For me personally, playing casually with friends is more frustrating than playing solo queue while trying to improve. Learning stuff about the game and feeling like you improve is more fulfilling to me.
@@joshuacox5817 Rather people who think the game is rigged yet still playing are the real addicts. There is nothing rigged about the ranked ladder, there is a great difference between players even few ranks apart.
Its super important to add that most Free to play games do have a chockehold on people cuz there isnt a barrier of entry, just having a relatevely modern pc or cellphone is enough
lol no it's not super important we're talking about video games lol calm down richard. Also hilarious how you say there isn't a barrier of entry while immediately going on to saying that there is one. Maybe listen to yourself before hitting send lol.
Most people use either a computer or a phone for their daily tasks so I'm correct to point this out, if for some reason you bought a PC in the last 3 years you can play league on it, same with phones and genshin
I quit for like 6 years and came back just to play with friends, it feels so much happier and healthier logging on after work for a few matches with the boys rather than the 10 hour ranked grind days.
I can't be in a call with people playing League, you cannot have a conversation or enjoy your time together, its just a lot of -this r worded (insert role/champion) can't do (insert objective or basic game mechanic) -I'm going to minecraft myself for failing a skillshot/number too small so i lost a fight -screeching because its the one time someone got a win and they get to make plays and the rush sets in -general callouts which would be fine but there are no breaks, the games last 20 minutes at least, some go over 40 even 50 and then everyone leaves after a loss or something
League is like Bumfights. You’re an addict fighting 9 other unstable addicts for a lil dose of LP. League is like if Slot Machine addicts were made to fight each other just to pull the lever again. League is an embarrassing habit that ONLY steals your time, 30 minutes at a time. Hope you beat the urges soon, Noah.
I think it’s sad that some people only see league as an addiction. I think it’s important people are aware that it can be an addiction and how destructive it can be. However it can also be a great competitive hobby, and very fulfilling once you shift your mindset. I hope more people will have a healthy relationship in the future, because it can actually be a positive part of your life.
@@notieming I feel like that as well, sadly you have to have control, and League in some part taught me that. I enjoy the game, really, I enjoy improving and turbo-smurfing people in my elo, getting huge winstreaks, etc, but I had to learn to mantain it as a hobby. Sometimes I get urges of playing when I have bigger responsabilities, and you have to learn to put it away and remember it's just a game, and that's the problem, if you start playing well for some days you will not want to stop, it's REALLY addictive.
2011, college, 5am, full night of gaming, class in two hours, fingers shaking and tears in my eyes because I'm so tired and so miserable, and I click just one more game... I don't touch any games that remotely smell like the League loop anymore. That stuff wrecked me.
I’m a recovered addict. For a few years League was the only reason I had to live. Bullying led to anxiety and social isolation. I was depressed as hell but learning and improving at the game was the one thing I could do. As grimy as the player base is. Esports and the love for the game kept me going at weird times. But I knew there was an issue when I’d get annoyed or tilted in champ select. I’d be mad before I even got to play. There was a host of other issues around that compounded. But I don’t regret it anymore. I met some amazing people by chance and I did have some good times. There’s a twinge of cringe in me when I think about league being such a massive part of my life. But it is what it is, and I’m ok with that.
I really don't think it's cringe my guy. I also developed big mental health issues after bullying and since then video games have been my reason to get up pretty much every day, eventually led to some of the best friendships in my life and just generally keep me from sitting with dark thoughts and spiralling by myself.
There's a physicist I watch who says something that I agree with, Addiction is an adaptive self defense mechanism. It's a symptom not the actual problem. Gaming has helped me through alot of things, and kept me out of alot of things. You can come back from a league/mmo addiction. Much harder to come back from addiction to hard drugs and irl gambling, especially with the gang connotations. People yell alot at gamer but in the grand scheme of things alot of people game because the reality is we have very little agency in the grand scheme of our lives.
All you are doing right now is running.I know its comfy and i know it feels good,but that isn't who you are.There are problems in you that need to be removed,and days that need to be enjoyed.If you change nothing,nothing will change,find your self.If you want to live a happy life without fear and sadness and overcome your struggles,the first thing you need to do is let go of your old and rotten self.
league may not have an enthralling storyline but it does teach you a lot about all the different personality disorders you used to have to go out and live a busy social life for 90 years to accumulate even half as many of those encounters
I have a number of friends addicted to League, Dota, or other online comp games. I briefly was myself and it made me miserable. I think on some level it makes my friends miserable too. I get to hear them raging in voice chat every single night, getting mad, going to bed frustrated. If I ever mention this and how maybe they'd be happier doing other things, they always tell me no it's super fun and relaxing actually (it's not). Not trying to police how my friends spend their time, but it bums me out seeing how the games make them unhappy and they just keep playing.
I started playing League in 2014 or so and played pretty compulsively through a very toxic and lonely stage of my life. I usually had chat muted, but the feeders and pings communicated enough abuse to be just painful enough to keep playing. At some point, I stopped having fun and stopped looking forward to playing, but I had nothing else to fill that time, so I kept going until I slowly found new games, friends and hobbies to break the cycle. I spent a lot of money on that game and I don’t regret it, but I do regret the way I used it to cope.
@@tri-angel i’ve cleaned a bunch of different consoles and once you open it up i use compressed air for dust, then isopropyl alcohol (99%) with qtips and an old toothbrush for the inside, and a soapy wet washcloth for the plastic shell :)
If you can manage to have a healthy relationship with the game and mentally deal with the challenges of soloqueue and the community who play it - the game can be immensely rewarding. I limit myself to no more than 3 games per day and typically don't play more than 2. If i feel the need to play more i'll often just watch other high elo players or review my own games which helps me improve way faster than spamming games alone does. Its definitely a game that rewards intentionality. I'd recommend you check out the Broken By Concept podcast - they have a lot of good information and strategies for improving while maintaining a healthy relationship to the game and are a breath of fresh air compared with the rest of the community.
Or you can move onto a game that doesn't force you to play with a highly toxic community that doesn't respect the game or other people's time. There is a giant world outside of league where you can find a place to develop your skills in a game that actually has a respectful community, who isn't hate-playing a game that they despise. I played lol for 10 years and after my first 3 month break, I haven't looked back. If they ever get their toxicity in check, maybe I'd look in that direction, but till then, there are way too many better things in life to spend my time on.
@@Jfunk242 I’m not going to defend the community writ large but I do love the game. I don’t typically experience much toxicity because I play soloQ with chat off and am very fast to mute pings if people begin to abuse them. When I play with my friends we do a pretty good job of not putting each other down and it’s genuinely a lot of fun. I don’t know of any moba community or any competitive game community that isn’t toxic. That being said if you feel good about quitting league then by all means more power to you. It’s not for everyone and I definitely understand that perspective.
The flower bit is hilarious bc I worked for a guy during the pandemi who had that mindset - he wanted to buy out every flower shop in the oc while lockdowns were in place, and planned to make money simply by crushing his competitors while they weren’t there
@@mgg7756PragerU isnt a university, its an advocacy group promoting conservative viewpoints There known for spreading misinformation (basically modern day conservative propaganda) They just call themselves PragerU (prager university) because it makes them sound more credible
@@mgg7756 i would not be surprised at all; he was an hvac guy or something for awhile and decided that march 2020 was a perfect time to buy a flower shop from his aunt and turn it into an empire.
I love League of Legends and agree with a lot of your points. I've found the biggest thing for me is to not play ranked. It's just a game and at the end of the day, the point is to just have fun. Also, I'm an unapologetic Teemo stan.
7:50 while i think it's obviously important to have some kind of art, no matter what the variety, that is more thoughtful and that you engage with in a more deep manner, i think its just as important to have some artistic/artful things that isnt overtly concerned with being deep and thought provoking that you can enjoy in just a very simple way. its great for relieving stress and anxiety. i didnt realize how important it was and how pretentious and, honestly, simply, utterly annoying and intolerable people who need all the art they enjoy to be "deep" and even look down upon art that they dont perceive as being "intellectual." i had a friend who just could did not understand casually enjoying an interest. everything art wise that he surrounded himself witching he had to perceive as intelligent & thought provoking and he had to understand and know everything about these topics. it wasnt like "special interest" type vibes either and he was like evem
The biggest portion of a healthy life in terms of culture is made of content that's familiar, a safe zone, and entirely meaningless, maybe not for someone crazy passionate. That said things like LOL are on intent more of a drug than something you do when you're bored.
The film Paterson introduced this idea for me. It follows a bus driver who enjoys writing poems about everyday experiences. While I'm a keen observer, it taught me to slow down and feel more than think.
My friends were all into League and I never got it. I was bad at it, I'll openly admit that, probably the worst of my friends, but it's not like I never landed a good Ashe ult or came in with a clutch Sona heal. We won games, but like, then I'd go back to shit I actually enjoyed. For me that was single player offline games. I never understood how people played with strangers online, because like... The basic act of League wasn't fun? Climbing buildings in Infamous was inherently fun. Punching goons in Arkham Asylum was inherently fun. Clicking on minions and optimizing for last hit or making sure your ADC got soft mostly low health minions.... Not fun. On one hand, I'm greatful that League of Legends never got me. On the other hand, I have that brain rot that makes me care about the lore implications of Dream Drop Distance on Kingdom Hearts, so like, who am I to talk?
i am a current league player used to be addicted as shit I like to think I am a bit more reasonable with my playing now. Your justification for optimizing the last hit being boring could be given for chess or any other long standing competitive game. Who cares about learning sequences of moves just to beat a guy (turns out millions of people do). I just get bored in single player offline games. There is no motivation for me to get good (aside from souls like games where I want to find out how the story continues) and every time u fail u fight the exact same thing in most of them(unless it's procedurally generated). In league every failure is unique and multi-faceted. If you lost a game there can be a million reasons for it. Even for dying once there can be so many reasons u died. You chose the wrong runes in champ select you didn't look at where the jungler is. You don't know the matchup and that their champion is stronger in the 1 v 1. I would say league at its best is not fun but satisfying. When you make a decision differently than what you'd do usually and it works out you feel good cause you improved. It's quantifiable and it's really fucking hard. I agree it's not mindless relaxing fun and it's more like work but you know what i never found the "mindless" relaxation fine and maybe i'm the weird one for that. Games like stardew valley bore me out of my mind and i cba to care about some games which have been callrd extremely beautiful and well made because it's just not interesting. Struggling against another human being to perfect ur ability to understand and use a set of given rules is just very satisfying. League at its worst i don't even have to explain you get extremely tilted and rage queue on repeat.
You know what's hilarious I'm the exact opposite, I cannot for the life of me play single player offline games unless its dark souls or FF. it just bores the hell out of me. But on the other hand min mazxing is what I froth over, funny how we can be polar opposites.
yeah at one point I was, now its tarkov haha and then it will be something else and so on and so on, perks of having an addictive personality @@anon1963
I play about a thousand games a year, last year it was 800 or less. That is like three games a day, but I would say it's more like two games a day on most weekdays and five games a day on weekends. I play League alone most of the time. I enjoy ranked. I like that it's challenging and I am working towards a long-term goal(of being good). I am doing it for me. I started playing in 2021. It's easily one of the hardest and most complex games I have played. I still have time to read, watch series, learn new stuff, and speak or see my friends if I want to. I rarely ever want to hang out though, and I have always enjoyed solitary activities, so I am not bothered. Much of time is spent with my family though even when I play games they are around. I also cook every day and I enjoy biking. League is a beautiful game that has taught me a lot about how to learn and master skills. It has taught me a lot about the type of patience and mentality required (keep a cool head and think beyond the current game/instance/situation) to improve at things. It has also taught me a lot about the importance of consistency and how progress is often slow and then sudden. These translate to other things I try. Maybe it helps that I started playing the game at 29, but I love this game. It's a shame there are people who can't have a healthy relationship with the game, but I am glad you and most in the comments are in a better state now.
Didn't play League but I did play Smite which is just as toxic of a MOBA. All MOBAs fall victim to this toxicity. One thing that could help is moderation of the playerbase and curbing extra-toxic behavior but rarely do game devs care to actually clamp down on their own playerbase out of fear they're going to get backlash. Like... they're already getting backlash by NOT doing anything remotely helpful. It wouldn't be so bad climbing in ranked if the toxicity didn't make it this difficult. We look for validation of our skill. I know I was a better than Bronze player in Smite but toxic team mates kept me in ELO hell, which absolutely does exist. Can only carry so hard.
I get this. Validation of skill in these games I think is what makes these games so addictive. It's externalizing self-worth out to a shiny rank you see in game for nerd points with other people on the gaming treadmill.
I used to be addicted to this game. I almost reached Master last season, but on the last day of season, 400 games, I was sleepless and looked like a monster. Speaking slowly, I was sleeping and waking up thinking about next ranked. So, when it was like 9 am, I was Diamond 1 with 50 LP. I played 2 games in a row, lost both. Just decided to sleep and never started another ranked game again
This was me in 2021 after burning out from work during the pandemic. 6 months of dissociation in Ranked 😎😎 Fun game with friends or in moderation as long as you're not tilting, tho!
Prayers for all those who are still in it, you can do it champ there is so much more to life i promise it's hard as hell to quite it, but it's doable and its the best decision you'll ever make !
"If you're not learning to play league with someone you know, you're a superhero" this. I had an excellent time learning Dota 1 and LoL with my friends, and taught many people myself. If you're with friends, every game is is a good game well played.
Teemo is king of the rats, you choose well. I exclusively play ARAM and I have done for years, solo and with friends. I find the Abyss way more chill than the Rift. Love that you put Forgone Destruction in the audio, pretty sure that was my introduction to DnB.
As someone who isn’t really a gamer (I liked Nintendo stuff when I was younger, but I don’t play much now other than the odd Lego game), I feel like gamers are labelled “lazy” but… it takes work lol at least more effort than watching tv or scrolling on TikTok Solidarity with gamers ❤
It's like calling a chess player lazy because they are just sitting playing a board game. It takes incredible brain power to play games like that and even chess players burn thousands of calories just focusing on the game.
my favorite way of packing cords is wrapping them like normal then reusing twist ties to keep them wound. i know noah has already packed, but hope that helps somebody else :)
Hey Noah, I just wanted to thank you for this video. Probably found it while procrastinating after a bad case of league for a couple of weeks. I feel sad to know that I can't just enjoy things and just balance things out better. Well if I could apply myself to being moderate in all walks of life as I can apply myself to league, I'd probably be much happier. On that note I will stop procrastinating and do what I was supposed to do, have a good day Noah and you all who read this, sending you lots of love
Things are only a waste of time if you learn nothing… ANYTHING you do can be a complete waste of time if you aren’t doing it consciously. You can learn a lot from team games if you’re actually playing them consciously and not just running though the motions in every match. If you’re analyzing your gameplay in realtime, not so much of a problem. I don’t know, but I just don’t think most things are a waste of time if you’re getting something out of it. Even if it’s just learning how to calm yourself. I love using games like this is practice being NOT a hothead.
I’ve never played a video game in my life but this is so cozy. The main thing I do in my free time is read fanfic though, so I can’t say I’m that much better. I usually clock 6-8hrs a day depending on how busy I am lol.
That’s some real tension building right there. Talking about your regrets about the time spent playing league, while slowly dismantling your computer setup. Is he gonna dump all of his electronics and become a monk?? Nah just moving. Kept me hooked to find out though. Regardless, I enjoy listening to you share your experience
my league addiction completely ruined my relationship with videogames 😢 i still play some (non-league) games every now and then, but for the most part i don’t play much of anything. glad i got out.
For games like league of legends, playing only with friends is the best system I've found for moderation. Losing 10 games in a row isn't nearly as depressing when you're on call with the boys hanging out. It feels like a mildly meaningful experience rather than Sisyphus pushing a boulder up the LP hill
"Currently, right now I play only Teemo top" I quit league long ago, but still i despise this choice of character. Bloody ap bastards, always have the nice things. At least you are not adc main
It's crazy how much of a mountain and an accomplishment getting a particular rank is, but as big as the game is it's still a niche in the larger world and it doesn't actually mean anything.
A tip for those struggling with this, ask yourself what you would do if you could not play for an entire day, or an entire week, if you dont have anything start there. My issue was having nothing and i would play games and watch anime so i instead started collecting and reading manga, it is a much healthier way to indulge in my favorite stories and things of that sort
Why be addicted to League when you can be addicted to DOTA2, the less popular but more fun counterpart with just as much toxicity. Start playing today and ruin your mentality in a different flavour!
There's this category of (often multiplayer) games that are simultaneously one of the most engaging, well designed experiences, and yet have the potential to make you absolutely miserable. For a lot of folks it's league, for me it was Dead by Daylight and Dota, maybe yours is rainbow six. It's so fascinating how, from my experience, people will often never recommend getting into these games and yet still often consider them to have the potential to make some of the funnest gaming experiences they've had. It's probably the blend of that incredible potential, mixed with the reality of the grind of constantly queing for the next game that makes it so problematic. It's really is a drug, chasing the dragon of that one perfect game that makes you feel validated for all the time you've spent staring at a boring win or crushing loss wishing you'd never logged on at all today.
As a former drug addict and also former hardstuck bronze I Viktor/Orianna main, proud to admit I haven’t touched the rift in 3 years but still play like 2 games of ARAM most nights w/ my gf. It’s been an incredible change- no one flames, 20min games, everyone is just vibing, highly recommend for anyone caught in the toxic ranked cycle
what's almost worse imo, if you end up with 1k hours on games you actually hate to play, i.e. because your friends only want to play one certain game and you comply despite the fact you dislike the game itself, but you want to spend time with friends gaming. for me that was the case with pubg. when i look at my accumulated playtime in this game that i hate i'm thinking i should rather have learned a language instead or something like that. i'm pretty sure i was pretty miserable and pissed 90percent of the time i played pubg.
Never was much of a gamer myself, but I had a roommate who didn‘t rly do much besides playing competitive games. Was kinda disturbing to see how much he neglected his duties that come with daily life and how emotionaly invested he was. Like how can you be so serious about a game while your whole life is falling apart, if that isnt addiction I don‘t know what is.
My nine year old MacBook that I played League on finally blew up and I couldn’t afford a new computer fora few months. Recently built a gaming PC and I’m realizing how much fun I have playing games that aren’t League, don’t know that I’ll ever go back to that ranked grind.
I had a friend who was the typical class heartthrob in high school super smart scholar athlete. From a rich family but hard working. The type of dude that should float through life. Failed out of NC state in 1 semester because as soon as he got there he got addicted to League and didn’t do anything else. Shit is powerful.
I also had problems with league addiction and now I play in moderation. Teemo top is in my top 3 most played champs. I play a few games a week with friends. We’ve played together for 12+ years. Those guys are like brothers to me. And yeah, league is actually a pretty good game. Ranked addiction is bad.
I honestly just feel like it's everyone else trying to tell me how I feel or how I should feel. I'm actually not depressed and I don't feel like my time has been wasted. But people like you and the people in my life keep trying to tell me what I should value. What you value is what makes you happy. Deep down I'm really content playing videogames for as long as I want. I don't have aspirations and ambitions. AND I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE. And as an American I'm free to be okay with that. I am healthy because I am happy. Stop acting like your values are the same s everyone else's.
exactly i work all week and the weekends i like to have my alone time of videogames as i hate going out and see no point in traveling and stuff like that
I never really played League , I’m a familiar with the lore. But the MUSIC……KDA in particular, with True Damage, Pentakill, HeartSteel, New Jeans….that is what I’m obsessed with. The Arcane soundtrack is nothing to scoff at either. It’s so wild how a music studio created a game to promote their music 🤣
Always nice to be self aware. Check what you are doing from time to time. Same with so many things.... work...food ... just take a look what you are actually doing.
The issue is that majority league players play the game without structure. I play league everyday. I play 0-3 games a night. I do all my tasks before hand. Cook dinner, take the trash out, walk the dog, do the dishes. I spend time with my wife, take a shower. I sit down at my computer. I put some music on. I review one of the last 3 games I play. Check for mistakes what I could of done better. I make notes. If my coach has watched one of my games and made notes I will watch that and ask him any questions. Then I play a game. I then ask myself did I play my best that game win or loss. If I didn’t play my best why is that? If it’s something like I’m too tired or I have something on my mind. I turn the game off.
One thing that I hate about LOL is that u lose almost the same amount of RP as you win, making you feel losing a game a waste of your time, because now you're back to where you started. Each lose should be max 50% of the RP that you gain from winning. Also they should reward you more RP after winning say 3 games in a row.
started playing last week with my brother.... im in college i dont have time fo rhtis... did it all day until i forced myself off to go to class and do my work yesterday
Playing with friends is the only way I can stand to play summoner's rift anymore. I used to grind ranked when I cared about victorious skins, but I eventually realized the time/effort wasn't worth it. I've played it ever since Lulu came out, and it's a long time habit of mine. I don't think it's a good thing or worth my time, but it's something to do with friends, and not a lot of multiplayer games are all that enjoyable to me nowadays. Hopefully one will come along and replace it for me, bc it definitely has been a huge time sink as well.
I play with friends and can assuredly say that League brings the worst traits out of people more often than not. Myself included. MOBAs as a genre tend to, tbh. Most situations that can cause frustration have the benefit of you being able to step away from the situation with little to no consequence. League, and by extension other MOBAs, have the consequence of trapping you in that situation for as long as the game lasts (usually around 30 minutes) else you face repercussions. If you're getting camped by the Jungler and going 0/4 into the enemy Irelia, or any other lists of ways to fall super behind in the game, especially if the other lanes aren't doing well, tilting is kind of inevitable if you take the game seriously at all. If you're playing Ranked you're encouraged to treat the game like a job if you want to climb, especially with how many hours climbing can take (seriously +14/-30 in Emerald games is insane). Even trying to play casually being put into situations where you lose because of one mistake, or even from teammates making bad mistakes, or just from a skill gap can be very frustrating. Tilting is almost inevitable in this game. Taking it out on your teammates, especially if they're your friends, is never okay. That said, when you don't have a way to externalize frustration in the game in a constructive way it brings that sort of toxicity out of people.
I had this rabid league of legends phase since I was in grade 8 (13), until I was about 21. Peak years were towards the end of high school and into College. Absolutely life consuming. Took the game so seriously (not that good at it), neglected many other important things in life, easily 2000 + hours. After years of deleting it and re-downloading it, I haven't touched the game for well over a year now, and I'm genuinely less miserable & a happier person 😂. Super tilting game, whenever me and my friends talk about quitting our LoL days it straight up sounds like an addicts anonymous meeting
The silver grind was real back in the day. I don’t know if you played pre-ranked changes. But back when it went from Diamond - challenger, silver is where you fell if you played often enough and weren’t a mechanical god.
It feels like Retiring playing Live-Service Games in Moderation basically only with Friends in 1 Week or longer. The Hardest Part is the Manipulation form the Games by the Sunken-Cost-Fallacy and the Fear-of-Missing-Out through Battlepasses or putting a lot of money in a Game. Now i have more Freedom to play Games actively instead of passing time because of Boredome. Gaming itself is not Bad its how we use it in our Lives. Subscribe and Like for Noah time Guys/Human
as an osrs player, we are one of the most addicted and sweaty gamers on earth. also as a drug addict, yes this is still an addiction. just because its not hard drugs doesnt mean its addictive
I finally hit diamond 2 last season and had solid mmr, got to play with some streamers i used to watch and some ex pro's and i realized there is absolutely no point of wasting free time and climbing through ranked unless you make a job out of it
during my league habit, I always stuck to ARAM. and even that would become so frustrating and negative. nowadays I use it as a fun focus tool, a way to practice holding my body in difficult positions like ma bu or crane stance. and ARAM is such a low stakes way to explore the character's styles, like AD Collector Tankali or "Iceman Rammus". Or AP Tahm Kench, whose role in life is to s*ck and f*ck his way up the foodchain 😂 thanks for the video, it's inspiring me to clean out my closets.
Am currently deep cleaning my room/house while watching this video on my day off and have been loving them; tickles my ADHD brain somehow. Love these sorts of videos!
I have my games that I play endlessly (starting new saves in Monster Hunter games - gotta be like 2000+hrs) but I do try play narrative games or games with some sense of cohesive theme that I can chew on. I like routines so I try play the same game at the same time for the same time every day or so, and it becomes a meditative thing. But other times I'll just zone out and play Tetris 99 for an hour.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING AN ANTI GAMER GAMER i complain about anime literally all the time because i fucking hate so so much about it both structurally and socially yet i cant stop binging pokemon and i love jojo/cowboy bebop
During the first year of Covid I had basically no school. So I played league all day long like 16 hours a day. In the end of the year I had about 90 days yes DAYS playtime meaning that I spend a forth of a year in a year playing league. But as school started again I had to do more work again so I played less and less
DUUUUDE, is that Nether Animal from the UT99 soundtrack in the background?!?? God, it's so fucking good! That whole thing (and maybe specifically Nether Animal and Foregone Destruction) has definitely had a role to play in me growing up to become an electronic music producer/nerd with a deep love for ethereal jungle/dnb tunes. Absolute masterpiece. Recognized!
Almost all my friends stopped playing, and i dont play that much anymore (1 or 2 ranked games ever 2 days maybe), but I do honestly enjoy improving at the game, so i dont think I'll quite any time soon
I am a casual player, mostly ARAM. I greatly enjoy the fact that as a 46 year old I can have a 12 year old tell me that it’s a good job he doesn’t know where I live because he wants to kill me. I replied with a laugh that he could try. He said that he wouldn’t just try, but would gladly sacrifice his life to end mine because I was lower than a dog. I merely continued to send him smiles and laughs, telling him life is short enough as it is. Please, seek professional help.
I play Cho'Gath top in League every day, I'm also teaching myself Mandarine Chinese, I also watch TV, spend time with family, and work nights, I also have a lizard, 2 dogs, and 2 aquariums, (this is my day every day), I also watch LPL, LCS, LCK, and worlds every time their on, League is just something I do for fun, I don’t play even ranked much, I normally just play draft
i have no faith that our actions are deliberate. i think we're automata. at the same time i decided to quit my addictions when they threatened me. after twelve years of daily drinking, i noticed i was vurping constantly, _so i stopped buying booze._ after twenty years of asthmatic smoking, _i stopped combusting._ when i get too cranky and focused on Hearthstone, i put it down for six months to a year. and so on. you're the captain of this automated ship, use your head, don't be weak
I disabled chat on league a year ago, never ranked again, and just stayed on Aram, I play 3 o 4 games and it's fine. 3000 hours in...I play when I want to shoot down my brain.
I really love playing League but it's a bit sad that so many have an unhealthy relationship with the game. The game is fun but it would be more fun if the playerbase was less toxic.
League is like drinking, if you're doing it with friends, in moderation, it's ok. If you're doing it alone, during the daytime, you have a problem.
Awesome analogy
For me personally, playing casually with friends is more frustrating than playing solo queue while trying to improve. Learning stuff about the game and feeling like you improve is more fulfilling to me.
To add to that, people who think league is not in fact rigged, don't know how to identify what's real or how gambling works.
@@joshuacox5817 Rather people who think the game is rigged yet still playing are the real addicts. There is nothing rigged about the ranked ladder, there is a great difference between players even few ranks apart.
@@joshuacox5817 that’s delusional
Its super important to add that most Free to play games do have a chockehold on people cuz there isnt a barrier of entry, just having a relatevely modern pc or cellphone is enough
lol no it's not super important we're talking about video games lol calm down richard.
Also hilarious how you say there isn't a barrier of entry while immediately going on to saying that there is one. Maybe listen to yourself before hitting send lol.
Most people use either a computer or a phone for their daily tasks so I'm correct to point this out, if for some reason you bought a PC in the last 3 years you can play league on it, same with phones and genshin
@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 the only one who needs to calm down here is you
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Fr so negative for no reason @@ADarnSmore
"Teemo top" sounds like something on a dating app that makes the worst people swipe yes and everyone else swipe "delete this from my memory"
LMAO
Lmao I've used the name "teemo top" on a dating website. It went well cause those that know what it is they think it's cool you play
Noah is the king of whatever this genre of video is.
Para-social leftist self help cleaning content
Love me my pslshcc
king of YAPPING
It's the platonic ideal of "guy talking to camera"
This is a slightly more edited version of TH-cam 1.0 vlogs.
Respectfully, Hank and John Green are the GOATS of this style
I quit for like 6 years and came back just to play with friends, it feels so much happier and healthier logging on after work for a few matches with the boys rather than the 10 hour ranked grind days.
League is like drinking, fun with friends, but if you do it by yourself for 12 hours straight you have a problem
same here. Was a goblin grinding ranked for years before army, then stopped rankeds and started to only log to play URF/ARAM with friends
@@orendamusic7577and like drinking, still unhealthy no matter how little. try to steal a better analogy
At the end of my re install to play with friends cycle after re installing. This game is cancer and a huge waste of time.
im a recovered addict myself and everytime i see my friends who are still on it, it reminds me of how happy i am that i stopped
Heck yea friend, me too. Went from hard drugs to alcoholic to functional alcoholic to stoner to dead sober 🎉
Same here. It's tough to realize how bad the game is for humans while also admitting the level of enjoyment gained from it.
I can't be in a call with people playing League, you cannot have a conversation or enjoy your time together, its just a lot of
-this r worded (insert role/champion) can't do (insert objective or basic game mechanic)
-I'm going to minecraft myself for failing a skillshot/number too small so i lost a fight
-screeching because its the one time someone got a win and they get to make plays and the rush sets in
-general callouts which would be fine but there are no breaks, the games last 20 minutes at least, some go over 40 even 50 and then everyone leaves after a loss or something
Am I the only one who actually loves the game and enjoys it with friends
@@aquasnippy no i also enjoyed it a lot, it just doesn't fit into my life anymore
League is like Bumfights.
You’re an addict fighting 9 other unstable addicts for a lil dose of LP.
League is like if Slot Machine addicts were made to fight each other just to pull the lever again. League is an embarrassing habit that ONLY steals your time, 30 minutes at a time. Hope you beat the urges soon, Noah.
I think it’s sad that some people only see league as an addiction. I think it’s important people are aware that it can be an addiction and how destructive it can be. However it can also be a great competitive hobby, and very fulfilling once you shift your mindset. I hope more people will have a healthy relationship in the future, because it can actually be a positive part of your life.
@@notieming nope
@@Dalauan_Sparrow stop playing the game then
@@notieming I feel like that as well, sadly you have to have control, and League in some part taught me that. I enjoy the game, really, I enjoy improving and turbo-smurfing people in my elo, getting huge winstreaks, etc, but I had to learn to mantain it as a hobby. Sometimes I get urges of playing when I have bigger responsabilities, and you have to learn to put it away and remember it's just a game, and that's the problem, if you start playing well for some days you will not want to stop, it's REALLY addictive.
2011, college, 5am, full night of gaming, class in two hours, fingers shaking and tears in my eyes because I'm so tired and so miserable, and I click just one more game...
I don't touch any games that remotely smell like the League loop anymore. That stuff wrecked me.
you look like a chad now, congrats
I’m a recovered addict. For a few years League was the only reason I had to live. Bullying led to anxiety and social isolation. I was depressed as hell but learning and improving at the game was the one thing I could do.
As grimy as the player base is. Esports and the love for the game kept me going at weird times. But I knew there was an issue when I’d get annoyed or tilted in champ select. I’d be mad before I even got to play.
There was a host of other issues around that compounded. But I don’t regret it anymore. I met some amazing people by chance and I did have some good times. There’s a twinge of cringe in me when I think about league being such a massive part of my life. But it is what it is, and I’m ok with that.
I really don't think it's cringe my guy. I also developed big mental health issues after bullying and since then video games have been my reason to get up pretty much every day, eventually led to some of the best friendships in my life and just generally keep me from sitting with dark thoughts and spiralling by myself.
We had a similar journey, you and I. Stay strong, my brother, and focus on the good, like the nice people you met.
There's a physicist I watch who says something that I agree with, Addiction is an adaptive self defense mechanism. It's a symptom not the actual problem. Gaming has helped me through alot of things, and kept me out of alot of things. You can come back from a league/mmo addiction. Much harder to come back from addiction to hard drugs and irl gambling, especially with the gang connotations. People yell alot at gamer but in the grand scheme of things alot of people game because the reality is we have very little agency in the grand scheme of our lives.
All you are doing right now is running.I know its comfy and i know it feels good,but that isn't who you are.There are problems in you that need to be removed,and days that need to be enjoyed.If you change nothing,nothing will change,find your self.If you want to live a happy life without fear and sadness and overcome your struggles,the first thing you need to do is let go of your old and rotten self.
This is like inverse grindset - don’t get addicted to the league grind, don’t get addicted to any grind
league may not have an enthralling storyline but it does teach you a lot about all the different personality disorders
you used to have to go out and live a busy social life for 90 years to accumulate even half as many of those encounters
I have a number of friends addicted to League, Dota, or other online comp games. I briefly was myself and it made me miserable. I think on some level it makes my friends miserable too. I get to hear them raging in voice chat every single night, getting mad, going to bed frustrated. If I ever mention this and how maybe they'd be happier doing other things, they always tell me no it's super fun and relaxing actually (it's not). Not trying to police how my friends spend their time, but it bums me out seeing how the games make them unhappy and they just keep playing.
Been there bro.
I started playing League in 2014 or so and played pretty compulsively through a very toxic and lonely stage of my life. I usually had chat muted, but the feeders and pings communicated enough abuse to be just painful enough to keep playing. At some point, I stopped having fun and stopped looking forward to playing, but I had nothing else to fill that time, so I kept going until I slowly found new games, friends and hobbies to break the cycle. I spent a lot of money on that game and I don’t regret it, but I do regret the way I used it to cope.
Sounds rough. Glad you got out!!
I'm here, its 4am, been cleaning, my PlayStation that was previously owned by a smoker. Ok, bye
How are you cleaning it?
@@tri-angel i’ve cleaned a bunch of different consoles and once you open it up i use compressed air for dust, then isopropyl alcohol (99%) with qtips and an old toothbrush for the inside, and a soapy wet washcloth for the plastic shell :)
@@bagelmaster8 literally sounds so amazing and gratifying
@@tri-angelwith his tongue
If you can manage to have a healthy relationship with the game and mentally deal with the challenges of soloqueue and the community who play it - the game can be immensely rewarding. I limit myself to no more than 3 games per day and typically don't play more than 2. If i feel the need to play more i'll often just watch other high elo players or review my own games which helps me improve way faster than spamming games alone does. Its definitely a game that rewards intentionality. I'd recommend you check out the Broken By Concept podcast - they have a lot of good information and strategies for improving while maintaining a healthy relationship to the game and are a breath of fresh air compared with the rest of the community.
bbc represent!
I was reading the first half of this thinking this was a very bbc take lol
Or you can move onto a game that doesn't force you to play with a highly toxic community that doesn't respect the game or other people's time. There is a giant world outside of league where you can find a place to develop your skills in a game that actually has a respectful community, who isn't hate-playing a game that they despise. I played lol for 10 years and after my first 3 month break, I haven't looked back. If they ever get their toxicity in check, maybe I'd look in that direction, but till then, there are way too many better things in life to spend my time on.
@@Jfunk242 I’m not going to defend the community writ large but I do love the game. I don’t typically experience much toxicity because I play soloQ with chat off and am very fast to mute pings if people begin to abuse them. When I play with my friends we do a pretty good job of not putting each other down and it’s genuinely a lot of fun. I don’t know of any moba community or any competitive game community that isn’t toxic. That being said if you feel good about quitting league then by all means more power to you. It’s not for everyone and I definitely understand that perspective.
The flower bit is hilarious bc I worked for a guy during the pandemi who had that mindset - he wanted to buy out every flower shop in the oc while lockdowns were in place, and planned to make money simply by crushing his competitors while they weren’t there
I think the flower thing is a PragerU classic, probably comes from there (as a specific "case study"). Maybe your boss was a PragerU graduate?
@@mgg7756PragerU isnt a university, its an advocacy group promoting conservative viewpoints
There known for spreading misinformation (basically modern day conservative propaganda)
They just call themselves PragerU (prager university) because it makes them sound more credible
@@mgg7756 i would not be surprised at all; he was an hvac guy or something for awhile and decided that march 2020 was a perfect time to buy a flower shop from his aunt and turn it into an empire.
@@donventura2116 SPOILERS BELOW:
no, not all
I love League of Legends and agree with a lot of your points. I've found the biggest thing for me is to not play ranked. It's just a game and at the end of the day, the point is to just have fun. Also, I'm an unapologetic Teemo stan.
7:50 while i think it's obviously important to have some kind of art, no matter what the variety, that is more thoughtful and that you engage with in a more deep manner, i think its just as important to have some artistic/artful things that isnt overtly concerned with being deep and thought provoking that you can enjoy in just a very simple way. its great for relieving stress and anxiety. i didnt realize how important it was and how pretentious and, honestly, simply, utterly annoying and intolerable people who need all the art they enjoy to be "deep" and even look down upon art that they dont perceive as being "intellectual." i had a friend who just could did not understand casually enjoying an interest. everything art wise that he surrounded himself witching he had to perceive as intelligent & thought provoking and he had to understand and know everything about these topics. it wasnt like "special interest" type vibes either and he was like evem
The biggest portion of a healthy life in terms of culture is made of content that's familiar, a safe zone, and entirely meaningless, maybe not for someone crazy passionate.
That said things like LOL are on intent more of a drug than something you do when you're bored.
The film Paterson introduced this idea for me. It follows a bus driver who enjoys writing poems about everyday experiences. While I'm a keen observer, it taught me to slow down and feel more than think.
My friends were all into League and I never got it. I was bad at it, I'll openly admit that, probably the worst of my friends, but it's not like I never landed a good Ashe ult or came in with a clutch Sona heal. We won games, but like, then I'd go back to shit I actually enjoyed. For me that was single player offline games. I never understood how people played with strangers online, because like... The basic act of League wasn't fun? Climbing buildings in Infamous was inherently fun. Punching goons in Arkham Asylum was inherently fun. Clicking on minions and optimizing for last hit or making sure your ADC got soft mostly low health minions.... Not fun. On one hand, I'm greatful that League of Legends never got me. On the other hand, I have that brain rot that makes me care about the lore implications of Dream Drop Distance on Kingdom Hearts, so like, who am I to talk?
That's how I've always felt about league. Feels like work lol. Single player RPGs for the win 😎
i am a current league player used to be addicted as shit I like to think I am a bit more reasonable with my playing now. Your justification for optimizing the last hit being boring could be given for chess or any other long standing competitive game. Who cares about learning sequences of moves just to beat a guy (turns out millions of people do). I just get bored in single player offline games. There is no motivation for me to get good (aside from souls like games where I want to find out how the story continues) and every time u fail u fight the exact same thing in most of them(unless it's procedurally generated). In league every failure is unique and multi-faceted. If you lost a game there can be a million reasons for it. Even for dying once there can be so many reasons u died. You chose the wrong runes in champ select you didn't look at where the jungler is. You don't know the matchup and that their champion is stronger in the 1 v 1.
I would say league at its best is not fun but satisfying. When you make a decision differently than what you'd do usually and it works out you feel good cause you improved. It's quantifiable and it's really fucking hard. I agree it's not mindless relaxing fun and it's more like work but you know what i never found the "mindless" relaxation fine and maybe i'm the weird one for that. Games like stardew valley bore me out of my mind and i cba to care about some games which have been callrd extremely beautiful and well made because it's just not interesting. Struggling against another human being to perfect ur ability to understand and use a set of given rules is just very satisfying. League at its worst i don't even have to explain you get extremely tilted and rage queue on repeat.
You know what's hilarious I'm the exact opposite, I cannot for the life of me play single player offline games unless its dark souls or FF. it just bores the hell out of me. But on the other hand min mazxing is what I froth over, funny how we can be polar opposites.
@@FirstBatalionit's boring to you because you're addicted to league
yeah at one point I was, now its tarkov haha and then it will be something else and so on and so on, perks of having an addictive personality @@anon1963
As someone who has suffered from a LoL addiction since 2012. I needed this video. Thank you.
I play about a thousand games a year, last year it was 800 or less. That is like three games a day, but I would say it's more like two games a day on most weekdays and five games a day on weekends.
I play League alone most of the time. I enjoy ranked. I like that it's challenging and I am working towards a long-term goal(of being good). I am doing it for me. I started playing in 2021. It's easily one of the hardest and most complex games I have played.
I still have time to read, watch series, learn new stuff, and speak or see my friends if I want to. I rarely ever want to hang out though, and I have always enjoyed solitary activities, so I am not bothered. Much of time is spent with my family though even when I play games they are around. I also cook every day and I enjoy biking.
League is a beautiful game that has taught me a lot about how to learn and master skills. It has taught me a lot about the type of patience and mentality required (keep a cool head and think beyond the current game/instance/situation) to improve at things. It has also taught me a lot about the importance of consistency and how progress is often slow and then sudden. These translate to other things I try.
Maybe it helps that I started playing the game at 29, but I love this game. It's a shame there are people who can't have a healthy relationship with the game, but I am glad you and most in the comments are in a better state now.
You're the best Noah - we love you and are proud of you for seeking a healthier lifestyle my man
Didn't play League but I did play Smite which is just as toxic of a MOBA. All MOBAs fall victim to this toxicity. One thing that could help is moderation of the playerbase and curbing extra-toxic behavior but rarely do game devs care to actually clamp down on their own playerbase out of fear they're going to get backlash. Like... they're already getting backlash by NOT doing anything remotely helpful.
It wouldn't be so bad climbing in ranked if the toxicity didn't make it this difficult. We look for validation of our skill. I know I was a better than Bronze player in Smite but toxic team mates kept me in ELO hell, which absolutely does exist. Can only carry so hard.
I get this. Validation of skill in these games I think is what makes these games so addictive. It's externalizing self-worth out to a shiny rank you see in game for nerd points with other people on the gaming treadmill.
I used to be addicted to this game. I almost reached Master last season, but on the last day of season, 400 games, I was sleepless and looked like a monster. Speaking slowly, I was sleeping and waking up thinking about next ranked. So, when it was like 9 am, I was Diamond 1 with 50 LP. I played 2 games in a row, lost both. Just decided to sleep and never started another ranked game again
Modern gaming be like "Here's a new mechanic" and the mechanic will be either addictive game loop without progress or straight up gambling.
"Shift on the Rift" sent me
Currently addicted to Valorant (another Riot Games game) and it felt really good hearing this stuff from Noah
Same with me but TFT
CS is way better, but the cheater situation is bad rn
This was me in 2021 after burning out from work during the pandemic. 6 months of dissociation in Ranked 😎😎
Fun game with friends or in moderation as long as you're not tilting, tho!
This video feels like watching a lets play but for real life
Prayers for all those who are still in it, you can do it champ there is so much more to life i promise it's hard as hell to quite it, but it's doable and its the best decision you'll ever make !
Skill issue
"If you're not learning to play league with someone you know, you're a superhero" this. I had an excellent time learning Dota 1 and LoL with my friends, and taught many people myself. If you're with friends, every game is is a good game well played.
Teemo is king of the rats, you choose well. I exclusively play ARAM and I have done for years, solo and with friends. I find the Abyss way more chill than the Rift. Love that you put Forgone Destruction in the audio, pretty sure that was my introduction to DnB.
My 7 year League addiction is one of the biggest regrets of my life.
As someone who isn’t really a gamer (I liked Nintendo stuff when I was younger, but I don’t play much now other than the odd Lego game), I feel like gamers are labelled “lazy” but… it takes work lol at least more effort than watching tv or scrolling on TikTok
Solidarity with gamers ❤
It's like calling a chess player lazy because they are just sitting playing a board game. It takes incredible brain power to play games like that and even chess players burn thousands of calories just focusing on the game.
@@ripztubig4457 league players have never burned a calorie
my favorite way of packing cords is wrapping them like normal then reusing twist ties to keep them wound. i know noah has already packed, but hope that helps somebody else :)
Hey Noah,
I just wanted to thank you for this video. Probably found it while procrastinating after a bad case of league for a couple of weeks. I feel sad to know that I can't just enjoy things and just balance things out better. Well if I could apply myself to being moderate in all walks of life as I can apply myself to league, I'd probably be much happier.
On that note I will stop procrastinating and do what I was supposed to do, have a good day Noah and you all who read this, sending you lots of love
Things are only a waste of time if you learn nothing… ANYTHING you do can be a complete waste of time if you aren’t doing it consciously. You can learn a lot from team games if you’re actually playing them consciously and not just running though the motions in every match. If you’re analyzing your gameplay in realtime, not so much of a problem. I don’t know, but I just don’t think most things are a waste of time if you’re getting something out of it. Even if it’s just learning how to calm yourself. I love using games like this is practice being NOT a hothead.
Using league for practice of staying calm in high stress situations is actually smart.
I love that you mentioned learning to calm yourself, because I actually had a therapist recommend something similar for my anxiety!
Good point. After my first few losses I become negative and start first picking champs to int because why wouldn’t I
indeed
Playing League of Legends make me very good at insulting people and not to angry when getting insulting
I’ve never played a video game in my life but this is so cozy. The main thing I do in my free time is read fanfic though, so I can’t say I’m that much better. I usually clock 6-8hrs a day depending on how busy I am lol.
You should def stop doing that for so long
That’s some real tension building right there. Talking about your regrets about the time spent playing league, while slowly dismantling your computer setup. Is he gonna dump all of his electronics and become a monk?? Nah just moving. Kept me hooked to find out though.
Regardless, I enjoy listening to you share your experience
my league addiction completely ruined my relationship with videogames 😢 i still play some (non-league) games every now and then, but for the most part i don’t play much of anything. glad i got out.
For games like league of legends, playing only with friends is the best system I've found for moderation. Losing 10 games in a row isn't nearly as depressing when you're on call with the boys hanging out. It feels like a mildly meaningful experience rather than Sisyphus pushing a boulder up the LP hill
Didn't watch the video but its true lol. 3 years / 6 months "clean" and I realize how empty my life was
"Currently, right now I play only Teemo top"
I quit league long ago, but still i despise this choice of character. Bloody ap bastards, always have the nice things.
At least you are not adc main
It's crazy how much of a mountain and an accomplishment getting a particular rank is, but as big as the game is it's still a niche in the larger world and it doesn't actually mean anything.
But you understand that goes for everything in life nothing means anything?
A tip for those struggling with this, ask yourself what you would do if you could not play for an entire day, or an entire week, if you dont have anything start there. My issue was having nothing and i would play games and watch anime so i instead started collecting and reading manga, it is a much healthier way to indulge in my favorite stories and things of that sort
Why be addicted to League when you can be addicted to DOTA2, the less popular but more fun counterpart with just as much toxicity.
Start playing today and ruin your mentality in a different flavour!
There's this category of (often multiplayer) games that are simultaneously one of the most engaging, well designed experiences, and yet have the potential to make you absolutely miserable. For a lot of folks it's league, for me it was Dead by Daylight and Dota, maybe yours is rainbow six. It's so fascinating how, from my experience, people will often never recommend getting into these games and yet still often consider them to have the potential to make some of the funnest gaming experiences they've had. It's probably the blend of that incredible potential, mixed with the reality of the grind of constantly queing for the next game that makes it so problematic. It's really is a drug, chasing the dragon of that one perfect game that makes you feel validated for all the time you've spent staring at a boring win or crushing loss wishing you'd never logged on at all today.
the algorithm finally pushed ur second channel on to my explore page and have watched a few love the vibes keep up the consistency ik u can do it
5:50 always recovering, never recovered
As a former drug addict and also former hardstuck bronze I Viktor/Orianna main, proud to admit I haven’t touched the rift in 3 years but still play like 2 games of ARAM most nights w/ my gf. It’s been an incredible change- no one flames, 20min games, everyone is just vibing, highly recommend for anyone caught in the toxic ranked cycle
ARAM is absolutely where it's at. Now they just need to give us back our 8 min ff.
what's almost worse imo, if you end up with 1k hours on games you actually hate to play, i.e. because your friends only want to play one certain game and you comply despite the fact you dislike the game itself, but you want to spend time with friends gaming. for me that was the case with pubg. when i look at my accumulated playtime in this game that i hate i'm thinking i should rather have learned a language instead or something like that. i'm pretty sure i was pretty miserable and pissed 90percent of the time i played pubg.
"i know what league is, and that's really sad for me" ... been there, done that
Never was much of a gamer myself, but I had a roommate who didn‘t rly do much besides playing competitive games. Was kinda disturbing to see how much he neglected his duties that come with daily life and how emotionaly invested he was. Like how can you be so serious about a game while your whole life is falling apart, if that isnt addiction I don‘t know what is.
We out here navigating our quarter life crises together with clean apartments and deconstructed teen years
I love the doing something random while we just talk kind-of video. I can really relate haha
My nine year old MacBook that I played League on finally blew up and I couldn’t afford a new computer fora few months. Recently built a gaming PC and I’m realizing how much fun I have playing games that aren’t League, don’t know that I’ll ever go back to that ranked grind.
Terraria is a less lame of a addiction but still addictive.
Try and play a variety of games for a scheduled time.
I'm still battling with it.
I had a friend who was the typical class heartthrob in high school super smart scholar athlete. From a rich family but hard working. The type of dude that should float through life.
Failed out of NC state in 1 semester because as soon as he got there he got addicted to League and didn’t do anything else. Shit is powerful.
I also had problems with league addiction and now I play in moderation. Teemo top is in my top 3 most played champs. I play a few games a week with friends. We’ve played together for 12+ years. Those guys are like brothers to me. And yeah, league is actually a pretty good game. Ranked addiction is bad.
ive been playing a little over a month and im promising myself i will never turn on chat
Good call
Me when I lose my promos
I honestly just feel like it's everyone else trying to tell me how I feel or how I should feel. I'm actually not depressed and I don't feel like my time has been wasted. But people like you and the people in my life keep trying to tell me what I should value. What you value is what makes you happy. Deep down I'm really content playing videogames for as long as I want. I don't have aspirations and ambitions. AND I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE. And as an American I'm free to be okay with that. I am healthy because I am happy. Stop acting like your values are the same s everyone else's.
exactly i work all week and the weekends i like to have my alone time of videogames as i hate going out and see no point in traveling and stuff like that
I never really played League , I’m a familiar with the lore. But the MUSIC……KDA in particular, with True Damage, Pentakill, HeartSteel, New Jeans….that is what I’m obsessed with. The Arcane soundtrack is nothing to scoff at either.
It’s so wild how a music studio created a game to promote their music 🤣
Always nice to be self aware.
Check what you are doing from time to time.
Same with so many things.... work...food ... just take a look what you are actually doing.
The issue is that majority league players play the game without structure.
I play league everyday. I play 0-3 games a night. I do all my tasks before hand. Cook dinner, take the trash out, walk the dog, do the dishes. I spend time with my wife, take a shower.
I sit down at my computer. I put some music on. I review one of the last 3 games I play. Check for mistakes what I could of done better. I make notes. If my coach has watched one of my games and made notes I will watch that and ask him any questions.
Then I play a game. I then ask myself did I play my best that game win or loss. If I didn’t play my best why is that? If it’s something like I’m too tired or I have something on my mind. I turn the game off.
One thing that I hate about LOL is that u lose almost the same amount of RP as you win, making you feel losing a game a waste of your time, because now you're back to where you started. Each lose should be max 50% of the RP that you gain from winning. Also they should reward you more RP after winning say 3 games in a row.
started playing last week with my brother.... im in college i dont have time fo rhtis... did it all day until i forced myself off to go to class and do my work yesterday
Playing with friends is the only way I can stand to play summoner's rift anymore. I used to grind ranked when I cared about victorious skins, but I eventually realized the time/effort wasn't worth it. I've played it ever since Lulu came out, and it's a long time habit of mine. I don't think it's a good thing or worth my time, but it's something to do with friends, and not a lot of multiplayer games are all that enjoyable to me nowadays. Hopefully one will come along and replace it for me, bc it definitely has been a huge time sink as well.
I play with friends and can assuredly say that League brings the worst traits out of people more often than not. Myself included. MOBAs as a genre tend to, tbh. Most situations that can cause frustration have the benefit of you being able to step away from the situation with little to no consequence. League, and by extension other MOBAs, have the consequence of trapping you in that situation for as long as the game lasts (usually around 30 minutes) else you face repercussions. If you're getting camped by the Jungler and going 0/4 into the enemy Irelia, or any other lists of ways to fall super behind in the game, especially if the other lanes aren't doing well, tilting is kind of inevitable if you take the game seriously at all. If you're playing Ranked you're encouraged to treat the game like a job if you want to climb, especially with how many hours climbing can take (seriously +14/-30 in Emerald games is insane).
Even trying to play casually being put into situations where you lose because of one mistake, or even from teammates making bad mistakes, or just from a skill gap can be very frustrating. Tilting is almost inevitable in this game. Taking it out on your teammates, especially if they're your friends, is never okay. That said, when you don't have a way to externalize frustration in the game in a constructive way it brings that sort of toxicity out of people.
psa: you can wash your mousepad, please do it.
been thinking this for months but always just put it off for another day lol
I had this rabid league of legends phase since I was in grade 8 (13), until I was about 21. Peak years were towards the end of high school and into College. Absolutely life consuming. Took the game so seriously (not that good at it), neglected many other important things in life, easily 2000 + hours. After years of deleting it and re-downloading it, I haven't touched the game for well over a year now, and I'm genuinely less miserable & a happier person 😂. Super tilting game, whenever me and my friends talk about quitting our LoL days it straight up sounds like an addicts anonymous meeting
Thanks this helped me realise how unhealthy my addiction to "hypixel skyblock" was, yk playing 6 hours a day, even on school days.
And yeah thanks :)
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The silver grind was real back in the day. I don’t know if you played pre-ranked changes. But back when it went from Diamond - challenger, silver is where you fell if you played often enough and weren’t a mechanical god.
Back in the day the push to gold was absolutely the worst fucking thing.
It feels like Retiring playing Live-Service Games in Moderation basically only with Friends in 1 Week or longer.
The Hardest Part is the Manipulation form the Games by the Sunken-Cost-Fallacy and the Fear-of-Missing-Out through Battlepasses or putting a lot of money in a Game.
Now i have more Freedom to play Games actively instead of passing time because of Boredome.
Gaming itself is not Bad its how we use it in our Lives.
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letss gooo its literally 4am and im cleaning as I rewatch your other cleaning vids so this came at the perfect time
as an osrs player, we are one of the most addicted and sweaty gamers on earth. also as a drug addict, yes this is still an addiction. just because its not hard drugs doesnt mean its addictive
You did the old Ikea countertop computer desk thing! Mine's been serving me well for 5 years of League
I finally hit diamond 2 last season and had solid mmr, got to play with some streamers i used to watch and some ex pro's and i realized there is absolutely no point of wasting free time and climbing through ranked unless you make a job out of it
during my league habit, I always stuck to ARAM. and even that would become so frustrating and negative. nowadays I use it as a fun focus tool, a way to practice holding my body in difficult positions like ma bu or crane stance. and ARAM is such a low stakes way to explore the character's styles, like AD Collector Tankali or "Iceman Rammus". Or AP Tahm Kench, whose role in life is to s*ck and f*ck his way up the foodchain 😂 thanks for the video, it's inspiring me to clean out my closets.
Am currently deep cleaning my room/house while watching this video on my day off and have been loving them; tickles my ADHD brain somehow. Love these sorts of videos!
it makes sense why you have a history of sending out death-threats
I have my games that I play endlessly (starting new saves in Monster Hunter games - gotta be like 2000+hrs) but I do try play narrative games or games with some sense of cohesive theme that I can chew on.
I like routines so I try play the same game at the same time for the same time every day or so, and it becomes a meditative thing. But other times I'll just zone out and play Tetris 99 for an hour.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING AN ANTI GAMER GAMER
i complain about anime literally all the time because i fucking hate so so much about it both structurally and socially yet i cant stop binging pokemon and i love jojo/cowboy bebop
During the first year of Covid I had basically no school. So I played league all day long like 16 hours a day. In the end of the year I had about 90 days yes DAYS playtime meaning that I spend a forth of a year in a year playing league. But as school started again I had to do more work again so I played less and less
Bro’s just on a loss streak, he’ll be back
Play baldurs gate 3!
DUUUUDE, is that Nether Animal from the UT99 soundtrack in the background?!?? God, it's so fucking good! That whole thing (and maybe specifically Nether Animal and Foregone Destruction) has definitely had a role to play in me growing up to become an electronic music producer/nerd with a deep love for ethereal jungle/dnb tunes. Absolute masterpiece. Recognized!
Almost all my friends stopped playing, and i dont play that much anymore (1 or 2 ranked games ever 2 days maybe), but I do honestly enjoy improving at the game, so i dont think I'll quite any time soon
Yeah but what if I want to spend my time playing hard drugs while doing League.
great vid, to celebrate I will queue up a match of my favorite game league of legends
watching this while in queue
I am a casual player, mostly ARAM. I greatly enjoy the fact that as a 46 year old I can have a 12 year old tell me that it’s a good job he doesn’t know where I live because he wants to kill me. I replied with a laugh that he could try. He said that he wouldn’t just try, but would gladly sacrifice his life to end mine because I was lower than a dog. I merely continued to send him smiles and laughs, telling him life is short enough as it is. Please, seek professional help.
But being a well adjusted human is hard Noah can’t I just click heads all day 😞
I play Cho'Gath top in League every day, I'm also teaching myself Mandarine Chinese, I also watch TV, spend time with family, and work nights, I also have a lizard, 2 dogs, and 2 aquariums, (this is my day every day), I also watch LPL, LCS, LCK, and worlds every time their on, League is just something I do for fun, I don’t play even ranked much, I normally just play draft
damn man that's great, you got a lot going for you. i am sorry though for contribute to a culture of painful top lane matchups. you do outscale tho
i have no faith that our actions are deliberate. i think we're automata.
at the same time i decided to quit my addictions when they threatened me.
after twelve years of daily drinking, i noticed i was vurping constantly, _so i stopped buying booze._
after twenty years of asthmatic smoking, _i stopped combusting._
when i get too cranky and focused on Hearthstone, i put it down for six months to a year.
and so on. you're the captain of this automated ship, use your head, don't be weak
Your mustache comforts me, thanks
I disabled chat on league a year ago, never ranked again, and just stayed on Aram, I play 3 o 4 games and it's fine. 3000 hours in...I play when I want to shoot down my brain.
10:56 HE SAID BARD
I really love playing League but it's a bit sad that so many have an unhealthy relationship with the game. The game is fun but it would be more fun if the playerbase was less toxic.