You can still LAN party if you want to.

When I was 16 I could get 4 or 5 people to come over to my house on a week night with almost zero advanced notice. I am now 30 and
I don't know 4 or 5 people
It would take 3-4 weeks to get everyone's schedule to line up
Half of everyone would cancel because they didn't feel like going out
- real :'(
- True, these are valid problems.
  Here is how I do it and yes I know I am very privileged.
  Have a DISCORD with everyone who might attend in it.
  Pick 3-4 dates at least a month in advanced. Have people list witch dates work for them. Pick the one with the most open spots.
  Tell my work building supervisor that I want to use our training room for a LAN party (We have a good history of this and it brings in other coworkers. So like team building stuff).
  (Optional but effective and makes it seems like you have a plan) Draw up a tentative schedule with which games you are playing and how long you are going to be playing. Add Chill Time/Extension time in case people want a break between games or want to play more.
  Good Luck!
  
  Man do I hate discord though
  
  ~~DISCORD~~
  Matrix /s
- I bowed out of a friend's recent LAN bc every time they just play Halo and Age of Mythology and they're all super good at both and I'm terrible at both (and not interested in playing either game tbh).
  
  Oof, your loss mate. Real shame.
- I cri
- Sorry, I can't make it. But only because I have no fucking idea why I agreed to it in the first place...
- Maybe it’s not everyone, but at 37 I feel much less interested in socializing in the first place.

we can LAN if we want to
we can leave your friends behind
cause your friends dont LAN
and if they dont LAN
well they're no friends of mine
- Well they're no clan of mine.
- That’s fucking good bro I’m posting that on my social media
- Everybody look at their hands.

I prefer red bull. Drinking isn’t conducive to all night gaming.
- You start the night with a vodka redbull (or a Cosmo with redbull is my preference) and go from there. That'll keep ya going 😘
  
  You start the night with a vodka redbull
  No happy memory ever starts with a vodka redbull
- What about just coffee or tea? As a grown up you can ignore the marketed sugar and go straight to the caffeine.
  
  Better yet just start earlier in the day. I don't enjoy staying up past 10 anymore
  
  +1, coffee and sativa 👌
  
  I like red bull.
- We actually always just went with coffee, even as teenagers. I guess as early millennials, we weren't yet the energy drink generation.
  I 100% agree, though: alcohol beyond a beer or two isn't recommended for a LAN at all. Although I guess I have a "fond" memory of sitting there, playing Left4Dead with friends at a LAN, when one who didn't play himself at that moment piss-drunkenly leaned on my shoulders from behind, slurring directly into my ear: "You have to shoot them! Shoot them! You have to shoooooot them!!"
  
  I mean if anything balls existed back then, marketed specifically for that. I don’t know a ton of people who actually did but I mean, if it was anyone drinking energy drinks back then it was gamers.
  
  Red Bull has been around since the 90s. I used to drink red bull, bawls, and surge during ye olden days of lan parties.
- No love for Bawls? When I was younger the best LAN parties had Bawls. I think they still make it; no idea if it tastes the same.

This meme was made pre-tariff.

The only sucky part is, of course, that a lot of games no longer support LAN play.
Though I suppose you could just stick to ones that do.
- I'm so happy seeing so many indie titles that are all about LAN and split-screen play. It's definitely happening! You just won't always see it front-paged and have to keep an eye out. :)
  Edit: Plus, GoG brought back stuff like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Unreal Tournament 99 and 2k4, that are still an absolute blast. :D
  
  God damn it, you made me listen to my childhood again.
- Coop console games support LAN play, even if they don't support it on PC

Right, only get the pizza thats actually good and not a fake Instagram hype

Not sure who was drinking cola and eating pizza on LAN nights... We were drinking vodka and eating beer, then polish with weed.

in college, I was renting a house with 3 roommates who were all gamers. We used to host a LAN party every month or so. Our record was 30 people in the house playing at the same time.
I miss those days

You can LAN if you want to You can leave your friends behind
- Cause I wanna lan
  and if you don't lan, then you ain't no friend of mine
  
  Everybody look at your pants.

It was work first in my day
- This is such peak old school cool haha
- I don't miss carrying 20 kg CRTs.

Instagram is my trigger word.
- I don't have an account there, so it's surprising to hear that it has pizza smeared all over it.

Yeah baby, two more months until our next one.
Disposable income is awesome. Don't care for the rum, but: Only the proper name brand snacks and drinks, good pizza, proper blow up mattresses, transportation is easy, people either have cars or can trivially rent some, and our computers are also way better these days.

Discord + online games means it still kind of happens
- LAN and discord are entirely different vibes
  
  Yeah, someone needs to invent a BO protocol.

yeah but now we are working 6 day weeks, 10 (or more) hour days.

IDK I start getting real sleepy around 1:30. Especially if alcohol is involved. I can push through it but it's not really a fun time after that.

If I get drunk I get extra sleepy. Unless I get really drunk, then I get insomnia despite feeling sleepy as fuck

Speak for yourself, the university student union runs weekend lans open to alumni and they sell 50 cent energy drinks
- Its me. An Alum who didn't hear de news.

I bought 2 Xbox 360, can do 4 players halo lan party with friends now
- Only up to 4 players with two 360's?
  Used to be able to have 4 OG Xboxes with 4 players on each back for Combat Evolved. I remember playing a full 16 player game, where the 4 TVs involved were only 13 inch black and whites. You had like the space of a GameBoy screen for your guy lol
- Just need to buy 3 friends now
  
  Are they cheaper if you buy a 6-pack of friends?

I’d rather sleep ay night

We can afford to buy massive PCs that will die of boredom as we play Minecraft. And if we can't we sure as hell can afford a loan.
- Lol, that's the reason I wouldn't LAN anymore. One, my computer is massive, and two, it's been in the same place for the last 10 years. I'm pretty sure it's bonded to it's support structure.
  
  Those PCs we had back then weren't necessarily smaller. 😅 I think we just cared less.
  That said, Mini-ITX builds are pretty nice and also in fashion right now. And when it comes to beloved old games anyone can just get an old laptop for the price of one Domino's Pizza off of ebay and start playing.
  Got one of those here. Some old 15€ junker with Intel HD 2000, but that thing will chug through anything from Unreal Tournament to Quake, Age of Empires, Warcraft, Forsaken, Total Annihilation, Dungeon Keeper, Command & Conquer, NFS…
  
  I would carry my PC around if all that plugging stuff in and out wasn‘t so annoying. In fact my PC needs a special power brick because it cannot fit a regular PSU inside. My next PC will be likely one with a Fractal Design Ridge case. It‘ll be roughly as large as a PS5 and fit a PSU inside. That alone will make it much less annoying to carry around.
  Although my GPD Win Mini is really great too for mobile PC gaming.