90s kids will know

This guy is an amateur. Everyone knows it’s easier to carry with the screen facing your torso. Sheesh

That’s definitely the method. Screen presses against your belly and lift with your knees while a concerned person behind you keeps asking you if you’re sure you don’t need help with that 👍

I GOT IT!!!

Are you sure? It looks heavy?

If you want to help, get the cord…

Is it on the left or the right?

The right.

Your right or my right?

The side with all the wires!

Oh, that’s -my- right!

WE’RE FACING THE SAME DIRECTION!!!

You really need to manage the cord before this becomes a thing at all, smh that’s how TVs die

Tape the cord to the top

Exactly what I thought when I saw the pic. Dude’s definitely gonna drop it before he gets 20 steps.

Bro, kids will never know the struggle we had setting up halo LAN parties. those tvs are monsterous.

Xbox live is fun and all but doesn’t compare to running downstairs to point and laugh at your cousin face to face after you stuck him with a plasma grenade

Try Quake LAN parties. You also gotta drag that tower around and belt it in. Oh no, it slipped on the expressway and knocked you out of 4th gear into neutral!

Ours was one of those really old ones built into a wooden box. I say wood, but I’m fairly sure it was actually a mix of wood, lead, and neutron star.

Yeah, that broken thing is still here.

We can not move out.

It’s now a ‘fixture’

Sell it for 20 bucks and make sure they bring friends to help them. Only one will show up and had no idea of what they were getting themselves into they’re super weak, but it’s better than just 2 of you.

Ehhh we use it to hold the actual working TV so it’s not the worst it’s there.

It’ll be a problem for future people!

and neutron star.

Akshually u mean quark gluon plasma

Me heaving my 17 inch CRT computer monitor into the car to go play games via ~~local~~ LAN all night at my friends.

Good ol local local area network

Gonna use my PIN number to get a bit of cash from the ATM machine.

Shaking my smh head, laughing my lmao off

It’s ‘Local area LAN network’. Didn’t they teach you anything in school?

I prefer wide local area network.

Actually now I’m curious. Could you do a lan game over a cell connection? Do carriers isolate devices?

play games via local LAN all night at my friends

I dunno what it was like for everyone else but it always felt like 90% of my time during these was trying to sort out compatability issues and so we’d end up just pissing around. Still great fun that I look back fondly on though!

Two days of installing and bug fixing, half a day of gaming.

If you did it with the same friends more often, you got into the groove and everyone had the correct crossover cables, and the setup memorised.

But there Was always that one guy that never got it running.

Yeah, same when we were still using those old style cables, the one where you have the T plugs to put everyone on the line. Once we switched to the newer cables it went better.

For our LAN parties we would always help our fellow players carry their stuff and set everything up. Except for monitors. Everyone carries their own. You want to be fancy with 19 inches? Sure, but you carry that yourself!

In the summer sometimes, we would camp in the garden, take the TV and the PlayStation to the tent, pull a long extension cords from the garage, play all night. Good times, good times.

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