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Sin317
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I am seriously geeking out at home now.
FYI, I am married and we have one of my wife's son's, 19 yo, living with us.
I just finished building a "new" "Budget PC" for my wife, since she wanted a pc, anyway, I already mentioned in the HW section, it's a i7-2600K, 16gb ram, a 240gb SSD and... a 970!
My stepson has in his room an i5-4670K, 16gb Ram, 240 GB SSD and my other 970
So, technically I guess my wife's PC is more powerful than my stepson's.., lol I know...
And of course, I have my beastly, a 6700K/16gb/m.2/SSD's/2080 Super...
BUT, that's not the geek part... no, I have now 3 PC's, that can run ANY current game (not going to ultra with a 970, but most games play fine medium-High) and actual people to play them with ^^
I can now have a proper Lan Party at home ^^
Add to that a 65" 4k TV with Steam link via a Laptop or via AppleTV, Tablets with also Steam Link and it's pretty much
"play wherever with whomever, whenever"
loving it 
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Jan 2020 15:48 Post subject: |
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Sin317
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Jan 2020 15:50 Post subject: |
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CS is like the only game my wife used to play... lol.
Oh and some Tekken ^^
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Jan 2020 15:56 Post subject: |
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I have nothing but the fondest memories of playing CS1.5/1.6 and UT99 with my flatmate and friends, we all had apartments in the same building and hooked up dozens of metres of CAT5 to play... well.. everything. Sounds like you and your family are gearing up for some epic times \o/
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Sin317
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Jan 2020 16:02 Post subject: |
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Now if only I can actually motivate them to play games... that's a whole other story lol.
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couleur
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Jan 2020 16:02 Post subject: |
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My wife used to play Tetris on the original Game Boy. Thats it.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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Il_Padrino
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Jan 2020 16:18 Post subject: |
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| Il_Padrino wrote: | The only reason I would get kids, is to have someone to LAN with  |
1 and 2 are still amazing. |
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Sin317
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Jan 2020 17:17 Post subject: |
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Problem is, today's kids don't seem to be into games.
They are into "being cool" more than anything.
Listening to Mumble Rap and "Shock", playing fortnite "for the skins" etc. Having their phones infront their eyes all day long, while playing fortnite...
I would have to make a couple of my own and educate them from the beginning, but that's going to take way too long, lol.
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Morphineus
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| Posted: Thu, 9th Jan 2020 18:15 Post subject: |
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My wife plays all the games. She a proper gamer <3
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Ankh
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Jan 2020 06:28 Post subject: |
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| Morphineus wrote: | | My wife plays all the games. She a proper gamer <3 |
| Ankh wrote: | We play "lan" pretty much daily here..me, my gf and my son.
They are both hardcore gamers |
Where did you two find such a mythical creature? Do they really exist in the wilds of Mobilelandia?  
No but seriously, that really makes me happy to see they go beyond the typical mobile Candy Crush nonsense. 
1 and 2 are still amazing. |
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Sin317
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Jan 2020 10:30 Post subject: |
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It's rather amusing. I've been working on my old PCs so I can now have old school Doom deathmatch using original network or null-modem equipment. Some of these old games are far more fun to play together than modern ones. Settlers 2 anyone?
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Morphineus
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Jan 2020 11:18 Post subject: |
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| Yuri wrote: | | Morphineus wrote: | | My wife plays all the games. She a proper gamer <3 |
| Ankh wrote: | We play "lan" pretty much daily here..me, my gf and my son.
They are both hardcore gamers |
Where did you two find such a mythical creature? |
Well mine was found in World of Warcraft about 15 years ago.
That being said, I never thought it was that strange to see girls/woman play videogames. I got into gaming through my elder sisters. |
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Morphineus
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Yeah, can't say I had many comments like that from people in de Kempen/Antwerp (unless they were of parents age  ).
Most I went to school with gamed as well and most of my friends male/female were usually gaming on my consoles while I was practising (DJ) in my room.
PC gaming was a bit less popular didn't matter the gender. But all my close friends were into pc gaming. All kind of ended up working in the IT sector.
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deelix
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ixigia
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Il_Padrino
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Jan 2020 16:55 Post subject: |
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Morphineus
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Jan 2020 20:36 Post subject: |
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| Il_Padrino wrote: | | Morphineus wrote: | Yeah, can't say I had many comments like that from people in de Kempen/Antwerp (unless they were of parents age ).
Most I went to school with gamed as well and most of my friends male/female were usually gaming on my consoles while I was practising (DJ) in my room.
PC gaming was a bit less popular didn't matter the gender. But all my close friends were into pc gaming. All kind of ended up working in the IT sector. |
In the mid 1990s when I went to high school in Antwerp (Wilrijk/Kiel), hardly any one was in to gaming, and definitely not the girls. Most were 'gabbers' and 'johhnies' 
Me and my 2 buds often got weird looks for discussing games. Not that we cared  |
There were always a few cunts that had to act 'cool' and go against gaming. I always felt them as a minority though. That being said, it wasn't like gaming was my only hobby but I can't say I had many negative reactions to it.
You would have probably called me a johnny or a gabber if you just saw one side of me.
Edit: That made me wonder what that big gabber party in T'sportpaleis was that I went to with some friends I knew from IRC and gaming. :> It was: Reverze. Quite fun, probably because I met a lot of people I knew through the internet.
And I'm pretty sure I'd be judged for it. How I hated that box like thinking back in the days.
Had plenty of people who saw my DJ side and if they heard me listen to hip hop or baroque then they'd go all weird. |
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Morphineus
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Jan 2020 21:02 Post subject: |
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I really do miss those LAN parties. Bad sleep and food but so much fun.
Shame I have 0 photos of those LAN's, wife has a shitload of all the ones she went to. Quite funny to see those bad haircuts, 90's outfits and huge monitors.
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Sin317
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Jan 2020 21:41 Post subject: |
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Biggest Lan I was part of (as a member of staff) was in 2003.
2000m2, 700 people, 3 days/2 nights.
Swiss Qualifications for Warcraft 3, CS and Q3 for the World Game Championships in Korea in 2004, iirc.
Inside the defunct charter hall from Easyjet, bordering the Geneva Airport. There were doors leading to the runway that couldn't be locked because they were fire exits... and nobody was supposed to touch them, lol.
Oh the memories.
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Przepraszam
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Jan 2020 07:39 Post subject: |
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Anyone got screenshot of this famous quote "I am coming back more mature?"
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Jan 2020 08:31 Post subject: |
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| red_avatar wrote: | | Il_Padrino wrote: | | Morphineus wrote: | Yeah, can't say I had many comments like that from people in de Kempen/Antwerp (unless they were of parents age ).
Most I went to school with gamed as well and most of my friends male/female were usually gaming on my consoles while I was practising (DJ) in my room.
PC gaming was a bit less popular didn't matter the gender. But all my close friends were into pc gaming. All kind of ended up working in the IT sector. |
In the mid 1990s when I went to high school in Antwerp (Wilrijk/Kiel), hardly any one was in to gaming, and definitely not the girls. Most were 'gabbers' and 'johhnies'
Me and my 2 buds often got weird looks for discussing games. Not that we cared |
Yeaah that was my experience as well. In "lagere school" it was not too bad - we swapped Gameboy games and so on - but the moment I hit highschool, even a lot of the guys felt games were for little kids despite many of the games I played having mature content (Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Full Throttle, Command & Conquer). It wasn't until the late 90's that suddenly PC gaming became "OK" to like for teenagers. And girls ... yeah you better not mention you're into games. |
That was my experience as well.. people thought I was weird for using computers that much, and playing games on it ? Even more bizarre. Only a handful of my friends had any interest in gaming altogether and that was mainly just racing, sports games, the perception only drastically improved after the PS2 was introduced - and things eventually degenerated into modern derpola mainstream gaming.
I kind of miss those times during which (PC) gaming was still fairly confidential, a secret club of sorts I've seen that this kind of experience varies a lot from country to country, but France has always had this kind of "holding your nose" attitude towards gaming. It's tolerated now that pretty much every household owns some form of gaming device, but it's still not something you'll usually speak about, contrary to other countries in which it's definitely seen in a more positive way, such as Sweden - damn progressives !1!
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