My memories and experiences with this game

TL;DR didn't regret playing the game, just regret the amount of time spent on the boards and on the game.

Just to get some form of closure I'm going to write this post. I feel like I'm moving out of some epoch in my life. Of course I'm totally overexaggerating and it's not really all that huge but I felt like writing this post because I just beat the moon lord twice in Terraria so now I don't know what I'm going to spend my excess time doing, now that my mind is content with how far I got in that game. Hell for all I know I'll get addicted to league again over the summer or something, but I still feel like a chapter in my life ended with me setting the game down. Also my thoughts are really fragmented and I'm failing to sort them properly so I'm hoping this will help out. I want to share my experiences with the game because I want to reminisce about them. Also my thoughts are really fragmented and I'm failing to sort them properly so I'm hoping this will help out. To do so I will be making a timeline. I recognize that this post is an utter waste of time because it will probably get buried under 50 million "nerf Yasuo" posts or something, but that's not going to stop me.

Easter of 2015-I played some crappy free MOBA on steam, my cousin saw and said "if you like that game then you would totally love LoL". Nearly 1.5k hours later and I can say he was right.

Spring 2015-Played nothing but bots, entirely because my first few normal matches were full of smurfs being absolute dicks. I was terrified to play against beginner bots, but I wanted to progress in level. At some point in time in here I made the mistake of playing Aatrox on his free rotation, saved up to buy him and fed like 40 matches in a row. Even in bot games. If I wasn't playing Aatrox I was probably playing Garen.

End of school year 2015-After getting bored of the game my friend came back from Korea and convinced me to play with him. Oh boy did we play.

Summer of 2015-Normal matches, so many normal matches. I played a ton of Nasus, Garen, Warwick, and Veigar. I had so much goddamn fun playing league at this time. This is when I got overly attached to the game. Played a lot with my cousin Bryan. We came to know each other a lot better through this game which was great. He's an inspiration to me and I'm very happy that league provided a reason for me to talk to him so much.

Start of 2015 school year-Got made fun of by a friend for mastery 5 on Warwick. Around this time I dipped my toe into ranked. Mistake. Played morgana bot lane and got placed with a kalista (this was around the time when she was really OP). Didn't do so great and got flamed all game. Didn't try ranked for some time after that.

Preseason 2015-This was a fun time. Didn't really understand many of the changes going out but I was still having a ton of fun.

Start of 2016-Still having a ton of fun, but my friends were getting a little annoying at this point. Joined the boards at some time, which was a terrible idea. I maintain that this place is a hellhole of which I completely despise. It has little to no redeeming qualities, only a few people who are on here seem to be genuinely good people.

Mid 2016-Completely addicted to the boards now. I stopped playing with friends most of the time, unless it was to cheese out ranked wins in DynamicQ, since they would troll almost constantly. This is around the time when Riot and the community got really tense of DynamicQ and I really started to hate the boards. Wrote some fanfiction and only succeeded in getting a guy at school to stalk me and creep me out over it. I am not a writer.

Start of the 2016 school year-Overly invested in this game and played all the time even though I rarely had fun. I can't remember when but I started to play Nidalee. Played the hell out of her and she is the last champion that I really felt like I enjoyed playing. Once she was nerfed and I was too bad at the game to keep up I set her down for a while.

2016 preseason-Failed assassin update really didn't change much for me. I almost completely stopped liking the game at this point. Only playing because it was something to do in my copious amounts of free time. I hated the boards from the depths of my soul at this point. Disliked the online persona that I would get every time I started posting too. Tried to improve my online demeanor a few times but just couldn't. I was really toxic around this time, I afked in a lot of games and was amazed at my lack of punishments. My faith in the report system fell through completely.

Realized that turrets could be taken at 3 minutes into the game and just kind of gave up mentally.

Jan 2017-Struggled really hard in a few games, played almost exclusively aram then stopped for almost a month. Came back and played on game of Olaf top. Hated the whole experience. -laning against riven was ass -toxic teammates -felt myself becoming toxic again -snowball meta -etc.

I still want to play Nidalee. I really do. I tired to download the game a week ago but the installer didn't work right so I started playing Terraria again. I don't regret playing the game. I wouldn't be the person that I currently am without playing it. I wouldn't have the political views if I didn't play it, but that's due to the videos I watched in the background. I do regret ever using the boards. I still hate this place even today, I only occasionally go on it for 5 minutes just to have a laugh at how similar it is to when I stopped using it. The game really seems about the same as when I left it, still ridiculous unbalance and some new meta that everyone whines about. My friend occasionally plays and he still complains about the same stuff that he complained about in mid 2016. I don't know what to make of Riot as a company. I just don't. I think their balance decisions aren't great and they are overall questionable. I would download a sequel to Blitzcrank's Poro roundup, that was a fun game.