Seriously? Maintenance on Christmas Eve?

[Alexb150]

christmas is just a time for people to eat cake lol. Christmas cakes in japan can cost upwards of $500

[Shirai]

Aye, I know that is most likely the case, Christmas is mostly a western holiday, but still. Would be nice if they could catch a break. Hopefully they will get a nice vacation during their newyears celebrations, and the golden week I believe it's called when that comes around. Either way, everyone needs a bit of rest every now and then, we are only human after all.

New year, Golden Week and Obon are the major Japanese holidays.
Aside from that Japan knows a lot of seperate festivals and celebratory days, but they generally do not give time off from work for those.

During those holidays though, if you are in Japan, don't plan on doing any traveling beyond the limits of the city you are in.
Getting a seat in a shinkansen can be a very dificult undertaking unless you are early.

[Kyandeisu]

I would need to take a 17 hour flight if I want to be with my family...



Actually it's not a national holiday for us. So not world wide at all.

same here, id have to fly 16 hours to be with my family and really not possible for the time being.

[ruinedmirage]

Is this thread for real? Global holiday? National holiday? Western culture?

Last I heard, Christmas was a religious holiday, celebrated by Christians wherever they are found. If someone is not Christian, they wouldn't have a reason to celebrate or take a day off for the heck of it (media and tradition brainwashing aside), but I digress. I agree with others, it's only a few hours. Get up and go to the bathroom or something.

[KonaZumi]

I guess I'll start installing the game til then (finally getting the game tomorrow <3) and just start playing whenever the game becomes avalible in the morning/afternoon, while waiting for everyone to wake up then =w=

EDIT:
And yes, Christmas is a international holiday, but not all countries celebrate it. Japan celebrates the commercial version of it, and maybe .01% of japanese citizens might celebrate the nativity version of christmas. Depends on who you ask.

[Aegis]

Is this thread for real? Global holiday? National holiday? Western culture?

Last I heard, Christmas was a religious holiday, celebrated by Christians wherever they are found. If someone is not Christian, they wouldn't have a reason to celebrate or take a day off for the heck of it (media and tradition brainwashing aside), but I digress. I agree with others, it's only a few hours. Get up and go to the bathroom or something.

It's a national holiday in the UK regardless of your personal religious observance. The christianity aspect of it died off generations ago for many families. For most it's just a chance for people to see their family (particularly their extended family) all in one place again.

My work gives me the day off because they can't legally force me to work it and they'd have to pay me double.

[Shirai]

Is this thread for real? Global holiday? National holiday? Western culture?

Last I heard, Christmas was a religious holiday, celebrated by Christians wherever they are found. If someone is not Christian, they wouldn't have a reason to celebrate or take a day off for the heck of it (media and tradition brainwashing aside), but I digress. I agree with others, it's only a few hours. Get up and go to the bathroom or something.

To derail this thread even further, the actual origin of Christmas is a pagan European holiday.
It was in the 4th century AD that the Christians adopted it as the celebration for the birth of Christ and spread it as such.

[Korbei]

Last I heard, Christmas was a religious holiday, celebrated by Christians wherever they are found. If someone is not Christian, they wouldn't have a reason to celebrate or take a day off for the heck of it

You don't know anything about the holiday.

Christmas has been celebrated since before the birth of Christ (if that ever occurred). It is the celebration of the winter solstice and the start of the days becoming longer throughout winter.

It was co-opted by Christianity only a few centuries ago and was originally banned by Catholicism due to its pagan heritage.

All historic evidence indicates that Jesus was born in the middle of summer (if at all) and modern theologians denounce Christmas as sacrilegious.

Today it is nothing more than a universal celebration of the end of the year; A time to reflect and be with family and loved ones and hold entirely ZERO religious connotation for the majority of those who celebrate it.


OP: If Christmas Eve holds any significance to you whatsoever, then STOP PLAYING A DAMN VIDEO GAME and spend some time with your family. Otherwise it's just another Tuesday night and is as good a time as any to have maintenance.

[ruinedmirage]

As I said, media exposure and brainwashed traditionalism aside.

If you truly believe that the majority of people that celebrate Christmas presently do it out of love and respect of the pagan beliefs (including the OP's intentional post), more power to you.

[Kyandeisu]

Is this thread for real? Global holiday? National holiday? Western culture?

its a national holiday in the usa, everyone (or close to everyone) can get off work, schools are always out a few days before and are off till after new years due to christmas and new years. Some businesses are even closed, but alot of the major ones like Walmart and Best Buy and other big corps stay open. Employees always fight over whos getting off, its like a mad rush to the boss to just inform them your not working lol. There is some religious history behind it, but saying just becuz sumone is not apart of that religion cannot celebrate it is a little bit much considering what america had turned the holiday into for the past what 100 or so years? Anyways its completely nonsense to try and start up the topic of religion on the interwebs unless your doing so on a specific religious website which last I checked, FFXIV is not.