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Food for Thought (from a former toxic player)

Mr Video·8/14/2019, 2:11:06 AM·4 votes·6,066 views

TLDR: If you had the opportunity to meet up with your recent teammates/opponents IRL and have lunch, would you refuse and hold the grudge against them because they costed you your promos?

Imagine this scenario:

The new school/university year just started and you got to meet a lot of new people and make some new friends. As the days go by, you all share about each other's interests, and the common ground between you all is video games (not just League of Legends). Here's the kicker: in this scenario, you've played with/against all of these people before in the past year or more. _ How many of these new friends have you cussed out in a past time? How many have you told to kill themselves? How many have you wished illness upon them and their family because they stole your blue/red buff?_

Just because they're represented as a champion in game does not mean that they're any less of a human being. Believe it or not, they all have issues in life just like you do too. Sure, there are many trolls out there that find joy in intentionally ruining the fun in the game.

There's also people that cut you off while you're driving to work/school. The majority of those people also have urgent matters to attend to.

We're all human, we all make mistakes, and we're all reading this from a screen somewhere in the world. And in the extremely rare event I had the opportunity to meet you IRL, I'd buy you a coffee/beer/RP because you're already a pretty awesome person.

12 Comments

Savage the King8/14/2019, 2:23:52 AM2 votes

Here is my story. I faced this Akali twice on the enemy team the other day, and she sucked big time. And I told her. And we beat their team twice, her bad play scoring high among the reasons for their losses.

So I meet this Akali again a few days later and I recognize her in pick stage, so I tell her "oh I remember you, Akali . You sucked a**." Of course she granted me with a troll pick and inting all game, and we exchanged rude words all game long, and in post-game lobby, and she requested friendship, which I accepted because I wanted to tell her that she sucked some more. She tells me "Q UP NOW" because she wanted to face me another time, unfortunately we got in different games.

Long story short, we carry on the bitching 15 minutes in the other game, how pointless right. So at that moment I realize, I just msg her back "enough toxic. I rly hope u win" and she answers "u2". I won my game, she lost. So I felt bad about it and offered to redeem my meanness by giving her my heartiest game of true effort to give her a win. We won and her Jax destroyed the enemy team and single-handedly won us game.

Today we are married and she is pregnant with my future triplets.

SòlKıng Rıven8/15/2019, 2:29:59 PM2 votes

Usually when people are toxic to me, im pretty indifferent. Sometimes I rage if its been a long day but most of the time I'm pretty chill and I just ask them if they want to talk about it in discord. Every single time someone goes from flaming me to talking in discord they become the nicest person ever, why? Because voice chat and being able to communicate exactly what you want over a short period of time is alot more effective. Alot of people got mad at me for really stupid reasons, but they were misunderstandings so the hate was justified. One guy for example got really toxic because he said the game was over and I said "The only person that is weak on our team is you, everyone else is doing good." He thought when i said this I was flaming him, and got really toxic the rest of the game over it. After the game I invited him and his duo to talk over discord and we cleared up the misunderstanding and I had a really good talk with his friend about life and stuff. Most people are only bad over chat, although like I said, that is most people, not all.

jewboy128/15/2019, 12:22:48 AM1 votes

no. if they dont have the balls to be virtuous anonymously why would i want to be involved for two seconds with a snake in the grass irl when i know how theyll act with no punishment?

Neumím Riven8/18/2019, 4:51:18 PM1 votes

My cousin met his teammate (lets call him Jack) who ruined his promo matches on purpose at school. Cousin found it out when he saw Jack showing his op.gg to his friend during computer class. My cousin waited for him and beated the shit out of him. He broke his jaw and teared his eyebrow off. Cousin was almost expelled, his parents gave him a hell at home - However when I asked him if he feel sorry for that, he simply answered me: "No and I would do it again. That motherf* deserved it.

P.S: Jack wasn't punished for his int feeding despite he got reports even from enemy team.

Ninjas Flossing8/19/2019, 8:46:01 AM1 votes

nope, i really wouldn't. the type of people i meet in games fall into two categories. insane people that never stop or people that leave no impression at all. im not interested in either.