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Day 9561 of my existence (thats 26 and a bit in human-Roman-Earth years), the day where I reached the point where I am unlikely to buy Doughnuts anymore. 

Pablo Griswold UBI disincentivizes work. Who will go to work when you have everything provided? What happens when people choose to live their life entertaining themselves rather than working, resulting in higher rates of depression and feelings of worthlessness? People who aren't productive can demonstrably be shown to be have more mental health issues. UBI will only encourage this more. Most people aren't self motivated enough to overcome their own self destructive nature on their own. First of all, the opinion of the enemy.

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APaleDot your exception doesn't disprove the rule. Then again, is it really an exciton? You have some work/purpose you are striving for. What happens to the people who are striving to provide for their family? What happens when they have no useful skills because everything is provided? Many will wallow in the depression of feeling helpless. Capitalism may not be helping you, but it clearly isn't stopping you. UBI has numerous hypothetical problems, none of which have been properly answered. The biggest one of all, though, is how to give people purpose in a world where you no longer have to work. Currently, capitalism gives that incentive.

Then my opinion: (at the time of writing as well as probably in the future)

In a more direct response. In advance, sry for any simplifcations & assumptions, its not worth going into more detail or making a bigger wall of text on youtube.

 I have an issue with your use of work/purpose combined. If you understand them as the same thing well then it would make sense why you are attached to Capitalism. 

Your work does not have to be your purpose, in fact that is objectively strictly limiting. 

 If machine A is more efficient in Job A  than Person A, having Machine A doing job A  serves society better. 

 If machine A replaces Person A in Job A & person A's happiness is correlated with how much is produced in job A, they should be happier, since its more now. 

If Person A has biases that make them want to be the one that "helps" society they could 

1: Benefit society in the way of their choosing now that they have free time and a financial safety net or 

2: use their new free time to improve themselves and heal their biases. It would not be healthy for them to desire convincing themselves that society is dependent on them by more than it is. Think them putting laws in place to keep better workers away.

 If person A remains more efficient in their job (Job A) than any machine is, there is no incentive to replace person A. If anything there is more incentive for person A to improve due to increased competition, if automation brings that. 

 Q: What happens to the people striving to provide for their family? (in UBI)

 A: Their family is provided for so starvation and homelessness is not a fear as it would be under capitalism. TLDR if what you care about is if they are provided for, UBI is safer and probably better. 

 Are you saying people should find meaning in having people dependent on them to the point where you would want to deny your own family a safety net that keeps them safe from homelessness and starvation just so YOU can "let" them have their needs? 

 If the goal is to make sure the family is provided for, UBI is safer. If the goal is so that YOU provide for them, well now they don't need you for the basics, now you can use the free time and money you get from UBI to help their lives be even better, knowing they are safe. 

 You use lights and computers I assume, you didn't invent them, but they improve your family's quality of life, the beauty of global co-operation. 

 Q: What happens when they have no useful skills because everything is provided?

 A: If the goal is to provide: everything being provided sounds great. UBI wins.

--If the goal is to have skills: UBI frees society from jobs that can be done better by machines. So that people have the free time and financial safety required for self improvement. Therefore they should have more skills if developing those skills is their goal. 

 Capitalism uses the threat/real alternative of homelessness, discrimination & starvation to force people to develop skills required to do A JOB (not THE job the person is most suited for to help society or the job they want, but a job preferable to the alternative of poverty &or welfare). This often means the job they get to keep poverty at bay directly effects their personal development and hugely defines how their time is spent and the skills they develop which is hugely limiting, less so in ~best case scenarios but they are so rare. 

Its practically strictly worse than UBI with the only exception of they potentially make more money which is only a benefit if one is materialistic (which they shouldn't be since its unhealthy for oneself and imo its sick to flaunt ones comparative wealth when inequality exists). Capitalism incentivises materialism (Unhealthy and in a way sick due to inequality) and trends towards really top heavy power distribution, I read earlier this year that the worlds richest 1% hold more wealth/assets than the other 99% combined. UBI would solve both of those problems without creating a major one that people can prove so far afaik.

 “What happens when they have no useful skills because everything is provided?”

 1: Are you assuming one couldn't or wouldn't develop skills in the absence of a threat of poverty? everything being provided =/= no useful skills.   

 2: If a skills usefulness is directly correlated with how much it helps to provide, the skill of enabling machines to replace humans in jobs where it is in societies benefit is greater than the skill a person was using to work less efficiently than a machine would if it were enabled to do the job. 

TLDR a vote for UBI/Automation > continuing to do the job when a machine can do it better.

 3: Everything being provided strictly further enables them to develop skills. So if the usefulness of those skills is in the eye of the beholder, UBI again works much better than capitalism.

 "Many will wallow in the depression of feeling helpless"

 - Fail to earn money in capitalism and you're in poverty, which can lead to homelessness as well as many many other things which cause depression and feelings of helplessness. In UBI you have the tools required to pursue an objective and if you want to help the world I believe most can do more with UBI. 

"Capitalism may not be helping you, but it clearly isn't stopping you."

- I disagree and I find the sentence ridiculous, capitalism is hugely holding me back as an individual and I believe its hugely holding back society in comparison to how it would be with UBI. 

 "The biggest one of all, though, is how to give people purpose in a world where you no longer have to work. Currently, capitalism gives that incentive." 

-I would prefer to choose my purpose rather than be "given" one by someone. If I didn't have to work I would be free to follow my own objectives, like say refining a system that incorporates UBI and automation to benefit the world and myself or programming an algorithm to try and play Starcraft as well as possible with an APM limited to the average of a human professional player. 

 The incentive capitalism gives is to serve someone for self preservation or further materialism, anything else capitalism achieves can be achieved with UBI. 

~Any satisfaction one can get from capitalism that isn't immoral one can get from UBI. - I want that quote to be a thing after we switch to UBI

Q: Who will go to work when you have everything provided?

 A: Machines and people who want to. Practically everything can be automated. 

Q: What happens when people choose to live their life entertaining themselves rather than working, resulting in higher rates of depression and feelings of worthlessness? 

 A: The question has too many assumptions so instead I will point out a flawed foundation, the assumptions that people will not use the freed up time to benefit society or follow their own objectives which prevents depression and feelings of worthlessness. 

 "Most people aren't self motivated enough to overcome their own self destructive nature on their own." 

 -That opinion was formed upon analysis of a society that is limited by capitalism, but you may still be right.  

There are many solutions to this though and I think it would be the only major issue a UBI system would have, so many resources could be used on those solutions. It would also make society much more aware of something so important, its objectives. 

A comment on a video about a dragon (which was animated on a mountain) led to a tangent about UBI (Universal Basic Income), and deep down in that tangent there was an opinion I disagreed with, so I shared my thoughts on UBI and then made a big OBJECTIVE wall of text to surround his opinions with so that the only light he ever saw again was the light of truth from the reflections of my wall, the great wall of Eoin #379884.

First some of my thoughts on UBI as a response to the  tangent and his (the ignorant person with an opinion that wasn’t mine) comment that was 7 minutes young when I began my first post on thoughts...which took me 2 minutes to write.

Seriously though this is a srs thing:

Universal Basic Income would free up society to replace much of the  human labour force with automation without leaving the replaced workers without money/shelter/food.

 In many areas machines would do jobs more efficiently thus helping society (more work done), so we should not use a system that disincentivizes using automation where its efficient (which is in many areas). 

 Also the people now free from those jobs have more choice in what they do in their lives. They would have more time and freedom for self improvement or even projects focused on improving the world.

These are the champions that I think will be pick/Banned the most in worlds.

Top:

Maokai (Flex: Top/Jungle) [Tank & Reliable CC, can lose any lane with grace]

Cho´gath (Flex: Top/Jungle) [Tank, Low CC, can only follow up, some dmg]

Jarvan (Flex: Jungle/Top,he will be banned a lot) [Tank, Reliable as fk, wombo]

Galio (Flex: Top/Mid) [Tank, Global,ult best as follow up, Peel]

Shen [Tank, Global, Can split push vs non Split push specialists]

Rumble [The main choice for Magic damage in the top lane]

Gnar [Split pusher that can teamfight with ult, weak vs gap close]

Jungle:

Seju (I think she will be banned a lot) [Tank, Wants meele top ally, teamfighter]

Gragas [Tank, Useful multi purpose ult]

Jarvan (Flex: Jungle/Top, he will be banned a lot) [Tank, Reliable, Wombo]

Cho´gath (Flex: Top/Jungle) [Tank, Low CC, can only follow up, some dmg]

Zac [Tank, Unusual ganks, good at ganking mid]

Rek¨sai [An AD option if you´re not a Lee player when you´re not Kayn]

Lee sin [Lee is never not meta to SKT]

Nidalee/Ezreal [AP/AD Poke + good early game]

Elise [Early game + Magic damage]

Kayn [Invader, dunno how many players picked him up though, early game]

Mid:

Syndra [Reliable single target dmg, good lane phase]

Orianna [Shes always meta, safe blind unless lucian, wombo, generalist]

Corki [Marksman, Consistent mgc dmg, triforce power spike]

Cassio [Consistent magic dmg, scaling, peel, low range]

Le blanc [Mobile, early game, assassin, can roam]

Ryze [Consistent mgc dmg, scaling, can get abyssal]

Galio [Tank, Can roam, can dive, CC]

Taliyah [Roamer, generalist, blind pickable]

Kassadin [Assassin, Split pusher, no waveclear, scaling, weak lane phase]

ADC:

Kalista (Permabannable/Broken) [Only real weakness is killing tanks and scaling, ult is super useful in pro play, the best picks in this meta are Kalista/Rakan and Kalista/Thresh]

Trist [Generalist, can do everything apart from farming under tower, safe]

Kog¨Maw [Hyper Carry, Rly good consistant damage if he can stand still and auto attack, immobile.]

Xayah [Self peel, useful ult, low range , immobile]

Varus [Good Lane phase, CC, Poke, bad scaling for this meta, immobile]

Twitch [Poor mans Kog¨maw, hyper carry, situationally better than kog, stealth]

Sivir [Speed boost giver, good late game teamfight, bad lane phase, low range]

Support:

Rakan (Most ban worthy support) [Amazing engage, wombo potential]

Lulu [Best ardent censor applier if you don´t need Janna ult, peel]

Janna [ Ardent Censor, PEEL]

Alistar [Engage, not as fancy as Rakan, tank, reliable]

Braum [Tank, Peel, Useful passive w ranged autos, can block]

Morg [Situational counterpick, mostly to rakan, thresh, blits]

Karma [She can be flexed to mid or top too]

Thresh/Blits [Hookers, thresh has lantern too]

Taric (I dunno if we will see much taric)[Tank, rly useful ult]

Bot Lane Synergies:

Kalista + Rakan

Kalista + Thresh

Xayah + Rakan

Kog maw or twitch + Ardent censor supp (especially Lulu, Janna 2nd if u want peel)

Kalista + Alistar, Taric, Blits, Morg.

Trist + Taric

Varus + Zyra (Just in case Ruler & Corejj pull it out, zyra is not meta tho)

#1 Pray (Solid, smart, good at everything, more macro view than other ADCs)

2. Bdd (Might underpreform since 1st worlds, had stellar season)

3. Faker (Derps some lane phases but saves his team sometimes too, can do everything)

4. Gorilla (Solid, smart, can do everything)

5. Ruler (He wasn´t on any top 20 list since its not obvious, but he is really good at sticking to a game-plan and he is great, under-rated as fuk, smart)

6. Khan (Might underpreform since 1st worlds, lane dominant)

7. Ambition (Genius, great macro awareness, great shotcaller, previlledged to be a shotcaller on the team best at following plans, mechanically weak for #7th)

8. Xiahou (Stellar season, the Chinese hype boy, in group with good mids, time to see if he lives up to the hype)

9. Wolf (Solid, when SKT was slumping Wolf wasn´t, even with Bang slumping in his lane).

10. Cuvee (Solid, like all of Samsung he can do the job he needs to, he can even play carries now too.)

11. Mysic (Solid, good at doing maximising damage without dying)

12. Corejj (He wasn´t in any top 20 either. Sure its not a frostfang meta [which he would excell in], but hes still consistently good at highest level)

13. Blank (He wasn´t in any top 20 either, was doing great earlier, then did a lil bad, with bad invades and bad communication.)

14. Meiko (He used to be lane dominant, now I believe he roams, he will have a new adc vs good bot lanes.)

15. Crown (He was the best Mid last year, he had a bad split and a half with some ok moments. He is capable of brilliance but he has shown some weakness this year)

16. Rekkles (Solid, even with fnatics chaotic playstyle, if fnatic will sucseed I think its Rekkless that will be the biggest reason for that sucsess)

17. Sword Art (Best player from Taiwan, smart, good roamer and engager).

18. Bang (Slumping, he used to be a great ADC and was consistent, but I have been dissapointed with him in the Summer split).

19. Condi (The brain and glue of the only Chinese macro team.)

20. Karsa (Aggressive jungler, can punish some weak Junglers in his group, Has sword art to help him, and if Maple gets good again he could have some great assistance).

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21. Power of Evil (Maybe its a bit hipster putting him this high, he is not on a great team but he is a very good mid laner).

22. Bjergsen (Solid, smart, doesn´t take many risks).

23. Huni (Inconsistent but can be brilliant, hes like a dog though).

24. Uzi (Hes good but he seems dumb, hes does some stupid stuff, espeically in finals, emotionally weak, stupid.)

25. Peanut (Jungle Huni, mechanics dog, if he jungles for Huni he will dive top, will their mechnics save them?)

26. Zven (Consistent, not great, prone to cs deficits in lane, doesn´t take enough advantages)

27 Scout (I didn´t know where to rate this guy since LPL is so chaotic)

28. Soaz (The escape artist, He does some swag stuff, good macro understanding, but embraces chaos).

29. Jensen (Lane domiant, gets a lot of resources, dominates NA along with his other Mid lane Danish brethren).

30. Doublelift (Consistent, stupid)

Perkz and Olleh nearly made the list. Sorry Cuzz, all of your allies were put in the top 6 and you´re not even in my top 30, despite not being bad.

Samsung play as a team, so all of the players on the team have the capacity to play to the plan/context outlined to them. They are all very good at understanding that context and even thinking on their feet when they have to. Outside of crown they don´t have many Individual moents of brilliance, but they constantly do small macro things well which I think is brilliant. Slow macro team.

SKT are worlds hardened, I think they will preform well in worlds. Reactive team.

Longzu were the best team in the world for the Summer split, but I am not a bit concerned if they can keep it together for worlds. They do fancy stuff.

Taiwan as a region seems weak at the moment. Flash Wolves are “ok”.

The Chinese teams seem of about equal quality. WE macro, RNG Total Chaos, EDG chaos

G2 are good at adapting to another team if they get to study them + the patch, but they are weak in BO1s and they got the hardest group they could have gotten (play ins team is irrelevant).

Fnatic play a chaotic style.

I dunno what to make of misfits, seemingly they can prepare for BO5s well, but that won´t matter unless they finish 1st in group D, and they probably won´t.

NA got the best group draws they possibly could have gotten with the only exception of not getting fenerbache into group D. So they might do ok this year despite not being good at all. They will not knock out any Korean teams though. They all play mediocre macro style.

I didn’t think of how well AMVs would suit anime. What a great combination. 

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In my opinion Darksouls has the best story/lore in any game I have seen or played to date.

 I just love the Darksouls world, its like it was written by W.B. Yeats after he let his unrequited love for Maud Gonne fuel his cynicism. As he reflected upon human life, the aging process, the spirals of fate and how a mans legacy is left behind him as he finally succumbs to time. 

As an added bonus, a lot of the script is written in olde English and is read as one would hope, with proper English pronunciation. ...oh yeah and its one of the most challenging and satisfying games to date with great boss fights & traps. 

The best bit is the player finds themselves growing stronger and losing their sanity alongside the character they are controlling...as unbeknownst to the player, the player is controlled by the game. 

While I am at it I might as well try and recall some movies that I thought were particularly good.

In no particular order.

*The Lives of others (It is a bit old tho)

*The Bourne Series (Identity, Supremacy& Ultimatum..Legacy was meh)

*The Underworld Series (Not classics but I enjoyed them, fav vampires)

*The Lord of The Rings.....The Return of the King was a bit dodgey tho.

*The Departed

*The Imitation game

*The Shawshank Redemption (Fav Prison movie...I think)

*The Sweeney (Maybe not great but for its kind (plotless action) its good.)

*The Game (Old, wierd and a bit slow but good since its good type of wierd)

*The Talented Mr Ripley (Since im going with The and Matt Damon)

*7 Pounds (Again not great but for that shite it is)

*Shutter Island  (Stonehearst Asylum similar if u want more like this)

*Inception 

*Batman (My fav super hero crap anyway...)

*Hansel and Gretal (Not amazing but I enjoyed it more than I expected)

*Kung Fu Panda (Fav animated movie/ Cattoon or w/e)

*No Country for Old men

*Casino Royale (No Bond movie is great..but this was my fav so far)

*TEAM AMERICA (FUCK YEAH)

I am starting to feel like I have to write down a list of the anime I liked lest I forget.

The great:

* Death Note

* Sword Art Online

* Akame Ga Kill

The good:

* Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei

* No Game no Life

* Tokyo Ghoul

* Parasyte The Maxim

Meh:

* Full Metal Alchemist

* Shingeki no Kyojin