I just come back to playing after awhile
I just came back from a break and played a few games today and noticed something different. Maybe its the low elo or the matchmaking adjustments or who knows, but I noticed a significant decrease in belittling and complaining in games despite the outcome of the match. When i started playing a little over a year ago all i would see is negative behavior that caused the popularity of the word Toxic among the community and I fell prey to becoming another stick in the mud when me or another player was not doing well, causing me to have a negative attitude for the rest of the game and having my frustration make me do worse. I just came out of a game where I did not do well and began to have those feelings again but the rest of the team pulled together and i followed them into a few decent team fights. We were ultimately overpowered by the other team but it wasnt for lack of trying, and the post game chat was full of hearty ggs and non condescending advice. This made me feel as though i can try again and get better, to the point of which I felt i wanted to make a thread about how much better I feel about the game in general. Not being a dick really does help the game and a good attitude really can get you somewhere in this game without being an elitist jackass.
TLDR: Thanks for not being jerks