league of legends: the lamest addiction

[@purpleblah2]

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.

[@SniperCecil]

Awesome analogy

[@notieming]

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]

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.

[@notieming]

@@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.

[@notieming]

@@joshuacox5817 that’s delusional

[@darkojan14]

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

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

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.

[@darkojan14]

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

[@ADarnSmore]

@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 the only one who needs to calm down here is you

[@rubiano3]

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[@noahclouse1830]

Fr so negative for no reason ​@@ADarnSmore

[@seraphonica]

"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"

[@itsyourguyskye]

LMAO

[@stacrafty]

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

[@multivitamin425]

I got to diamond playing exclusively teemo top last month

[@Deemo202]

Noah is the king of whatever this genre of video is.

[@ProjectileGrommet]

Para-social leftist self help cleaning content Love me my pslshcc

[@worm_eater93]

king of YAPPING

[@michealjackson3520]

It's the platonic ideal of "guy talking to camera"

[@Drumz_of_Liberation]

This is a slightly more edited version of KZbin 1.0 vlogs.

[@baeguevara354]

Respectfully, Hank and John Green are the GOATS of this style

[@captaincvo]

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.

[@orendamusic7577]

League is like drinking, fun with friends, but if you do it by yourself for 12 hours straight you have a problem

[@ruanwesolowski8478]

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

[@anon1963]

​@@orendamusic7577and like drinking, still unhealthy no matter how little. try to steal a better analogy

[@darksyde3000]

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.

[@koiboientertainment]

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

[@varisleek3360]

Heck yea friend, me too. Went from hard drugs to alcoholic to functional alcoholic to stoner to dead sober 🎉

[@cameronsmith9099]

Same here. It's tough to realize how bad the game is for humans while also admitting the level of enjoyment gained from it.

[@Gamingpandacat]

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

[@aquasnippy]

Am I the only one who actually loves the game and enjoys it with friends

[@koiboientertainment]

@@aquasnippy no i also enjoyed it a lot, it just doesn't fit into my life anymore

[@TrueHimbo]

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.

[@Emma-Maze]

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.

[@DrewzThunder]

We had a similar journey, you and I. Stay strong, my brother, and focus on the good, like the nice people you met.

[@LeapFrogHopShop]

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.

[@plushadventures264]

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.

[@ludlowaloysius]

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.

[@notieming]

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.

[@Dalauan_Sparrow]

@@notieming nope

[@notieming]

@@Dalauan_Sparrow stop playing the game then

[@prodbytukoo]

@@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.

[@ClintonChelak]

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.

[@prodbytukoo]

you look like a chad now, congrats

[@heyitsmort7744]

This is like inverse grindset - don’t get addicted to the league grind, don’t get addicted to any grind

[@shiretsu]

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

[@VariousAndSundryBee]

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.

[@Oveyz]

Sounds rough. Glad you got out!!

[@NiftyPants]

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.

[@ripztubig4457]

Been there bro.

[@willdonaldson4634]

I'm here, its 4am, been cleaning, my PlayStation that was previously owned by a smoker. Ok, bye

[@tri-angel]

How are you cleaning it?

[@bagelmaster8]

@@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 :)

[@tri-angel]

@@bagelmaster8 literally sounds so amazing and gratifying

[@MeatCatCheesyBlaster]

@@tri-angelwith his tongue

[@JamesBaleLA]

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.

[@johann8686]

bbc represent!

[@Ancient_Path]

I was reading the first half of this thinking this was a very bbc take lol

[@Jfunk242]

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.

[@JamesBaleLA]

@@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.

[@roachcuca3190]

Dude just wrote a whole paragraph to rationalize how he's not addicted.

[@korbinmdavis]

I used to be addicted to League. For a little over a year, I played it full time like a job. It was while I was in college, and when I actually did go to class, I just played league instead of watching the lecture. I've always been a very chill person and prided myself on not getting angry about things, but when I was playing ranked like a job by myself constantly surrounded by angry people yelling horrid things at me, I started to reflect that. I lived and breathed league. I learned all the math, and I even wrote machine learning algorithms to predict how I should play or analyze what I did wrong (for my college data science classes as projects). At one point, I realized that the lifestyle I lived was not healthy. Always having wanted to play games to have fun and spend time with people I care about, I realized I was no longer doing either of those things. So, I quit cold turkey one summer day about 3 or 4 years ago. It was difficult getting back into life after playing 14 hours a day almost every day for a year, but eventually, I did. I remember my friends saying that new champs came out or that Arcane was such a great show, but I purposefully ignored all of it. I was so afraid of getting sucked back into what I realized was a life-crippling addiction. Fast forward a few years to last month. My friend got a new job, and his coworkers were league sweats (one of them is T500). My friend wanted to be able to play the game with them, and he asked me if I would coach him through learning the game. I told him no at first, but after thinking about it for a little bit (I actually caved in because I was going through a really nasty breakup and was feeling self-destructive), I caved and reinstalled the game. We've played together off and on for a month now, and it's actually going well. My first game back, I even got a pentakill! Something that I've learned, though, is that I'm able to realize when I need to stop. I've set hard boundaries for myself, and it's helped me enjoy this game that used to torment me so much. I think that league of legends gets a lot of flak for being so toxic and ruining so many people's lives, and I think it's well earned. However, I think that the game by itself, with chat removed, and while playing with friends is fine. I don't really know where I'm going with this, but I really resonated with the story told in this video, and the sentiment shared along with it. It made me want to share my similar story. Thank you.

[@qfv33]

happy for you

[@keeshy]

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.

[@ziggylegion1604]

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

[@SoftBoiledArt]

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.

[@Fatally]

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.

[@bbewnoremac]

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

[@mgg7756]

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?

[@rqb6731]

​@@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

[@bbewnoremac]

@@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.

[@bbewnoremac]

@@donventura2116 SPOILERS BELOW: no, not all

[@sahie]

As someone who has suffered from a LoL addiction since 2012. I needed this video. Thank you.

[@mdstevens0612]

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?

[@BeansFreak]

That's how I've always felt about league. Feels like work lol. Single player RPGs for the win 😎

[@vladys5238]

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.

[@FirstBatalion]

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.

[@anon1963]

​@@FirstBatalionit's boring to you because you're addicted to league

[@FirstBatalion]

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

[@opa-age]

My 7 year League addiction is one of the biggest regrets of my life.

[@Kleed44]

You're the best Noah - we love you and are proud of you for seeking a healthier lifestyle my man

[@WarpPotato]

"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

[@Malumen]

"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.

[@petormaculan5424]

This video feels like watching a lets play but for real life

[@sirbbq2403]

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.

[@mellowasiam]

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.

[@sharpysz]

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

[@eaglebailey]

"Shift on the Rift" sent me Currently addicted to Valorant (another Riot Games game) and it felt really good hearing this stuff from Noah

[@shiny_cheyenne]

Same with me but TFT

[@anon1963]

CS is way better, but the cheater situation is bad rn

[@MangoCake-wm2tk]

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.

[@carlosdanger8043]

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.

[@JRaffy777]

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

[@duncanclarke]

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

[@TheRealXidious]

I stopped playing when I realized I was at a major disadvantage with the servers being so far from where I play which is Alaska .

[@TheGLaDOSvideoCore]

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

[@davifks]

"i know what league is, and that's really sad for me" ... been there, done that

[@FergVision]

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.

[@Tenshi_on_Val]

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

[@obrien92]

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 :)

[@pangolin7179]

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

[@Chris-tn5je]

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

[@keeshy]

ARAM is absolutely where it's at. Now they just need to give us back our 8 min ff.

[@tedddybear]

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.

[@uwu-fm2kj]

You should def stop doing that for so long

[@dreamerwav698]

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

[@Lopson13]

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.

[@iheartlreoy8134]

We out here navigating our quarter life crises together with clean apartments and deconstructed teen years

[@templofzoom9635]

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.

[@hwmusic57]

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 ❤

[@ripztubig4457]

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.

[@ADarnSmore]

@@ripztubig4457 league players have never burned a calorie

[@chainsawenthusiast]

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.

[@keatonwastaken]

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!

[@calic737]

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.

[@twistedtempo200]

But you understand that goes for everything in life nothing means anything?

[@jamesmcmullen3383]

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

[@me6214]

5:50 always recovering, never recovered

[@jakefromthestateoffarm6708]

I love the doing something random while we just talk kind-of video. I can really relate haha

[@lemonlime8915]

ive been playing a little over a month and im promising myself i will never turn on chat

[@BooksRebound]

Good call

[@aelainem]

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!

[@rom_3145]

yeah ive been doing this for the past 3 years to cope with a lot. not sure what else to add to this, i will most likely queue up after doing my hw

[@TheJockerproductions]

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 !

[@AlFasGD]

One good way that got me out of the game for real was when I realized and appreciated how much an activity respects my time. This includes hanging out in specific groups of people, the job you have, the games you play, the chores you do, all of it. League does not respect your time, you are there and you commit that time. When you feel that this is not worthy of your time, you cannot look at it the same again, no matter the joy from playing it.

[@SapkaliAkif]

Modern gaming be like "Here's a new mechanic" and the mechanic will be either addictive game loop without progress or straight up gambling.

[@WesternCommie]

I was a support main, but I also played top and mid. Sona was my main character, followed by Zyra, Soraka, Braum, then Janna and taric. Taric is my meme champ. I could play any support of the time I played, but I preferred to get good at certain champs. For top lane, I played Galio, Teemo, Shen, Illaoi, and Nasus, being equally good at any of them, depending on who I am teamed with and against. Middle lane, Id rock Zyra or Malzahar, maybe Heimer, but he has sucked for so long that he wasn't played much. Ziggs is fun at the time. League is a good game that I'd love to come back too, but I can't solo anymore. I hate Randoms' toxicity. Back when I played, I did spend money, so I own a lot of skins. I never paid more than a few bucks for skins, and just used skin RR when those were new and not rigged. You could easily get Hextech and expensive skins for almost nothing.

[@TrueHimbo]

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.

[@joshuabryant9845]

Back in the day the push to gold was absolutely the worst fucking thing.

[@Owen-zm6sq]

I strongly recommend people who like esports, gaming communities, playing with friends, seeing yourself improve etc switch from League to fighting games. Its what I did, and after the learning curve of the basics and learning how *to* learn without just getting frustrated, it's so much more fulfilling. It's like learning how to skateboard instead of scrolling on Tiktok.

[@lucasbleyle5015]

I’ve quit and started again many times over the last decade. It is an addiction. It has all the hallmarks of addiction. For me I never played more than 4 hours in one day, but between working and doing that in the evening it really sucked up all my time to pursue other hobbies. Even so I feel like my baseline ability to enjoy non hyper-stimulating activities (such as fast based video games) has been almost erased. For those looking to quit, just know you r hobbies probably won’t feel as fun for a while

[@THEtrueidiots]

Your mustache comforts me, thanks

[@birbup-j6k]

You did the old Ikea countertop computer desk thing! Mine's been serving me well for 5 years of League

[@kenzie4217]

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

[@happycamperds9917]

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.

[@serjgooney5532]

every time I return to league I feel great, but after some time playing I get more and more angry because I lose, then my patience go down and the burst of anger and hate destroys my cellphone, my table, my laptop and many more things that I can brake

[@patrickdallaire5972]

I have a gaming addiction. I think one thing that makes this harder to deal with is that non-gamers find it hard to understand, it not being a substance that I injest. I got a lot more compassion and support for kicking my weed addiction back in 2016. The thing is... I could never just download weed from the "comfort" of my appartment and immediately start using for as long as I want to. Weed was never something my parents bought me for Christmas... I used both of these mechanisms to escape neglected emotions (neglected by myself and others). Non-gamers never congratulate me or acknowledge the difficulty I put myself through when I try to quite gaming.

[@IIITrunks]

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.

[@kylieimholte3757]

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

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

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

[@clement6173]

Didn't watch the video but its true lol. 3 years / 6 months "clean" and I realize how empty my life was

[@davud2789]

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.

[@bayamoth]

Herman Miller Aero spotted. Best chair gang rise up

[@ripztubig4457]

I played league from the first season. I played for years but stopped around season 7ish. I hated how emotional and angry I would get at the game. The highs were awesome, but the lows were so terribly low. I made it a point to never play the game again, but my friends all started playing recently. I would see them all having fun so I would spectate them for a couple months and give them tips. Eventually I couldn't resist the call, and joined them in a few games. It really is so fun, but when you get stomped it really sucks. The worst part about league is that you have to commit to the long ass game. Sometimes it can be 20 minutes long, sometimes an hour long.

[@lukeluthor6290]

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 🤣

[@aircityryan]

I watched this with complete fascination. I am a straight up drug addict. If I could put breakfast lunch and dinner in a needle and inject it, I'd never eat another meal til I die. Things got so bad, even fentanyl wasn't strong enough. I started playing video games so I could get clean. I put down the syringe and picked up a controller, and games actually gave me my life back. But I don't have any problems with excessive gaming (yet) because I can't afford a computer or anything rn. Hearing you describe the effects of gaming on your life was like hearing a milder version of my own battle with drugs... Way milder. But it is definitely the same battle. I hope you find something else worth your time and attention, and I'm super impressed by your self awareness and honesty. Much love

[@noahtime_]

thank you for sharing! it's good that games have offered you a healthier alternative. a lot of people are able to maintain this sort of gaming just fine. im not one of them but it sounds like you are and im glad for you

[@Zectifin]

I literally had a 50 foot ethernet cable from the office through the attack to my bedroom because my mom wouldn't stop walking in my room while she was on the wireless phone, which was the same radio band as wifi.

[@LostInTheRush]

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!

[@heyitz_rj]

I recently got back into league after not playing it for MONTHS. The addiction is no joke lol. I’ve recently switched to just playing ARAM. More fun, less sweaty, and games don’t last 40 days and 40 nights. 😁

[@alecantropo98]

Aram is way sweatier once your MMR goes up

[@ADarnSmore]

psa: you can wash your mousepad, please do it.

[@qfv33]

been thinking this for months but always just put it off for another day lol

[@Vioma_neblinado]

As someone with bpd (and other stuff) i can relate, my addiction was self hurt, i have my entire body full of scars and bruises and is not that easy to stop, then i started with stardew valley and i become insane and now i am full in my recovery trying my best, i think that that's something to do with being neurodivergent, some conditions make you proprense to get in adiction circles more easyly that the average person, but people still see you as a loser and someone bad and insane because you have it, Instead of helping you to realize without chame that you have a problem, they just make fun of you and picture you as someone how is bad, i thing that adictions are a major problem and they come with a lot of blame, shame and judment, it is somehow ableist, people has always been judging and blaming people with mental issues that are not "Visible" and mok off of us just because of it, is eater you are a lier and you are not that bad and how dare you to play being "desable" and then bring them little tda or autist cousing or brother to the conversation of you are the most ridicule clawn and i am not going to give a freak about your diagnosis and what you see explain me that happens in your brain that make you have some "Behavior", that is not "normal" and is not conscious, is out of your control, or they just.... Invalidate all your experience and tell you you are just excusing your "bad behavior" with a diagnosis and pretend it don't exist and get mat at you when all your mental condicion make you do or not do things they want you to do, is a long ass problem so..... I just... Don't think that peple should satanize people with adictions, the most lf the time is a major problem hidden behind a lot of things that people just don't wanna see, because seeing someone suffering is not aestetik and cute and "sameeee" when it is really more deep that self harming jokes Whatever thanks for the video ♥️

[@khalidamr5242]

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

[@eriklamelakillingspree7690]

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.

[@caleborava]

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 :)

[@EliTheGleason]

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.

[@sage8148]

noah is my spirit animal

[@pal8492]

letss gooo its literally 4am and im cleaning as I rewatch your other cleaning vids so this came at the perfect time

[@thasser2427]

watching this while in queue

[@nickdeangelis1541]

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.

[@kpmatch7]

This is way too close to home - ironically I’m also a video editor, own my own business and work part time in my wife’s restaurant she owns. Also 26. Also addicted to league since high school. The main drive that brings me back is playing and connecting with friends I don’t live near anymore, but equally the dopamine surge of gaining LP or getting better at a new champion. The love hate relationship blows my mind - no other game has come remotely close to the grip that League has had on my life. But, ya know, I caaaaannnntt stop playing

[@Corroderptor]

I hit the rank I wanted and dipped. There’s so much variance in the game and I don’t even find the way to fight that variance(gobbling up resources to then become a 1v9 god) that enjoyable when I have 4 human beings I should be able to coordinate with.

[@chrisnelson6663]

I quit LoL cold turkey and still don’t look back. But had some really good times with friends. I also introduced it to my friend group and siblings have conflicted feelings about how many hours it took from their life.

[@chrisnelson6663]

I also made an audible groan when you said Teemo top. The game still lives in me 😢

[@OpenZipper]

I too have finally gotten over the fact that I spent way too much money on this game, and the fact that my friends play this game, and I have now uninstalled and never looking back.

[@ivecaughtfire7431]

I played LoL from 2012 to 2020 loved every second. I had a life outside of it but I got pretty good compared to the average player and took it pretty seriously as a hobby, mained AD with an off role on Top lane. Highest rank I reached was Platinum 2 but I never played enough ranked to really reach wherever I was supposed to be whether it was below or above Plat, maxed out maybe 300 total ranked games over that entire 8 or 9 years. I love League and wish I could keep playing it but there's so many things I wanna do, including become a at least semi-professional musician and all the other games I wanna play, the things I wanna do IRL and things you gotta do to move forward in life makes that desire to play LoL kinda pointless. I played it some more days some less other days but averaged 4-8 matches a day. Idk why people hate it so much you gotta detach yourself emotionally from things you do otherwise anything can be unhealthy.

[@willnash7907]

I first learned about Noah from that video he made about that Xandersomething guy, so it's good to see, in our nerve-wracked age, that he has lived free of the pressure to improve his opinions. I classify full AP Bard as one of the consolations of the universe; a reason for being...

[@mp_rho]

i used to be ‘addicted’ to splatoon. must’ve clocked 3k+ hours between splatoon 2 and 3. they were good times, but i do wish i would’ve spent half the time doing something more productive.

[@Korni1409]

from a league player that was heavily addicted for years, got out, started enjoying life, touched grass on regular bases and interacted with real people for years, just to relaps this winter: if you want to get into story games from being mostly pvp, witcher 3 did it for me- first zone is slow (not bad but slower than the rest of the game) but once you get out of that, say bye bye to the real world untill u finsih the game and expansions

[@gastongatekeeper]

Bro’s just on a loss streak, he’ll be back

[@Night_Bacon]

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.