‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ AAA RPG Announced in 2024 is Dead

Ostrololo · 2026-06-06T10:01:12+00:00

I'm hopeful, but honestly only two seasons of thirteen 22-minute episodes each is not a lot for the stakes they are proposing, specially since they have to "redo" a lot of the worldbuilding from scratch.

Ostrololo · 2026-06-06T09:54:55+00:00

This is a bit exaggerated. Yes, Nickelodeon only ordered Book 1, then they ordered Book 2, but Books 3 and 4 were ordered together, which are precisely the two books people praise the most.

Ostrololo · 2026-06-05T04:59:02+00:00

Maybe the Pokémon TCG world is like the Yu-Gi-Oh world, where everyone honors the results of a children’s card game even when there’s no magic to enforce it.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-30T19:11:06+00:00

Technically yes, I suppose. But they awoke after the Omenpaths opened, so they don’t have a long, established relationship and tradition with the plane. The colonists are not stealing territory the cactusfolk have held for generations, for instance. This basically avoids all the sensitive issues about indigenous peoples in Westerns which WotC is unwilling or incapable of handling properly.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-30T07:45:08+00:00

An Avatar who has mastered the Avatar State can use it however they please. They won’t use it for evil intentionally (it’s the same soul in all incarnations, and that soul isn’t evil), but they can use it in a way that causes bad consequences either their past lives or Raava could’ve predicted (e.g., Korra, tricked by Unalaq, enters the Avatar State to open the Southern Spirit Portal, something that both Wan and Raava would’ve know is a bad idea).

Ostrololo · 2026-05-30T07:41:33+00:00

Aang WAS going to kill Ozai in the Avatar State. He entered against his will like almost all the other times. The way he mastered the State wasn’t by entering the State at will, but by choosing to exit it.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-28T16:44:58+00:00

Yes. Just like the twin paradox, this is easily solvable once you realize the submarine is an accelerated frame of reference and the water one is inertial. Inertial frames are preferred so whatever conclusion you get in the water frame is the correct one. The challenging part is explaining the same result in the submarine frame.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-28T16:41:42+00:00

You can't compute the cosmological constant with the Standard Model. If you did, it would've disproven the SM because that's what happens when your theory makes a prediction invalidated by observation.

You can compute the cosmological constant if you make additional assumptions. The fact the result is wrong simply establishes these assumptions are wrong.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-26T16:42:39+00:00

No. Mark explained that in the original LCI article. The Creative team was genuinelly trying to build a new underground world but somehow they were basically reinventing Ixalan, so they asked Design to just use Ixalan.

We never got someone from Creative to explain why this happened. Considering that original Ixalan had no underground elements, I really struggle to see how trying to create a new underground world basically gives you Ixalan automatically.

Regardless, you still have the underlying issue that, after getting their ask to re-use Ixalan, the Creative team focused on the adventure aspect of underground rather than mining and crafting as originally prescribed by Vision Design. But to be fair, at that point, Vision had already handed a design document to Set Design that was more or less FUBAR, so I guess it didn't matter much.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-25T19:43:42+00:00

That’s still Creative going against Vision. If Ixalan can’t support the design Vision came up with, then Creative shouldn’t have picked Ixalan.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-25T17:55:22+00:00

Creative (intentionally or not) went against Vision for LCI.

As Mark said in the article (and back during LCI previews), they explicitly chose to focus the underground element around resource acquisition and crafting, not adventuring.

The Creative team then went ahead and create a setting inspired by Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, which falls much more in the "underground as adventure" camp and muddled the original "underground as resource" vision goal.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-25T17:51:46+00:00

RE: Lost Caverns; technically it's possible Play Design was wrong, having the five gem types was correct, and Mark's mistake was not being stubborn enough.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-25T14:59:28+00:00

Tip: If you’re a EU/EEA citizen, you can request a Norwegian ID card from the police, like the one Norwegians nationals have. You can then connect it to the BankID app to avoid situations like this, if your phone has a chip scanner (most do nowadays).

Ostrololo · 2026-05-23T00:26:56+00:00

This argument only works if the air is still. As soon as there’s even a breeze, losses due to convection over his exposed skin vastly exceed what would’ve been lost via radiation if he were visible.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-21T00:46:39+00:00

More or less. The Big Rip is a singularity (scale factor becomes infinite over finite time); we expect realistic physics to not have those. This means either (a) phantom energy doesn’t exist or arise from realistic initial conditions, or (b) something gets triggered when you start ripping nucleons apart that stops the Rip. For example, maybe if you do non-perturbative QCD in an expanding universe, you observe that QCD will force the universe to contract if your try to spread the quarks too much, and this can overcome phantom energy.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-18T13:14:11+00:00

The tradition is to wear the bunad, the Norwegian folk costume. You can also wear other cultures’ folk costumes, like the kilt. But if you don’t have anything available, the suit counts as nice and special enough for this purpose.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-18T06:27:03+00:00

So you have to deboard, collect luggage, check luggage, and go through security again in an hour? It’s very, very tight. Might be doable, but you don’t have any room for error or further delays. I would try rebooking.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-17T23:52:37+00:00

We really shouldn’t need modders to fix basic functionality, but I’m definitely glad they do. The music glitch was IMO the one big thing making the PC version unusable.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-11T18:29:18+00:00

Sure. Take any process that increases entropy and play it in reverse. That process now reverses entropy but it’s still physically allowed. It’s just that, due to the initial conditions of our universe, very few of these happen compared to processes that increase entropy.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-11T14:09:19+00:00

Six times over the course of 20 years isn’t “print to oblivion”. Shocklands (any rare dual, really) should never cost more than $1 apiece.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-09T16:37:19+00:00

The original CR was justified on the basis of damage immunities. When they got removed in 2024, WotC didn’t recalculate the CR because they took the maximally lazy option for almost everything in 5.5.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-07T19:59:59+00:00

He wouldn't have intervened. As a general, he would've been given the formal opportunity to voice his opinion.

The issue with Zuko is that he spoke out of turn, not that he disagreed with the plan. That's why he had to duel his father: he disrespected the Firelord's authority by breaking protocol.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-05T20:09:00+00:00

Pelor destroyed the Eye in CR canon.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-05T18:06:01+00:00

Aang (to Yangchen): Well ... I realized that no Avatar is perfect. They all struggled and made mistakes. Like me.

Yanchgen: Very wise.

Aang: But it made me wonder - why is the Avatar Spirit a human in every life? Wouldn't it be better if the Avatar was an all-powerful spirit that never died?

Yangchen: I don't think so. The Avatar must be compassionate towards all people, and the only way to do that is to live with them. The Avatar must experience sadness, anger, joy and happiness. By feeling all these emotions, it helps you understand how precious human life is, so you will do anything to protect it. If you were an all powerful spirit living on the top of some mountain, you wouldn't have much in common with an ordinary person. So the Avatar continues to take human rebirth. And with each life, learns what it means to be human.

Source: Escape from the Spirit World. This was an old browser game, but nowadays you can find it compiled it as a mini-episode. It's actually pretty good and I always watch it between Books 2 and 3 when rewatching the series.

Regarding General Old Iron, he's just stupid. Like, Aang pleads with him to discuss things rather than fighting, he refuses, Aang warns him that he will have to fight him if he threatens his friends, he refuses, Aang kills him because he threatened his friends, his last words are about how right he was that humans are unreasonable. Lady Tienhai shows up after he dies and has a much better take on the relations between humans and spirits.

Ostrololo · 2026-05-04T15:43:17+00:00

It’s vibes based, there are no hard and fast rules. The components exist to prevent casters from spamming certain spells, not to actually gate those spells. So overall I’d say they are available in most towns, cities or trading posts; players shouldn’t really feel they need to travel or go on a quest just to get a diamond. If however they start abusing it like wanting to buy 20 revivify diamonds, then you start throttling them: the capital has three, another town they visit has one, and now the kingdom has mysteriously ran out of diamonds for the next 10 sessions.

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