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1345 points philosopher1234 | 2 comments | 02 Feb 23 16:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.515s | source
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MuffinFlavored ◴[02 Feb 23 16:19 UTC] No.34628720[source]▶
Met what ended up being a great friend in real life somewhere in some random IRC room looking for a 5th member to join my friend's group

He had a special CRT monitor to get the best refresh rate to be as competitive as possible for the game

Feels like a lifetime ago

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Waterluvian ◴[02 Feb 23 16:26 UTC] No.34628819[source]▶
I was always amused by how many of my friends got crazy monitors but still just used headphones. Surround sound for 1.6 made the game incredibly unfair. Being able to hear specifically in what direction and volume footsteps were coming from was basically a wallhack. I would often use headphones because parents weren't the biggest fans of hours of that a night, and it was so crippling.

Funny enough, my semi-pro career (I made $60 total) ended when I abandoned my surround sound when moving out in undergrad.

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MuffinFlavored ◴[02 Feb 23 16:44 UTC] No.34629104[source]▶
> but still just used headphones

I haven't thought of Ventrilo/Teamspeak in years...

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Waterluvian ◴[02 Feb 23 16:46 UTC] No.34629150[source]▶
Ohhhh right that reminded me of another anecdote: sound cancellation wasn't really a working tech back then so my Vent buddies hated hearing my game. I would have a little earbud in connected to Vent on my other computer so I could hear them, but they'd always hear my game, so I ended up developing this half-assed skill of speaking only during quiet times.
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1. totoglazer ◴[02 Feb 23 16:57 UTC] No.34629406[source]▶
Ventrillo, a voice chat program popular for gamers. I guess sort of 2002 era Discord.
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2. rightbyte ◴[02 Feb 23 20:00 UTC] No.34632190[source]▶
Like Discord but with like 10ms latency to your friends in the area and no fancy pancy filters adding group delay when you speak.

Overall a way superior experience to what we have today.

I remember having actual effortless conversations on Ventrilo. Nowadays speaking in Discord or MS Teams or what ever is exhausting since you interrupt each other due to the delay.

Phones have also gotten worse. It would be interesting to see a number of round trip "ping" for different Voip providers and phone systems ...