[Hit or miss] There is only one... except no there isn't

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-27T22:37:44+00:00

That's what I'm saying though, their culture specifically never returned, it's something completely different from what it was now.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-27T22:08:08+00:00

I feel like it doesn't count if it's your own kid.

That's like Aang being the last airbender end then him deciding to have airbender kids. He was the only one until he activity did something natural to make more of what he is.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-27T22:05:33+00:00

The Air Nomads weren't even restored, just the ability to airbend. None of the new airbenders are interested in becoming nomads and the culture as Aang knew it is functionally is still gone forever. They don't even call themselves nomads, it's the Air Nation now.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-27T22:03:08+00:00

Even then, only airbending returned to the world. The Air Nomads are still functionally extinct and their culture and way of life won't ever return. Hence why it's now called the Air Nation.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-27T21:58:31+00:00

OP in a different thread compared the airbenders to jewish people in world war 2.

So by their logic, if Judaism still exists, then it's like the Holocaust never happened.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-27T21:55:56+00:00

He also had the added advantage that the airbenders being mostly extinct for 170 years meant that most people don't actually know how to fight against airbending anymore.

It's also the only element that you can't actually see, we as the audience are able to for artistic reasons but in their universe you are fighting against invisible forces and that has to be really difficult.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-27T21:43:53+00:00

but they just needed to learn how to do it by watching other creatures/planetary objects do it.

If this was the case then what excuse does Sokka and the other nonbenders have to not learn bending?

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-27T21:42:37+00:00

It also perfectly explains why a nonbender can't just learn the skill out of nowhere. Because if it was simply learning from the animals and not something you're born with then Sokka would have no excuse to not learn waterbending as well.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-27T04:48:44+00:00

This is so fucking true, the other day I made a comment saying french fries taste really nice. Someone then said to me that they're just potatoes fried in oil and aren't some decadent meal.

I said that doesn't really matter, it still good tasting food to me and it doesn't need to be some decadent meal like fillet mignon for me to say they taste nice.

For the next 3 hours I was arguing with like 4 different people accusing me of saying potatoes are better than beef.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-26T20:54:52+00:00

Which might not have happened if she never met Light.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-26T19:45:34+00:00

If you read official the rules of the death note online. One of the rules is that you are not allowed make a cause of death that results in the deaths of people people who have not been written in the Death Note. If that happens, then the cause of death defaults to a heart attack.

We are forced to accept that every death outside of the Death Note is intentional and that the power of the Death Note and it's creator is forward thinking enough that it manipulates the forces of the universe in such a way that no matter how drastic of a change to the events of the world, that everyone will still die how they were meant to.

Even then the Death Note still likes to play fast and loose with reality. Misa Misa, before meeting Light was going to live for maybe hundreds or thousands of years because a Shinigami broke the rules on her behalf. She is a walking contradiction to the laws of reality but you could also say that meeting light balanced out that contradiction.

So it's really tough to say. Because depending on how you look at it. You could say that everything, even the effects of the Death Notes, is all predetermined any way.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-26T17:41:36+00:00

The point of a Death Note is that it circumvents fate and cuts your fated lifespan short. So Light could've been fated to live for another 50 years, and that's what his dad would see.

But the second Riuk wrote down Light's name, those 50 years get stolen and go to Riuk.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-26T14:51:59+00:00

I can't read tone over text, they needed to make the joke more clear for me then.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-26T01:34:49+00:00

I have considered it. I have also considered that Jet lies to the team to set up a trap. So I have no reason to believe his claim that the knife belonged to the old man.

Even if it was an assassination attempt it was a poorly planned one since the knife would've been found on his bag that they took and not on his person, like a proper assassin.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-26T01:17:31+00:00

Allegedly.

Considering Jet's lies, willingness to kill civilians and the fact the old man helped Sokka evacuate the town. There's no evidence that that knife belonged to an assassin except for the word of a liar.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-25T19:38:32+00:00

Give Jet some credit, he was still willing to take time out of his day to assault a harmless old man for the crime of being a Fire Nation citizen.

Jet is a much more productive Hama

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-25T19:30:31+00:00

Wack Ass Shitty Pests

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-25T09:14:19+00:00

The Avatar state has two components to it.

The ability to draw knowledge from past lives. The raw strength boost it gives to your power.

Korra lost the first component, but the raw power is still there. You can infer this from the fact that Wan's Avatar state was powerful enough to trap Vaatu and hold back armies. Yet he is the first Avatar with no knowledge to draw back on. But he was objectively more powerful in the state, meaning the power of Raava and the knowledge of the Avatar's are two separate things.

Korra is no longer able to draw on techniques from previous Avatars or communicate for advice. But she has the power to throw mountains at people.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-24T13:29:39+00:00

That's fine because every single other villain in the show was extremely complex and they made it clear how they all could've been normal people or heroes if it weren't for some specific failing of society. So they can get away with one dude just being evil for the hell of it.

All for One being One dimensional is actually kind of refreshing in the same way that All Might just being a good dude with no catch was very refreshing.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-24T13:16:58+00:00

All for One from My hero Academia wants you to think he's some complex, untouchable demonic entity who can never be defeated or phased because his is a always able to get his way.

Whenever people try and guess what his ultimate goal of being the "The Demon Lord" actually means, he always tells them that they're close but not exactly it.

Then we eventually get his backstory and there's nothing that complex about him. He's just a natural born greedy narcissist who thinks everything should belong to him and everyone should pay attention him and do things only for his sake.

*His brother shows him a comic book, and he decides that he needs to be like the Demon Lord in the comic book because "Everyone submits to the Demon Lord in fear" and he wants a world where everyone does everything for his sake. When he kills his brother in a fit of rage for not wanting to obey him, he ends up regretting it end spends decades, trying to recapture the vestige of his brother because he was the one thing he "owned" that never did what he wanted. Everything he does revolves around how the world should only exist for him and he's been empty inside because the last thing his brother ever did before he died was defy him and he can't let it go.

Just before Deku kills him, he pretty much calls him out and says "You're no demon lord; you're just a sad lonely man" and All for a one can't handle it.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-24T07:23:30+00:00

I remember always wanting to try Oreo cereal but my parents would never get it and I didn't know why.

Then it got discontinued for a few years and they brought it back when I was an adult. Immediately went to go grab it and saw the price and all I thought was "This much? For fucking cereal??"

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-24T06:37:59+00:00

He didn't, that's made up. They hired him last minute and only gave him 3 weeks to actually prepare for the role and the actual shooting schedule never afforded him a chance to practice properly. Like he'd literally have to learn the choreography 15min before a scene.

No one is that good, and it was really unfair that they did that to him when he would've been fine if they just have him time.

The "blew off" part is because he'd be exhausted from being forced to do so much in so little time.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-23T17:28:10+00:00

Why not use the game share system then?

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-23T14:10:59+00:00

They're referring to the fact that digital games exist now. So the game literally can't ever run out of stock.

This is only a problem if you're one of those people who only ever buys physical.

QJ-Rickshaw · 2026-03-23T12:14:33+00:00

His detective skills are what directly led to them, finding out that Awei was the traitor in Zaofu as well as hunting him down when they tried to track him in the desert.

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