u/capo-johnson

I’ve been having a hard time with tilt lately. I’m grinding Bridget on ranked myself, and it’s been an uphill battle. In the past 2 days, I dropped an entire tier from a losing streak, and I was being really hard on myself about it. I took a break from ranked and queued tower instead. Usually I decline mirror matches on tower, but something told me to just take it. “Maybe I’ll learn something from her”, I remember thinking.

She went AFK (or had a connection issue or something) on the last life of our third game. I started respect emoting at her when I realized. When she came back, she did the same with me. We wound up just screwing around and being silly as the timer went out.

Then, she rematched me for another three games. They were some of the closest mirror matches I’ve ever had. She started punishing me for my habits, and we were both constantly just trying to mix each other up. It was a complete blast, with someone I had never met. The pressure was gone, because for the first time in weeks, I didn’t feel frustration, I didn’t see somebody who was just relentlessly and unapologetically kicking my teeth in. I saw a kind and silly person who was also just trying to enjoy herself on a game she loved to play.

Thank you, Tired the Bridget player. I did learn something from you after all ❤️