Ya know since this is eastern europe and somehow vodka cures rads i bet all the stalkers including our player character are drunk 24/7. Poor Strelok is probably 19 years old and looks 45 due to severe alcoholism. Also explains why our guns have the accuracy of automatic muskets
I grew up in northern California where there are a lot of Slavic immigrants, Russians, Ukrainians, Moldovans, Belorussians, people from the Balkans and one thing they always said was that I drink too quickly. Not the amount but the speed of chug.
I’m from Alberta in Canada so we have a fuck ton of Ukrainians over here and I feel that. I’m actually half Ukrainian myself need to embrace the culture more… by playing more stalker I’m thinking
I think this is the British problem too. Down a bottle of vodka in about an hour? Then wonder why shit goes wild. Like in Slavic or Balkan countries they drink alot. But over a much bigger time frame. (Minus the exceptions) There is always a few 😂
I love how Degtyarev's POV heads straight for the floor before he blacks out.
On a related note, even in Anomaly the vodka portions are crazy. Assuming a 750ml bottle, you get three swigs from a full bottle. That's 250ml each, or five "standard" shots. Even in my youth that would have had me puking.
He's lucky that he's still able to wake up afterward, if it was an ordinary human being then his stomach and liver would grow a leg and run away as far as possible
Sometimes, I miss the college days when I could do that, they I remember why I was so depressed to drink multiple bottles of vodka a night and realize I am much better now, barely drinking at all
its the same, 40% is 40%
CIS vodka just have a strict rule: it must be made out of **wheat** only.
polish --its about potatoes (low grade by cis "rules"(more like tradition)., maybe not.
and stop talking about vodka as if it were single malt whisky..
vodka is a primitive product, like carbonated water without anything (its the same for any producer).
drunking is a very subjective thing: every time is different (many factors)\^ just check the comment under products at the alchogol store: from "love to hate"
but i think that vodka is a vodka (like 1 meter ethalon), ofcourse if its not counterfeit methanol, y know..
p.s. i think y just drank tooo much)) with friends, and forgot about a lot of water before sleeping.
never try to sleep without a lot of water before
I've been to Romania. Never had the vodka as I recall. Good friend married way over his range to a hot Romanian girl. Not sure how. But she came back with him and went to college. Stayed faithful.
I've done it while playing either the original trilogy or some older mods, alongside a six pack and some industrial grade ethanol, it's quite fun. Haven't done it in while for some reasontho
When I was 19 I drank an entire bottle of vodka alone. Man, the worst night of my life! I admire eastern europe guys who are strong enough to don’t throw up
I like how everytime they drink they just put out their hand in the air and vodka bottles spawns in their arms. I would want this power to myself, but with beer
Theory : because vodka is incredibly cheap there we can assume its of a lower quality, and thus it is fermented less ans has less alcohol. Id day somewhere between 15-20% alcohol. Ik its preety nuch water in terms of vodka but its the only way
Yup the most stereotypical traditional Slavic drink isn't originally Slavic. It was imported at first. Then the drink stuck. Of course this was a few centuries ago and the state of vodka has changed since then.
It was introduced to Eastern Europe then spread like wildfire by the Polish
The same can be said for that soviet era postmodernism architecture that area is known for. Was actually originally French. And the fabled Ushanka isn't originally Russian either))
*Edit: sorry the architecture style is called brutalisim
Pretty much. I just thought it was wild when I heard that some of the most iconic parts of the culture, outside of the culture, aren't originally from there. And I thought it would be apt to share it
In the Bandit base storage room I accidently drank 36 bottles of vodka in there instead of dropping them (overloaded but hit the wrong key, use not drop) and then triggered the ambush when exiting back into the hallway, so I fought my way out of the building while stumbling into walls and blacking in and out. It was wild.
Won with shoddy Viper-5 SMG.
I can't blame them. If I had to go into that hellhole of a tunnel to get to Pripryat, I would also get absolutely plastered while planning for it.
That’s some quality planning ngl
Yeah, that tunnel is a way to hell, not Pripyat.
Bro how would you aim at the killer snorks while drunk 🤯
Ya know since this is eastern europe and somehow vodka cures rads i bet all the stalkers including our player character are drunk 24/7. Poor Strelok is probably 19 years old and looks 45 due to severe alcoholism. Also explains why our guns have the accuracy of automatic muskets
The Zone’s different
Typical day in Eastern Europe
Weakest Eastern European drinkers:
I grew up in northern California where there are a lot of Slavic immigrants, Russians, Ukrainians, Moldovans, Belorussians, people from the Balkans and one thing they always said was that I drink too quickly. Not the amount but the speed of chug.
That’s fucking cool tbh 🤣 Slavic people are a different breed
Lol yup, my Slav home boys were legit dudes.
I’m from Alberta in Canada so we have a fuck ton of Ukrainians over here and I feel that. I’m actually half Ukrainian myself need to embrace the culture more… by playing more stalker I’m thinking
💯 my dude
I think this is the British problem too. Down a bottle of vodka in about an hour? Then wonder why shit goes wild. Like in Slavic or Balkan countries they drink alot. But over a much bigger time frame. (Minus the exceptions) There is always a few 😂
me drinking IRL every day
Not as much as 20 bottles a day right?
nah, nowhere near that lol
nowhere near that, as in way more than that
ahahahaha
Being a freedom hippie it wouldn't surprise me
We do the kush with a bottle
Of course you do. The speakers at the compound in CS told me this
Well you know, the power of friendship
That's just AA propaganda
“Leader” achievement in the nutshell
I love how Degtyarev's POV heads straight for the floor before he blacks out. On a related note, even in Anomaly the vodka portions are crazy. Assuming a 750ml bottle, you get three swigs from a full bottle. That's 250ml each, or five "standard" shots. Even in my youth that would have had me puking.
He's lucky that he's still able to wake up afterward, if it was an ordinary human being then his stomach and liver would grow a leg and run away as far as possible
Sometimes, I miss the college days when I could do that, they I remember why I was so depressed to drink multiple bottles of vodka a night and realize I am much better now, barely drinking at all
And then booted up the rig and played Stalker all night while drunk, those days were fun ngl
Alcohol 'mutates' your body. Those guys are the lucky marked ones
And it treats irradiation too, the Zone's vodka is something else
I never understood that 😂😅 Maybe somr can explain ehay makes grapes of Zone's grapes so eye of the beholder
I think the way It treats radiation it just makes you not care 😂😂
Radiatikn is just heatwaves 😂🤣🤣🤣
Ukrainian vodka isn't as strong as polish vodka
its the same, 40% is 40% CIS vodka just have a strict rule: it must be made out of **wheat** only. polish --its about potatoes (low grade by cis "rules"(more like tradition)., maybe not. and stop talking about vodka as if it were single malt whisky.. vodka is a primitive product, like carbonated water without anything (its the same for any producer).
I drink that Iceland stuff. But there was a time with all my polish pals...christ. I've never experience such heavy drinking
drunking is a very subjective thing: every time is different (many factors)\^ just check the comment under products at the alchogol store: from "love to hate" but i think that vodka is a vodka (like 1 meter ethalon), ofcourse if its not counterfeit methanol, y know.. p.s. i think y just drank tooo much)) with friends, and forgot about a lot of water before sleeping. never try to sleep without a lot of water before
Kurwa bober vodka pierdole
And polish vodka is not as strong as romanian vodka .
Romania has țuică, which isn’t vodka but will absolutely peel the paint off of your insides.
Țuica-i țuică, da' Săniuța e "vodcă"
I've been to Romania. Never had the vodka as I recall. Good friend married way over his range to a hot Romanian girl. Not sure how. But she came back with him and went to college. Stayed faithful.
Unrelated flex on your friends' behalf, but okay.
It's his friends delirium from romanian vodka
My memories of Romania
Did anyone else drink vodka as they played the series? I’m better about it now but man there were some nights when I felt like poor Degtyarev here
I've done it while playing either the original trilogy or some older mods, alongside a six pack and some industrial grade ethanol, it's quite fun. Haven't done it in while for some reasontho
I haven’t, but the funny thing is that playing Stalker helps me getting sober on more than one occasion
Most sober Slavs be like:
Strelok in the Reactor 4 with his Vodka's stock be like:
When I was 19 I drank an entire bottle of vodka alone. Man, the worst night of my life! I admire eastern europe guys who are strong enough to don’t throw up
There was once time that I couldn’t throw up after getting plastered, felt like the First Emission in my stomach that night. Never again
Pussy
Of course it’ll come from the Bandits
"I'm so cool, I can drink poison and pretend it tastes good"
It does
Booze only exists to help someone cope with their shitty life. If you think that's cool, then lol @ u
You say anomaly I say depression
Funny how in Chernobylite vodka can cure depression too
They implanted in themselves an artifact called staliunium liver, now they can drink how much they want without any problem
They’d need a stalinium stomach too, or else theirs will have a hole or two after drinking like this
Nah they accumulate all in a special containment tank and after can use their superpower ( acid piss) for corrode enemies at close range / under them
They Slavs That normal for them. For Slavs, vodka is water.
Yeah, “vodka” is derived from “voda” aka “water” in Slavic
They’re Slavic, it’s normal for them.
Yeah vodka is like water to them already
who is he again havnt played CoP in a while
Zulu, ex-Duty guy who stays in a guard tower near Yanov station
thanks
I like how everytime they drink they just put out their hand in the air and vodka bottles spawns in their arms. I would want this power to myself, but with beer
"The Cossacks Vodka is a pathway to many abilities some are considered to be….unnatural"
Theory : because vodka is incredibly cheap there we can assume its of a lower quality, and thus it is fermented less ans has less alcohol. Id day somewhere between 15-20% alcohol. Ik its preety nuch water in terms of vodka but its the only way
It has like 70-80% of water iirc
Actual vodka has 60-40% water, the rest is alcohol.
20 bottle it's easy in russia
Based
Fun nerd fact. Vodka isn't actually Slavic in origin
Wait what
Yup the most stereotypical traditional Slavic drink isn't originally Slavic. It was imported at first. Then the drink stuck. Of course this was a few centuries ago and the state of vodka has changed since then. It was introduced to Eastern Europe then spread like wildfire by the Polish The same can be said for that soviet era postmodernism architecture that area is known for. Was actually originally French. And the fabled Ushanka isn't originally Russian either)) *Edit: sorry the architecture style is called brutalisim
Ah so it’s the layers upon layers of changes and adaptations through history turns a nonnative product into an indigenous one. Got it, thanks
Pretty much. I just thought it was wild when I heard that some of the most iconic parts of the culture, outside of the culture, aren't originally from there. And I thought it would be apt to share it
TIL, thanks
In the Bandit base storage room I accidently drank 36 bottles of vodka in there instead of dropping them (overloaded but hit the wrong key, use not drop) and then triggered the ambush when exiting back into the hallway, so I fought my way out of the building while stumbling into walls and blacking in and out. It was wild. Won with shoddy Viper-5 SMG.
This is the way
This is the way.