i agree wtih you on the point of language and the over usage of terms or stretching of terms to cover different meanings/contexts. I disagree with you partially on the ablism thing, and in its proper context, it is discriminating against someone based upon their disability, not their ability. There is an important distinction there. in the case of denying someone work due to a disability, it would heavily depend on the context of both the work in question and the nature of the disability. You cannot or perhaps should not have someone who is missing limbs operate heavy machinery , but they can work an office or sales job just fine. Someone with down syndrome cannot be expected to be an accountant or auditor but there is nothing to say that they cannot be taught how to do basic tasks. Hell i remember there was a down syndrome guy who worked for Macdonalds as a server for like 40 years much like everything, it depends on the context. As for the person saying you were bad due to "denying someone's existence" - ignore that. Its a hyper extreme position, particularly of the american progressive political movement. In essence it is meaning less, its a faux pax. It is a luxury belief behind the fake outrage (even if the outrage may be real, the belief behind it is benign and of little value as it is not grounded in reality)

he didn't see that coming

Yorick is not thinking straight. Had too many drinks, the wife divorced and took to the kids. That TP was abysmal. Shoulda stayed top when the entire enemy team went for dragon.

Ableism is not discriminating against someone who's "not able to do a certain thing" is discriminating against people who has any kind of physical/mental impairment, a deficiency, which is exactly like discriminating people by their skin color. Yes of course you not giving a construction worker job to someone who's in a wheelchair makes sense since he's not able to do that kind of service but denying the same man in the wheelchair a job of something like customer support just because he's impaired is definitely something not cool. In this example the former is not an example of ableism and the latter is.

"If you stay sane, you have won" *Sends wife and children to their deaths*

I love your content, and I love talking about the sorts of issues you mention in terms of ableism and identity politics. The “Dancing With Wolves” analogy makes sense up to a point though - names are something that can be regularly changed and have little to no effect on your life, while one’s gender is part of a social construct that can effect how someone sees you, talks to you, and interacts with you. Similarly, ableism is not me discriminating against you based on how well you can perform a job - ableism is me discriminating against you based on how *I believe* you can perform any task *in general.*

Favorite thing to hear before bed is “Okay, Welcome.” Thank you sir pokerick.

The intro always makes me laugh.

The modern era is so funny we get deep philosophical discussions from a cartoon Yorick in a farm hat/ worlds best husband trucker hat

I love watching your videos before going to bed, helps me relax with your soothing voice and humor.

You said if people can *stay* sane, they win League. While that was true in the first seasons, I don't think any sane person starts playing League these days 😅

One of your recent vids you explained that the chat and pings were something of a resource for information while playing, usuaully I am very easily distracted by chat and end up typing like a silly little guy so I often have my self deafened so that I can't see what others type, or type myself. But I have been practicing my yorick zen state to use the chat and the pings without feeling the need to interact with the chat myself. It is very useful to know who is doing the mad both on your own team and the enemy team.

Thank you for funny video after work!

new favorite league channel.

Thank you for the video Mr pokerick

I feel like what you’re talking on in the beginning of the video is valid, but it feels like you’re talking about the extremes of these thoughts/ideas. Because all the things you talk about I think are important but when it’s taken so far to where at it’s extreme is doesn’t even make sense anymore it’s kind of silly and degrades the whole point of the idea /movement behind it

Pokerick is truly the warrior monk that League needs.

The poke in the thumbnail is perfect

I really hope when you spar bjj you give the full monologue to the other person, "ok welcome welcome welcome, today I was thinking..., oh he taped out"

Based pokerick with the poke

Last thing I'll say - the ones who argue or get the most heated are normally the ones who can't explain it in a way that stops the questions. I've learned that throughout multiple jobs and relationships - the person who is getting the most heated is always the one who doesn't seem to have the answers but seems to be the one trying to be the difference. Instead of just quieting down and figuring it out and then discussing it, they get heated and say things just to say things. It's comical after awhile. Again, not saying anyone's wrong. You're free to think how you want to think. And if you got the resources to do what you want, then you do you (as the saying goes). But don't come at someone all heated because they're asking questions. If you don't have answers or if you think they've said something in error, it's always better to ask them about it than accuse them. The conversation will go so much smoother if you communicate in such a way where you understand that they're just asking questions and you work to understand what they're asking and then work to answer the question(s) they're asking.

awesome video as always, keep it up, hopefully you live stream again soon

You definitely deny magus' existence on a regular basis

Love the rants :)

As a transyorick (transgender) person, relating to the identity ideas thats just the thing. You say that what you are in the present is what you are and thats ultimately what transition is. Its to change how you currently are to reflect how youd like to be seen. It sort of a mixture of both mental identity and physical identity. Like if you meet someone who says they are a woman, and dress like one, and associate with other women does it make sense to group them with the groups they no longer display just because they didnt start that way? Its an interesting way to think about things. Love listening to your opinions.

"For some reason we lose now", meanwhile the score...

the vibes are impeccable

I like you listening to your monologues.

Hey Mr Rick, love the content. You got me into playing yorick, which was my introduction to top lane (I've had phases of every other role before). I love your commentary and discussions. However, I would really encourage you to do some more research on the topics you discuss. For example, ableism is a very expansive and complicated subject. But in your video, you boiled it down to "not hiring someone" and "ableism isn't that bad". Not knowing the full extent of it is not your fault, it should be more talked about. But talking about it with a platform without fully understanding it is a problem, because you may be the first person to introduce this idea to someone else. As a transgender fan, some of your statements about it being "weird" are hurtful. I didn't choose to be trans, and I don't want to be an inconvienence to anyone. There is so much to talk about regarding gender because it is so complicated, but you should research it from a more educated source than me. I spent my time writing all this out not because I think you're a bad person for being misinformed, but because I'm disappointed that this channel that normally hosts such engaging discussion is unknowingly spreading misinformation. And if you're about to reply with hate, I hear worse daily so don't waste your time. (Edit: I meant any commenter, not Mr. Rick specifically)

Most balanced Katarina gaming

i wish i could catch one of your streams.

Did anyone notice how the minions on first wave all focused one red minion and it died so fast that mr yorick missed it, is that a bug ? First 3 minions are usually supposed to agro evenly and if no interaction from enemy player happens its not supposed to change.

Midlane looks strange this game

I like your thumbnails

You should change the title to "Yorick help blind man return to base"

day 5 of asking for meowrick

i like how the ghoul's like hyped as h at 11:32

Unfazed is the word

About words, you should watch Mr Freeman, part 59.

Yo rick I was wondering if you could try slogdog's draktar build, he is tanky but still manages to one shot people like you and draktar saves him from clutch moments, he made a yorick guide recently

why top have pokerick done something wrong?

7:10 hey, trans man and yorick main here, im a big fan and it sucks to see this but i get where you're coming from and i don't think you're a bad person, i just think you should actually take their advice because i guarantee you most trans people probably agreed with you at some point you're a rational guy thinking about things rationally in terms of language, but in terms of sociology and biology there's a lot of rationality that you should explore too there's a lot of great resources you can find on the internet, like scientific research and journals that confirm the differences between sex and gender, the effects of hormone replacement therapy, gender dysphoria (the scientific phrase for what trans people experience, sort of similar to body dysmorphia), etc. as you said, people can do what they want with their own bodies and that's pretty much where it begins and ends with trans people, we literally just want to feel comfortable in our own skin tl;dr i hope you look into it more and can see that trans people are indeed real ☮

We play just to suffer... cos real life's suffering isn't enough

Okay… how did the cannon die at 3:38!?!?

You have an absoluta point when you mention identification term, so depending of who you are self reflecting (not as thinking only but us if that who you are space and measure that self concept with what you identify, and as a reflecting person (identifying one) the deal in making sense also expand that self-ness concept comes up to a personality type that includes more, like a common posture (communal) is to enhance en-rich() others based on my self sufficient low energy cost self(-ness, -lessness), there’s a “trap” pf the intellect which prompts you to use perfectly useful Space to elevate the inteñlectualism till more becomes less, so intelectual’ projection height can he saved by comunnioning with the highest intelligence (s),independant of what one may reach

I *believe* the state in question was Pennsylvania that was “sold” by native Americans. William Penn was the guy who bought it, hence his name in the state name.

You should stream Mr pokerick

no eye man punch family, family kill

Why dont you use hydra is it bad? I thinks its pretty good even for farming

i love pokerick

i think you were confusing the ideas of "personal" and "private" property. personal property like your toothbrush, clothes, whatever, cannot be used to generate more property. it simply exists as it is. but land on the other hand can be used to acquire more land, you can put means of production on it which you can then use to buy more land and so on so forth

Riot games added music when you have wife summoned, I think it's a very good patch.

Your commentary is half the reason I keep coming back to your channel sir.

I like the straw hat

Your thougths about language and gender were pretty interesting, maybe i will investigate a little why those changes about the way we talk happened. Also, its very satisfying the way you play.

malph start w n miss the the minion n sivir got a double kill against tristana n soraka hahaha what a wierd game

13:42 i believe that is very actionist of you to say

Ableism is discrimination based upon one's disability, not one's ability or lack thereof. Put simply, if you discriminate against someone because they're incompetent, that's fine, but if it's because they're in a wheelchair, that's not.

Mr best husband has the rare non tainted worldview and freedom to speak that every other content creator has to tip toe and walk on eggshells because they worry 24/7 if what they said is not 'correct'. It's like someone picked you up from 2007 and gave you a roundown about the current topics

i like the comments being weird, cause now Pokerick speaks about it and me i fall asleep

Existence of property is impossible in real world even of it was thoretically possible and even if it might be useful to pretend it does in some social context for 2 reasons: 1. In order for someone to rightfully own something, things like violence/coersion etc can't be involved and all current "properties" are result of past and present transfers that were not just, so you can't really say what is assigned to you is your property 2. Self does not persist in time, you need to be able to actually exist in numerically identical sense in 2 point in time to claim ownership to something across time. Self is the name for the thing that experiences, in order for self to experience a thing, there has to be changes to self and since ownership claim at 2 point in time requires at least 2 however small differences in experience, the self is different at the 2 point and so it's not the same self and so it can't be owed to the same person. It seems wrong to mess with a body someone is inhibiting because it makes them or will make their future selves needlessly uncomfortable etc, not because of property right violation.

All the Characters and matches I play these days are making me tired. I'm thinking of taking Yorick and playing calmly in mid like you.

35:00 those 2 ghouls ran all the way from bot lane after maiden killed minions talj about dedication

For the algorithm

How you have 10 cs per minute while missing 3 minions every wave? xD

ableism at least for the persons that i know that work in something related, its more on the side of not treating persons with a disability like children/inherently inferior. Like in a lot of places they cant make legal desicions by themselves because of outdated laws, so their parents or whoever they are married to has a 100% legal and economic control over them. And they do have it more difficult to get the same job in the stats, because for example people hiring might get preocupied that they are going to have problems doing the tasks even if the job is just to code and the person is just on a wheelchair.

when wife splits nicely, it's even better to afk than to risk dying like that last one lol. She could take the tower and maybe inhib

EA Sports. ITS IN THE GAME.

i like to poke

I think people use the "if they say they identify as yorick then they are a yorick" because a lot of people just want to find an excuse to hate yorick after birth people independent of reason. It makes it confusing for those on the outside, just where we're at as a society. I think its good to give transyorick people some time to breath and just exist as their yorick selves

Hey man, love your videos, I'm just curious about why you chose to build lethality Yorik when it just doesn't match your playstyle at all, you seem to always split push and avoid team fighting or just fighting in general whenever possible, which would suit a bruiser build much better using items like hull-breaker, black cleaver, stride breaker etc, like I know the lethality is funny cause it makes ghouls do the big damage and all but I think the bruiser build would serve you better in most cases

On your discussion of what is what, it’s interesting because in that capacity I only know you as a little yorick down in the corner that is a bit philosophical and all you do is play league, would you say that’s who you are as a person?

I said I need no bell lol.

so questioning something now is Assault? REALLY?

As someone with a disability I would like to clarify something about ableism. Ableism isn't about denying someone who is incapable of doing a job because of their disability. Denying someone who is in a wheelchair a construction job isn't ableism. Ableism comes in when someone discriminates against someone who could perform a task because of a disability that is unrelated to the task. Someone in a wheelchair can be a lawyer because you don't need to be able to stand to do the job. A law firm intentionally hiring an equally qualified candidate specifically because they are not disabled is ableism. Many people have co-opted the use of the word as a catch-all for anything that is derogatory toward a person who is disabled. Making fun of Lee Sin for being blind would be ableism, but simply referring to him as the blind monk would not.

can we play duo?

A society that does not allow an individual to succeed based on their merits and abilities is unjust. Just as a society that does not care for those that are disabled is unjust. Pure individualism and pure collectivism are both unjust. As it is in many cases any extreme is bad, most things require balance.

gragas will never be katarina no matter how much he lies to himself

day 2 asking for AP yorick

So you're gonna tell me that a person who didn't understand the meaning of the phrase "things getting hairy" is gonna come here and say that we are using language the wrong way?😂😂😂 I love you pokerick !

Stone sad

i think the term for most of these new people who will say things like " This is this way and if you think otherwise you are that" or at the pick of the pyramid like you said are "grifters". i discovered it not long ago and it's more or less people saying very inflammatory things or encourage emotional engagement for their own gain. Not all them but many of these people does seems to fit in that category of making people hang onto their words in a bad or good way so they get the attention.

I'd also like to state a potentially unpopular opinion - if we were made in god's image, then why are there people questioning their genders? Hm? I'm not religious, though I have started calling myself spiritual. I'm not saying it's bad to be curious or to question the way things are... but there are a lot of people out there who think we are how we are because this is either a) how we were made or b) what we chose to be (as in we decided to live on Earth and we decided on how we would be in life, kind of like fate). This is what sparks the debates. Transgender people started life as what they are (male/female) and they decide to question it, to the point of just saying "well I guess I have no gender" which makes no sense at all, from a linguistics and logic point of view. I do have a couple transgender friends and I generally try to avoid the topic because they can't seem to explain their way of thinking in a way that will actually make me understand. Trying to be careful with my wording here, as I don't need to get flamed by anyone who thinks I'm being inconsiderate. I really do try to understand. I really do question things because I just "want to get to the bottom of it". But some things I won't ever understand because I'm me and they are not me. I'm not them. I don't understand how they think. Literally can't put myself in their shoes because we're apples and oranges.

Correct me if I'm wrong but to put your ideas into less confusing mess: Saying "woman is someone who identifies as a woman" is bad because saying someone is a woman doesn't give you any new information? I see your point and somewhat agree, but to play devils advocate: I think it provides an insight into someone's mind. There are a lot of spoken and unspoken rules in society, and saying that "I identify as a woman", means that you want to be treated as such with all the downsides and upsides. As for the information, we have a word "female", that provides more biological information. And that's why I think some sports should be renamed to "Female Basketball" instead of "Women Basketball", so that there is no confusion. I also believe there is nothing wrong with having "Asian Basketball" or "Teen Basketball" or "Crippled Basketball" as long as the rules of who can and who cannot join are clearly defined, and can be checked easily. I also believe the society is extremely unfair towards men. Nothing much changed except that women got a lot better in recent years, while men stayed at the bottom. That's why we see more and more trans women, because it's simply easier to be a women. That's why I think, that it's for good that anyone can "identify as a woman", because when everyone single person is identifying as a woman, there literally won't be "wage gap" and other made up stuff. To conclude I think it's for good, that I can change absolutely nothing in my life or looks and say "I identify as a woman now" and get all the benefits from it.

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I enjoy how everynow and then you just go into politics or any other random topic we dont get that with many other league tubers normally its just screaming

You were saying a lot of inncorrect things about the first nationers of the united states, no offesnse is taken bexayse you werent saying anything with hate in your heart But the conversations we would need to have to clear up your misconceptions would be hour's long and i dont want to type that all out lol

People are welcome to identify as what they want, I don't have to play along with their delusion though

Day 3 of asking pokerick to use modded skinfor yorick

@7:08 - I don't think that person understood what you meant when you were talking about linguistics and the idea of, from your statement as an example, "what is a woman". Men out there saying they identify as a woman and women identifying as men. But what does that mean? You don't have the appropriate chromosomes (though I am very aware that exceptions do happen with men having xx and women have xy). You don't have the appropriate reproductive parts. You also don't have the appropriate vocal intonations. So if anyone can say they are anything, then what Mr. Pokerick is saying is "why can't people just say they're a chair and be done with it?". If people can say they're anything, then words have no meaning. So he's just asking the question that a lot of us are thinking anyway - what signifies someone as a man or woman. The world is getting to a point where linguistics is contradicting itself because people are suddenly deciding things, that have been known FOR A LONG TIME, are no longer how they are. And I also understand the whole psyche and such that goes into this discussion as well. But just saying that he wasn't being malicious with his question. People like us, who simply ask a question, are often confused with people with malicious intent. We are curious. Let us be curious. Either further the conversation, or keep your mouth shut. It's pretty simple. He chose to open a conversation, even if it does get some people heated, and you chose to respond with negativity. That's not his fault, it's yours.

From what i've seen youre just speaking your stream of conciousness and most people are not used to that. they commonly consume scripted and checked content so when they hear something they disagree with they get pissed (even thought in that origonal video you got cut off by the game ending) i disagree with a fair amount of your opinions but at the end of the day no one is here for philosophical discussions and debate. ie you said about no property means more war but in reality the countries that have been in the most wars (european) all had property rights. to an extent. youre just a dude on youtube speaking his mind and playing some pokerick, thats what we are here for so dont change.

I just wanna throw this out there, for the arguments sake: if you own your body, then you shouldnt own a dog's body too, cos it is its own owner. So it's not up to you "to do whatever you want with it" because you paid/cared/raised the dog. And even if we do take that into consideration, like you said about the "identify as", "ownership" is also a concept in our minds. Same for money. Therefore.. we dont really own anything.

Ableism doesn’t mean “not being able to do something” it’s an illogical opinion that an able bodied person is able to do something better or correctly, despite no real evidence. That’s why is discriminatory and why it’s illegal to do when you’re hiring someone. Ableism would be “I’d never hire that blind person as an accountant, a normal person could def do the job better” because there’s plenty of ways a blind person could figure out a way to do a good job, or even better than the average accountant. It also includes mental disabilities which are even more stigmatized today. An example would be “I’d never trust that person with an important job, they’re a league of legends player, they’re not well in the head”.

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first again

League is not a bad game, it's people's lives around the game that SUCK.. (What Louis CK said, sorta) "UGH .. ! my FOCKING PHONE SOCKS.. !! ".. NOOooO!, your life AROUND the phone suck!.

what if someone denied that you can be a man? You asked your self "what is a man?" so there isn't really one objective meaning. What if someone else defined "a man" in a way that excluded you? Wouldn't it be fair to say that they are denying your existence as a man? So whoever told you that you are denying their existence could have meant that you are denying their place in some category or identity they identify with? So if you think your definition of the category is better than theirs, debate the merits of you definition, don't retreat into metaphysics of existence. I don't really know the context to your story about denying someones existence, but i think that you should explicitly state the category or identity that was contested and explain your definition and why everybody else should use it too.

I would probably point out in your discussion about property, in that, hell in a system where you Own property, plenty of wars have been started because of attempts to claim that property or land. Second I believe you mean you want bodily autonomy, the ability to dictate what you do with your own body, back on the topic of property too, people have been treated as "Property" to sold and treated as livestock which is another grind at your statement based on the discussion of that concept of property, or working in an egalitarian mindset where community comes first.

Transgenderism in the political sense, ie when debating the morals, ethics etc of the matter is incredibly reliant on controlling language If you disagree, you are 'denying their existence' when in reality it's just disagreeing with the person embracing dysphoria. They are very different, one is an extreme nonpersoning attack, the other is questioning the dangerous use of language or the belief of a binary. They vilainize people to force them to validate their world view rather than calling it into question, cause the wider the scope of that discussion the less and less it favors them. Just like how "birthing person" is not a replacement for women there simply are words with meanings and no amount of trying to warp language will change man and woman. They already lost that the minute they had the prefix trans- in front of the word

I enjoy your view on the world, policies, etc. It is sad how sensitive and angry everyone has become. We are allowed to have different opinions from other people. Do I think someone should be able to "identify" as another gender or animal? No I do not. But if it doesn't affect me, I don't really care. It is those same people that want to shove their views down your throat though and make you accept it and agree with it.