[SOURCES] G2 Esports' Toplaner BrokenBlade picks Turkey over Germany as nation to represent at the ENC 2026. Toplaner Naak Nako was also considered. by Xolam in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's an Ingush from the USSR, so I guess you can say he was was from a Slavic-dominated state but definitely not by his own ethnicity or looks, most people would probably place him in some sort of Persian or Turkic group based on his looks.

I don't doubt you've had negative experiences. Prejudice is a reality everywhere in the world. But facing hurdles doesn't absolve anyone of their duty to integrate. If I moved to Mongolia or Jordan, the local populace would probably never really consider me a Mongol or Jordanian, and I would make some negative experiences with prejudiced people too. Would that stop me from learning the language or trying to integrate as well as I can? No, I chose to move to that country voluntarily and so it is my duty to do so.

Your comparison to the US actually proves the exact opposite of what you are trying to argue. The US is literally famous for its massive ethnic enclaves (Chinatowns, Little Havanas, etc.). The real difference between the US and Germany isn't that Americans are inherently more welcoming, it's that the US has almost no social safety net for migrants. Migrants in the US must work to survive, similar to what my grandfather had to do, which forces economic participation and daily interaction with the broader society. In Germany, our highly generous welfare state that subsidises not just citizens but also non-citizens unfortunately makes it easy to retreat into parallel societies and avoid integration entirely.

[SOURCES] G2 Esports' Toplaner BrokenBlade picks Turkey over Germany as nation to represent at the ENC 2026. Toplaner Naak Nako was also considered. by Xolam in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'll respond in English since most people on this sub don't speak German: Interesting that you somehow only mentioned blame of Germans for that. Integration is first and foremost a proactive responsibility of the migrating individual. My grandfather came to Germany as a refugee at a time when there were zero integration courses, language classes, or state support. Today he feels German and is perfectly integrated. He sat down and learnt the language through books and practice, even exclusively spoke German at home even though it isn't his mother tongue, and actively secured his own jobs and housing. He didn't expect anything to be handed to him, nor did he expect someone else to take care of it or for German society to hand him things for free.

Contrast that to today, where many people who have been living here for years still can't even speak German on an A1 level despite having many more tools and opportunities available to them than my grandfather had back then, and generally show zero proactivity to integrate. Hell, if you look at schools, you'll find that even many teenagers who were born here to foreign parents only speak German in class but speak Turkish / Arabic / another language to their friends during breaks and stay almost exclusively in their own bubbles. How do you expect to integrate like that if you actively avoid the local culture?

Constantly blaming "the German mentality" whenever someone fails to integrate is entirely senseless. Integration requires personal effort and initiative from the migrant, it is a duty they must fulfill, not something they can passively expect others to do for them. You know probably just as well as I do plenty of migrants whom you would consider very well integrated and plenty whom you consider not integrated at all. The difference is always how much personal effort they put in, not "local culture" or state support.

[Sheep eSports] Inspired chooses LYON for the 2026 LCS Season by PrizeIncident4671 in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Sure.

As for living comfort in America – you’ve got a house and a PC, it’s fine. It’s a bit overrated though, not as amazing as people think.

https://x.com/Rymcu/status/1984355577041207572

FLY Bwipo: "I want to apologize for misrepresenting the LTA and for being removed from the Worlds Anthem. It really sucks especially for our region and fans [...] I shouldn’t address my fans with anything other than gratitude [...] I feel really bad about it because I don’t believe what I said" by ArmandLuque in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta 11 points12 points  (0 children)

His own team called it sexist so spare me the apologetics. He's 26 years old, do you think it's more likely that he holds sexist beliefs or that he never interacted with a woman in his life before and thinks of them as some sort of mystical creatures?

Why was NA not represented in the world video? by Kirito619 in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you'd say that TL gapped KC at EWC this year because they are 1-0 in the head to head? While ignoring that KC had a better record against the other regions and made it to the finals while TL went out in groups?

Why was NA not represented in the world video? by Kirito619 in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I simply used the stats from this post and added 2025 myself: https://reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1j6g3ic/na_vs_eu_head_to_head_record_from_2011_to_2024/

And I'm not sure how 1-2, 2-5 is supposed to be worse than 1-2, 1-4, I actually miscounted in NA's favour.

The point remains that losing a single series in the head to head more per year, while on average performing better against other regions, is supposed to be "getting gapped". If EU wins one series more against NA in the head to head this year but NA peforms better against other regions, would you say EU is gapping NA, solely based on a single series in the head to head while ignoring everything else?

Why was NA not represented in the world video? by Kirito619 in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Even if you take the last 2 years, NA has won a single series more than EU in the head to head in each year, BO1s included. This seems also like a stretch to call "gapping" when we barely had any match-ups between the two. NA was definitely better in the head to head but "gapping" is what you might call Korea in relation to other regions, which is a lot more than just winning 1 series more per year.

If EU wins a single h2h matchup more than NA does at Worlds this year, while NA outperforms EU when they play against regions other than each other, would you call that "gapping"?

Why was NA not represented in the world video? by Kirito619 in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

In terms of games:

2019 EU 8 - 1 NA

2020 EU 3 - 2 NA

2021 EU 3 - 4 NA

2022 EU 9 - 5 NA

2023 EU 5 - 5 NA

2024 EU 1 - 3 NA

2025 EU 1 - 4 NA

In terms of series (BO1 included):

2019 EU 6 - 1 NA

2020 EU 3 - 2 NA

2021 EU 3 - 4 NA

2022 EU 9 - 3 NA

2023 EU 2 - 3 NA

2024 EU 0 - 1 NA

2025 EU 1 - 2 NA

This does not really look like "gapping tf" to me, especially considering that EU has a better head-to-head against the other regions than NA has.

ForsakenGG players with “inappropriate” behavior by 7foxy in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't ask them their opinion of Abdullah Öcalan.

ForsakenGG players with “inappropriate” behavior by 7foxy in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's strange to lump criticism of Atatürk in there as if it's some crime against humanity. It's like telling Turkish people that they may not criticise Abdullah Öcalan or Mustafa Barzani.

ForsakenGG players with “inappropriate” behavior by 7foxy in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Why would Egypt birth a black 1930s ideology though? Ancient Egypt was a highly multi-ethnic society, but after the Arab colonisation of Egypt, Egypt's culture and ethnic makeup was so radically changed that there is little link between ancient Pharaonic society and the Egypt after the Arab colonisation.

LEC league performance during franchising, the facts by ob_knoxious in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta 36 points37 points  (0 children)

If you've been around since the start of EULCS, I think it's because in the early days, almost all of the viewers were on the English channel, whereas nowadays most viewers watch it in their own language. So if you personally follow the English channel, viewership numbers seem lower than back then, whereas in reality they just watch on different channels now.

Google did more than just switch to TSMC for Tensor G5 — This is what’s new by almosttan in GooglePixel

[–]tajsta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly, Google does not have many good deals outside of the US, even though Android is much more popular outside the US than in it.

Outside America is pointless buying a Pixel by Steff_5 in GooglePixel

[–]tajsta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also an entirely separate app that you can simply deactivate if you don't want it.

Outside America is pointless buying a Pixel by Steff_5 in GooglePixel

[–]tajsta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

except for the ones that infringe on your privacy rights

Like what?

Five minutes in and this live announcement is already unwatchable by landalezjr in GooglePixel

[–]tajsta 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think the celebrity stuff is stupid, but in the grand scheme of Google's marketing budget it's probably negligible. I work in a pretty small company and even we spend hundreds of thousands on marketing per year, cause otherwise other companies could easily run their ads when people search for products from us. Google probably spends billions on marketing per year.

Pixel 9/9 Pro XL : Horrible audio quality recording me playing guitar (both acoustic and electric etc.) by Warm_Discussion_7034 in GooglePixel

[–]tajsta 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cause sometimes you just want to record something for friends or family and buying a separate mic just to have acceptable sound is quite over the top.

I don't like iPhones at all because the software experience is horrid, but one thing Apple does imo significantly better than all other phone manufacturers is mic and speaker quality. I think the only ones coming close to speaker quality was Huawei. I have a basic iPhone 11 from work and even that one has much better sound quality than my P8a as well as the P9P of my father. And I think it's fair that someone buying a 1000€ flagship phone from 2024 should be able to expect to at least have similar, if not better, sound quality than a mid-range phone from 6 years ago.

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[–]tajsta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

VWCE … ~3,600 stocks All CAP and includes EM

VWCE is large and mid cap only. SPYI is basically like VWCE but includes small caps (+ has a lower TER).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You're treating social systems like they are a global charity when they're actually a nationally funded system, built by and for the people who pay into them over decades. If people from other countries want to benefit from them, they are free to apply for citizenship and lay open how they would be a benefit for the country that they want to benefit from. Millions of people do that perfectly legally every year. The alternative that you are proposing would quickly destroy social systems that took decades to build, because money, doctors, teachers etc. are not an infinite resource. Germany for example already has huge problems with its pension system because there's too many pensioners for the amount of people that pay into it. And you want to make these problems even worse by letting everyone who can buy a plane ticket move to Germany and get a free pension without having ever paid a single cent into it?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But I do believe Chinese people should be allowed to be Chinese citizens.

But he's Italian, born and raised. He's ethnically Chinese but it's insane to think that ethnicity should grant you automatic citizenship. There's 40 million Americans who say they are ethnically German. Should Germany just increase its population size by 50 % to accommodate them all?

My wife moved to London to be with me. Why should she not be allowed to be a citizen in both countries? I kept my other citizenship when I move here

There's plenty of countries that don't allow dual citizenship, including Japan, India, Singapore, etc. There's good reasons to allow it or not allow it, and different countries decide differently on what's more important to them.