We built our house for LAN parties
A couple built a house with a basement game room featuring 12 wall-mounted PCs that fold away, DDR pads in the floor, and an office table that transforms into six more gaming stations. All 20 machines are rack-mounted in an engine room with dedicated A/C, and they netboot from a shared disk image. The house also includes catwalks, cat restrooms, and call rooms that double as game stations.
We've been doing LAN parties together for nearly 30 years.
- elAhmo
Wholesome read. These guys are enjoying life and I loved reading the FAQ in the end, as well as them acknowledging they are very lucky!
- swiftcoder
God, imagine having a big enough friend group as an adult to justify an 18-gaming-PC LAN. These folks are doing something right
- kentonv
Oh hello! This is my house! Thanks for posting!
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156977
Unfortunately this new thread was posted while I was asleep, and so I haven't been online to answer questions as the thread developed. Whereas in the previous thread I participated from the start.
Pro tip to anyone whose stuff gets posted on HN: It is a completely different place when the author is present.
If you're present, then the people who are inclined to post cheap criticisms shy away, and the people who want to ask questions and learn show up.
(Aside from the house, I've had my work at Cloudflare posted many times, and seen this pattern in those posts.)
- rob74
> We have efficient heat pumps and solar panels, but it's still a disturbing amount of energy usage and something I'm trying to debug. Perhaps we have too many windows letting in too much sunlight...
External window blinds work wonders with that - your AC doesn't have to work hard to get the heat out of the greenhouse you inadvertently built if you avoid the heat getting in in the first place. But yeah, these might be more widespread over here in Europe than in the US...
- tristanj
This LAN house was featured in a LTT video. There's an entire house walkthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Y0MVUgjOw
- 28304283409234
The basement is awesome, but I would not feel cozy and welcome there. From the pictures it feels like any serverroom I've ever been into. Unwanted tips: Put some plants in there, some color, some wall-to-wall gaming art prints on the closet-doors and floors. <3
- wizerno
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156977
- chinathrow
As someone without that much money at hand, I enjoyed reading the section further down the page. Well written and congrats on the success!
- wraptile
This makes me really miss LAN parties. What an absolute gem of early PC culture that is sadly mostly forgotten? A reasonable replacement is phone gaming parties and I'm not kidding - it's really fun! We did Among Us phone LAN party recently and it was a blast.
- haunter
MTV used to have this show called Cribs where celebrities showed their house around and cars and everything. Basically bragging about their rich life. I have the same feeling opening this site. Maybe we need an MTV Cribs SV edition.