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Lighting generation

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 17:52:13 2018 No.103496449 View Reply Original Report

>TLA: only the firebending elite could generate lighting.

>Korra: literally power plant workers could generate lighting.

Why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 17:55:37 No.103496492 Report

Quoted By: >>103496584 >>103510085

It's not that lightning bending was rare, just that that the technique was only known by the royal family. It was too unstable and dangerous for use in general combat to be worth teaching grunts anyways.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 17:56:54 No.103496508 Report

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>>103496449
A lot of knowledge gets passed around in nearly a century.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 17:57:56 No.103496515 Report

Quoted By: >>103496560 >>103496561 >>103496584

Education.

Reading in writing used to be luxury only afforded to the elite. Now everyone in 1st world countries can read and write.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 17:58:30 No.103496524 Report

Quoted By: >>103496560 >>103496584 >>103497394

>>103496449
>in the heyday computers would only be used by top level scientists
far as I see it, its just natural progression.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:01:33 No.103496560 Report

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>>103496524
adden. peasants in napoleons time could be promoted to generals if they demonstrated an aptitude for the calculus needed for cannon trajectories. now thats being taught in high school, so >>103496515 said, education mostly

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:01:37 No.103496561 Report

Quoted By: >>103501132 >>103501161 >>103507917

>>103496515

This. Katara lost her shit when she found a waterbending scroll in TLA, in Korra any shlub can walk down to a bookstore and purchase "Zappy Zu's Learn to Lightning in Six Easy Steps"

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:03:49 No.103496584 Report

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>>103496492
>>103496508
>>103496515
>>103496524
Lighightbending was not only rare. It was also extremely difficult to perform and you pretty much had to be a naturally gifted person.

Not even Zuko was able to perform a thunder

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:05:30 No.103496608 Report

Quoted By: >>103496645 >>103497093 >>103498835

Who was the most powerful lightbender in the Avatar universe?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:05:36 No.103496610 Report

Quoted By: >>103496709 >>103496758 >>103510145

>>103496584
You're not proving them wrong.
Math is hard too and was extremely rare back in the day.
And now we teach it to children.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:07:24 No.103496643 Report

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>>103496584
You just need inner peace and have a cool head (like Mako or Iroh) or be a sociopath (like Ozai and Azula). Pretty sure 10 people in an entire city can achieve that.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:07:28 No.103496645 Report

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>>103496608

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:07:43 No.103496649 Report

Quoted By: >>103497463

>>103496584
The supplemental material did clarify that only a small handful of people in Republic City could lightningbend, so the power plant was always desperate for people who could do it. It wasn't as widespread as something like metalbending due to the difficulty of it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:08:54 No.103496667 Report

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>>103496449
>time passes
>secrets spread

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:10:52 No.103496693 Report

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Oh boy I cant wait for this argument. Finally something new to bitch about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:11:45 No.103496707 Report

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>>103496449
I imagine that with advances in medicine and metals they could supplement the physical issues pretty easily. The mental stuff would probably be solved with an educational course. Spiritual stuff is the only problem.

Humanity has come pretty far with a lingua franca and Edison’s ideas on how labs and research should be run.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:11:56 No.103496709 Report

Quoted By: >>103496752

>>103496610
Yeah and babies today are natural born black belts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:14:55 No.103496752 Report

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>>103496709
Were the workers in that plant babies?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:15:22 No.103496758 Report

Quoted By: >>103496802 >>103496814 >>103496939 >>103496954 >>103502472

>>103496610
Except this isnt Math. Per se, this is a feat achieved only in a very specific martial art through a lot of meditation and shit. Then for some reason Korra came along with the steampunk crap and felt like making a major plot element from the first series something even your average worker can achieve..just so they could jump the shark with lava bending and super extra metal bending

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:18:16 No.103496802 Report

Quoted By: >>103496947

>>103496758
>this is a feat achieved only in a very specific philosophy through a lot of meditation and shit.
t. 19th century jack tar talking about officers doing calculus

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:18:47 No.103496814 Report

Quoted By: >>103497511

>>103496758
>steampunk
80 years passed. The Fire Nation was already heavily industrialized before.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:20:23 No.103496837 Report

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>>103496449
>shitty spin off doesnt respect source material

who cares anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:22:10 No.103496870 Report

Quoted By: >>103497205 >>103497562 >>103502472

>>103496449
>>Korra: literally power plant workers could generate lighting.
Because LoK made great efforts to turn everything special and impressive from TLA into tasteless shit, while creating crap like the dark avatar or pro bending.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:23:12 No.103496887 Report

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>>103496645
This.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:24:36 No.103496909 Report

Quoted By: >>103497148

>>103496584
>implying Zuko was a good bender

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:26:08 No.103496936 Report

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>>103496449
Advancement in society, for example consider this, despite taking place for well over a century at this point the modern olimpic games has never had a record last for more than a decade without being broken. As we get more advanced becoming more fite gets easier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:26:09 No.103496939 Report

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>>103496758
>for some reason
Oh the reason is pretty clear. One of the original creators - can't remember which one - said he had a passion for the prohibition and the roaring twenties.
That's why the universe moved from an ancient asian spiritual world to 1920's self-rigtheous murica.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:26:50 No.103496947 Report

Quoted By: >>103497467

>>103496802
Im the guy who brought up calculus not the one youre responding to. I didnt mean it as an exact parallel and more of a way to illustrate how technology and methodology advance through time. Maybe a better example for direct comparison would be gymists in the olympics in the 60's vs now or even average human height increases.
plus, your group of observation is a power plant, where youre most likely to find lightning benders due to the application and demand. whats to say thats the entire lightning bender population within a million miles isnt just what you see right there

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:27:27 No.103496954 Report

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>>103496758
I don't think most people in the time of Last Airbender even knew that firebenders could shoot lightning. The few people who were capable of it seemed to prefer fire outside of special occasions. Then along came Azula spamming lightning in public nonstop until every jerkoff in the world knew it was a thing. Once people realized the technique existed, you'd start getting people who were intent on learning on. All it takes is one jerkass documenting Azula's forms and hundreds of people trying to replicate them until new lightningbenders start crawling out of the woodwork.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:28:26 No.103496974 Report

Quoted By: >>103501947 >>103503795 >>103504308

Because they gave up on worldbuilding/consistency of bending mechanics in Korra.
In TLA, everyone on the staff had to learn a martial art, as to help them understand the flow and movement of Bending

Just watch how everything is punches in Legend of Korra; they abandoned the philosophy the moment Azula was able to Lightningbend while going crazy after 3 seasons building up how things will go wrong if you don't have emotional control when you attempt it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:36:41 No.103497093 Report

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>>103496608
Iroh

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Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:40:43 No.103497148 Report

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>>103496909
One of the best in the world actually

I never understood why Ozai had such autistic perfectionist standards. Azula was better than Zuko, maybe, but Zuko was better than 99% of benders.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:41:53 No.103497165 Report

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>>103497148
Cool as fuck scene

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:42:43 No.103497175 Report

Quoted By: >>103497632

>>103496449
>TLA
>only Toph EVER EVER could metal bend
>like a year after the show in the comics: Toph was teaching literally nobodies how to metal bend

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:43:55 No.103497195 Report

Quoted By: >>103497239

>>103497148
>"maybe"

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:44:35 No.103497203 Report

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>>103496449
I don't remember them saying this lightning bending had a genetic barrier other than naturally being a firebender as a prerequisite.

If this is more of a learning curve issue, then industrialization and worker requirements are going to incentivize the spread of such knowledge.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:44:46 No.103497205 Report

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>>103496870
>pro bending
>a city full of benders not making their bending into sport

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:45:48 No.103497215 Report

Quoted By: >>103497243

>>103496449
How big are Korra's breasts?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:46:16 No.103497219 Report

Quoted By: >>103497276 >>103506191

>>103497148
>Why does Ozai place high standards on his flesh and blood
A bigger question is why his soldiers were fodder to literal children, even if they're all bending prodigies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:47:37 No.103497239 Report

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>>103497195
id figure he meant that having a less than stable head might impede ones abilities somewhat

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:47:43 No.103497243 Report

Quoted By: >>103497295

>>103497215
D cup. I'm pretty sure I've seen visual diagram measurements posted around during the first season.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:50:17 No.103497276 Report

Quoted By: >>103497372

>>103497219
The average fire bender is a shit when Sozen's comet isn't up. At best, they're still not doing the proper ways the dragons taught Aang and Zuko.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:51:23 No.103497295 Report

Quoted By: >>103497329

>>103497243
Is it gay to fuck a big breasted, brown tomboy?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:53:58 No.103497329 Report

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>>103497295
>is it gay to fuck a woman

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:56:23 No.103497372 Report

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>>103497276
Compared to the very few average earth/water benders?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 18:58:17 No.103497394 Report

Quoted By: >>103497467 >>103497874

>>103496524
A computer doesn't kill you if you don't fully understand how it works though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:02:33 No.103497463 Report

Quoted By: >>103497573 >>103497872 >>103498041

>>103496649
>so desperate they paid them nickles for it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:02:51 No.103497467 Report

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>>103497394
was meant to illustrate changing times, not a direct parallel >>103496947

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:04:53 No.103497495 Report

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>>103497329
This. It's super gay to fuck a woman. Heterosexual men fuck other heterosexual men.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:05:26 No.103497505 Report

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>>103496449
Korra lighting bending is pretty weak. They probably developed a more easy, but also weaker methode.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:05:51 No.103497511 Report

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>>103496814
It just looks like using less and less the bending felt more lazy in order to use a car. I wpuld prefer flying with firebending or bending a rock for teansportariom than getting stuck in traffic, though it would made sense having some rule about not bending unless is for crime fighting or something productive

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:06:18 No.103497517 Report

Quoted By: >>103502161 >>103509129

>>103497148
>Zuko was one of the best fire benders in the world

Was he?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:08:22 No.103497562 Report

Quoted By: >>103497669

>>103496870
Pro bending wasn't that bad. It was a neat concept and expected for benders to givw a new use of their bending now that they can live together. Problem is this would've been given more meaning if lets say bending is prohibited using on the streets but to not opressed benders from their powrrs, tjey found crearive ways to continue using it but still be in benefit for benders amd non benders

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:09:13 No.103497573 Report

Quoted By: >>103497622

>>103497463
never finished korra, werent there mechas that ran on batteries or another power source? and if lightning benders werent used to charge those, wouldnt be such a stretch to think that lightbenders were just an alternative to say, hydro power from rivers.
plus not everything that requires talent could be valuable. i.e. knuckleballs fading out in favor of pitches that deal strictly with speed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:11:59 No.103497622 Report

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>>103497573
The power source was spirit energy from trees that grew out of the Spirit Realm. Or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:12:34 No.103497632 Report

Quoted By: >>103497673 >>103497824 >>103497848

>>103497175
Sounds like something Toph would do but then again Toph wouldn't offer this class for free unless she held some kind of dojo and held her in a high position to benefit from or accept money for teaching them

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:14:40 No.103497669 Report

Quoted By: >>103497691 >>103497723 >>103497731 >>103497774 >>103497821 >>103497822 >>103497836 >>103502050 >>103502270 >>103505509 >>103505583 >>103506282

>>103497562
I see pro bending as an insult. It turns something spiritual and mystical into a disrespectful way of making money and amusing the masses.
Can you imagine Jedi using the Force to throw balls for sport and credits? It's really personal but I deeply hate when something spiritual becomes materialistic.
I can understand if you, or others, find pro bending cool, visually or as a concept, but for me it's sad and pathetic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:15:01 No.103497673 Report

Quoted By: >>103497689

>>103497632
Twenty bucks says that at least one of her husbands found her at that dojo and sought to impregnate the barefooted, kung gu tomboy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:16:03 No.103497689 Report

Quoted By: >>103498072

>>103497673
Husbands? You mean baby daddys?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:16:11 No.103497691 Report

Quoted By: >>103497822

>>103497669
>Can you imagine Jedi using the Force to throw balls for sport and credits?
Yes. There's stories of Prometheus stealing fire to give to humanity or all the other sacred aspects of thunder or electricity we use to make light bulbs shine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:17:54 No.103497723 Report

Quoted By: >>103497759

>>103497669
This is an interesting point of view though. It could've been a good plot point in how benders living in the city have been degrading their bending for money and entertainment while forgetting that bending is what helps them stay connected with nature. But i guess Bryke didn't want to throw shit at his steampunk fetish

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Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:18:12 No.103497731 Report

Quoted By: >>103497794 >>103497807

>>103497669
People do foam at the mouth at pic related

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:18:37 No.103497744 Report

Quoted By: >>103497834

>>103497148
>I never understood why Ozai had such autistic perfectionist standards.
Azulon was the same way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:19:09 No.103497759 Report

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>>103497723
You're probably right, yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:20:16 No.103497774 Report

Quoted By: >>103497816

>>103497669
i don't know how a person using their bending for sport is any different from someone using it to dry laundry or push trains in ba sing se.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:20:39 No.103497778 Report

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>>103497148
The quest of perfection is noble, when you realise it's impossible to reach it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:20:59 No.103497784 Report

Quoted By: >>103497828 >>103497855

>>103496449
The Royal Family kept it a secret, they wanted to be special snowflakes. Even B2 Zuko could've learned it if not for his emotional hangups, and not everyone was bacon'd by their dad so won't have as much trouble.

This is one of the better things about TLOK. There is NO reason a random couldn't learn these sub-types with the proper training and aptitude. These techniques SHOULDN'T be reserved just for main characters. I mean fuck, some of the characters who used these techniques were just literal children. And it's not like there was hundreds of lightning benders, only like 5.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:21:43 No.103497794 Report

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>>103497731
I'd pay to see it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:22:19 No.103497807 Report

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>>103497731
In Aang's defense. Its been decades since someone saw an airbender do airbending. So anyone seeing it for the first time will be impressed.
Though it never made sense why Aang chose to stick with Katara instead of impregnating as many women to give birth to new airbenders. If not Aang why not Tenzin? He can't really be expecting to repopulate airbenders with one woman given how passionate he is with the culture and tries so hard to keep it alive. He has the genes to assure every woman to give an airbender every time so why not have a personal harem for procreating?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:22:46 No.103497816 Report

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>>103497774
Katara waterbent soup for Appa once.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:23:10 No.103497821 Report

Quoted By: >>103497845 >>103497877

>>103497669
Than are you as mad about Earth Rumble too? This is such a dumb thing to complain about. It's nothing like the Force, that's like a religion. Pro-bending was awesome we should've seen bending integrate into their society more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:23:11 No.103497822 Report

Quoted By: >>103497857 >>103497883

>>103497669
I get what youre putting down, but thats just how the world works. someone will and has tried to earn a cut from literally everything
>>103497691
well, I think in this instance its a little different since bending isnt a religious thing that may or may not be certified; its undeniably real, and that could potentially elevate it from being shrugged off as a means to make modern vonvenieces go

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:23:17 No.103497824 Report

Quoted By: >>103497897

>>103497632
>then again Toph wouldn't offer this class for free
But she fucking does.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:23:26 No.103497828 Report

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>>103497784
It's like a rich person from a few centuries ago getting mad that almost everyone of any class can read now.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:23:39 No.103497834 Report

Quoted By: >>103507547

>>103497744
The need for absolute autistic perfection is the root of the crazy gene in the royal family

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:23:42 No.103497836 Report

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>>103497669
You're fucking dumb as shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:24:29 No.103497845 Report

Quoted By: >>103497878 >>103497906

>>103497821
>Than are you as mad about Earth Rumble too?
I don't like it either, indeed.

>It's nothing like the Force, that's like a religion.
Ah because Jedi are not monks...?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:24:42 No.103497848 Report

Quoted By: >>103497915

>>103497632
>Toph
>caring more about money than showing off

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:25:15 No.103497855 Report

Quoted By: >>103497890 >>103497896 >>103497923

>>103497784
>There is NO reason a random couldn't learn these sub-types with the proper training and aptitude.

Except the "proper training" for metalbending should be "walk around with a blindfold for 10 years". There should not be a fucking police force of metalbenders, it's awful.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:25:29 No.103497857 Report

Quoted By: >>103497902

>>103497822
The point about legends surrounding fire and lightning is that our daily lives are filled with things which centuries ago are considered super sacred and we barely give it much thought.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:26:16 No.103497872 Report

Quoted By: >>103497951 >>103497967

>>103497463
they got paid good money, just noot enough to pay for massively inflated triad sports prices

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:26:20 No.103497874 Report

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>>103497394
It can and have, there are people who knew nothing about them and got electrocuted messing inside of it, while plugged up. You overestimate humanity common sense anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:26:29 No.103497877 Report

Quoted By: >>103497923

>>103497821
Earth Rumble was an underground evenr. Surely there was a reason to do it and not because Toph was in it, is probably because using bending other than to help people was distasteful

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:26:31 No.103497878 Report

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>>103497845
>Jedi are not monks
Sorta Samurai in space.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:26:51 No.103497883 Report

Quoted By: >>103497906

>>103497822
>I get what youre putting down
Thank you.
I know how things are, it was an opinion. Nothing more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:27:16 No.103497890 Report

Quoted By: >>103497910 >>103497975

>>103497855
It's been 70 years, you really can't believe Toph and the people she trained developed quicker ways of learning how to metalbend? You don't HAVE to be blind to do it, it just took a blind person with a different approach to realize it's possible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:27:55 No.103497896 Report

Quoted By: >>103497975

>>103497855
Not that guy but the largest leap from normal earth bending to metal is to know about the impurities in metal and to sense them. Even Aang by the time he fought Ozai can partially pull off Toph's blind vibration sensing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:27:56 No.103497897 Report

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>>103497824
In TLA? I don't remember though

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:28:08 No.103497902 Report

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>>103497857
oh no I got what you meant, I probably just worded watever I wanted to say terribly because Im retarded

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:28:17 No.103497906 Report

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>>103497845
>>103497883
You sound like you're wearing a fedora.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:28:38 No.103497910 Report

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>>103497890
That makes me think about Aang's words on the drill, when he wished he was a metalbender. Was he joking, or did he think it was actually doable?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:29:12 No.103497915 Report

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>>103497848
There was an episode were Toph was cheating for money and had more than enough for supplies she chose to buy luxuries

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:29:45 No.103497923 Report

Quoted By: >>103497995

>>103497855
Why? Anyone can learn seismic sense, if you can sense the earth in the metal than there's no reason they couldn't metalbend too. Just make the metal extra impure so it's easier for them to bend it at first. No reason it couldn't happen, especially with Toph's guidance.

>>103497877
>distasteful
christ
I guess we should be mad at airbenders for using their abilities to have fun too
So stupid

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:31:17 No.103497951 Report

Quoted By: >>103497967

>>103497872
Weren't they sponsored?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:32:44 No.103497967 Report

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>>103497872
It's important to remember they paid well compared to what Mako and Bolin were used to.

>>103497951
Not until Asami volunteered her dad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:33:38 No.103497975 Report

Quoted By: >>103497996 >>103498020 >>103498029

>>103497890
I can believe it. I'm saying it's bad for the setting. It should have stayed an elite skill. There was a built in excuse that should have kept all but the most talented and dedicated from ever learning how to do it. Turning Toph's unprecedented legendary accomplishment into a prerequisite for a blue collar job is just lame, it dilutes the setting. There is no reason to do it.

>>103497896
Not sure if you've ever trained at a skill in your life but there is a pretty big difference between getting the hang of something after a few weeks of playing around with it and being a complete expert from doing it every day for 10 years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:35:06 No.103497995 Report

Quoted By: >>103498042

>>103497923
>if you can sense the earth in the metal than there's no reason they couldn't metalbend too.

That's a big fucking "if". If it's that easy to do then there's no reason Toph would have been the first person in history to do it. Do you not grasp the scale involved here?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:35:09 No.103497996 Report

Quoted By: >>103498038

>>103497975
>dilutes
I think the term is 'powercreep'?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:36:45 No.103498020 Report

Quoted By: >>103498137

>>103497975
There's a difference but Aang, who isn't even a beginner at metal bending, can learn many of the prerequisites for metal bending. If someone who wasn't intentionally learning it can get all he needs to start learning, why can't someone who was intentionally learning metal bending? Not to mention Earthbending being possibly Aang's worst element.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:37:09 No.103498029 Report

Quoted By: >>103498137

>>103497975
>It should have stayed an elite skill.
Lol it still is, Bolin said only one in one-hundred earthbenders can bend metal. The entire police force is not made up of metalbenders. And if you limit it to one character, you limit what it can do. They did some cool shit metalbending in Korra.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:37:41 No.103498038 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497996
Korra had the weirdest and lamest power creep ever. Somehow all the niche genius-exclusive sub-types of bending were reduced to menial labor, implying that the average bender is far more powerful than in the past, but actual impressive displays of power or skill were almost non-existent compared to the original series.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:37:46 No.103498041 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497463
That's a lot for your average Chinese worker.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:37:48 No.103498042 Report

Quoted By: >>103498167 >>103498201 >>103506677

>>103497995
Many skills are much easier to learn after their discovery. Some of the mathematics taught in middle school or high school people a few centuries ago wouldn't know. Not to mention college.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:39:31 No.103498072 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497689
He means "Lucky people who had Toph's legs wrapped around them during creampie"

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:43:35 No.103498137 Report

Quoted By: >>103498200

>>103498020
What are you even arguing here? I'm not saying Toph should have stayed the only metalbender in the world, I'm saying it should have stayed a very impressive elite skill. The majority of the police force in Korra is made up of metalbenders. That's not impressive or elite. Given the time scale between series and the implied difficulty from the fact that Toph was the first person in dozens of thousands of years of earthbending history to ever do it, there should only be a few dozen metalbenders in the world. That way when a metalbender shows up you say "oh cool this is a badass" not "oh a dipshit".

>>103498029
>The entire police force is not made up of metalbenders.

Enough of them were metalbenders for metalbending to register as "something mooks can do".

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:45:41 No.103498167 Report

Quoted By: >>103498218 >>103498243 >>103498340

>>103498042
Mathematics are knowledge, not skill. Sensing minute presences with psychic kung fu is a skill. It does not get easier to learn. You are making a lot of very dumb arguments in favor of a very dumb decision.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:47:27 No.103498200 Report

Quoted By: >>103498222

>>103498137
It was still elite. The police force for a large scale city isn't some place where anyone can join. We don't even know their exact numbers. Toph discovered it because of her unique upbringing and training. Most benders learn from another bender rather than the original source and it's been that way for most of history. Her foundation is different enough that it could lead to an entirely different path within earthbending.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:47:35 No.103498201 Report

Quoted By: >>103498288

>>103498042
Okay, go learn horseback archery overnight. It should be easy if people could do it hundreds of years ago, right? Obviously you're vastly superior to them, because you were taught math.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:48:29 No.103498218 Report

Quoted By: >>103498242

>>103498167
>Sensing minute presences with psychic kung fu is a skill
You ever learn to do proofs or code in college?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:48:36 No.103498222 Report

Quoted By: >>103498309

>>103498200
>It was still elite. The police force for a large scale city isn't some place where anyone can join

You are making a fool of yourself. Just stop.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:49:37 No.103498242 Report

Quoted By: >>103498271

>>103498218
Elaborate on whatever idiotic point you think you're getting at, asshole.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:49:39 No.103498243 Report

Quoted By:

>>103498167
No, the ability to do math is a skill. It's not just knowledge, it's an ability.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:51:24 No.103498271 Report

Quoted By:

>>103498242
>implying that learning to code isn't a skill
Algorithms done in coding are discovered by many people throughout the years yet learning to do them, how to use them, etc is a skill.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:52:37 No.103498288 Report

Quoted By:

>>103498201
Give him a few years and he can do it. Even really good archery which formerly took close to a lifetime, can be learned faster nowadays.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:53:36 No.103498309 Report

Quoted By:

>>103498222
Not him, but you are coming of as highly autistic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 19:54:54 No.103498340 Report

Quoted By:

>>103498167
>Mathematics are knowledge, not skill.
>https://www.businessinsider.com/being-good-at-math-is-not-about-natural-ability-2013-11
>hard work is the most important part
>not a skill

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 20:13:30 No.103498693 Report

Quoted By:

Why did Bryke hated Sokka so much? Not even a wife or children he left and nobody knows how he died. Bryle made eberyone miserable in the end

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 20:21:13 No.103498835 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496608
Lightning Bolt Zolt

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 20:22:38 No.103498869 Report

Quoted By: >>103502497

It was probably only rare in The Last Airbender because like 95% of firebenders in the world were all firebending wrong. It would probably be easier for someone using the life affirming Sun Warrior philosphy to generate lightning rather than someone using the rage fueled war time Fire Nation philosophy. And, as Fire Lord, Zuko probably spread the Sun Warrior teachings because he wouldn't want his people to rely on hate and anger all the time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 21:02:15 No.103499545 Report

Quoted By: >>103499691 >>103504324

>>103496449
It's a technique; people can learn techniques. It's like the fallacy that only special magical people can draw. "Oh. I couldn't draw a straight line dohohoho-". Fuck that, it's a skill, that can be leaned, and improved.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 21:10:42 No.103499691 Report

Quoted By: >>103499718 >>103499753

>>103499545
Yeah but what made lightning bending is that it requires skill which is why few were able to achieve it. And we saw why it was so special in two characters one with discipline and the other for power. Is what it made this bending unique

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 21:12:45 No.103499718 Report

Quoted By:

>>103499691
>skill
I don't think you know what that word means.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 21:15:20 No.103499753 Report

Quoted By:

>>103499691
Skill is something which is trained, and training requires either luck or knowledge of how to train if you want to do something particularly difficult. See any sport where people are doing moves that were previously impossible; those impossible things become standard as the coaches figure out how to train their athletes to do them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 22:16:36 No.103500784 Report

Quoted By: >>103502180

It's one of those changes that have a "logical" explanation but I still don't like.

>advancement of technology=giant mechas and invisible electricity fences
>cultures coming together=less interesting bending
>Korra was spoiled=she's insufferable and gets her ass kicked a lot

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 22:23:48 No.103500904 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497148
Based Zuzu

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 22:27:14 No.103500958 Report

Quoted By: >>103501647

>>103497148
>I never understood why Ozai had such autistic perfectionist standards
>Zuko was better than 99% of benders.
Not kid Zuko, aka who Ozai knew. He was a shit bender but got better over his travels. Even his mother had to give him a
>at least you tried
speech after his performance for Azulon

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 22:28:22 No.103500977 Report

Quoted By: >>103501007 >>103501178

>>103496449
Korra made everything amazing in AtlA mundane, and then scaled up from there with shit like cities full of metal benders, lava bending, waterbending without using arms.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 22:29:53 No.103501007 Report

Quoted By:

>>103500977
Bumi bent earth without his arms or legs

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 22:36:38 No.103501132 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496561

Side note in some future Avatar thing I want there to actually be a character named "Zappy Zu"

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 22:38:41 No.103501161 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496561
next TLA series will have a character torrent 10GB of bloodbending textbooks

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 22:39:29 No.103501178 Report

Quoted By:

>>103500977
Season 1 had fucking psychic bloodbenders as a kekkei genkai. partially psychic waterbenders was a step down.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 22:41:42 No.103501217 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496449
Its a metaphor of how worthless the series has become.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:07:53 No.103501647 Report

Quoted By: >>103502001

>>103500958
Was kid Zuko a shit bender or it was Ozai just hating him for no reason?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:25:24 No.103501947 Report

Quoted By: >>103508568

>>103496974
Yeah, I liked that the bending was originally dependant on the physical motions of the bender. It have a reason for the elaborate, flowery movements. LoK made it seem like it was all thought-based.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:28:05 No.103502001 Report

Quoted By: >>103502383

>>103501647
ozai is a malicious psycho, he saw that azula was better than zuko and that was that. mind made up. bullying commence.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:30:43 No.103502050 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497669
Aang was given master status because he used a spinning ball of air as a toy to putz around on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:30:59 No.103502058 Report

Quoted By: >>103506356 >>103506415 >>103506578

>>103496584
Zuko was the most emotionally unstable person on the planet (at least until Azula's mind finally broke). And even he ALMOST managed to produce Lightning. Or maybe he didn't; I don't remember, but the point is it wasn't skill he was lacking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:38:14 No.103502161 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497517
Yes. Even at the beginning he was skilled but not Azula level. Towards the end he was her level.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:38:59 No.103502180 Report

Quoted By:

>>103500784
It's due to the massive number of youtube "reviewers" who equate bad to isn't "logical" or is a plothole. Now people can't say something is bad without nitpicking things that don't matter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:44:05 No.103502270 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497669
Its a natrual part of the world so using as part of cultural events similar how masquerade daces and martial arts events are used to attract tourists

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:49:25 No.103502383 Report

Quoted By:

>>103502001
He was below most other firelords, not useless but not at all impressive

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:52:16 No.103502432 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496449
Because it was more or less a top secret technique until after the War. There's no reason it wouldn't become a common skill.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:54:41 No.103502472 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496584
>>103496758
>>103496870
Stop being upset that a move isn't treated as particularly special anymore. This thread is full of reasons how the outcome in LOK happened.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:56:08 No.103502497 Report

Quoted By:

>>103498869
This is the only decent explanation but still not enough

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Oct 2018 23:59:50 No.103502575 Report

Quoted By:

>take something cool
>make it less cool
Korra was pretty good at that

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 00:28:51 No.103503066 Report

Quoted By: >>103508599

>>103496449
>only the firebending elite could generate lighting
when did they say that or is this more head canon

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 00:32:27 No.103503133 Report

Quoted By: >>103504163

>Medieval times: Only rich nobles could read and write

>Modern times: Large majority of the population can read or write

Anyone can be taught. It just depends on accessibility and education.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 00:35:21 No.103503180 Report

Quoted By: >>103504051

this is why i hate avatar threads on here they tame there headcanon and put it into the show then get mad

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 01:09:29 No.103503795 Report

Quoted By: >>103504308

>>103496974
>after 3 seasons building up how things will go wrong if you don't have emotional control when you attempt it.
That was just Iroh's assumption of how it worked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 01:20:32 No.103504051 Report

Quoted By:

>>103503180
Yeah, headcanon in place of facts is a big problem on /co/

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 01:25:56 No.103504163 Report

Quoted By: >>103504308

>>103503133
Noh the same

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 01:28:55 No.103504230 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497329
women like men, that's gay as fuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 01:32:58 No.103504308 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496974
>>103503795

It was said that Azula and Ozai could lightbend for being sociopaths,and usualy not having doubts.

>>103504163
Autist.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 01:33:40 No.103504324 Report

Quoted By: >>103504997 >>103505185 >>103505294 >>103506420

>>103499545
>It's a technique
Bending itself is genetic. How powerful benders are is probably also genetic. It makes perfect sense why in AtLA only the Fire Lord's family was shown using it because you would have to be innately powerful enough to lighting bend. That would explain why Azula naturally generates blue fire and could lightning bend no matter how crazy she got.

Making it so it is only technique ignores how some benders are more powerful than others even when using the same technique.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 01:51:14 No.103504676 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496449
Books.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:08:52 No.103504997 Report

Quoted By: >>103505063

>>103504324
>Bending itself is genetic.
It's not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:12:35 No.103505063 Report

Quoted By: >>103505185 >>103511793 >>103511801

>>103504997
>It's not
Then why do firebenders have firebending children and airbenders have airbending children, and so on? It doesn't seem random...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:18:19 No.103505185 Report

Quoted By: >>103505271 >>103505407 >>103505620

>>103504324
Anon, this is a lot of headcanons. The royal family used it because it was a technique that inly them knew how to use, it was never because they wete some X-Men like Amon and his family.

There is nothing special about the FN lineage, they were just a family of Fire Sages that rose into power. They are stronger than the avarage fire bender, in part for having the best instructors, in oart due to genetics (like any family fanous for martial arts), but they weren't some kind of special mutant.

>Making it so it is only technique ignores how some benders are more powerful than others even when using the same technique.

Dumb statement, try to picture this as real martial arts. "If 2 people did the same move, why one is stronger than other??"

>>103505063
>Then why do firebenders have firebending children and airbenders have airbending children, and so on? It doesn't seem random...

Creators said that many factors stipulate bending - genetics is only one part, the season where you born is another (like more water benders being born on winter) spirituality is another factor, to not mention all the reincarnation aspect.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:21:58 No.103505271 Report

Quoted By: >>103505424

>>103505185
>the season where you born is another
more head canon

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:22:43 No.103505294 Report

Quoted By: >>103505363 >>103505620 >>103505933

>>103504324
Lightning bending is explicitly explained in ATLA as requiring a specific mindset to properly pull off, how powerful you are is irrelevant as to whether or not you can pull it off. Considering that the lightning benders in LoK are just shooting electricity at a contact point a few feet in front of them large amounts of power are unneeded, and "realistically" would be unwanted to prevent equipment damage and power spikes.

Also the end of ATLA has Zuko and Azula at equal power as an indicator of growth on the part of Zuko.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:26:16 No.103505363 Report

Quoted By:

>>103505294
>requiring a specific mindset to properly pull off
then why did crazy azula do it

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:28:20 No.103505407 Report

Quoted By: >>103505450

>>103505185
>Creators said that many factors stipulate bending - genetics is only one part,
Then it's genetic.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:29:00 No.103505424 Report

Quoted By: >>103505571

>>103505271
It's what the wiki says.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:30:16 No.103505450 Report

Quoted By: >>103505477

>>103505407
You are missing the part where they said ONLY ONE PART, they even made sure to have 2 identical twins, with only one of them being able to bend.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:31:27 No.103505477 Report

Quoted By: >>103505551

>>103505450
No I didn't. If part of it is genetics then it is a genetic quality that can be bred for. It's why Aang had to have airbending kids and was otherwise the last airbender? I never said it was exclusively genetic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:32:59 No.103505509 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497669
God forbid someone use their talents to do something other than wank themselves off in a monastery.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:34:55 No.103505551 Report

Quoted By: >>103505578

>>103505477
If its not exclusively genetic, your argument is meanless, and its still headcanon.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:35:58 No.103505571 Report

Quoted By:

>>103505424
>Wikipedia

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:36:22 No.103505578 Report

Quoted By:

>>103505551
It doesn't have to exclusively genetic, I never said it was, and my argument was objectively correct. It's why the airbenders could be wiped out dumbass. It is genetic, and it is spiritual.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:36:42 No.103505583 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497669
There were many sports woth bending. Bending is an everyday thing, its used for every shit.

Its like getting mad at martial arrt competitions, but worse.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:37:25 No.103505596 Report

Quoted By:

Just to be clear, we're all aware that the reason airbenders popped up all over the world after the spirit portals opened was cause Aang had been sowing the wild oats, right?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:38:15 No.103505620 Report

Quoted By: >>103505752

>>103505185
You are focusing on the genetics, but the main point is it makes sense that benders would need to be powerful enough before they could do advance bending and that it isn't only technique.
>but they weren't some kind of special mutant.
I mean, Azula probably was...

>>103505294
>Lightning bending is explicitly explained in ATLA as requiring a specific mindset to properly pull off
That's just Iroh's understanding.
>Also the end of ATLA has Zuko and Azula at equal power as an indicator of growth on the part of Zuko.
Pretty sure she was just unhinged which gave Zuko a chance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:39:51 No.103505658 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497329
women like dick, and liking dick is gay

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:40:20 No.103505671 Report

Quoted By: >>103505828

>>103496449

because bryke threw lore out the window

they went full female empowerment
full bisexual
full sjw

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:44:02 No.103505752 Report

Quoted By: >>103505980 >>103506024

>>103505620
>but the main point is it makes sense that benders would need to be powerful enough before they could do advance bending

What "powerful" even means in this context? Do you need to be "powerful" to learn a hard karate move?

You need skill and training, and just that. How can you say that the 10 lighting benders of the city weren't "powerful enough" to do that?

Mako had said potential and thats why he was the student of that Mob Boss that was famous for using lighting.
>That's just Iroh's understanding.
So you are saying that you prefer your headcanon to the canon exposition of one of the dudes that understand said technique the most?

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:47:39 No.103505828 Report

Quoted By:

>>103505671
you sound like a fucking retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:48:58 No.103505851 Report

Quoted By:

Do you think a monarchy with a rigid class structure is going to let anyone know such power?

Lightning bending reliably and safely. Was still rare during korra. Which is why power plant benders got paid well to do it, and gangsters used it to dominate others.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:52:56 No.103505933 Report

Quoted By: >>103513474

>>103505294
Iroh sees peace of mind as necessary to have the focus needed. Azula is a freakish prodigy and focused in her own way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:55:10 No.103505980 Report

Quoted By:

>>103505752
Iroh says a select few firebenders are capable of it, not knowing but ever able to learn it. I take that to mean a few percent

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 02:57:32 No.103506024 Report

Quoted By: >>103506097 >>103506105

>>103505752
>What "powerful" even means in this context?
In our world everyone has a genetic limit to how much muscle and strength they can have. It makes sense that's the way it works for benders even if you through in spirituality.
>Do you need to be "powerful" to learn a hard karate move?
You canteach people to run but not everyone is "powerful" enough to run 100 meter under 9 sec.
>the canon exposition of one of the dudes that understand said technique the most?
Except crazy Azula shows him wrong? And saying "well sociopaths can do it" is headcanon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:01:11 No.103506097 Report

Quoted By: >>103506249

>>103506024
Except that lightingbending and running are a false equivalence.

And the sociopathy thing was actualy adressed by the writters.

Scar Repp !!k9v69v0fMqE

Scar Repp !!k9v69v0fMqE Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:01:28 No.103506105 Report

Quoted By: >>103506249

>>103506024

Azula was never crazy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:05:50 No.103506191 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497219
To stop them from trying to claim the throne/stop a rebellion?

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:09:06 No.103506249 Report

Quoted By: >>103506407 >>103506417 >>103506539

>>103506097
>Except that lightingbending and running are a false equivalence.
Karate/martial arts to bending is also a false equivalence.

>>103506097
>And the sociopathy thing was actualy adressed by the writters.
Source? In any case, what the writers say out of the show doesn't really matter compared to what is actually in the show.

>>103506105
She was clearly hallucinating and have paranoid delusions.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:10:58 No.103506282 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497669
t. tenzin

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:15:08 No.103506356 Report

Quoted By: >>103506415

>>103502058
No, he couldn't do it at all. He was going to go out in a lightning storm to practice the redirection technique before Iroh stopped him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:17:44 No.103506407 Report

Quoted By: >>103506454

>>103506249
>Karate/martial arts to bending is also a false equivalence.

Bending is LITERALY martial arts moves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:18:10 No.103506415 Report

Quoted By:

>>103502058
>>103506356
He generated explosions in his attempts, but ultimately couldn't produce lighting.

Scar Repp !!k9v69v0fMqE

Scar Repp !!k9v69v0fMqE Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:18:15 No.103506417 Report

Quoted By: >>103506788

>>103506249

Breakdown =/= insanity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:18:30 No.103506420 Report

Quoted By: >>103506663

>>103504324
>Bending itself is genetic.
It's not. In the "Fortune Teller" one of the identical twins dont have bending.

http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Poi_and_Ping

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:20:14 No.103506454 Report

Quoted By:

>>103506407
But it's much more than Martial Arts. A non-bender doing the bending technique perfectly will not bend an element.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:24:44 No.103506539 Report

Quoted By: >>103506788

>>103506249
>Karate/martial arts to bending is also a false equivalence.
It's not because bending ARE martial arts.

>Source?
Not him, but I remember a "question and answer" thing going on the commercial of the marathon to the finale.

>In any case, what the writers say out of the show doesn't really matter compared to what is actually in the show.

The guys that wrotte it have more credit than your headcanons.

>She was clearly hallucinating and have paranoid delusions.

You are right about this. Ignore the tripfag, he is scrapper, an autistic waifufag.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:26:43 No.103506578 Report

Quoted By:

>>103502058
Best Zuko could manage was to redirect Azula's lightning.
Maybe he figured it out when he got older.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:31:06 No.103506663 Report

Quoted By: >>103506867

>>103506420
You act like that's evidence. Blue eyes are genetic, doesn't mean all of a blue eyed person's kids will have them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:31:58 No.103506677 Report

Quoted By:

>>103498042
>Many skills are much easier to learn after their discovery.
Like Super Saiyan

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:37:10 No.103506788 Report

Quoted By: >>103513474

>>103506417
Whatever. Point is, she didn't have a "clear mind" or emotional control when she was generating lighting in the last episode. This tells us Iroh was not 100% correct and that there are other ways for fire benders to create lighting. And I think it has to do with sheer power.

>>103506539
>It's not because bending ARE martial arts.
I'm not sure what you mean.
>The guys that wrotte it have more credit than your headcanons.
They had a lot of writers on the show over the years. Am I supposed to accept a random writer's random hot-take on lore as canon? Especially when it doesn't really make sense. I would rather use the information of the original show itself.Death of the Author, basically

>>103506539
>he is scrapper, an autistic waifufag.
scrapper?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:42:37 No.103506867 Report

Quoted By: >>103506978 >>103507022

>>103506663
You realize identical twins are the result of an embryo splitting in two, meaning they have identical DNA right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:45:30 No.103506927 Report

Quoted By:

How effective is the lighting bender power plant? That cant be the main source of electricity for the city

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:48:01 No.103506978 Report

Quoted By: >>103507040 >>103507109

>>103506867
Not true sometimes it can be two fertilized eggs at the same time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:50:04 No.103507022 Report

Quoted By: >>103507109

>>103506867
Yeah, and there's a spiritual aspect to bending too. But it is genetic. This isn't complicated.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:51:19 No.103507040 Report

Quoted By:

>>103506978
Not that anon, but that tends to be Fraternal Twins
Not Identical
There's a difference

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 03:56:11 No.103507109 Report

Quoted By: >>103507320 >>103508772

>>103506978
Those are fraternal twins, what I was responding to was the guy arguing that IDENTICAL twins would have different genetics. Identical twins have identical genetics, barring some of the activated epigenetic markers.

>>103507022
The guy was arguing that bending ability is purely genetic, therefore only the FN royal family should be able to lightning bend because they bred the ability into themselves, but also saying that an example of identical twins, people with identical genetics, not both being benders somehow doesn't count as proof that bending ability is only genetic and can't also count on non-genetic factors, i.e. training, spirituality, etc.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 04:11:14 No.103507320 Report

Quoted By: >>103508166 >>103508197 >>103513538

>>103507109
>The guy was arguing that bending ability is purely genetic, therefore only the FN royal family should be able to lightning bend because they bred the ability into themselves,
My argument is that power in bending is also an aspect of genetics. That's why most of the Fire Lord's family had the power necessary to lighteningbend. Not that lightning-bending itself is genetically passed. That power manifested itself in Azula who not only had stronger fire (blue flame) but could lighting-bend without needing a clear mind. At least that is how it worked in AtLA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 04:26:10 No.103507547 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497834
tfw you're just a hair off

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 04:47:32 No.103507890 Report

Quoted By: >>103507978 >>103508068 >>103509402 >>103509491

What about combustion bending?
How the fuck do you learn that?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 04:48:37 No.103507908 Report

Quoted By:

It was a top-tier paying job you plebian

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 04:49:25 No.103507917 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496561
to be fair the southern water tribe was at the time a backwards, war raided ruin.
You bet your ass those ponces in the north knew how to read water chink.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 04:54:28 No.103507978 Report

Quoted By:

>>103507890
They just need to read a book and be paid a lot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:01:41 No.103508068 Report

Quoted By:

>>103507890
years of no fap

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:09:19 No.103508166 Report

Quoted By: >>103508239

>>103507320
Thats your headcanon. As far as it seems you don't need more "power" to use lighting, just more control and technique. The rest is just headcanon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:11:13 No.103508197 Report

Quoted By: >>103508239

>>103507320
Dude get out of here with your stupid Naruto rules. All bending takes is practice.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:13:19 No.103508239 Report

Quoted By: >>103508268 >>103508281

>>103508166
That's how it was in AtLA until Korra. Not "headcanon"
Not that it matters. In ten years Nick will sell Avatar to Disney and then we will get a new "canon"

>>103508197
Then why does Azula have blue fire and lighting bend without a clear mind if it only takes practice?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:15:30 No.103508268 Report

Quoted By: >>103508515

>>103508239
>Then why does Azula have blue fire
Learned skill

>lighting bend without a clear mind
Sociopath

All is adressed. There is no evidence to your headcanons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:16:36 No.103508281 Report

Quoted By: >>103508515

>>103508239
Because she's a prodigy. It happens with real stuff all the time, the genius kid that can make something that normally takes years to learn look easy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:32:45 No.103508502 Report

Quoted By:

>1400's Europe
Only the nobility could read
>2000's Europe
Literally power plant employees could read

Really makes you think

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:33:16 No.103508515 Report

Quoted By: >>103508543 >>103508559 >>103515106

>>103508268
>Learned skill
Except it's not? No one else has done it and she could do it as a kid
>Sociopath
This is a non-answer. Sociopaths can get angry. They don't have magic clearheadedness. However, it's debatable if Azula even counts as a sociopath.

>>103508281
>Because she's a prodigy.
No other character in the entire series including the comics and Korra had blue fire. She did the same techniques other benders did yet was stronger anyway. Just learning fast doesn't account for it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:35:10 No.103508543 Report

Quoted By: >>103508587 >>103508747

>>103508515
>she could do it as a kid
False.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:36:15 No.103508559 Report

Quoted By: >>103508587

>>103508515
You sound like a waifufag. You post like a waifufag agaisnt all logic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:37:10 No.103508568 Report

Quoted By:

>>103501947
I agree with you that bending took a hit but it's worth noting that Tenzin's airbending consistently looked really good. It was about on par with Aang's. That makes the fact that everything else was relegated to punches and kicks even worse.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:38:11 No.103508587 Report

Quoted By: >>103508609 >>103508617

>>103508543
Proof? Do you remember the episode? I can just look it up real quick.

>>103508559
Not an argument, fag

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:39:09 No.103508599 Report

Quoted By:

>>103503066
It's never explicitly stated but I doubt every other firebender just forgot they had an incredibly lethal instakill attack

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:39:50 No.103508609 Report

Quoted By: >>103508651

>>103508587
>avatarfagging
>continuing to argue over something extremely trivial just because it involves Azula.
You're a waifufag alright

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:40:32 No.103508617 Report

Quoted By: >>103508651 >>103508788

>>103508587
There was literaly only 1 episode with Azula as a kid.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:42:50 No.103508651 Report

Quoted By:

>>103508609
>avatarfagging
We are in an avatar thread?

>>103508617
Not like I memorized the episode number. Whatever I'll find out and refresh my memory.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:46:37 No.103508697 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496449
Proliferation of a bending technique previously restricted to the societal elite, among the general population.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:47:58 No.103508706 Report

Quoted By: >>103510348

At least everybody didn't start using blue flames in LOK

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:51:14 No.103508747 Report

Quoted By:

>>103508543
She is a kid you dumbass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:52:16 No.103508772 Report

Quoted By:

>>103507109
>The guy was arguing that bending ability is purely genetic,
You fucking liar. I said like fifty times that it's also spiritual. I kept saying that. Over and over. You kept pretending that I didn't. You still are. STOP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 05:53:27 No.103508788 Report

Quoted By: >>103513538

>>103508617
Looked it up in Episode 27. I was wrong about her being able to generate blue flame as a kid.

Doesn't change the core of my argument though, which is why doesn't any other fire master have blue fire? Why does she do the bending technique like every other firebender yet have stronger fire? If you see it as innate strength then it makes sense. Korra never mentions her so they never explain it in any other way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 06:24:12 No.103509129 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497517
He focuses on basics over flashy shit but yeah. Go rewatch S1 and note how well he does despite his situation, and remember he's often up against an aibending master/prodigy. Guy even outdid an admiral. Then partway through S2 and onward he begins incorporating other bending styles into his own firebending to compensate for his weaknesses. By the end of S3 he's equal in power to Azula and his defense is unbreakable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 06:35:48 No.103509258 Report

Quoted By: >>103509788 >>103510136

>>103496449
The writers of both series have no clue how either fire or electricity actually work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 06:51:31 No.103509402 Report

Quoted By: >>103510008 >>103510096

>>103507890
Seriously what the fuck was this guy, was it ever explained?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 07:01:01 No.103509491 Report

Quoted By: >>103509790

>>103507890
Why did they feel the need to bring this guy back? Couldn't they think of an original gimmick bender? Aside from their Katawa Shoujou waterbender.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 07:29:03 No.103509773 Report

Quoted By: >>103510008

The biggest waste in Korra was not having an entire season set in and around the city park in republic city. Prove me wrong, you can't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 07:30:38 No.103509788 Report

Quoted By:

>>103509258
Anon did you know in real life it's also not possible to bend any of the elements at all.

Who cares how realistic the magic in the fantasy setting is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 07:30:47 No.103509790 Report

Quoted By:

>>103509491
combustion woman's death scene was cool.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 07:31:42 No.103509798 Report

Quoted By:

>>103497148
In the comics he bends a tornado fire of multiple colors.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 07:53:42 No.103510008 Report

Quoted By:

>>103509402
He just read Lou Zu's book "Combustion Bending From Your Forehead For Beginners." Any bender can do it.

>>103509773
>Prove me wrong,
How would that last more than an episode?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 08:02:01 No.103510085 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496492

It was also extremely difficult that required precise focus of chi, something that is just about forgotten in Korra. Even Zuko never actually mastered shooting lightening in the show.

This is like factory workers doing one inch punches to put rivets in metal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 08:03:29 No.103510096 Report

Quoted By:

>>103509402
Just a freak of nature. That accidentally discovered his power and blew arm and leg off, as a child.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 08:08:15 No.103510136 Report

Quoted By:

>>103509258
Fire bending is using chi to manipulate and create plasma. They shoot flames from no where, because they're making air hot enough to ionize and glow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 08:08:40 No.103510145 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496610

Unless you're referring to prehistoric times, not really. They had basic math through history but advanced stuff like algebra, etc. was more for dedicated math people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 08:34:53 No.103510348 Report

Quoted By:

>>103508706
Thank god for that...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 12:44:57 No.103511793 Report

Quoted By:

>>103505063
>Then why do firebenders have firebending children
Then why an earthbender had an airbender child in LoK?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 12:46:05 No.103511801 Report

Quoted By:

>>103505063
>why do firebenders have firebending children and airbenders have airbending children

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 13:07:16 No.103511976 Report

Quoted By: >>103512099 >>103512173

So, what was the drill between Ozai and Iroh?
How do you think their relationship was like before LuTen’s death?

Why did Azulon favor Iroh over Ozai?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 13:26:04 No.103512099 Report

Quoted By:

>>103511976
Maybe Iroh was a quick learner, like Azula, and Ozai was more like Zuko.

Maybe that’s the reason Ozai has an autistic obsession with perfectionism

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 13:33:14 No.103512154 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496449
because the archaic nature of the world before the events of Last Airbender made technological development extremely difficult. When Aang made the first (as we would conceive of it) big city, tech exploded. In a hundred years you got cars and more airships and better boats and more. Along with that comes a better understanding of the science of bending. Call it 'chi' or whatever the fuck you want, if it follows rules it is a science. Lightning bending is no different than, say, chlorine: some nutjob in ancient times could stumble onto making it when trying to discover 'thee source of thee foul humours" and it would be an amazing secret that nobody could copy, but jump forward to today and anyone could learn to synthesize chlorine in, what, a day of research and prep?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 13:35:45 No.103512173 Report

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>>103511976
Because Ozai was pretty slimy and self serving, more so compared to Iroh

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 13:55:13 No.103512369 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496449

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 15:44:07 No.103513474 Report

Quoted By: >>103516609

>>103506788
>>103505933
>This tells us Iroh was not 100% correct and that there are other ways for fire benders to create lighting. And I think it has to do with sheer power.
Or it tells us that Azula is bullshit and violates the rules of bending because she's a special snowflake.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 15:49:03 No.103513538 Report

Quoted By: >>103516609 >>103516821

>>103507320
>>103508788
>Why does she do the bending technique like every other firebender yet have stronger fire?
>That power manifested itself in Azula who not only had stronger fire (blue flame)
Blue flame isn't stronger.

In real life, blue flame is hotter. In ATLA, it functions exactly the same as real fire and it was outright stated in the artbook that they only gave Azula blue fire to make her flames stand out from Zuko's. You're headcanon-ing some reason that isn't there.

Honestly Azula's bending skill is overrated. She's definitely top percentile, but she gets her shit smacked by the best firebenders.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 16:09:27 No.103513741 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496449
>Medieval Era: only the aristocratic elite could read

>Modern Era: literally farmers and factory workers could read

Why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 17:55:15 No.103515106 Report

Quoted By: >>103516872

>>103508515
She was absolutely a fucking sociopath. Practically everything she did was a massive red flag towards that fact. You'd have to be blind or a complete retard to have not seen that.

And I don't understand why you people seem to be getting hung up on the "clear mind" thing. Lightning Bending being a subset of Firebending would require the sureness one needs to have to fire bend but to a much greater degree. This is where it goes from being a purely martial/genetic ability, to something more mental and spiritual.

In her own insanity and self delusions, Azuka had little doubt in her self. She had nothing mentally blocking her from doing it. She believed she could and so it came easily too her. That said, her blue flames, that was most likely a result of both her innate power though I'd wager her chi would have been affected by her mental issues and could easily be playing a part in it.

Inversely, Aang had some massive hangs up about Firebending after the genocide of his people and injuring Katara in his first attempt to fire bend. Thus struggled with the element till his encounter with Ran and Shaw.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 18:00:06 No.103515173 Report

Quoted By: >>103515452 >>103516173

>>103496449
>lightning
>firebenders
That strikes me more as an airbending power

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 18:19:08 No.103515452 Report

Quoted By:

>>103515173
Firebenders convert their chi into fire, makes sense that they could convert their chi into something else.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 18:48:13 No.103515947 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496449
All these people defending it as some inherent technique that was hoarded by the greedy elite. Knowledge is more accessible than superpowers. Concrete ideas can be transcribed and stored, then passed around and used without expending it as a limited resource.

Superpowers, even if they're rooted in shit like Chi/Chakras/Spirit Energy, would still fundamentally vary on a person's experiences, knowledge, and aptitude. Spin it how you want, but it took somebody that had matured on these points to use any rare abilities in ATLA.

Toph's metal bending, Hama and Katara's blood bending, and Azula, Iroh, and Ozai's lightning bending, all came from having exceptionally unique life experiences/upbringings that created a need for them to be strong benders, knowledge of bending accumilated over time, and an aptitude for their rare abilities. Zuko - the most main MC behind Aang in ATLA, had the harsh life experiences and the knowledge from Iroh, but no aptitude to learn lightning bending.

We don't know much about the lives of the factory shmucks in LoK. They may have the inherent aptitude and accessible knowledge, sure, but also life experiences comparable to people drastically affected by war that would motivate them to reach the peak of their bending potential? Either the Avatar superpowers are rooted in some consistent methodology, or LoK is poorly written. Idk, which does /co/ like to routinely bitch about, again?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 19:00:28 No.103516173 Report

Quoted By: >>103516348

>>103515173
Lightning is actually created by the static electricity formed from clouds rubbing against themselves.

So really waterbenders should be the ones making lightning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 19:10:50 No.103516348 Report

Quoted By:

>>103516173
Fundamentally all electricity is the movement of ions. All of the benders are moving some form of matter, so in that sense, you could argue they all could selectively move ions to make a current of electricity.

I view it as Air, Water, and Earth being physical elements, but fire being pure energy without a fuel source (necessary for a combustion reaction), yet firebenders' bending only materializing in a few forms, such as thermal energy. It makes sense that firebenders could use raw energy to excite electrons of surrounding atoms and direct those electrons along a path, creating lightning.

But again, any and all bending requires energy input to move or create whatever, so they should all bend lightning. There's a reason real world physics and bending don't mix

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 19:24:17 No.103516609 Report

Quoted By:

>>103513474
>>103513538
If Amon and his family can bloodbend just by thinking because they are a genetic anomalies then it makes perfect sense that the firelord's family would have been another anomaly. Obviously that was ruined by LoK's retcons.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 19:32:39 No.103516764 Report

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>>103496449
Did I miss a line of dialogue or something where someone says lightning bending is only known to the royal family? Everyone on this thread seems to think it is, but I can't ever remember it ever being brought up in the show, and it wouldn't really make sense, why wouldn't the Fire Nation want as many people as possible on their side with one of the most powerful bending forms when they are in the middle of a war? We see that the Fire Nation isn't hiding explosion bending from its people, so I don't see why they would do the same with lightning bendign. It seems like a headcanon thing that has just become generally accepted, unless I'm just misremembering the original series.

Also, I think it makes lightningbending way less special and interesting if everyone can do it, same for metalbending, I mean, it's cool to see them get applied in new ways in LoK, but it just devalues the uniqueness of them when they just become so common place

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 19:36:23 No.103516821 Report

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>>103513538
You literally have 0 proof that azulas fire isn't hotter than regular fire.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 19:39:25 No.103516872 Report

Quoted By:

>>103515106
>She was absolutely a fucking sociopath
Do sociopaths care about family? Would a sociopath care about having their parent's respect and love? I think she fit's "child soldier" more than "sociopath"
>And I don't understand why you people seem to be getting hung up on the "clear mind" thing.
That's because its one of the few pieces of information on how it works and it doesn't seem to fit Azula. But if you take Iroh's explanation as badly worded then your explanation can work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 19:41:56 No.103516907 Report

Quoted By:

>>103496449
Metal Bending
>TLA: Toph used her seismic sense to locate impurities in poor quality medieval steel
>Korra: Any and every earth bender can bend any and every metal save platinum

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Oct 2018 20:00:21 No.103517245 Report

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>>103496449
Everybody who made ATLA good was absent for Korra. Dave Filoni was working on The Clone Wars. Aaron Ehasz was doing god knows what. Giancarlo Volpe was working on Green Lantern.

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