Rant.

So the whole trashing Joe thing is getting outplayed and I want to save the Joe card for an extremely cringeworthy topic...

even though I have a lot to say about Joe....

So now for a topic that makes me hate league... and is very commonly addressed.

People in RANKED.

Disgusting, Disgusting people.

Let me go over some scenarios that are all too real for me and other's who play ranked:

*Dies once in laning phase*

"GG WE LOSE"

"FEEDER!!"

"STOP FEEDING OMG"

"REPORT AFTER GAME"

"UR SO BAD"

And the list goes on. 

People need to remember that winning games is a matter of every individual on the team. Unless you are playing with Joe, don't tilt if they die once. Or twice. OR THREE TIMES. Yelling that they are doing bad DOES NOT MAKE ANYTHING BETTER. People need to learn to be patient. You win some games, you lose some. Being a toxic pinecone does not help crap. It just puts everyone on the team on a bad mood, whether they're mad at the person who is doing bad, or standing up for the person who is doing bad. It sets a negative environment in which NOTHING can be accomplished because everybody is too fed up with their team. 

Let me leave off on one note. 

If I ever convince any of you to play league ever, no matter how hard it is... Don't be jerks. Be accepting of people's strengths and weaknesses... Most of all, don't play with Joe.

off topic again brb crying

My Ballad/Poem

So this week I wrote a ballad typed thing for Mr Ravenda's class and it's about insecurities so here it is.

https://youtu.be/t6bu2RMU8oE

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We people share a mutual love for hatred

We hate a lot of things…

Like country music, or vegetables.

But there’s more than what meets the eye…

Things that aren’t assets of who we are…

Rather, it’s what we want to be.

It’s what we’re told to be.

It’s what we strive to be.

And painfully, it's what we aren’t.

There are assets of us that we can resist.

Biting our nails, picking at acne.

This isn’t one that we can abandon,

Rather it has abandoned us.

Our minds have moved on in pursuit of something better

Something we are told to be.

Something we strive to be.

Something we aren't.

So it left us.

Alone in this shell.

A shell of what we really, really don’t want to be.

But we really, really are.

So we crack.

No, we break.

No… We shatter.

And we pour our heart out into the hands of something that is missing.

The hands of someone who isn’t there to catch us from our lengthy plummet to our knees.

Instead, we pour our heart out to the person in the mirror.

We try to break this cycle but they just stare back

With the same damn tears that are in your eyes right now.

You think to yourself,

Why can't I be who I want to be

Why can't I just snap my fingers and be a whole nother person?

Why did I get stuck with being…

Me…

These demons are only trials of your determination.

Your confidence.

Your self-esteem.

Your sanity.

Only warriors make it.

Fight for you, not someone you want to be.

Not someone you’re told to be.

Not someone you strive to be.

Not someone that you aren’t.

Fight for you.

Not some model.

Not some celebrity.

Not a stranger, your cousin, your best friend.

Fight for you.

OFF TOPIC! Sorry!

So today Mr. Ravenda assigned us something off topic which annoys me because I'm serious about league, but screw it.

In class, we read our peers stories. I chose to review Santiago's, because Arniels was long and I forgot all the details. 

and Santiago's can be interpreted in many... many ways.

Aaaaanyways, his story was about a couple named Lamar and Maria, and they go on a date to a pizza parlor. Maria isn't entirely feeling herself and it is noticeable in the way she acts. Lamar asks Maria what is wrong and she thinks they should break up. Lamar is very upset. He goes home and starts writing a song about her. Later on, Lamar sees Maria and some of her friends at the pizza parlor. All of them leave except for Maria's best friend, who later tells Lamar that Maria cut it off because he didn't pay attention to her enough and he spent too much of his time with his friends. He later leaves the song under Maria's door and when Maria finds it, she regrets breaking it off with Lamar. 

So my only real feedback is that you reaaalllyyyyyyyyyy really really need to proofread your story because a lot of the passage made me think you were illiterate, BUUTTT otherwise I liked the storyline and it was obvious that the story was wrote meaningfully and you put a lot of thought into it. So good job Santi.

Dani, Out.

Get ready for the roast- I mean... Satire... of a lifetime, Joe.

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Is this already too brutal...?

Oh well! 

Okay, so as we all know,  the wild Joe is basically the scrub mascot of my blog. (He knows and accepts his fate.)

Legend has it that the mysterious Joe lurks in the depths of bronze waiting for his first pentakill. According to ancient scriptures,(dated somewhere in 2002), Joe's lifelong dream is to screenshot and print his first pentakill and make numerous copies, spreading his "success" throughout the land. Where he wants his pentakill to end up, you may ask? The answer lies beneath a magnet on Mr. Ravenda's refrigerator. Joe wants to bring some tone into Mr. Ravenda's life and prove he is worthy to be a part of our PSAT Verbal class. I have a feeling we will all be dead by time he gets a penta, though. 

I think this is a good time to make him a poem.

Joe.

Joe Rhymes with No.

Joe also rhymes with a certain gardening tool.

Joe goes 0-10 in his placements.

Joe really needs a replacement. 

He's so bad that it sends people into amazement.

No? Okay. I'll show myself out.

(No Joes were harmed in the making of this post.)

bai~

Life lessons.

Today I'll be sharing some of the life lessons I learned by playing league.

They all revolve around our favorite topic, tilt.

Tilt is when you get like really freaking mad at the game, to the point where you want to break things. So, today I'll give you tips on how to relieve tilt. Tilt can come from a whole bunch of things anywhere from toxic players to playing with Joe.

Here's a list of things that help me get off my losing sprees and get off of tilt.

- Play Annie. She's so easy.

- 1v1 Joe. It's easy.

- Take a break from ranked. Ranked can make you more mad because it actually matters. Normals and ARAM don't mean crap

- Take a break from league in general. This one is hard to do.

Those are a few things I do to get off my tilt. I have to say the most effective is 1v1ing Joe because he sucks. Annie is really easy. You can pretty much counter/beat anyone and she's really good to carry with. Taking a break from ranked is good because if you lose you don't lost anything and you don't risk losing your rank because your anger is blinding you.

 

To conclude, you will know when you are off tilt. You won't be so irritable and you'll take losses like a champion. Unless you're playing with Joe. Then you'll unbelievable irritable.

The Biggest Myth of League...

Riot. Tells. Lies.

So according to riot, people get banned for being bad sports, huge jerks, pieces of crap, and overall horrible people....Yeah, no.

This is one of the biggest myths of league. Riot, even if you do report people, is too lazy to collect the chat logs in games. It makes me mad some times that these people who have nothing better to do with their lives sit there trying to make poor people feel bad. I've been playing this game for a very long time, and due to that I'm not affected by anything that people  could say.  And trust me, I've heard a lot. Riot sounds very confident in it's banning system, and the whole community rolls their eyes

This is why I don't recommend league to people of soft nature. League of Legends is not for the faint of heart. This post actually came from inspiration from a game I played just recently. I went 13-5 Ahri and this 2-10 Gnar told me some disgusting things. I hope he sees this one day! (:

Dunkey Conspiracy

So I was watching one of videogamedunkey's video which I won't link because it's rather... 

Explicit.

Anyways, this video stuck out to me because it's pretty dang creepy. The thing is, its an old video from 2012, so the splash art has changed and I don't think it works anymore. I thought it was cool though, so let's get to it.

So, Dunkey got an email from a fan.

Exhibit one: 

So, it just looks like random letters right? Well, no. If you play league, you know that these are codewords for items. In this order:

Abyssal Scepter

Deathfire Grasp (This was an old item that was removed last season)

Haunting Guise

Now, you may be thinking, "So what?" Well, the sender of the email also attached this closeup picture of Abyssal Scepter...

If you zoom in, there's hidden letters.

I used a photo editor to alter the colors so you can see them better. If you still can't see them, the letters spell out D F G which is an acronym for the item we talked about earlier, deathfire grasp.

Now, moving on, lets revisit our top list of items. Let's move on to Haunting Guise. This is where it gets creepy.

This is a Haunting Guise. There is also a message hidden in this splash art. It is in the top left corner and this one is a little harder to see. I'll edit the colors for this one too.

Here it is:

If you still can't see it, the letters say S W. That means "Stealth Ward"  Wards grant vision, meaning that it lets you see things you wouldn't otherwise see. Let's get to the stealth ward.

This is the icon for a stealth ward:

No messages right? or so you think. Let's zoom into that pupil a little.

Nothing.

Let me do a little color editing.

Yup. I freaked the hell out when I was editing the colors, because that my friend is creepy. This is not fake. I am ENCOURAGING you to take the picture of the stealth ward, Zoom in the pupil, Increase the exposure, and decrease the contrast. You will not be disappointed. 

Hope I scared you guys, because it sure scared me. Dani out.

Memorial

Memorials... Depressing right? Thanks Mr. Ravenda.

Now, you may be thinking, " Memorials? League? What is this sorcery?! " Well, the answer is Mr. Ravenda knows how to make everything depressing. Lets Begin.

So sometime in 2014 on an unspecified date, a 16 year old boy and his mother were presumed dead. How you may ask? Well let me tell you, it was shocking to hear. A young man from China was let out from school on his vacation break, but he made one crucial mistake. Instead of coming home after school, he made his way to a net cafe to play league of legends. Net cafes are generally 18+, but he went anyways. After returning home, a fight broke out between the boy and his mother. His mother said things like she "couldn't live with herself" because her son was playing online games. She had felt like she raised her son wrong. She began making threats to jump in the Jialing River. The two ended up on the banks of the river, and after her taking a few steps forward, she was caught by the undercurrent. His mother was swept away. His father arrived at the scene and was beginning to guilt trip his son saying things like "You had to go online, you had to play games!" The son himself, jumped in the river. That is what happened. I believe that this whole ordeal was unnecessary in the least, and they definitely took this to its highest extremities. However, what was done can not be undone. I do not know much about these people, as there were really no personal details in the article, but I can assume that they were loved and appreciated by their friends, family, and the atmosphere around them. Its just a shame that it had to end like that.

See you next week.

FAQ's! yay.

Okay, so today's post is going to be an FAQ. I've gotten a whole bunch of confused feedback and it's time to clear up some terms and acronyms to make my future posts more understandable. Let's get right to it then!

Q: You talk about "adc" so much, what is it?

A: Adc is an acronym standing for "attack damage carry." It basically means the main source of attack damage. Meta games most likely always have ONE adc if there are no complications. An adc usually goes to the bot lane, but on some very odd compositions there are instances where the top laner and the bottom laners switch lanes, and sometimes you even see adc jungles.


Q: What are the other roles?


A: The other lanes are top, middle, support, and there's one more role called jungle that basically helps other lanes. Some times in low level gameplay there are two people top instead of jungler. Top lane pretty much consists of tanks, fighters, and sometimes casters. Middle lane is basically at the center of everything. You are also able to roam to help top or bottom lane. Mid primarily consists of mages, ability power casters, attack damage casters, and things like assassins. Support is there to help the adc thrive in lane. They are there to protect and utilize their adc. Bottom lane is heavily dependent on the support.


Q: What is "Meta"? 


A: Meta is basically the current style of play in the community. It depends on a lot of things, like new patches and updates. Metas are primarily focused around one class of champions(i.e. Assassins, Tanks)


Q: Why is Joe so bad? 


A: THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW.


Bye. (:

France’s Recent Terrorist Attacks.

On Friday, November 13th, there was a series of coordinated terrorist attacks directed by the Islamic state, ISIS, in France in several locations. There were shootings and suicide bombings in several restaurants and musical venues. There were about 352 people injured to all different kinds of degrees, and at least 129 confirmed deaths.

It started when the killers rented an apartment in Bobigny about a week before pursuing the attack. There was three teams of terrorists that split out between two restaurants and one concert hall. There was a series of coordinated explosions and shootings, and many people were held hostage. It was a grievous time for the people of France. As residents of the U.S., it is only natural for us to feel sympathy for the Parisians, for the French were our first ally and deserve respect. No country should have to go through such a thing. We should all be able to live without being worried about terrorists, for god’s sake.

At first, one of the suspected terrorists were stopped. He was then let go because they did not suspect him anymore, later to find out that he was the guy they were looking for. There is a manhunt going on for the terrorists, and many have already been put on trial. All we can hope for is them to be put to justice, I would say to live in peace, but that seems like a distant reality, now doesn't it?

So let's get a little more in depth on LCS.

Hi Guys!

So I got a lot of confused feedback last week in the comments. This week I'm going to go more into depth about what the LCS (The thing I was discussing last week) is.

So to start off, LCS is basically a sports division for league of legends. It's more generally classified as "eSports" which is more vague for other games that also have competitive teams. LCS Stands for League of Legends Champion Series. TSM is a team that I mentioned in my last post. The roster part was simply the five people who made up the team, and when I said "changes to the roster" I meant that some people left or retired, and new people joined the team, thus "changes to the roster."

So, I hope you guys can see that in a better light now, and don't be hesitant to ask me to clarify something again, because I'd love to help you understand the game.

While we're on the topic of LCS, lets go more in depth. Basically, teams compete to win various competitions and at the end of the season, there is world championships. It is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS (in a good way) the amount of people who tune in to watch the games.

This infographic above demonstrates the amount of people who watch eSports on the regular. As you can see, since 2010, the number of viewers has rapidly increased. I've been a constant viewer, keeping up completely with LCS late 2011. Evidently, the vast majority of watchers are male, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I don't think it'd be hard for some girls to get involved in league. I guess league is an acquired taste though.

That's enough for this week! Bye guys, leave me a comment and tell me if this helped.



Interview

Hey guys, its Dani.
So, most people seem to be really hyped about the new changes to the TSM roster. Personally, I'm so...  so against this. Okay well now that I've expressed my disapproval, LETS GET TO THE INTERVIEW...

  On Tuesday, I asked my friend Amelia (who is a fairly experienced and has no favorite team) a series of questions regarding this. These were her responses.

Q: Do you think the changes made to the TSM roster will positively affect TSM's performance in later games?

A: I think that it's foreign territory for the new potential members of TSM, and the old ones as well. I don't really know how they will get along with Reginald, however. He's kind of a- wait is this for your school? (<- face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" font="" lol="">Moving on.. I think that it could go either way, depending on how the members adjust to eachother and to see if they really have that same synergy that the previous members had with one another.

Q: Now let's get into specifics. Are you especially happy/sad that someone left or someone joined? Who?

A: I think that Santorin really needed to go. Compared to the junglers on the other teams, it was like Santorin wasn't even there. It was like Santorin was dead or something.

 
 Q: Heeeeeeeeeeere's a controversial topic. Dyrus. Any thoughts, to wrap it up?

A: I really don't think Dyrus was all that bad at all. Regi was a huge jerk to him. It made me feel even worse, because one he always gets camped, and two, he tries his best. I wouldn't be surprised if he retired because people were being butt hats to him. When he finally left, he went out with a very emotional interview, and that was when he got the fan support he really deserved. 

Posting again soon, let there be infographics. c: 
Dani, out.