I'm not arguing against anything like that bro
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What is your point then? The original point was capitalism is a fundamental issue. You said all systems that work are capitalist, and you implied that that meant capitalism wasnt the fundamental issue. I'm further specifying that when taken to the extreme, capitalism is indeed the fundamental issue.
I agree with you that it's imperfect, and that intervention is necessary and often beneficial. I don't really think we're disagreeing on anything here and I apologize if my communication was unclear earlier.
Living up to the username
There's way more nuance than insisting that everything that works is capitalist. Firstly in this context the bad effects of capitalism are realized when it's left too unchecked. A market economy and a wage system is not what is being critiqued. It's the fact that certain people are essentially allowed to get unlimited wealth, and the fact that that wealth comes with a lot of power. No one should have that much power, and therefore that much money. This isn't people talking out of jealousy. It's almost objectively bad for that level of inequality to exist.
We are after all just a bunch of idiots on VLR but no reason discussion like this should be limited to people in econ. I'm certainly not proposing any specific solutions. Just describing the problem that objectively exists.
The thing about taxes is in an ideal (not likely) society, the government is benevolent and spends tax money bettering the lives of people.
Take Scandinavia for example (this is off the top of my head so sorry if this is inaccurate): they have pretty high tax rates but also good health care, paid leave, infrastructure maintenance in public places, etc.
On the other hand, some Americans have relatively low tax rates but still end up paying a lot through high medical bills, insurance, student loan debt, etc.
But your other points are right, the whole system is a positive (negative? idk) feedback loop, and racism happens to be a byproduct of that, where developing countries cannot improve the same way developed countries did during the Industrial Revolution and the post-war boom.
I always wondered how widespread the opinion of capitalism being a core issue of humanity is, I assumed that it was pretty niche (coming from reddit), but glad to see that if people on fucking vlr think that then there's gotta be a lot of people who think that.
Racism is a side product of general systemic injustice. Not minimizing it in any way; it's a humongous issue. But it's a piece of the bigger puzzle of being turned against each other. By who? Not to get too political, but by the people who benefit from it the most. And that usually happens to involve money.
If you think hard enough about why bad things exist on Earth you'll always come back to this point.
I don't know a lot abt him but is really so hyped up that one bad map necessitates these kinda comments? He was very good the first two matches.
he def wasn't on initiator when in t2, he has 8 sova games and 1 fade game all time compared to like 150+ omen games.
ah, you're right. I was thinking it would've been brawk Fade, Ethan Omen, keiko Vyse, skuba Viper for some reason, but obviously not.
thanks for the feedback! I think EDG have insanely talented players but just talent alone doesnt necessarily make them favorites if you know what i mean. I haven't watched too much of EMEA so I perhaps am underrating them, wo0t especially, I had him at around the 20 place but thought that players like Sato and happywei were deserving. He's def an HM though.
He just isn't really comfy on Fade I don't think. Otherwise we would've had him on Fade on Lotus and Split instead of Vyse. The couple maps of Bind last year he played Fade on we lost by a lot and his stats weren't good.
And yeah I trust in Ethan's flexibility. (pause)
their form hasn't been standout since jingg and something have been playing so nice
i have more faith in valyn and derke to show out at London
XLG ban Fracture, NRG ban Split
XLG pick Lotus, NRG pick Breeze
XLG ban Ascent, NRG ban Haven
Pearl remains
HM: PatMen, f0rsaken, d4v41, Sato, happywei
He has played Astra earlier this year, on Breeze, averaging 0.87. We lost to MIBR and won against C9 those times.
If NRG leans into more double duelist, eventually Ethan is going to have to learn some more smokes because brawk can't play vyse on every map for Ethan to play initiator on, and furthermore Ethan can't play Sova.
Like let's say we swapped to double duelist on Breeze:
mada Jett, keiko Phoenix, brawk Sova, skuba Viper. Then Ethan has to play Harbor/Omen/Astra.
or on split:
mada Waylay, keiko Raze, brawk Skye, skuba Viper. then Ethan should play smokes; he can't play Skye since brawk doesn't really play any controllers.
So fundamentally there are some small kinks in agent flexibility NRG need to work out, and it's either Ethan learning more smokes or brawk leaning into sentinel/viper as his secondary role (or just learning Fade).
That would work but I feel like the roles are better with yetu. Also I'm a fan of him, and I think he's in better form than xeus rn
I suppose so. I rated mada highly so him and kk are similar but chichoo over skuba has got to be an insane upgrade, considering skuba's form.
I guess I'm high on G2 and that getting an upgrade over jawg like s0pp would be even better for them. but the nrg/edg team is def a contender for #1
XLG x FS: Crws, happywei, primmie, NoMan, killua
VIT x LEV: kiNgg, Neon, Derke, Sato, Sayonara
PRX x DRG: f0rsaken, vo0kashu, something, Jinggg, Nicc
G2 x FUT: valyn, yetujey, s0pp, leaf, trent
EDG x NRG: keiko, CHICHOO, Zmjjkk, Ethan, brawk
TH x GE: xavi8k, benjyfishy, Wo0t, PatMen, RieNs
(note: each team has to have 2 of each component team at least)
My rankings:
done a lot of data posts and community ranking polls, generally try to be positive in a forum where everyone hates on everything
Here's hoping
Maybe we pull out the 2024 (?) PRX comp
keiko Jett, mada Raze, Ethan Yoru, brawk Viper, skuba Omen
split isnt that unknown, we're dogshit at it
i think our pearl is gonna be good, overall on this year its still one of our best maps
As an NRG fan:
Great maps: Fracture, Haven
Good maps: Lotus, Breeze
Bad maps: Pearl, Ascent
Horrible maps: Split
hope we get put on the same team this szn :pray:
I think I have heard of u actually, mb
bump
its a super supportive community, youll have lots of time to shine, there been many cases where a silver/gold has outperformed a diamond
slowly flex/igl
Smoggy controller/duelist
Neon Sentinel/Controller/Duelist
mada Duelist
crashies recon
not good but have the potential to put together a really good game. they lost to 100t in part cause lukxo had a horrendous game, usually he plays infinitely better.
rather that than another 4th place international finish
why nrg will win london
odin. literally who in the event matches them in odin? glazers will say trent but we all know in our hearts he has legit 0 odin. haters will say nrg have no odin then go glaze "Gold 2" lmao.
why is chubizin on smokes and melser on recon, seems like their natural roles are the other way around
but yeah thats insane, i think david is one of the better latam tier2 players as well, think ive seen him for a while now
So this is a season format:
Points are awarded for each map win. No matter if it's at internationals, domestic playoffs, group stages, whatever. Each map is worth one point. In tier 2, each map win is worth exactly 0.28 points.
Phase one is a international group stage with 8 groups of 6, completely randomly assigned, to play in a round robin. Top 4 of each advance to playoffs.
This is a single elim 32-team format, until you get to the top 8, where it transitions into double elim. All matches in final 4 are Bo5, and grand final is a bo7, with the winner picking the first 3 maps.
Phase 2 is domestics: a 2023-style huge ass round robin. Top 8 goes into a swiss, where top 6 goes to playoffs (i think there needs a tiebreaker for 6th). same format as before.
Phase 3 is another international with 4 teams from each region. Just for fun it's the same format as champions.
Phase 4 is a final international involving all 48 teams. This time it's 6 groups of 8, with the top 2 selected from each group to advance, making 12. The last 4 are selected from a playing from all the 3 seeds. The playoff is the same as phase 1, with round 1 the only round being single elim.
Finally, the world champion is whoever accumulated the most points.
can you send the full methodology? Im interested
#10
Basically uses normal elo calculations, like chess, where a matchup gives the winning team a certain number of points according to the elo difference and the losing team loses the same number of points.
There are no regional weights, for example, so regional dominance is enough to get a high elo
The algorithm treats every match as the same weight, so EDG and XLG have a lot of regional wins that up their elo
Starting elo is 1600 so FUT are the only team to be below average
Current results:
thats good man
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