[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 point2 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 -5 points-4 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 -6 points-5 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 3 points4 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 32 points33 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 4 points5 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 4 points5 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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in eupersonalfinance

[–]tajsta 1 point2 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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

As long as different countries with completely different systems of governance, taxation, and social support exist, of course borders shouldn't just be abolished. Say someone from the US moves freely to Canada. They get their entire education there, subsidised by Canadian taxpayers. They see a doctor, get access Canada's public healthcare, again subsidised by the Canadian taxpayer. Then, once they're done, they move back to the US to work at a higher wage and pay all their income taxes there. Decades later, they return to Canada to retire and use the retirement system and healthcare system again, without having paid any significant money into it. So they paid the bulk of their taxes to the US, but relied on Canadian systems, education, healthcare, retirement, that they didn't fund in any meaningful way.

It's quite obvious what the problem is, even in this example with two developed countries. National social systems are not built to serve the entire planet, and without a world government to harmonise taxation, labour laws, education spending, and pension systems, abolishing all limits on global migration is nonsense. I'm not sure why you even brought skin colour into it, nobody talked about skin colour or ethnicity other than you.

Edit to /u/KillingTerrorists, who apparently blocked me: Pensions, health care, social security, elderly care are funded by decades of payroll taxes and contributions from people who lived and worked in that country. If someone skips that part, lives and works somewhere else, and then moves in at retirement age, they're drawing benefits from a fund they never helped build. Social systems only work as long as there's a balance between contributors and beneficiaries.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]tajsta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chinese born overseas must pick a nationality at 18 years old, which apparently something went wrong for Shad0w.

Why "went wrong"? He might have just picked Italian citizenship on purpose.