In League of Legends, things can spiral out of control very quickly. One lost baron fight and all of a sudden you are behind. Got drag stolen and you don't get the fifth buff you desperately needed and the enemy is able to completely turn the game around because of it. Winning a fight and then getting turned on and dying in a matter of seconds. Winning a game and all of a sudden having a teammate disconnect. Or start off Worlds strong just to go a total 0-9 in the final day of groups (NA teams).
In League of Legends, there are gradual and exponential differences too. Start missing a few cs every few waves and your opponent gradually gets more ahead. Play a team of early game champions and watch helplessly as the game slowly transitions into the late game. Get into an argument with a teammate that slowly gets out of control until someone leaves or refuses to help. Start getting lag spikes which causes your performance to slowly drop (always at the worst times too because your internet wants you to lose).
Now for the big question, what does this have to do with the World? Well the world has been around for billions of years, and over this time there are bound to be some gradual and nearly instant changes that changed the world.
Before I proceed, I classified instantaneous changes as anything that take a decade or shorter, and anything longer than that is a gradual and exponential change. Other instantaneous changes include events that are so drastic that the amount of time it took to take place is unbelievable, like mass extinctions.
Examples of changes that happened instantly:
- Dinosaurs' extinction
- The city of Pompeii being frozen in time by an erupting volcano (Mount Vesuvius).
- Black Death wiping out a third of the European population in three years. As well as other epidemics.
- Mass Extinctions
- The Haitian Earthquake which effected 3.5 million people in a matter of minutes (220000 of those people were deaths).
- World Wars 1, 2, and the Revolutionary War (many consider it the first real world war)
Examples of changes that happened over time:
- Ice Ages
- The continental shifts that move the continents from Pangaea to the continents' positions we know today.
- Evolution of species
- The advancement of Human technology.
- Global warming.
It is true that it is hard to stop many of these things because they are caused by natural disasters, but there are still many we can stop. We can prevent climate change, wars, epidemics (thanks to your current technology). we can even prevent some natural disasters like volcanic eruptions, because they show signs before erupting, and hurricanes, because they are seen before they actually affect the population, by evacuating the residents and preparing the area to minimize damage.
Long story short, both League of Legends and the Earth are made up of several small events that exponentially grow as well as nearly instantaneous events. And even though some are out of our control, like teammates in League of Legends and natural disaster on Earth, we can still do our best to minimize the negative events that take place.
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