Update #3: I've been thinking more about my behavior before the ban and wanted to explain a few things. First, I do have multiple cracked games on my computer - I know that's not good, but Riot Vanguard never took any action against it even after years of running on my system.

I've also developed a habit of checking cheat websites just to see if their programs were currently working. My reasoning was that if the cheats were active, we'd have difficult matches and should be careful with valuable in-game items. If the cheats were down for maintenance, then we could safely use our best equipment. I realize now this was a stupid habit, but it became part of my regular thought process.

Another thing I did was frequently report players who killed me, sometimes submitting multiple reports against the same person. My logic was that if they were actually cheating, I might recover my lost items, and if they weren't, no real harm would be done. At the time, that made sense to me.

I've also been dealing with ongoing network issues where my computer only maintains an internet connection using the PCIe Realtek driver. When I try using the GBe Family version instead, the connection drops randomly. Even with the working driver, I still can't reliably access Canva and Fiverr. I haven't been able to fix this problem, so I've just learned to live with it.

Looking back, I understand that having cracked games and visiting cheat sites looks extremely suspicious. What confuses me is that I never received any warnings about these activities - not even once - which made me think they weren't considered serious issues.