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Sordid Motorized Jackal Carver: It doesn't belong to you. The pretty lady at the front desk says it's for GARY.
Sordid Motorized Jackal Carver: The other player idles as you press onwards. You see a lobby with a front desk. A package is being signed for. The front door leads outside and the elevator alcove is full of elevators.
So I think you're looking at it more from the participant's perspective than I am here. But it's like this: A real fight requires real power and efficiency but making something into a sport removes that. The individual people may want to win as fast as they can, but the rules of the thing are designed to make that impossible. That's why the most effective and decisive moves are banned and why they set it up into a territory contest rather than a free for all. That's why the fights drag on, not because anyone's thinking they have to put on a show as they fight but because the rules make the spectacle. So you're right, but not in the way I'm talking about, if that makes sense. It's still a show for kids so I can't see that being much of a possibilty.
You're right about the top half. People do usually get weaker in peacetime. However, probending, like any other sport is about nothing but putting on a show. If you end it quickly or efficiently you aren't putting on a show and if you're not putting on show you aren't selling tickets and when you're not selling tickets you're not making money and if you're not making money you aren't doing your job. That's all there is to it.
Not in the same way learning to make your movements precise, powerful, effective and fluid is. It requires years to get down basics and many more to be ready to learn advanced tech. It's like, you have to be an expert at everything to advance martial art but you can more easily combine skills across tons of people to create an internet. The two things are just not comparable. I will concede this point only because you're right. Sand is part of the core element, it's a different style and application but it's the same bending. Like you learn to pick up a rock and you know how to pick up sand. But controlling sand's everchanging shape requires a different way of doing it. Metal on the other hand you need to learn a new tech to bend. The same thing applies to swamp style. I remember you never giving a reason why. Not my point. This is a far more palatable theory, but it has nothing backing it up. It is simply a possibility without anything to support or deny it so far. I prefer to work within established rules if possible so I'm not going to be able to argue against you any further than this on this front. Again, we'll see later or not at all. They had thousands of years to spread their styles before the war even started. It's only natural that there could be so much knowledge out there. Republic City had only 75 to gain its styles. Also, the Fire Nation still exists. Only the empire collapsed. There is still a fire lord so their government hasn't undergone a massive reconstitution or anything. There's actually no reason they'd start releasing absolutely everything. Think of it like this: It is special to know how to properly and consistently execute a one inch punch. But it is no stronger than a normal punch and it still loses to a guy with a gun. So that example doesn't affect my argument. Just because a technique is difficult to learn and very special to know doesn't mean it's gotta be a game changer. Again, no matter how vocal anyone is, I'm going to say the timeframe isn't enough for them to solve it themselves and them spread it without a radically different technique arising as you keep citing as a possibility. Possible but unproven and still unlikely. There really shouldn't be a need for one given my entire argument has been that it is not possible and therefore shouldn't matter if someone wants something or not. When I said stable, I meant someting more like consistent, calm and focused. It was a poor choice of words. Alright, not all criminals are criminally insane, but gangsters are all to a point antisocial sociopaths. If that doesn't please you, we can additonally say that lighting is supposed to be without aggression or ego and we all saw hat boy was nothing but aggression and ego.
Sordid Motorized Jackal Carver: The stairs only go down to the ground floor the second garage floor is two levels below you. Material Motorized Jackal Carver: There is no more wet paint about. You reach the ground floor landing. On your way you see another player in another session walking ahead of you the whole time.
I feel like the creators do, too.
Martial arts are so much slower than technology, especially when technology can be fueled by what is basically magic. Even a genius trained from birth takes at least 10 years to reach even the lowest level of Master. Since I'm assuming few to no geniuses since NPCs are not genius level ever we have to assume each of them takes at lest 20 years to master a martial art. Also, in a given class maybe a tenth of them actually get to be masters at all. So that means you get a maximum of 3 full generations of students and one in process. If we account for class size you should only have several thousand people worldwide who have a shot at knowing this. That's also a really short amount of time and because of the almost dogmatic nature of many schools they frequently pass down traditions rather than create new content to begin with. You even see Master Yuu's earthbending academy in the first series as an example of this. He's considered a great teacher but does ****all for his students in terms of actualy teaching. That's not to mention difficulty level. They make it seems like it's as easy to pick up as a pound of cabbages, it shouldn't be. Just knowing how to do it doesn't make you capable. Historically, martial arts take more than a hundred years to completely alter and develop, they've sped up the clock far far too much here. It's straining suspension of disbelief at best and an outright inconsistent at worst. Faulty comparison. Physical skillsets and mental skillsets don't work at the same speed. While I believe it would spread, the extent of it is unfeasable. Let's remember that these people have no conception of bending anythign other than the core elements. Lightning bending is not common enough for these nobodies to even know about it. They're not gonna happen upon it without being genius level and I assume no geniuses among NPCs. So they probably haven't been working towards this goal in reality. And even if they were, it has emotional and mental requirements. Those can't be fulfilled by just anybody. So that narrows who could do it period even if it was a solved bending. The scale seems to be much smaller, but my whole point is that martial arts spread slowly and this wouldn't happen. People don't just say, "Hey wanna learn my secret move that gives me a one up on all you?" No, they keep that **** a secret and cut off people's hands if they try to steal the secret scroll. Not everyone is gonna be all sharing is caring about this. 1. No. Just no. 2. Factories would have been coal or firebending powered before hand. Something must have changed here that isn't being told. Since they had a system in place until lightning bending became more popular this wouldn't have workeed out so it was a result rather than a cause. 3. Criminals and thugs shouldn't be able to learn something with an emotional requirement because they are unstable. That was a mistake on their part. Okay yeah, kids show. Still, grappling hooks don't make them invincible against counterattacks since each unit had at least two people against it allowing for so many more options. There are tons of better ideas than 'let's tug on them and see what happens, it's not like we didn't all get tazed last episode or see the stun batons earlier in the season.' I should have at least been a fight not a total curbstomp. @Makaze: stop stealing my thunder.
It was still bendable since it'd have to be metal. They mentioned how rare the robot metal is so you just end up trading bendable rock for bendable metal. My argument remains basially the same.
Those two teaching Azula were never confirmed as related, were they? I also want to point out that it's nearly impossible that in 75 years it'd go from one familty to ****ing everyone. Martial arts just don't spread that fast because of how long it takes to teach people. It's also patently impossible that can be developed for everone else independently. Techniques that take generations to develop developed by people that don't even know it exists in one generation, multiply this event by at least a thousand and you've got the situation they've given us. Also, they aren't masters and there is no war so no reason to develop new techniques at all. It's blind leading blind here. It's why martial arts are worthless in most of the modern world. Lift robots up on rock platforms and drop them. Crush cockpit with rock. Flip robot upside down with rock to crush cockpit. Any number of general antirobot options. Unless they traded metalmedning for earthbending. Also, Tenzin is a chump and hasn't done anything yet. I feel like the tanks seemed like more of a legit threat and these are just kinda big unwieldy looking toys. It's more a problem with them putting this style of mechs in I guess.
Still weak even when not in city setting. Those robots, for instance, should have been easy to take for characters of those ages and purported skill level. Honestly, the city setting does explain most of it but it doesn't excuse that it is still for the most part uninteresting fights. If they can't replicate the old feeling, come up with something just as awesome not some watered down ugly looking shit. Other than that, I'm gonna disagree. Just because the Fire Nation's empire dissolved doesn't mean that the few masters that knew lightning bending just taught everyone. Additionally, just because a master is willing to teach doesn't mean people are able to learn at all. Zuko couldn't learn. Normal soldiers and officers couldn't learn otherwise they would have because it's stupid to waste a military advantage like that and as Nazi's they wouldn't have done that. So an average person cannot lightning bend in the 75 year ago timeline. Why is everyone suddenly so much more emotionally stable and talented? Also, metalbending is also only used by specially trained individuals with a direct line to the creator, not filthy casuals. Willing to accept Tarrlock argument barring the fact that the flood wasn't a solo act.
I can hear the sound of jimmies rustling in the wind.
Sordid Motorized Jackal Carver: He doesn't get it. He says something about just asking and thinking you'd be a good sport. Material Motorized Jackal Carver: You leave GARY unanswered and leave with a few sheets of blank paper and a half emptied ink cartridge. Further down the hall you realize you were supposed to be looking for your keys which wouldn't be anywhere around here. You need to retrace your steps back from your car in the second floor of the garage which corresponds to the first basement level of your building. The one way stairs can take you all the way back down to ground level.
I think it can live up to or surpass the original. It's too early to say one way or the other though. @everyoneelse: I do enjoy the show. Liking something has nothing to do with quality. That's what taste is.
You shouldn't have to want to like something. When you want to like something, you're projecting onto the series and you end up forgiving faults and playing up good points regardless of whether either deserves it. So no. I don't want to like it. I didn't want to like the first series either.
Momo was better.
Motorized Jackal Carver: You recognize that it is GARY. GARY used to work on the 4th floor with you, but then he got promoted. He looks like he's picking up something boring. When you approach he greets you and tells you that he's going to be at the 6th floor meeting too. He also asks if you would like to pick up his daily candybar from the 1st floor lounge if you're going to pass that way.
Alright, I know I'm gonna draw a lot of hate or at least disagreement here but I'm gonna explain myself fully so I don't have to make multiple posts. It is not funny. The jokes lack the same personality that the first series had. And quite frankly, that shows poor character development. I don't feel like quoting this series and I don't care about the characters as they are far from fleshed out. Mako for instance is boring. MY PARENTS ARE DEAD! TAKE CARE OF BROTHER! is all he is. Also, Korra is mentally handicapped, moreso than Aang and less charmingly so. She lacks charisma or even likeability. Most of the characters are like beige curtains and fade into the background. Even Bolin, the best done hero characterwise so far just doesn't truly affect plot any more than a standard NPC shopkeeper. So the characters are basically not fleshed out yet or are doomed to be flat and I feel like by this point they damn well should be fleshed out and flatness is always ill advised. Plot. It is actually probably just taking its sweet time to do anything relevant and start moving. First series did this shit too. I'll give it some time. Fighting. It's awful. Like I love how people try to defend it by calling it gritty or efficient. No, it's just weak. Before, children were doing bending more impressive than some of the stuff we see in the probending ring. Yeah, NPC children could bend more rock than a guy who spends all his time practicing it. That's gotta sting. You also notice how firebending shoots a tiny weakass ribbon, instead of a huge level 16 wizard blast? Yeah, I noticed that too. I'm not even gonna get into how much I hate that they homogenized the motions. But I will say exactly how boring probending is. There is no creativity to 90% of the combat. It's all LIFT, SHOOT. The stuff that was considered cheating was interesting, cool and showed thought, skill and teamwork. But it's illegal, they sucked all the fun out of it with rules. Then there's the fact that they cheapened lightning and bloodbending. It makes no sense that something that has strenuous mental requirements and years of intense training can be picked up by any normal joe who wants to work at a power plant. It's stupid and is inconsistent with the rules. Bloodbending with no moon would have been great, if they had made it look like he deserved it. He wasn't all that strong a bender up until that point. Even young Katara was stronger at normal bending of water if we go by volume and control than him so why is it that a skill that takes more straight up power(the moon doesn't affect skill level) is his to control and not hers? Iunderstand that I'm nitpicking here, but it doesn't make sense to me. And when I see inconsistency it eats away at me until I ***** and moan about it for a few paragraphs. That's pretty much it.
I loved the first two episodes but then it took a turn for the worse in my opinion. The bending gets scaled back a lot and the martial arts aspect has been homogenized down to 'pauwnch, kack, dudge, agw heh shooved mae.' No more cool looking technique or interesting application. Just boring beating on each other with tiny scaled attacks. I hope I'm not the only one who saw this. The villains are the only ones who have shown the slightest bit of badassery, everyone else needs to step it up because they're too slow. Story is meh. Characters are meh. Humor is meh. I expected so much more based on the first two episodes.
