The social environment is transforming way too fast.
When I was growing up, there was one past time for insane people like me, that I could theoretically use once per year to invite friends, and have a good time. But, when I was thinking about this, the entire concept of lan "party" is now DEAD. Completely dead. I doubt, I will be able to get 3 people to bring their PCs, and grab beers with me, when Discord and online lobies exist instead.
What a fucking joke. No wonder people these days "lack social skills", when the social oportunities literally transformed world wide out of nowhere.
@LukeAlmighty I never had the experience. I always wanted to try a LAN match with Mario Kart: Double Dash but the network adapters for the GameCube were rare, especially after someone found an exploit with them.
@LukeAlmighty I'm trying to think if I ever had one. I have played games over LAN before but it was always with one other person and I was living with said person at the time.
I've heard of people having "underground LAN parties" at schools when the teacher wasn't looking (or if you had a teacher that didn't care). My brother told me that he played N64 ROMs through a network supported emulator with friends all the time during high school, but I never got the chance because by the time I was in HS, they installed Active Directory on all of the computers.