All the most important events of 2022 occur in 2023. TCU miraculously, with two interceptions returned for touchdowns, managed to overcome Michigan, to my great delight. Meanwhile Georgia managed a last-minute comeback after seemingly sleeping through the first three quarters of the game, not showing one bit of its dominance it displayed all season, its almighty defense nowhere to be seen. Both teams are lucky to be in the final, but definitely deserve to be there, they fought hard for those wins against clearly talented foes. The problem is the conclusion of the 2022 season is in 2023 -- January 9th.
Likewise, the regular season of the NFL ends on the 8th of January, and then the playoffs and Super Bowl extend all the way to February 12th. Who gets to play in the Playoffs and Super Bowl are determined in 2022, but the vital Super Bowl itself is in 2023. Isn't that a little too confusing? Why should one year's game affect another's?
The New Year doesn't signify anything real. Basketball games played in 2022 decide seeding for the 2023 March Madness tournament. Taxes aren't due on December 31st. The new Congress, elected in 2022, isn't sworn in until January 3rd 2023. At this rate why even have a new year?
Even the new anime season, which does properly begin with the new year, doesn't start until January 3rd. Why not make January 3rd New Year's Day then? It would make more sense. But most of the new anime season doesn't start until January 9th, so the 9th would make more sense than the 3rd.
New Year's Day is the fakest holiday imaginable. They seemed to have picked the most boring and pointless day on the calendar, where nothing eventful is scheduled, and told us to care about that day just because. It's hard not to laugh at people celebrating nothing at all. Christ isn't born, or risen, no nation got their independence, or had their first bountiful harvest, nor did the souls of the dead interstice with the Earth, seriously, nothing happened, not even hundreds of years ago, but we need to cheer this absolute nothingness all the same. At least if the New Year was February 13th, the day after the Super Bowl, we could celebrate the end of one football season and the start of the next. We could even roll it into Valentine's Day and make it one holiday. Everybody likes hearts and chocolate, we could genuinely have something to celebrate on the 14th.
Speaking of celebrating nothingness, last year I celebrated the announcement of a Summer Pockets anime, and this new year as well key announced that a Summer Pockets anime is still in development, with no timeline for when it will actually get developed. It's like deja vu, is there a new New Year's tradition of announcing Summer Pockets, only for it to disappear for all the other days of the year?
Once the Playstation 5 arrives in the mail, it will feel like a new year, because something will have actually changed from the previous year. It will be a new era, one where I've played Tales of Arise and can add any worthy characters from said game to my fictional character hall of fame, finally making it possible to finish editing '100 Waifus.' That will happen someday this January, but certainly not the 1st -- all work is on hold that day so nothing actually happens on the one day everything should be happening to signify that something new is happening. >.<.
But yes, it's going to be a crazy couple months of activity. A new PS5 with new PS5 video games to play, football, a new anime season, a new book to read, Fire Emblem: Engage for the Switch comes out, and I've still got at least 1/2 of Hoshizora no Memoria left to play. There's talk of a winter offensive starting in Ukraine, but I doubt it. Russia is winning by going slow and letting its artillery do the talking, why should it change its tactics when they're working? But we'll see, maybe the war will enter a new phase too, sometime not the 1st of January.
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