plug in all their computer peripherals because it’s the first time they’ve taken it out of the house. There were always at least 2 guys you recognised from Warhammer Club but they didn’t want to talk about Warhammer Club. They were here to be absurdly good at StarCraft until it was time for them to switch games and get fucking destroyed by me in Counter-Strike at 2am.
Vital wisdom that this generation, with their on-demand internet online gaming, have no opportunity to learn. We have lost so much.
