All posts by SpaceMedafighterX

Has this project materialised at all?

<p>Wikipedia, and geology class :p </p>

<p>Well maybe earthbending amounts to being able to control the movement of crystals. Given the Pyroxene and Olivine found in Peridotite (the rock common in the mantle) is not generally crystalized until it reaches the surface (in which case it becomes solid), I'd say it's possible that Earthbenders only control crystalized rock. Now, they are able to bend dirt and mud too. Assuming the mud and dirt in the Avatar universe is the equivalent of topsoil in our world (which is composed of 60% Calcium, a relatively hard and usually crystallised mineral), Earthbenders should be able to bend mud and dirt while still being subject to the theory that Earthbenders can only bend crystals. </p><p>Also, an interesting thing to note. While peridotite is in the mantle, it has high magnesium levels. The closer to the crust it gets, the less magnesium it is composed of. Topsoil has 8% magnesium, while peridotite has more than 70% magnesium. </p>

<p>I think that if the URN were to get involved in this sort of war, an immediate ally would likely be the Fire Nation. General Iroh II himself is descendant of Fire Nation royalty, which gives him an advantage. Not to mention the Fire Nation probably has interests in the URN, and it would also like to regain strategic lost territories in the Earth Kingdom such as the city of Omashu. </p><p>
</p><p>The war would probably result from some territorial dispute with the Earth Kingdom. I don't know how the Water Tribe would be involved with this, but if the  Fire Nation decides to attack the Earth Kingdom, their ships could interfere with the Water Tribe trading routes, which are essential in delivering and transporting good between the North and South pole. </p><p>
</p><p>Overall, the Earth Kingdom and Water Tribe would probably win, despite the "air superiority" that the URN and the Fire Nation have, because they have more control over the terrain, and they can more easily enforce sieges on important cities (unlike Iroh's siege on Ba Sing Se, where the Earthbenders had control over the terrain, thus were able to resist the Fire Nation). </p>

<p>Mako is no Batman. He's a womanizer, and Batman is a gentleman who is uninterested in love (except when he saw catwoman and was all like "damn u straight bbygurl"). </p>

<div class="quote"><i>Deathmailrock wrote:
So far, every person but Vatu had their asses kicked easily by Avatar state <p>When Aang was in his Avatar state, who actually posed a risk or gave him a hard time? No one, he kicked everyones ass pretty easily (how often did Korra fight people in Avatar state???) </p><p>And so Vatu controls Nature and Spirits Chaotically and Raava can control Nature and Spirits Harmonically; that could mean that the vines aren't random </p> </i></div>
<p>Azula. </p>

<div class="quote"><i>SpaceMedafighterX wrote:
Lady Lostris, I would compare the Dragon-Bird spirit to something like the Fenghuang, the Pheonix, Simurgh, or Ho-O. <p>Simurgh especially because in one legend, she helped Malik Muhammed travel to the Light World. </p><p>Also, there are 4 simurgh in the world at any given moment, and 4 dragon-bird spirits fused to become one. </p> </i></div>
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</p><p>It looks like it is the Fenghuang after all, but too bad we might not ever see the Dragon-bird spirit ever again, because Team Avatar 2 has too many animals on their side. A sky bison, A dragon-bird spirit, Pabu, Naga, Bumi's spirit friend, Jinora's Dragonfly Bunnies, Meelo's lemur army, etc </p>

<div class="quote"><i>TarrlokUltimateWaterbender wrote:
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<p>Again, in the "Harry Potter" movies, they, indeed, cut certain scenes, but the characters fit their roles spot on. The movies are technically their own canon, as well. However, they still fit the description.  </p><p>
</p> </div> <p>Though I agree with all the other arguments put forward in your post, I have to reject this idea that the Warner Bros Harry Potter movies were true to the book series by J.K. Rowling. </p><p>Micheal Gambon is still hated by many Potterheads because of his completely inaccurate portrayal of Dumbledore. Dumbledore was, in the books, a calm and huggable old man, kind of like Santa Claus. Richard Harris fit that role perfectly. Michael Gambon's Dumbledore, however, was strict and serious and he tended to yell at harry a lot: http://youtu.be/yHJeqnU_rtE </p><p>We could say the same thing about Iroh being lean and more serious of nature in TLA. </p><p>The reason TLA failed where Harry Potter succeeded was because of a much too anxious Nickelodeon, an excessively greedy Paramount, and a director who overestimated his own powers. Casting is a completely different situation, I bet that if the actors just acted the way the Gaang did in the cartoon, the film would have been much more enjoyable.  </p>

<p>Why would someone want to use plug-in based engines when HTML5 is being brought to the mainstream? ._. </p><p>Runescape is in HTML5 already, and the graphics and all are great and lag is at a total minimum provided you don't live in Somalia or something. </p><p>Unity3D really sucks for massively multiplayer games. The best it can probably handle is 6v6 multiplayer fps games and the such. </p><p>I'm not that versed in programming and game development, but I was interested in this at one point and I did a lot of research on browser games. Even then, I hope it doesn't end up being a browser game, but rather like a game on Steam, The Old Republic or Dota 2 for example. </p>

<p>Who said that the effects of energybending aren't passed down genetically? </p><p>Yakone, true, was stripped of his bending, but his wife could still have been a bender, which explains Noatak and Tarrlok's bending </p>

<p>So if everyone has a dormant energybending skill, could nonbenders of Wan's period also have had dormant bending abilities, that the Lion Turtles enabled and disabled by clogging and unclogging the chakras? </p><p>Neo Bahamut, I take back my statement, Tenzin didn't know about Avatar Wan, I just rewatched "The Guide". </p><p>Also, if the Energybending Lion Turtle only gave Aang the KNOWLEDGE of energybending, then were the other Lion Turtles only granting KNOWLEDGE of the elements? If so, then why the need to "learn the forms from the animals"? </p><p>If bending came from the Lion Turtles, then wouldn't bending just be passed down from those benders we see at the end of "Beginnings"? There would be no non-benders, unless there was a tribe of non-bending humans somewhere.   </p><p>If energybending was truely genetic, then Yakone's children should have been non-benders (unless their mother was a waterbender). </p><p>I think that the first benders were not the ones that got bending from Lion Turtles, because they wouldn't have passed down that bending. I think humans learned bending from observing animals, and only a few people could actually bend after doing that. Aang and Zuko both learned firebending by watching the dragons Ran and Shaw, so I suspect it was similar back then. The animals would judge one's heart (capability of bending), soul (spiritual prowess), and ancestry (to deem one worthy of bending). </p><p>If Wan was totally unknown, and he was the first to practise the dancing dragon, then what about the Sun Warriors? Did Wan found that civilisation, did they rediscover the dance after he died, or were they the first firebenders, like their chief said, and came before Wan? </p><p>
</p><p>This retcon is messy, I admit, but I don't think that after 2 seasons of ATLA basically saying that bending came from Sky Bisons, Dragons, Badgermoles, and the Moon, we can just go and dismiss them as just teachers of proper forms. </p><p>
</p><p>Bending existed probably before the Lion Turtles, and the Lion Turtle just allowed humans to live on his back on condition that humans surrender their bending upon entering the city and promising not to bring the power of the elements into the city. </p>

<div class="quote"><i>AvatarCorin34 wrote:
<p>We didn't see them, perhaps because it was not relevant.  </p> </i></div>
<p>Can't tell if sarcasm. </p><p>The Air Nomads were extremely significant and relevant during ATLA, because Aang was the last airbender. Do you know how he would have reacted upon seeing fellow Air Nomads, even in the Spirit World? I think what the writers are trying to convey is that, for Aang, the Air Nomads have perished, and they are gone forever, only to exist in his memories. Hell, Aang almost got himself killed searching for the origin of an Air Nomad relic. He also reacted similarly upon seeing gliders at the Northern Air Temple. </p><p>Also, Iroh willingly "left his body" to go to the Spirit World. I assume he did this before he died. The Spirit World doesn't seem like some kind of Afterlife, it's more like an alternate plane. </p>

<div class="quote"><i>AvatarLance wrote:
Still, there is nothing in the show that contradicts that all Avatars are the same person (Wan), but reborn in different bodies and lives.</i></div>
<p>And Avatars have different spirits, as we saw Aang, Roku, Kyoshi, Kuruk, Yangchen, and Wan's spirits as spirits individual from one another. </p>

<p>I know the difference between Greenland and Iceland. </p><p>Iceland has more than 10% of its land covered in glaciers and ice caps, which is huge. Nothing like Greenland, Antartica, Siberia, or Canada, but compared to the rest of the world it is massive. </p><p>The terrain, like I said, was inspired by Iceland, but not the geography, </p>

<p>Well, the source is an art book, and even then, I think the Fire Nation would be better matched geologically with Japan and Indonesia. The reasons for that are as follow: </p><p>1. The Fire Nation is an achipeligo, while Iceland is simply an island. </p><p>2. Iceland is situated to the north, thus has a cold climate. The Fire Nation is situated a bit more to the south, around the equator, thus has a tropical climate. </p><p>3. Iceland is covered in glaciers, while the Fire Nation is rocky terrain mostly. </p><p>4. Bryan and Mike went to Iceland and photographed the landscape as inspirement for the mountainous and volcanic terrain of the Fire Nation, not necessarily the geography. Bryke only said that the terrain was inspired by Iceland, not the whole Fire Nation. </p><p>Now for Indonesia. I think it would be better matched for: </p><p>1. Its geographical situation in the tropics, not far from the crater. </p><p>2. Its mountainous terrain </p><p>3. Its numerous islands as an archipeligo. </p><p>4. Its numerous volcanoes. </p><p>Japan would fit mostly because it is an archipeligo and it has a mountainous and volcanic terrain, but I would rather keep the Fire Nation culturally influenced by Imperial Japan (or the Han dynasty of China if you're into that). </p>

<p>Actually, Unalaq and Tenzin both knew about Wan. Just because Aang didn't know him doesn't mean that he was unknown. </p><p>Also, Toph, Zuko, the Sun Warriors, and Aang all say that the original benders were animals. So how do Lion Turtles fit in, as they are also animals. They were the original energybenders?  Does that mean that Badgermoles and Sky Bisons and Dragons got their bending from Lion Turtles too? </p><p>The animals were the source of the bending too, not just the forms. The bending you see in Wan's era is just bending that was lent to humans; they just borrowed those powers. In the end, the Lion Turtles let them keep those powers, and bending became heriditary, I guess. </p><p>I still hold that the first benders got their bending from studying animals, not just by a grant from a Lion Turtle, because A:TLA was constantly saying that in Book 2 and 3, yet Legend of Korra has yet to disprove it, because in Beginnings, Wan wasn't the first bender, so we still haven't seen the origins of bending, nor have they been spoken of.  </p><p>Another interesting fact is that Airbenders in Wan's time and Airbenders of modern time had the same bending techniques, despite Wan era airbenders borrowing from the Lion Turtles and modern Airbenders learning from  Sky Bisons. Plus, they had Sky Bison tattoos, so they likely studied the Sky Bison beforehand to learn Airbending. </p>

<p>1) Aang momentarily lost his connection to the previous Avatars when he was killed in the Avatar State (meaning Raava was killed along with him, I think). Later, when he was healed with Spirit Water (same with Korra), he revisited his past lives and reconnected to them. </p><p>2) The previous Avatars' spirits weren't destroyed really, because it was shown that Unalaq was only hitting Raava. When Korra was disconnected to Raava, her individual spirit was still intact (the one that Korra summoned). </p><p>3) I think it was a good idea, but, like any border, it should be controlled. No one wants spirits like that Spider-scorpion spirit or Koh or Wan Shi Tong walking around the physical realm, nor do the spirits want men like Ozai or Unalaq in their domain. </p>

<p>But Vaatu wasn't simply defeated, he was converted into light. Raava couldn't destroy him on her own on previous Harmonic Convergences, but Korra's individual spirit could, with that ironic use of Unalaq's spiritual guidance waterbending technique. </p><p>I don't think he will be reborn. </p>

<p>We didn't really see many humans in the Spirit World, besides prisoners who were dragged in and thrown into The Fog. We saw Iroh and the past Avatars, but those are exceptions, I guess, because Air Nomads are equally spiritual, yet we haven't seen any Air Nomads in the spirit world. </p>

<p>But the sun warriors are the first ones to have discovered firebending --directly from dragons. There were firebenders before Wan, so people learned from animals before Wan. It is yet to be confirmed whether humans learned from animals before the Lion Turtles' time or during their time. </p>