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pairing resistance!j with prototype!v was fun maybe the first one to three times but im getting so sick of seeing it.

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i really, really shouldnt have taken a closer look at the wild rift version of high noon viktor. i dont even play wr but im so mad it looks so bad. its actually inexcusable how low quality he is fresh out of a vgu.

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im now at work but im still here actually because jayces path of champions comic is so funny.

viktor shows up and both heimerdinger and jayce immediately go ">:0 viktor you cant be here!"

to which he responds

essentially

"im just a little guyyyyy :(( come on its progress day i just want to show my inventions come on im pretty much the birthday boy you cant say no"

and

they just. fold. pretty much immediately.

at this point there must be a ton of folks unaware of viktors history with the academy (the dude is disgraced!!! exiled essentially!!!) but i imagine the senior staff are losing it. most are seething. jayce and heimerdinger your soft spot is showing GET UP

er... look at the wonders... of the HEXCORE!

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er... look at the wonders... of the HEXCORE!

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....foreplay??

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was gonna tweet this before realising twt is not a safe space but this is your daily reminder that viktor loves jayce and enjoys his company and person. whether its romantic or platonic doesnt change the fact that jayce is his person.

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its funny ( and a shame that it gets so overlooked ) how of the two of them viktor is the mage when jayce is the one more magically attuned.

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league of legends is not a bad game. its actually a very fun game and the over 100 million active players speaks to that! i am so tired of arcane-onlys and other outsiders blanket hating on something they genuinely dont understand because they have zero insight into what theyre hating on.

does everybody enjoy playing MOBAs? obviously not and they don't need to, but that doesn't make league being a MOBA an objectively bad thing, merely a matter of taste.

that out of the way, lets address the things the actual players criticise and that the tourists and other haters have glimpsed and sometimes refer to in order to justify badmouthing league and its fans (if they justify it at all because lbr usually they just act all high-sounding based on nothing)

riot is a rotten company in a thoroughly rotten industry! theres no defending the suits laying off the talent and pushing for increasingly predatory monetization and hardly anyone is! but like i said its a rotten industry, thats hardly unique to riot and no reason to single out league as a bad game. the actual rioters—the devs, writers, and artists making the game what is is—are all incredibly talented, hard-working, and passionate people.

the main reason league has a bad rep is the player base, and im not here to defend toxic people or toxic gaming culture. its a real problem and, yes, prevalent in league. that said, its not only prevalent in league. player bases of games like overwatch and marvel rivals are exactly the same — something about competitive gaming brings out the worst in people, or attracts the worst kind of people, or some combination of both, idk. but for every bad experience i also have an enjoyable one, because theres also genuinely nice and wonderful people playing games too. people joke, and are complimentary and encouraging in the chat, that sort of thing just gets less attention.

the actual game issues people find frustrating are, surprise surprise, bugs and balancing issues. again, not unique to league. thats every single online service game. league has a massive roster of champions and items as well as an active pro player scene — which means that things are going to be tweaked constantly, sometimes with more and sometimes with less success. another thing people are saying is the game looks ugly, and, well. thats again a matter of taste. but also its an old online service game. calling the entire game bad because people are crying about tanks being broken or a character model released back in 2009 looking janky is disingenuous, i think.

but what really grinds my gears is when people shit on the lore because its so clear they havent even bothered to check it out. theres some consistency issues (what 16-year-old property with multiple people working on it over the years doesnt) and all of it is by no means perfect or above critical analysis (nothing ever is) but runeterra, with all the various media attached to it, is such a rich and interesting world with a lot depth and detail to it! add in the skin lines and theres soooo much good stuff for people to interact and engage with, which people have been doing with gusto for years. you dont have to join in (in fact many of us would prefer yall would stay far far away) but acting shitty and like youre so much better for not touching anything league-related is not the own you think it is.

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this game of aram lasted for over 40 minutes and i think i aged about 10 years

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ur boss semi - qualifying as a family friend due to your mother working for them for 2+ decades has its pros and cons.

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if i ever made a new blog instead of returning to any of my old ones itd be a dual muse for my beloveds who like nobody else knows about.

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i havent gone here (ow) in years but hear me out, i think viktor and ramattra should kiss,,

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i loveeee the jv divorce era because they still love each other just as much as they did before so they gotta amp up the haterism just to get through the day

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can the pre-rework skin drop already i need that splash art

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viktor designed the hexclaw for his late parents </3 he was thinking of ways hextech could have helped them and made it with them in mind. only for it to never enter mass production so his prototype is the only one in existence </3

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love renata glasc would love her more if her name was literally anything else because the vet we take our cats to is named renate and my phone keeps autocorrecting renata to that which i dont always catch esp if im typing without my glasses on.

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imagine a/rcane if they actually did a good job with z/aun