Ranked games are rotten in League of Legends

 

I have played a lot of League of Legends lately. An unhealthy amount some might say, but that is besides the point. There is something very irritating I have encountered that I simply cant do any thing about since I'm not good enough to hard carry in low elo. In a ranked game the player picks the  roles and depending on which one I want to main, the que timer can take anything from two minutes to more than ten. Then comes the ban and pick phase, which also takes an irritating amount of time. If someone leaves during this the whole process starts over again. Also to balance the insanity out, you will eventually be auto filled despite it being locked. Once past this sequence there is the actual loading screen, which takes several minutes, because there is always someone with connectivity issues. But in most cases people play on a potato run by a half dead gerbil, aside from the times the game itself shafts a player. Unfortunately I encounter these folk every third dame or so it seems.

One of the most preferred roles is mid and due to autofill, there is always someone begging like a baby to get the role, despite me waiting for many minutes to get the role. Support is not the worst, unless you count incompetent leaning partners. I almost exclusively run across dead beat ad carries that cant dodge any skill shots. The fact that the marksmen has been severely gimped this season does not help. The rest of the lanes are just irritating or, no waith, their just irritating.

Now the points above is bad enough in my eyes, however the real butt clincher is the general skill of players. Who are suspiciously incompetent to the point of being worse than bots. I'm not one to believe in conspiracy theories, despite how endlessly entertaining they are. But back to my point, these foolish mortals are bad. Like really really bad, sure I'm not the best one versus nine player out there, but when my entire team is worse than me, now that is where my issue starts. I'm simply incapable of hard carrying in ranked and every match has been a loss. I started at iron, clawed my way up to bronze one. But then everything went sideways and I'm now at bronze three and falling like a stone. Yes, waiting over then minutes, to play a fourth five minutes long match just isn't worth it anymore. Yes I'm complaining a lot and with good reasons, becuase this issue seems to be exclusively a ranked thing. Becuase I generally win normal games and ultra rapid fire. Aram is gambling as usual ang can go in any direction, despite being one straight line. So something is quite clearly rotten in ranked games and I'm tired of the smell.

Zaceron Signing out.

Spirals are very sinistral and inescapable

Have you ever taken a closer look at the humble spiral, a reoccurring pattern on a universal scale, one most of us take for granted. Obsessing over it will cause the best of us to spiral out of control, and living in a downward spiral is a terrible thing.

In art there is the concept of the golden ratio, a template that arrange elements into a spiral by dividing a picture into a series of rectangles. It is very aesthetically pleasing and apparently it is seen as a recurring pattern in nature. Once you gave seen it, you can not unsee it.

Pulling the plug on the sink causes the water to drain in a twisting pattern, which gets smaller the further down it go. One thing I always found very fascinating as a chip was being introduced to is the two bottles facing each other. One is in the bottom, and the other is on top, with the two corks glued together. A terrible roundabout way for me to talk about a water filled hourglass. In essence this device is a way to study and observe a miniature vortex, or is that a whirlpool. Regardless it is yet another spiral. The curious thing though is the direction the water drain. In fact most spirals only goes in one direction.

Maelstroms is a common natural phenomenon, one that is very popular in stories and folklore. Here and there stories have been told of ships getting sucked in, only to never show up again. Around the world there are several quite famous ones. So there is clearly truth in fiction. The weather is not exempt from the spiral either, that is for sure. The crushing tornadoes commonly associated with certain north American locations is also a spiraling cone. Welcome to the eye of the tropical storm

To further highlight the recurrence of this shape, just take a close look at your finger tips. The finger print patterns is yet another spiral.  Yes you are incapable of escaping the spiral. If that is not disturbing enough, there is a spiral inside our ears as well. Just do not bring a drill into the ear cavity to get rid of it. Because spirals are very useful for human tools and has brought us great innovations, such as the ever useful drill. Because a hole is always useful, be it building a house with screws, digging for oil, or various types of excavating. While focusing on the body, the hair on our heads also tends to start in one spot and spiral outwards. In fact I've noticed this on many animals as well. Such as dogs with short fur.

As for the pattern in nature, just look at the humble snail. The slimy slow moving creature that carry a spiral shaped shelter on its back, which it can retract its body into. The very curios thing though is how I have never found a sinistral shell. As far as I know spirals tends to be dextral on my side of the globe. I can most likely attribute this to gravity.

Might as well bring in that existential angst now. Because the milky way is one huge ass spiral. Just look up the various pictures and observations from NASA. But this is just food for thoughts. However if you happen to be looking for the definite illustrated biography of the horrors of the spiral, look up the manga Uzumaki.

Zaceron signing out.

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