Alexander Draconis / Serynder

I finished it.

No powers are held back, no escape. Who is leaving the elevator alive??

@SymplyTonbra Toph wins. Never lost a single fight, except to Aang(debatable). Her style was perfectly designed from the start. When she got captured, she adapted with metal-bending. She eliminated the battleground of spirit weapons and sensed across the world. Toph wins & it's not close.

Which bender has the Highest Battle IQ during fights? Azula pre breakdown is a strong contender

@Augur31235351 @BossIgnostic @JordykJordan Actually plausible. Bravo. The show didn't shy away from demonstrating, without explicit disclosure, the difference between sociopathy and legitimate psychopathy.

@SeryPuff @BossIgnostic @JordykJordan Yes. She's a psychopath like Ozai. That's why she can do it.

Lol using lighting benders to power the city is so unimaginative and stupid I'm sorry.

@Augur31235351 @BossIgnostic @JordykJordan I will say, though, that I'm realizing that plausibility doesn't excuse the absence of a logical breadcrumb from which we can piece the rest together. Since lightning bending was treated with such high regard in ATLA, a carefully planted "this is why" seed would do heavy work.

@Augur31235351 @BossIgnostic @JordykJordan Was this Nirvana Azula? There are likely mental techniques, much like the Wim-Hof breathing method, to achieve the necessary state for certain performative outcomes. Compartmentalization is a reasonable medium through which this becomes possible.

@Kekius_Sage Reads like manipulation trying to dodge accountability.

Sam Altman: "it really fucking hurts when you publicly attack openai." Elon Musk: "I hear you and it is certainly not my intention to be hurtful, for which I apologize, but the fate of civilization is at stake."

@MmisterNobody @Grok Give me the rundown. Evaluate if this post is engagement bait, or truly putting us onto something that should be shared for widespread situational awareness. Keep your response concise, cite facts and key components. Tl;dr first, then who should be most concerned.

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@shadowofatanuki @naMnaSYt I will certainly keep that in mind, moving forward. It was a pleasure to share this with you, this morning.

@SeryPuff @naMnaSYt That's what I was thinking! If we ever crosswords again, please feel free to highlight to me the fact we aren't actually opposed and are just talking from different perspectives.

@shadowofatanuki @naMnaSYt The spirit of the rhetoric is being lost. The big picture is that what you and I have said are both true, but misaligned. Lightning bending is hard; the point is how advancing methodologies close gaps. Exceptions(Korra/Aang), and the overall story, are tied to world's themes.

@SeryPuff @naMnaSYt Your points have consistently circled back to talking about society advancing and writer intent, not the precedent set nor the lack of follow up on how they could lower said precedent to a realistic level. You have very much been seeking to refute, but you haven't done it.

bending evolving is cool but this is a form that makes no sense to become so common lightningbending requires separating positive and negative energy, and at the moment they crash back together you guide it Iroh himself said only a select few could this

@shadowofatanuki @naMnaSYt The original point was refuted. Each of your follow-ups circle back to that point But my point is to help you see that the vision and spirit of the series is what the focus should be on, and how things came to be. Not how "everyone can lightning bend now". It's all connected.

@SeryPuff @naMnaSYt None of this refutes the point I'm making. You're making a entirely separate argument based on a Macro review of world and the writers intent. I assume the conversation is over.

@shadowofatanuki @naMnaSYt I. LOK was about her struggle with restraint. Her not learning lightning bending was likely an absolute for the series' vision. II. Avatar is a developing world, meant to impart wisdom on its audience through story-telling III. Much is purposely unsaid, left for us to discern.

@SeryPuff @naMnaSYt But Korra doesn't do it either, you omission of her here implies she would have. It's also not "for the sake of it" it's an objectively powerful form of bending that would have helped immensely with what they were dealing with in the late game of the story, trivialized it even.

@SymplyTonbra Element, teacher, intent Vision: Become a guiding beacon, not powerful as possible for sensationalism Water - Katara - Turned lessons from misguided into wisdom Earth - Boomy - Genius perspective Fire - Iroh - Fun & Enlightened Air - Aang - Aligned with the old masters

You are the Avatar. Who would be your Masters for each Element?

@shadowofatanuki @naMnaSYt The point of the Avatar, during ATLA, wasn't about Aang learning advanced techniques. Not for the sake of it. When he did, it was because there was a point to it -- Seismic sensing, with Toph, being the example of proper Earth-bending. The series consistently stayed on topic.

@SeryPuff @naMnaSYt The idea of the amount of people who can do it being limited goes further when you look at ATLA because that's a rational narrative choice that fits with the template they gave because we don't even see Aang learn it.

@shadowofatanuki @naMnaSYt They are one-and-the-same. Advances methods to master advanced techniques become commonplace as structured educational wisdom progresses. In the real medical world, we learn theory first-- then learn current methods after. Functionally adaptive curriculums should capture that.

@SeryPuff @naMnaSYt This isn't about Aang or Korras lessons, it's about the precedent set in how lightning bending works.

@shadowofatanuki @naMnaSYt They are different things and require different lenses to compare. Being the president isn't only about self-mastery. Its rarity is 100% part of that point, since we're comparing the increased demographic of lightning benders. Let's stay on topic.

@SeryPuff @naMnaSYt The point wasn't that everyone can be president at the same time and to imply such is a brazen showing that you're intentionally misunderstanding the point.

@shadowofatanuki @naMnaSYt Lightning bend en masse was the result of a societal level shift in guidance. This led to a greater mass collective of people with self-mastery-- enough to have advanced techniques of the old ages become well-understood. This is an echo of how a real civilization progresses.

@shadowofatanuki @naMnaSYt President of the USA is actually the worse example. Only one person can be, at a time. The contrast of Aang's aftermath and Korra's aftermath is a civilizational lesson on restraint and discipline. The world had guidance after Aang (Industrial era). Korra led the apocalypse.

@aas_ker Godly wisdom. And from wisdom are all effective methods rooted in truth, not used for wicked means. Exercise, like running, focuses the mind and releases endorphins that change your neurochemical output. Decline is cancelled out by ascension.

without drugs... what is the greatest weapon against anxiety and depression????

@SymplyTonbra Gotta take Iroh and Azula off the board. Let them plan and it's a loss. Aang is likely the stronger Avatar for defense, thanks to seismic sensing. Appa also helps. With two dollars left, Ty Lee would likely be the next best choice. Agile disabler to remove non-masters.

Who would you pick?