Every year for the past 8-9 years, me and my friends have had Oscar viewing parties to watch the Academy Awards. We would watch the ceremony and we'd even make a betting pool and see who gets the most correct predictions for who wins the awards. But this year, I've decided not to watch the ceremony. I think the show is going to have a lot less personality without a host, I hate that they're not even going to televise some of the awards presentations, and I just think we have a weak batch of nominees, especially in the Best Picture category. I have more reasons to not watch it, so that's what I'm doing this year.

I went over to his apartment to tell my friend who was hosting the viewing party this year that I'm not watching and I won't be coming over to his place on Oscars night. He was actually pretty upset. He accused me of "breaking tradition" and he said that I "have to" watch it and come over. I told him that I have no interest in this year's ceremony and that I don't want to watch it. And what does my friend do? He actually calls an "emergency meeting" and invites over one other friends to tell him about this "situation". The other friend arrives and they're both pissed at me for not wanting to go to the viewing party. And then one of them tried to guilt trip me into going by saying that these viewing parties are the best way to stay connected as friends and I decided to just use my nuclear option. I told them that we must have a pretty shitty friendship if the Oscars are the only thing keeping us connected. One of my friends then said that I'm not watching simply because I'm jealous that a lot of the movies I liked didn't get nominated for Best Picture, so I started attacking his taste in movies. His favorite movie of the year was Bohemian Rhapsody and I said to him "The only reason that it was even nominated is because the main character is gay! That movie is a pile of shit!" Then the three of us get into this giant argument attacking each other's favorite movies of 2018.

I decided to just leave and I turned to my friends and said "I'm outgrowing you man-babies who throw a fit over a stupid awards show!" and they both said "Don't call it stupid!" But I kept calling it stupid and I yelled that I'm never watching the Oscars again and that they can have their dumbass viewing parties without me. I left the apartment in an extremely pissed off mood and at first I felt good about telling them off like that, but in hindsight I really feel like shit. Not only because of how the fight went, but because I'v already lost one friend (I posted the story here about ditching him at Wal-Mart) and it looks like I've lost at least two more. I don't even want to think about all of the other friends who usually attend the viewing parties every year. But I still think that my friends were overreacting to my decision. What do you think?

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