Do you honestly think, after all I'd been through, that I cared that anyone learned anything from that experience?
You dont learn anything from winning.
Do I like going 20-0-10 and stomping a team, yeah. Its fun. Do I get annoyed when said game goes longer than 20 minutes? Yeah, I do. Why? Because I'm not learning a damn thing.
The only way you learn anything in this game is a) Losing, b) dying.
When I die, in my head, I'm usually running over "Hey, why did I die, what could I have done differently, what should I have done, how did I f*** up so that I dont f*** up again."
When I lose, I think, "Hey, what objectives did they push, dragons did they take, wards did they have, and how/where should our team have been".
I dont generally think any of those things when I'm winning. Winning is easy. Its the losses where its easier to take things from the game. Yeah, I dont like whatever my allies did, and yeah, they probably ultimately lost the game, but does that mean I take nothing from it? No. Theres usually always something more you could do to give your team a chance to win.
I somewhat appreciate when I lose or make a mistake because I try to make a mental note to not make the same mistake twice. Especially in game, I feel the worst when something happens to me twice that I could have prevented(And believe me, you can almost always prevent stupid deaths).
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