Another Opinion - Ded_Mor0z_666 join to game
Ah, New Year! Smiles, New Year discounts, mandarins, cheap synthetic champagne, and queues for it at "Ashan". For gamers, this is always a very pleasant yet complicated holiday, and the complexity is still unclear to many. Personally, for me, it always comes down to the choice – "What to do on this festive night?". With family or in a noisy company? Should I drink with family or in a noisy company? Celebrate with family first and then drink in a noisy company? And gamers also always want to play... In general, New Year is rightly considered a mystical holiday. Many people find within themselves the desire to change something from January 1st, to become better, to start a new life. Only pitiful weaklings indulge this desire and actually change. But more often it’s just the way of celebrating New Year that changes.
"Evolution and Degradation"
2004
I remember this New Year well because I celebrated it for the first time not with my parents but with friends... outside in -30 degrees Celsius.
Pros:
It was fun because we stole some wine and champagne.
Cons:
It was cold, damn it!
Results:
A cold, but a persistent feeling of celebration.
2007
Mandarins are no longer that rare, candies are not needed at all since I don’t eat sweets anymore. The last New Year as a school student, which means I will soon leave this little town. First love and the events that followed. This New Year still remains the most magical and positively charged New Year ever.
Pros:
The ambiance, rock music from the phone, the sincere "WOW" when seeing fireworks.
Cons:
Life - still a bitch, really.
Results:
A turning point; from this NY onwards - more trash, fun, and DOTA, less fairy tale.
2008-2010
Everything is brief here - Counter-Strike - Beer - Salad cutting - Whiskey - Happy New Year - Dancing - Tequila - Counter-Strike. Sounds dull, but it was fun. It truly was.
2011
Total desolation and the triumph of dullness. Only dirt, melancholy, and a crazy New Year greeting recorded on tape were left. It was after this NY that I decided enough of drinking and partying, and since everyone is already dating – the next NY will be family...
2012
Exam passed excellently, and tanks upgraded.
Guests for the party have long been invited.
Gifts already bought, whiskey is cooling.
And the author enjoys the last cigarette.
Instead of the internet - the TV is broadcasting again.
And there... just pop music and that’s really annoying.
And the nano-president stands, against the backdrop of a red tower,
With a smile, giving toasts like yesterday's bum.
Hooray, hooray, we shout together, champagne flows like a river.
The music is blasting, and my legs start dancing along with me.
And after an hour, when the mood began to fade,
YouTube - my favorite and dear, found something for us to do.
All the greetings and toasts, New Year reviews,
And a bearded quote about last year's herring.
We feel good and pleasant; we lay down already by dawn.
And can we play some tanks? But now there’s no strength left.
And if I don’t want to bother you with the sudden urge for rhyme, New Year turned out to be strange. It seemed fun, but there’s a feeling that something is missing... Probably, the trash, the fun, and the drunken neighbors...
Play but don’t celebrate
The period from New Year to Christmas, I dedicated to gathering information on how people celebrated. The result was that mainly people drink in noisy companies, which is not so bad. However, a few people among my acquaintances celebrated NY unusually. For example, a couple I know spent New Year... gaming together at one table on two laptops. They weren’t concerned about the fact that it was a holiday, that it should be spent at the festive table, walking by the Christmas trees, etc. They just spent time the way they love together, which is quite rare nowadays. And they truly enjoyed the holiday, although I had my doubts about that. Another friend of mine celebrated NY alone with a bottle of whiskey. Not because he’s a nasty loser or a true "Forever Alone", but because he was in a small village and all his acquaintances were in another big city. By the way, he also gamed, but in [World of Warcraft](/games?search=World of Warcraft). According to him - it was the only night in the game where he wasn’t ganked, but rather congratulated and entertained while doing a circle dance around an improvised Christmas tree (it seems that was a freshly fallen Arthas). In [World of Tanks](/games?search=World of Tanks), according to a friend's report (sic!) there was a bacchanalia. T-34s were rolling in waltz rhythm with PzIV and everyone was having fun. Even those damn Chinese 59s were not being bullied. Everyone was rolling in gift tanks. They organized races, of course, including the soundtrack from [Need For Speed](/games?search=Need For Speed): Underground. Naturally, bets were placed. Whose iron horse would win - destroys the other. And if it doesn’t penetrate - they collectively beat it like a mammoth. Fun, isn’t it?
At the same time, as always, many just drank like pigs. And they created such incidents!
I changed my mind about gamers on New Year's Eve. They celebrate New Year joyfully! Perhaps, it may not be right in the eyes of Soviet parents, but it’s definitely better to have fun gaming than to mindlessly watch Galkin and Petrosyan on TV, accompanied by glasses.
In the end, New Year is still an occasion to have a good time rather than to do it right. A time to summarize and start something new. So, although belatedly, we wish you Happy New Year on behalf of our duo, may you play only good games and read only fruitful articles on Gamer.ru! Good luck!
Your IntelegentBeast
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