A thread to let of the steam of being disapointed by your HotS games. A non-serious thread for free venting , with no accountability .
Shotcaller says “Group to take the turret, leave that fort, you’re gonna get ganked”
“No, we’ll be fine.”
Hi Phase, I asked Darak if he intended to make a new Salt Mines Thread, as it brings much value to the forums, but understandably he declined. I’m happy that you have decided to do so, I would have called it “The Brine Mines”, or something equally terrible.
If I might make a little suggestion. In your OP it might help avoid problems, if you highlighted that this is a non-serious thread for free venting, with no accountability.
Many arguments were started in the Salt Mines by people who didn’t understand (or read Darak’s OP) that key distinction.
To me this is important, as naturally, if you open a new thread to complain about something, it’s fair game that people ask for replays and scrutinize any claims made.
However, the Salt Mines is supposed to be fun and a roundabout method to try to limit trivial complaint spam threads being made in the first place.
*Phase, I’ll delete this post later to help cleanup the thread.
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The other night I played 8 consecutive games. I won 1. My winrate for the day was 12.5%.
Where’s that “forced 50% winrate” Blizzard? WHERE IS IT???
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Darak approves this thread.
Here’s my grain of salt: I don’t feel like playing hots anymore since they deleted old salt mines tbh.
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that’s understandable
but in this case I would encourage you to blame the players not the game and give it a bash at still playing
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I blame the players and Blizzard.
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But please stay here in the forum. Losing Gishki after the Level100 Thread Fiasco is still upsetting me!
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(this user has been permanently banned from the heroes of the storm forums)
I’ll see what I’m gonna do. Right now I’m just sad.
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Relatable. I felt the same as a thread of mine got deleted or when I lost my TL3 rights for the first time.
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Reposting these that I remember off my head from the older thread.
All of these are older than my CS degree.
If you know the context you get a cookie. 
(first time playing rag during the op release of maiev)
im the murky
my first win ever in storm league had a cringe dragonstrike being used on a fort (they thought it dealt damage)!!!
i keep seeing this shared every year or so on discord, reddit and even once here, idk why lol
(ARAM btw before leoric was banned)
my gold to platinum promotion be like
(i know a lot of people will be curious but yeah i climbed hard solo Q from silver to diamond 3 back then, it was really funny)
Anyways, I don’t want to put a lot of pictures but here’s some pics that would likely to cause pain.
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idk, but the person who did this is verified troll
Look bro, I know you are hurt but I will say this, please do not be hard on yourself over a thread’s ending demise, this happens all the time for many different reasons, and best thing we can do is to just move on.
And please don’t do anything you will regret.
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Weeeellll
I think it high time I used this thread for its intended purpose
I finally get whitemane in ARAM
someone goes murky
other person says you go murky I’m leaving
they left
murky proceeded to feed the enemy
so yeah really fun, loved every second of it
loved the fact the tank would pay attention to the varian constantly attacking hanzo me
love the fact that the leaver switched into valeera before the left rendering that slot useless
love the fact I still had to persist in healing regardless
yep such a good time I remember why I don’t ARAM with whitemane cus the moment I get her I get placed with the biggest half witted incompetent fools who think I can carry cus I have a spikey gold ring under my feet
blessed be my bloody name
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I’ll repost my worst also ‘Salt Mines - Deposit all your anger here! - #8354 by Mamekan-2872’
Got this whisp after the game
with these stats
…
As you can see, the game was in versus AI…
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To the 2 KT’s on my team in the ARAM Kael mirror game who took convection. 
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I was actually really hoping this worked out when creating the thread, as I had no other ideas for names 
Will do.
No need. It gives good insight.
There’s a conspiracy against you
Haunted mines custom game?
Had few of those. Games that were so mentally taxing that winning them wasn’t fun.
OMG. SO many deaths!
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Been a couple days, but I had it to where the game decided it wanted to troll me in disconnecting me from a game with me being reminded on just how painful it is to reconnect. Fortunately, bots no longer select talents (that was really aggravating back in the day) but I did not need the reminder that its like watching a VHS rewind reconnecting to a game.
Then to add a bit of whip cream atop of the annoying cupcake I was somehow muted in game to then get fully kicked out of the game itself to sit pretty at the login screen after the match.
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yes that is a consistent thing
highly annoying and I wish I knew what caused it so I could beat it up
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Dont be sad. You should smile. Like this ! EEEEEEEEHHHHHH.
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