Thanks. ^_^ :lol: I'm getting PMs dumped on me! Dis is awesome!.

Notice: I did say in a topic that I will no longer be doing holiday albums, however, I have a few days off of school for religious holidays and will be heading back to my family to spend time with them for that time, but almost as importantly, with my computer. So, why not? Might as well spend the little time I have access to my computer with you guys - the EN mults! :D

List of Volunteers: @lukey0, & @GoldBox (2 pics) @I3est & @CooperO (2 pics) @Flexoo @The.L-E-G-E-N-D & (2 pics) @Anonono @need.higher.rank @gabriele02 @Hate @I3.R.0 @N_O_C_T_U_R_N_E @L.I.I3.3.I2.T.Y @Oufa @TheZigzagoonThatCan @Yisroel.Rabin (no Skype) (time arranged) @smokywasp492340 (added on Skype) (time arranged) @Adriel.RB (added on Skype) (time arranged) (added on Skype)

–» Click me to view the album «– As 2016 comes to a close, and Tanki Online brings forth its annual celebrations, it's time for me to bring out a "tradition" of my own - a holiday album! We've done six of these so far, the latest one being the Hallowe'en album, and the first one being none other than last years New Year album, so this album will actually be quite special, as it marks our holiday album's first birthday! If you haven't heard of these projects I've been doing yet, it's something like this: during a Tanki Online event (in this case, New Years) you can take part in an unofficial project I arrange, which in simpler words, is an album (don't close the tab, please). All you have to do is let me take a photo of you with the one of the holiday paints and your favorite looking combo on the special New Years map. After the event, I take all the pics taken and post a complete album in the Tanki Picture of the Day topic. Thanks in advance! If you are interested in volunteering... ...PM me (@Yisroel.Rabin) on the forum or, if you have me in your contacts, on Skype with the following info: • Your Skype (optional, although it will make it easier for both of us): • Your timezone: • The combo you'll be using (if you can't decide, I'll choose for you): • "I want to volunteer for your project." We'll work out a time to meet up for the photo. You may also suggest a date and time you're able to come, whatever it takes to get the time sorted out as quickly as possible. (Read note bellow about when I am and when I am not available) ...you must be the rank of Captain () or above. However, we could work something out with my alts- my alt is Second Lieutenant (), so I can also take a photo of you if you have any rank between Warrant Officer 2 () and Colonel (). ...you must have a PRO battle pass. ...you may use any turret and hull you want, but you must wear a holiday paint. And just to clarify, this time around, there will be two holiday paints (the regular 'Holiday' paint and the special Shop paint), any is fine. Note... ...album will (/should) be posted as soon as the event is over. ...if you want your photo before the full album is posted, just ask me for it and I'll PM it to you or send it to you on Skype, depending on if you gave me your Skype or not. ...please understand that I won't always be free. In fact, I will only be free from Wednesday, December 28th (aprox. 8PM UTC+0) until Monday, January 2nd (aprox. 2 AM), due to school, so please be patient, and when volunteering, take into account that I am only free in between the times given above. ...if you want a photo without Holiday paint (or anything of the sort), I probably will take a photo for you, but it won't be going into the album. ...volunteers will be credited in the albums' post for their time and effort. ...even when I am available, I still want to do some gold hunting and enjoy the holiday as much as everyone else. So just because I'm on, doesn't mean I'm free. Thanks once again, @Yisroel.Rabin Previous event albums: New Year Album (2016) | Valentine's Day Album (2016) | Women's Day Album (2016) | Tanki's 7th Birthday (2016) | Tanker's Day Album (2016) | Hallowe'en Album (2016)

First off, sorry for the late approval. I reserved to proofread/approve your article because of how much I liked the last one. And once again you did not fail to entertain, I highly recommened people read this as well as the last one if haven't already. T'was truly entertaining. I like how you make good use of "reliable sources" and have "them" interviewed. Also, the occasionaly r3kts to famous players is a nice touch. As goes for English, it was perfect. Zero grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes which I could find. Besides you didn't capitalize the 't' in 'Tanki' once. No biggie. Amazing job! Channel your talents!

OMG smexy!!1!! :wub:

Life's a secret, so post a glass of water. Genius.

In a game where we can freeze tanks with a freeze ray and get stalked by revolving bushes and trees, having a thing as random as a Tanki Online New Year's resolutions is no big surprise. Yet, somehow, I was never really able to wrap my head around it. I've seen tankers of all ranks spewing out things in the lobby chat like "my Tanki New Year's resolution is to rank up to Legend." Isn't that the point of the game? Actually, nevermind, I hate getting into the topic of "what's the point of the game?", because you find yourself stuck in an endless loop: Dominate battles to earn crystals to buy new equipment to dominate more battles to earn more crystals to buy even better equipment. As you can see, ranking up actually has no beneficial role in the game. Anyways, ignoring the fact that I got stuck in the endless loop after saying I wouldn't let's get back into the New Year's resolutions thing. Why do we even make a New Year's resolution in the first place? I mean, you already know from previous and tough experiences that it's hard enough to keep your regular New Year's resolutions, so why'd you want to give yourself an even harder time by making yourself a Tanki New Year's resolution? And not only that, Tanki New Year's resolutions are kind of bad for one's self. Like, for example; "I take upon myself to get 300 000 crystals this winter." By saying that, believe it or not, you've just taken upon yourself to take time you could be using to do something productive, like building a miniature snowman out of the mash potatoes on your plate which you don't want to eat, and actually use it for gaining pixels on your computer screen (which you can easily photoshop anyways). Weren't these things meant to be positive? I take upon myself to build a miniature snowman out of mash potatoes. Also, what happens if your New Year's resolution contradicts your Tanki one? If you take upon yourself to get good grades, and to become a Legend 5, you've put yourself in the realm of impossible (welcome to my world: write articles for the Tanki newspaper and stay in school). Everyone knows this fragment of logic: Video games + good grades = no social life Video games + social life = bad grades Social life + good grades = no video games Social life + video games + good grades = no sleep I guess you're stuck in a never ending loop again. Good luck. Additionally, everyone knows the famous joke; no one ever actually keeps their New Year's resolutions (unless your name is Fen-Harel, in which case you aren't the average human). If so, nevermind Tanki New Year's resolutions, why do we even spend five minutes thinking of a regular one (especially if the one you come up with "I take upon myself to not waste time")? I'd guess it's because if we don't make one, we're considered a bad person, or something like that. And even though every single person knows you're only making one to look good, they can't point it out because they're in exactly the same situation. If you've made a New Years' resolution, and told it to someone other than your teddy bear, you know that you constantly have debates about whether you regret making it or not in your head. These debates usually take place at the fancy dinner table, while your uncle is telling you about the tree he cut down with a pocket knife. The fact that you wouldn't complete the mundane task anyhow doesn't matter whatsoever. The fact is you said it and now you have to act like you're actually taking upon yourself to do it, even to your own brain. How disloyal we can get at times. Whoever invented New Year's resolutions should be ashamed of himself. Oh, hold on, lemme check that up... Ok, Babylonians and Romans – you should be ashamed of yourselves. But it's quite funny, isn't it? It seems New Year's resolutions are all about being more honest to one another, but once again, it seems time changes everything. As I've explained, New Year's resolutions are nothing of the sort anymore. Now they're the opposite of honest; they even cause one to lie to his own brain (it's sort of the time I somehow turned my 'F-' to a 'B+' and felt like I actually got a B+). But I suppose it doesn't really matter, because Santa only watches (although I prefer the word 'stalks') us for the first few days of the year before getting bored and going back to bed until early December, when he gets paid to be in more than one mall at the same time and have children sit on his expensive attire, telling him the useless information which goes into one ear and flies out the other, regardless of how dirty the child is (parents really don't seem to care about Santa's well-being, maybe that's why they always get clothing for Christmas). Thus being, he only judges everyone with those first few days where you hopefully didn't break your New Year's resolutions yet. Hopefully. But then again, besides Santa, there are quite a few other unnamed stalkers in the EN community... Getting back on track, and in all seriousness this time (although you know I'm never actually serious), New Year's resolutions are a good thing. Why is that? Well, think about it, besides being an awesome conversation starter (perhaps the best one, besides "you wanna hear how I cut down a tree with a pocket knife?"), it won't fail to keep you busy. Think about it: you take up five to ten minutes just thinking of one (times that by three because one "useless taking upon oneself" just isn't enough). Add the three hours total you waste telling your siblings, parents, cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents, great-grandparents, and if you're fortunate enough to have one unlike most of my colleagues, your mate about it. Plus the other hour you spend debating whether you regret taking upon yourself to shovel the driveway or not while shoveling the driveway. Adding that all up you end up with an estimated twenty-four hours of things to do. But in the end, I guess it's more of a time killer. Why do we always end up with a negative conclusion? But in Tanki Online, New Year's resolutions are anything but a time killer. When one takes upon himself to accomplish a goal in Tanki Online, he's just setting a new rule for himself to break. With that thought in mind, I just had an ingenious idea – go to the rules, close your eyes, scroll down to around what you feel is the middle of the page, double click (highlight something), and that's your New Year's resolution! 2.3.14. Any form of discrimination by gender, age, religion or other characteristics; (In other words: "I take upon myself not to, in any form, discriminate anyone by gender, age, religion or other characteristics.") Lemme know what you get. Sometimes, we even take it a bit too far and take it upon ourselves to do something we know we simply cannot and will not accomplish. Something like "I take upon myself to quit Tanki Online this month." The good thing about Tanki New Year's resolutions is that it isn't documented anywhere. Meaning, as dumb as your siblings may be, if you tell them you take upon yourself to get a six-pack before March, they'll never forget about it, and won't stop bugging you about it. Whereas in Tanki, if you tell your friend you take upon yourself to quit Tanki this month, you don't actually have to do it. And if you mention it on the forum, just hide your post, that way no one can see it (except Santa's elves, more commonly known as the forum moderators). Tanki should host a contest of some sort, to encourage tankers to make, and more importantly keep Tanki New Year's resolutions. There could be a sort of system where you can either take the New Year's resolution Tanki automatically gives you, or you can pay a couple of crystals to exchange it for another one. There would also be rewards for completing the resolutions and– Oh wait, I'm thinking of Daily Missions... Great. One day people will be roaming the streets, bumping into old friends to discuss the joke of a resolution they'd stormed up this year. The prospect of us willingly admitting that this whole system is all one big conversation starter and a time waster wrapped in lies and subconscious doubtings isn't so hard to comprehend. I'm actually doing just that right now! I'd actually like to end this article off with a quote from a columnist who's birthday is actually today, January 6th (the irony). “Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.” — Eric Zorn Hey, look, I took upon myself to write this article, and I did! I guess I'm not the average human after all. ~ @Yisroel.Rabin

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Brief edits: - Changed things like "step 1" to step one"; - Changed unnecessary capitals to lowercase (like "Step One" to "step one"); - Slight rewording (to make it read smoother, like I added the word "snipers" after "Railgun". No big deal, but it just makes it's a bit better); - Set font to Verdana (as appose to the standard font); In-depth feedback: This is 100% my kind of article! I see you've taken the basic idea of the series "The Dictator". You even used its slogan: "Tanki's Finest News Source" (which is fine, but I suggest coming up with something original). The spelling and grammar was basically perfect, so good job with that. And good job on not using crossthrough (this), because in my opinion, crossthrough is a meaningless and unfunny text begging for laughter. I'd love to see more of this kinda' stuff, great work bud!

Can I play too? *ahem* Rabin *ahem* What are we doing by the way?

And my question to you is, if there people weren't staff, would you notice?

I see my name, am I special? :rolleyes:

:O Issho, I had no idea you were Anemoi.

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i want becoming scouter, how2be come scounter?

First time winning a TTC, and it goes to my alt. :lol: But I don't mind, I have enough on my main anyways.

There are many more mistakes than just those. :ph34r: Congratulations on winning MoP 2016. I loved this years system (although I wasted 1 hr 30 mins of my life, because I hope I'm not the only one who skipped a lot), it let's the parkourists prove who's the best, and under pressure too. Good job hackers.

Does your cats waste looks like meatballs too?

You think that's good? Go look at the back of Railgun M2. Damn, why'd you pass me!? D: Ok, I'm gonna start flooding again. :lol: Yayayyayayayay!!!1!!1ww1

Opex-Rah is a game designer. He was testing out the new rocket launcher turret yesterday.

Sirogo wants me to be a critic. :ph34r:

- Corrected a few grammar errors - Slight reformatting Nice interview!