{"id":35,"date":"2021-10-08T23:17:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T04:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/?p=35"},"modified":"2021-10-08T23:17:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T04:17:46","slug":"league-of-legends-a-perplexing-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/2021\/10\/08\/league-of-legends-a-perplexing-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Legends: A Perplexing Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about y&#8217;all, but I have an open secret: I play <em>League of Legends<\/em>. It&#8217;s funny, I went from flaming my little sister for playing this game to playing it out of spite. But then I met my partner through a mutual friend, catalyzed by this game. I still remember the champions that the two of us played to this day. As I got to know my partner, <em>League<\/em> became a larger part of my life and I found myself to be increasingly more addicted to it as time goes on.<\/p>\n<p>In all honesty, I want to hate this game. I hate the toxicity of the game and a lot of its player base. I hate certain champions that counter my favorite champions. I hate how it wastes my time. I hate some of Riot&#8217;s practices in regards to this game and its lore. And yet, I have no shortage of people that will invite me to a game after a long day. I get really excited when I have a kill\/death rate of 20\/4\/13 as Heimerdinger, a champion that is very disliked. I hype up my friends when they do really well in a game.<\/p>\n<p>As I keep playing this game, it feels as if I am deluding myself into liking this game, if that&#8217;s what I can call it at this point. It makes me feel happy, sad, angry, stressed, and exhilarated all at once. I&#8217;ve reached a point where I&#8217;ve gotten too good at certain champions (if you&#8217;re wondering, I play Lulu, Sona, Heimerdinger, and Lux) and I feel like I shouldn&#8217;t be as good at them as I am. I don&#8217;t know if or when I will step back from <em>League<\/em>, especially considering that it is a cornerstone of my relationship (fun fact, he&#8217;s on our school&#8217;s varsity <em>League<\/em> team), but it&#8217;s not like I hate this game, although, I do receive quite a bit of flack from non-players about why I bother with the toxicity of the game.<\/p>\n<p><em>League of Legends<\/em>, it&#8217;s a love-hate relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Katie<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about y&#8217;all, but I have an open secret: I play League of Legends. It&#8217;s funny, I went from flaming my little sister for playing this game to playing it out of spite. But then I met my partner through a mutual friend, catalyzed by this game. I still remember the champions that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[503],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/gamingwithkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}