I was watching This Is England from 2006, and it reminded me of the olden days of yore, in the fabled before-times, where people would just bunch up together every Friday in someone’s flat, get drunk, blast music, and talk without distractions.
I can barely remember it now.
Anyway, get off my synthetic lawn.


“Nobody looked at their phones during a party in 1999”
Holds up picture of a LAN Party
God I hope that’s AI generated. The sheer load on those wires… maybe 20 machines could work off a 100A wire, but every other row there would need its own circuit and fuse.
Brownouts must have been plentiful and devastating
AI generated? That’s quakecon! I was there! We ran lots of wires. We had to bring in 2 18 wheeler sized generators plus the hotel’s power. We really only had brownouts at QC 2000, I think it was. It’s was just solving for numbers once we knew the metrics to hit.
Well, that and money, but id always stepped up.