Because you said "It's easy, just start a LAN party" as if you were assuming everyone already has friends to start a LAN party with?
The thread is about nostalgia, not whimsy. You introduced the latter, and you did so as if it's predicated upon having friends, and as if someone with no friends is really just failing to embrace whimsy, which frames it as a personal failure and not one that depends on the participation of other beings.