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I feel ancient that I was an adult when this was happening.
It is crazy how fast time goes by, especially if you deal with some kind of trauma. I swear, my divorce was almost a decade ago and I’ve been with my current wife almost as long. Feels like a year maybe. It just slips through your fingers.
I was around 20 when that pic started circulating. I was definitely addicted to counter-strike at that time.
Oh you said it. I am still struggling with the fact Covid lockdown began six years ago. Or that my kids are almost the age I was when they were born.
The LANs I went to tended to be Rainbow Six, Unreal Tournament, and Quake 3, and then Aliens vs. Predator 2000. That fuckin' ping sound, before we all had headsets, coming out of three speakers at once, was wild.
We had a terrible old LCD projector we hooked the Dreamcast to for Quake III arena. It would overheat so you couldn’t keep the back on. To block the light and cool it down, we’d sit it in the window with a box fan behind it and taped cardboard up around it.
It lit up the entire street in front of my house.
Most of the guys i played with are dead now.
I’ve been playing Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 a lot recently and I wish so bad I could go back with the skills I’ve devolved and beat them.
Time flies and nothing is permanent. I really miss those guys bad sometimes. Been hitting me hard recently.
Most of the guys i played with are dead now.
My friend, I am so, so sorry to hear this. I choked up reading it, I cannot imagine living it. If you want to share stories about them I would love to hear them.