I've never had as little fun as during this match

Because Poros·7/23/2015, 2:07:37 AM·1 votes·185 views

So, I'm a high Bronze, low to mid level Silver player, and I'm proud of that, It means I've room to improve, get better, play better. And I do, with every match i play I improve my timings, tweak my build times or reaction timings, etc.

But there is a downside. Recently I played a match in solo blind pick as a support TK (Tahm Kench) and I didn't do awful, I think I did decently well. The trouble began when the enemy Renekton started complaining about a 4 man push against his top lane, I reply that bot lane was ganked (or had an attemped gank) 3 times. So they give off an obligatory (and salty) get over it themed remark. Then they insulted something they shouldn't have, They started insulting the Wounded Warrior Project, which is a charity based ENTIRELY around helping wounded veterans get medical help, new homes, handicap access to their own homes, and in general anything to make their now harder life, easier. It's an amazing program. I asked them to not insult the program, seeing as I was a soldier, and I didn't want to hear it. Four out of Five of their team members started immediately calling me ou, calling me fake soldier this, faerie bitch that, etc. It was honestly hurtful. Eventually all I said was skype me afterwards, That way i can actually talk to them man to man, show that I'm not faking being a part of the US Military (Which I find abhorrent to do). They immediately begin making sexual based jokes designed to demean and insult. I could deal with that. I did deal with that. But they start going on about how all Soldiers were faeries or stupid, making remarks about forcing sex on a muslim while they blew up, things that had I been there in person, I would have gone to jail for assault.

Some things you just don't say, even if you are anonymous on the internet. They didn't prevent me from playing well, they didn't emotionally damage me. No, they instead gave me my first taste of an anti-military view, one that had taken a severely childish undertone. I'm Posting this in hopes that Riot reads it, and can act on it, maybe send a personalized message to each of the players, something. It bugs me that the people I put my life on the line for can be so caustic to me, and the brothers and sisters beside me. Maybe I'm taking some internet trolling too serious, Maybe I'm letting them get under my skin. But does that excuse what they did? Kids will be Kids they say... Well If that is what the newest generation is like, Do I really want to risk my life to protect them? No... I don't, but I'm going to anyways because the Soldiers, the NCO's, the Warrant Officers, the Commissioned Officers that all came before me would have. And I owe it to them, and all the people currently alive, and not yet born to have a chance at life.

Listed here is a link to the match history. Only the Yi abstained from being so Hostile:

This was the worst game I have ever had to play on League of Legends, worse even than the most crushing defeat I can remember. GG GL and HF, I hope you all have better games than what This farce was.

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