Blaze

M 20!
Hanging on by a thread
(I can be a bit of an anxious mess so spare me some leeway please~)

[squishy @gayfluffypaws]

*whimpers* give me nitro *whimpers* give me nitro *whimpers* give me nitro

[Green Dummy of the Dawn @dumitaph]

This is some incredible visceral shit. Actually just phenomenal

[ari runeys☾ @serizah]

got seperated from my partner in big walk and when i found him he was holding this

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@notkyun night night

[Tôryk BirdThrowa @Torykbirdthrowa]

@redder_planet rocky after this would be absolutely justified to speak like this during Grace's flying practice.

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@pyongell Either outlive me, hunt me, or get shitty music played at your funeral

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@pyongell If you die while I still roam this earth they are playing that one charlie kirk song at your funeral

[Wigii @giih______]

For the 2 of yu that asked me to make her green and nuthin else

tadaaa <3

(i put alot more effort into the video than the greenification xd)

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@Wripprap @ViioRaiin W. you are immediately not retarded for not doubling down

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@g00berfrrr @krerdsethsei @johnfartas40355 @WispSwift the images are exaggerations (i think) but i see your point and its my bad i still think hes right in general tho because people prioritize shaming people and feeling like they "won" over actually giving a fuck about people changing or stopping people from being racist

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@krerdsethsei @johnfartas40355 @WispSwift Like I just want to say I'm sorry for calling you silly but the words you say read like you aren't trying to actually rebuke his words properly and instead just putting the situation on its most extreme level

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@krerdsethsei @johnfartas40355 @WispSwift >we should work to fix people's bigatry with love and acceptance rather then shame them and cause more resentment/fighting
>"Yea well what about the NAZIS we didn't love them away"
Genuinely how do you not see how silly you sound just completely going to the extreme

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@pyongell Thank god

[Fenrie ☀️🦊 Vtuber @fenrieku]

Big fuck you to Twitch if true

[Drew Levin @drewlevin]

I get that a lot of people follow me for "teehee funny internet guy dunks on bad guys", but I want to make something extremely clear about what has to come after that. This is something I talk about with people a lot.

The main reason I am here on Twitter talking with all of y'all is to make the game better. Part of that is listening and learning and connecting the community to the dev team in the ways that I'm able to, and I'll continue to do that as much as my time allows. But a big part of my day job is specifically focused on player behavior and toxicity, so I want to talk about that specifically right now.

League is too good of a game to let a small number of jerks ruin it for everyone else. Our best guess is that less than 1% of people who play League are just going to be jerks no matter what, and our view is that we should get better at getting those people out of the game (and we've been doing that for the last year, and that work will continue).

It is also obviously true that more than 1% of people currently playing League behave in ways that aren't great. Our view is that those people are NOT going to be jerks no matter what. They will be responsive to incentives and social norms and pressure.

I've talked with quite a few people who have said things like "I question why it's worth it to follow the rules when I see people break the rules without consequence." And when I see and talk to people who occasionally act out in ways that are antisocial, what they tell me is that they aren't always like this, and that they don't recognize themselves in the way that they're acting at their worst. Those people are 100% capable of change - both for better and for worse.

Part of why I'm out here doing a bunch of stuff in public is because we want y'all to see that we're actively working on improving these behaviors, and also: we're more effective if we do that together. This is meant to do three things:

1. We want to give energy to people who get tired of watching jerks do jerk things, and who get tired of reporting them and who get tired of doing the work of emotionally regulating themselves instead of ruining games or typing whatever comes into their mind. We want them to know that the good world they want to live in is the one we - the entire dev team, all of Riot - want to create.

2. We want to send a clear signal to jerks that their choices are not consequence-free and that we are working to make that more and more true every day.

3. We want to make it clear for people who are in the middle - not perfect, but they do their best - that being better is worth it. That being part of a community that treats each other with respect and fairness is work, yeah, but it's work worth doing, because the reward is that your community has shared values like respect and fairness, and you then get to expect to be treated with respect and fairness by those around you.

Part of doing that work is shifting social norms around the acceptability of doing antisocial things. We've seen people do that more and more, which is great. We love that. Ultimately, communities must enforce the norms that they want to be held to.

The next part is harder, and this is where writing this all is coming from. Part of what MUST happen in that process is that communities have to be able and willing to encourage and support the people who do reform. If people don't reform and keep doing shitty things, sure, dunk on them, call them out, whatever. But if someone is going to say "hey, yes, this was shitty, I'm going to do different things now", and then they actually change how they treat others? Encourage them! Social pressure works both ways.

We all, collectively, get to decide what community we want to live in every day, and our actions contribute to that. They shape who we are, and they shape the realities of the people around us, and they affect how the people around us think about what they can expect and whether doing the hard, right thing is worth it.

We want more and more people to see that there is lasting value in doing the hard, right things that make the League community a better place.

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@pyongell Sleep well hope it's comfy mhm

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@pyongell You'll get your viewers hopes up (it's less the gender more the person all I can do is wish you luck bunny the dating scene rn is fucked <.<)

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@pyongell I do not envy lesbians......

[Blaze @Alight_Blaze]

@pyongell Oi stop that no sucides yet I wanna see 2030 then we can come back around to this