Dear all,
There is a multitude of words to describe the (soon to be) past year of 2017.
For me, personally, the words that could, in the closest of ways, describe 2017 would be "chatoic", "adventurous", "multifaceted", "fast", "active", "productive", "counterproductive", "innovative".
I agree, there are a lot, and there'd probably be a thousand more but as I said, these describe my 2017 in the closest possible manner.
I'm not going to go in detail on what happened in the modification I am responsible for this year because for the most part of the year, my participation in it has been very superficial. I can, with great confidence, say that the drama never stops, and probably never will, but that is a perennial part of VC-MP, and perhaps all GTA:MP mods in general.
Every now and then a wiseass tends to pop up in the community with an innovative way to ruin everyone else's mood, may it be new tricks for ban evasion, hacking and so on and so forth.
I respect the aforementioned group of people. I really do. In my opinion, hackers (specifically hackers) are people of unbelievable intelligence that turn our modifications inside out, but the one thing I am very disappointed about is that they direct their knowledge of the game in the wrong direction.
The reason I say this is because in my opinion, it would be much better for all of us, for hackers and normal players alike, if hackers were to join forces with our developers that have spent thousands and thousands of hours of their (free) time (mind you, they don't get paid for this shit) and instead of ruining the game as a retaliation to some admin, or community member's wrong decision, they'd direct their information into making our mods safer and more enjoyable. They'd certainly be recognized much more professionally and respectfully in such a scenario, and instead of being banned off everywhere, they'd most probably be welcomed everywhere.
On a more general, and real-life related note, I have realized this year that talent and luck does not exist. Hard work can achieve wonders, marvelous wonders.
As a wise man once said - if your mind can conceive it, and your heart can believe it, then you can achieve it.
I wish everyone a happy upcoming 2018, and a productive year ahead. Keep it easy and real.
