WARNING FOR THOSE ADDICTED TO LOL

Rew711·10/23/2014, 2:31:25 PM·1 votes·1,022 views

STOP PLAYING MORE THAN 1 TIME A DAY!!

My computer is starting to fail on me. I've played LoL I believe for about a little over a year now on my Macbook Pro. Now, I know what you want to say is, "that's your problem" but I just want to lay this out.

This game can hurt your computer if used in excessive use.

In a previous troll post I'd made, I talked about my computer dying and I got mad at LoL. But it was purely my fault.

My battery now doesn't last long. (Even on sleep mode, it dies within 30-20 minutes.)
Slow computer, as this happens when a computer is over used.

I played this game more than 4 times a day and over 20 times a week. That is over 400 (over 6 hours) minutes of games played.

Please be careful about how you play. You may end up having to get a new computer.

Rew711

5 Comments

Jubbinaut10/23/2014, 3:09:54 PM3 votes

How long have you had this Macbook? It's common, as computers age to start seeing the problems you describe - especially with laptop devices.

Did you recently update the OS? I've been seeing a lot of complaints around the internet in general about the newest version of the Mac OS causing all kinds of problems with older machines.

There are three things that explain what you're seeing. "Causation," which is your assumption - playing games caused your computer to start having problems. "Correlation," which is when something affects both situations - usage wore your computer down, and you just happened to be using it to play League. "Coincidence," which I suspect is most likely - the two are completely unrelated, and the causes of your computer's issues are unrelated to your League-playing.

Raptamei10/23/2014, 5:49:41 PM2 votes

Computers don't get slower due to "wear" (electronics wear is a thing, but it doesn't cause slowdown, it just causes it to fail after X years).

Macs do get slower with system updates though. And any advanced OS gets slower over time.

When you do things that drain your battery faster (like PLAYING GAMES), you have to recharge it more often and therefore your battery will wear out faster. That doesn't mean the game is broken.