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Monday, October 5, 2015

League of Legends, the World, and the Butterfly Effect

          I am sure you have all had that game where everything starts off bad and it just gets worse and worse as time goes on. The enemy team just gets further and further ahead and there is nothing you can do to stop it. No matter how hard you try, you just can't recover from the first blood you gave up in bot lane when you were trying to make a "lcs big play". On the other hand, you have probably been on the winning side of that scenario too .Same basic concept in life right? You do one wrong thing, do one assignment wrong, say one wrong thing to your parents, don't fully stop at a stop sign, etc. All of those little things as well as the billions of other little events that could happen in your everyday life could have a huge impact on your life. It could completely change the path you are going down both in a positive or negative way. It all has to do with the Butterfly effect and its effect on bot league and real life.
          So what is the Butterfly effect. This is important to define because it is commonly confused with the Domino effect, and they ARE similar, but have a few important differences.

  • The domino effect is when something happens that directly causes something else nearby, which causes something else, which causes something else, etc. It is a linear causation of similar events that makes it clear to see what caused what and what will happen next. The severity of the effects rarely change, and if they do, it is by very little. It was originated during the Cold War when people believed one communist country would cause its neighbors to become communist, which would cause even more neighbors to become communist, etc. 
  • The Butterfly effect is when where a small and localized change causes a drastic change, or effect, in another location. For example, the flap of a butterflies wings causing a hurricane on the other side of the globe. Clearly, this one isn't literally true, or else we would be having hurricanes all the time and all over the place, but the idea is still relevant. It was a part of Chaos Theory and is usually used to refer negative things. 
           I have already explained how it affects League of Legends  by using the example of giving up first blood and having your lane snowball out of control. However, how does this relate to the world? Well that is a very simple answer. It affects us everywhere. Every decision ever made has led us to where we are today and society continues to change based on people decisions, whether the changes are good or bad is up to society. For example, the discovery of paper was cool at first, but now we are cutting down billions of trees a year, a lot of which is going to paper. The invention of the car was revolutionary and allowed people to get from place to place faster without needing the train, but several decades later it is the lead cause of global warming. It even affects us in real life. Deciding to do drugs one time could lead to a life of drug addiction, giving up in a subject in school could lead to a limited future,  eating your problems away could lead to obesity, etc.
         The Butterfly effect is everywhere. It is in everything we see, in everything we do, in everyone we interact with, and will be in everything in the future.  However, it can also be used to refer to positive things. For example, a small 150 view blog could inspire at least 1 person to make a real difference in the world, that person becomes famous and inspires millions more, and those millions of people get together and solve a large percentage of the world's problems. I know it is a bit ambitious, but if you are going to dream, might as well dream big.
     
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