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Replaying Counter-Strike (2)

Posted on 17th December 202424th December 2024 by Bok McDonagh

For a teenager in the early 2000s, Counter-Strike wasn’t just a game. It was an initiation into the world of competitive online gaming. Revisiting it through Counter-Strike II over twenty years later, feels like reconnecting with an old friend who’s sporting a sleek, modern makeover.

I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world. And it’s worth fighting for.