Sunday, December 4, 2011

Hawkward.

So I confess to you, though I greatly enjoy the game of League of Legends (or, as we've taken to calling it, Lolitics), the player base... well, I wouldn't say they're all assholes.  Some of them would be more accurately described as jackasses, with perhaps a few shitweasels thrown in for good measure.   Don't get me wrong, it's easy enough to find someone reasonably polite when the team's winning, but when the team loses... well, it's kind of like a game of Hot Potato.  Except instead of a potato being tossed, it's furious insults, typed out by middle-schoolers using every key on their keyboard except for the ones with letters.

So given this, it's entirely understandable that I've really only met one person on there who I've felt like playing with again after the game.  Totally a classy fellow, sportsmanlike, willing to admit fault.

"By Jove!"  I thought.  "What if I introduce this fellow to the rest of my playing group, so that we can all play a game together as a team?  It's bound to have only good results!  Right?  Right."

So then I do, and shortly thereafter, I come to the realization:  this guy seems to be somewhat worse than the rest of my team at the actual game.  

Hawkward.




Although in his defense, that game was after recent patch changes had forced him out of the jungle (which is where he's best), and into the solo top role (which I am given to understand he's really only sorta-decent at.)

4 comments:

  1. Easy answer: Stop playing LoL

    MY COMMENTS ARE ALWAYS HELPFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE.

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  2. So, it pretty much went down like this?

    Flask: Hello gentlemen! I have a new ally for our 5v5 team!

    Well-mannered Noob: Salutations! I am well-mannered but lack your level of experience.

    But when Flask got into the game, he realized that all of his friends had turned into assholes.

    That about sum it up?

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  3. "He realized that all his friends had become assholes" is a line that needs to be used more often.

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  4. This is about the time we met, so for a moment I thought you were talking about me.

    Then I remembered that I can kick your ass in league ;D

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