I did fucking rage when I saw a chick playing the sims 3 on these 3000 dollar PCs. FFFFF.

>>54267733
Yes but unfortunatly all the pretentious hipster faggots from the nearby college come in and take it over every weekday so it's pretty shit.

On the weekend though its full of bros.

>>54267878

>>54267948

I really like this one, because all the hipster and college brotards hang out up front. Oh yeah, there's this fucking awesome noodle joint RIGHT across the street around the building too. It's akin to the Noodle factory or whatever it's called. Cheap as hell and great. Then there's this awesome coffee joint RIGHT below in the basement of the building.

>>54267878

noooooo

that cafe has such nice hardware... those look really expensive...

>>54268444

The place has insane startup. The whole joint is run by bros who just like vidya. Each PC cost like 3000 dollars just for the TOWER. They're all rigged up with fancy headsets and a bunch of Razer keyboard and mice.

Plus like 24 inch displays. Then there's a hugeass projector in that room.

They tend to play a lot of indie nerd music in the background which is either awesome or rageworthy. My favorite part is when they play hilarious youtube videos on the projector. Or play king of the hill.

I've been to one precisely once, a good 6-7 years ago. Pretty much all that was played was Counterstrike. This disappointed me.

I don't even know if there are any near me (Liverpool UK). I hear rumour of one, but I have no fucking idea where.

>>54268644
It sound like.......a bro gamers heaven.

You are a lucky man to be able to visit such a holy site.

Guy with headphones is your typical /v/irgin.

>>54268724

The problem with these places is they tend to fail pretty hard if it's not a perfect storm. It's so strange there'd be one in North dakota. Fargo has a lot of international students and people from minnesota though. Plus there's jack shit to do downtown. So it's pretty much a perfect storm for this place.

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>>54268724
you have internets
you have google
you live somewhere in liverpool
you have hands and keyboard and mouse

put all 4 together and you will find out

opening/owning/maintaining a LAN cafe is a dream of mine

i can't think of anything i'd be more excited to do every day.

When they first opened I'd go chill there and sometimes we'd run an hour or two over their time especially late at night. They were really bros about it since I came in every day with my friend, so they'd just say it was cool.

Sometimes I'd help them fix stuff, like I got the projector working because it hated playing fullscreen games with SLI enabled. I don't know, it was just super rad walking in and everyone knew me; even if it wasn't by name.

Oh yeah, this awesome 50 year old dude named Bubba would come in EVERY day and sit for hours playing Diablo 2. He's practically a mascot at this point. Sort of looks like a big cuddly hobo.

>>54268970

I'm not really that interested in finding out. I probably wouldn't go even if I did know about it.

>>54269040

I wanted to work in one in Ann Arbor michigan. I volunteered there and things were going good. Then my asshole friend threw me out on the streets so I had to leave the state. Didn't know anyone else there. It was so awesome though, my first night volunteering was before this happened, I was really stressed out by the tension so the guy I was working with that night who was a veteran said I could stay the night there. Free hours and we stayed up all night playing the hell out of videogames with some other dudes really.

>>54269262

It depends on what kind of place it is. If its a very independant joint like this it's just totally Feels good man. If it's a more PROFESSIONAL setting it's not quite as fun to play.

Are there any in Massachusetts? I've been verrrrrrrrryyyyy game deprived, due to all my bros jacking off to Starcraft 1 and 2, Dwarf Fortress, and anything obscure.

Basically, they're video game hipsters.

There was one here for a few years.
Used to play UT there.
T1 ftw
Only time I've had 7ms

>>54268724

I remember a bro of mine from Liverpool going to one about a year ago, he lived near Kirby at the time and said it was local.

I've never been to LAN cafe before, it's pay by the hour right? How much do they usually run?

I had one near my house a few years ago, but they closed up shop a few months after they opened. Guess there just wasn't a market for it. Makes sense though, since my area is rich as hell and most people can just afford to buy their own PC.

They are really nice to be in. Had one around here for a while but my area is mostly about console gaming, and the LAN center was all PC. They had to shut down sadly. Living in Central New York kinda blows.

lol, lan cafes.

ITT: Poorfags.

>>54270112
You must be such a shut in dude.

It's called being social, and some of them, you can bring computers.

>>54269808

Eh, Kirkbys a little far to bother with, take me an hour to get there at least, probably more.

>>54270178

It's called getting together with my friends at one of our houses and not having to deal with paying fees just to play on LAN. Paying someone to be able to use their internet and AMD dual core systems with 2 gigs of RAM and an 8800GT with all their games preset to medium settings is laughable.

>>54270497
Ever hear of meeting new people?

>>54270789

There's a good Gamerbase up here, but I only ever went with friends. I wouldn't ever want to chat with most of the people who go there really. I remember once i went with a (girl) friend of mine who got hit on in the most awkward fashion by some random patron for a few minutes, just asking if she knew what Team Fortress 2 was and would she like a game.

Nerds... ¬_¬

>>54271362
That's just sad in a way.

The fact that he didn't know how to hit on people properly.

>>54270789

So either I can play with people I know or I can hop online and play with people I'm familiar with on any of a few select TF2 servers and play in glorious 1920x1200 with over 60fps for free, or I can drive out and pay to have a crappier experience with complete strangers. Sounds logical.

I live in Phoenix and the first ever Internet Cafe I went to was on Halloween 5 or so years ago. It was opening night for the cafe in a small strip-mall with a Safeway and a Leviathan (board games like 40k, they also had 5 computers, shitty prices though). I was about 14 and my dad took my brother and I. Apparently my dad (who also builds computers) met the guy when he started laying in the ground floor for the place and needed an AC installed (my dad's field of work).

The place is still open to this day, runs top of the line computers, holds tournaments for most Steam games, and has almost every game imaginable for PC since early 2000. The normal going rate now-a-days is 5$ an hour; however they have 2$ tuesday and on weekends 20$ gets you an all day pass. Since my dad installed a few thousand dollars worth of equipment and charged him close to nothing, I have a life-time discount at 2$ an hour.

The hours are great too. 10AM-10PM weekdays and sunday, 1PM-1AM Friday and Saturday. He'll even stay open till 4AM on Fri-Sat if there's more than 10+ people. They also do "all-nighters" which are a blast. From 8PM to 8AM they host all kinds of tournaments and deal out some free pizza + drinks.

When I was younger I loved going, almost every day after school you could find me there. But my interest in gaming has kind of plundered. Not as in to CS and BF like I used to be, and most games in general just bore me now-a-days; guess I must of burnt myself out hah.

>>54271673
So now you post on /v/?

So, is there like a website where you can see if there are any LAN cafes in your area?

>>54267733
Didn't know Fargo had a LAN cafe like that. Only one I knew about was in Grand Forks.

>>54271851

Yep. /v/ is where gamers go to die.

Still play WoW though, and most recently dusted off my PS3 to play FFXIII.

>>54269566
What part of Mass? I've got 1 in 7 odds you're going to say Amherst.

The only good one near me shut down. Full assortment of food and drink, 50 LAN comps, 6 TVs full of consoles. Shut down in 2007 when the owner was drafted for the army and shipped off to Afghanistan. RIP Gladiator's Gaming ;_;

There used to be a LAN Cafe near my house a few years back. It was dark and depressing. The place was run by koreans and the only games they had on the computers were Counterstrike and Starcraft.

>>54269566

>Are there any in Massachusetts?

There used to be a place called AZ in Cambridge but I think it shut down. Place was the shit.

>>54272164

>the owner was drafted for the army

The one that is closest to me is over-priced and the guys who work there play World of Warcraft constantly. Needless to say, I do not go there anymore.

>>54271885
Google.
Some another Anon may be more helpful than me, but to my knowledge that's your best option.

wow in Fargo you say? where at?

>>54272441

He was a fit guy in his twenties. I had a feeling once I found out that he decided to keep the place up for as long as he could until he was shipped out.

>>54272496
>>54272019

Oh wow, fellow ND bros. It's called Section 9 cybercafe. I don't live in Fargo right now as much as I want to. There's a steamgroup for it.

Here's my email if you ND bros want to talk about vidya and how shitty this state is sometime.

PS, to those wondering how to find their own. Just wander around town; That's how I found the one in Ann arbor and in Fargo.

It's worth noting that if you have a comic book store, these guys tend to advertize with eachother. Was the same in both situations and how I realized they were there.

>>54272685
his point being: the army doesn't draft anymore. at least not yet.
he joined voluntarily.

hows the business going for them cause i use to frequent lan cafe's alot... easier to find out here.. but they have seen to decline as of late but i guess it depends on the location

>>54274411

where is here.

It's a hard business to run. I think it works best in college towns where you have a lot of people who bring their laptops, but not desktops.

The closest LAN cafe in Maryland is in Virginia. ;_;

thread ded?

I'm still here

There's one a little ways down the street from me. It seems pretty dead though. They upped their price a bit since the last time I was there

Its a shame too. Was hoping I would actually get to play with some folks. Instead, they all play WoW or Modern Warfare 2

We do but the hourly rates are really unreasonable. I'm saying $6.00, but the drinks are reasonably priced.

Used to go to one when I lived in the north section of my city, Switxchbox, and it had great member rates, U'd often go down to try out new games or play LAN games with buddies.
Even Halo 3.

We have a kickass one here. The owner's a real cool dude as he lets guys bring their laptops and provides free wi-fi. If you got the wire he'll even let you hook it up for free if there are any available sockets around.

The 30 rigs he has are pretty high-end, and every one of them has Age of Mythology (among the other high-end games and MMOs). His brother mans the snackbar and rents out consoles.

Reasonably priced, sells decent food, and really nice to his usual customers.