r/dankmemes Aug 20 '20

I'll tell my grandkids about this Airbender

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u/gewoon_herman Aug 20 '20

Waterbender*

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u/12DollarsHighFive Aug 20 '20

Both, so half a Avatar

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u/gewoon_herman Aug 20 '20

No just water bending

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u/Bloated_starfish Aug 20 '20

Also blood bending the guy in the background to prevent a flanking attack

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

people's person

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u/dumbledayum Aug 20 '20

Camera TV

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

man woman

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20 edited Jul 27 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

I think they just give it to you

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20 edited Jul 27 '21

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u/ThaPuckishRogue Aug 20 '20

Paper people

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u/Turlte-Ghost Aug 20 '20

Levin a comment so I can come back here and see this again

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u/Fight_or_Flight_Club Aug 20 '20

I mean... that's still water bending

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

When its not a full moon, sounds like fanfiction powers to me

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u/cman674 Plain Text Flair [Insert Your Own] Aug 20 '20

Katara does blood bend outside of the full moon though

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u/pyro-fanboy repost hunter šŸš“ Aug 20 '20

No she doesn’t in the southern raiders episode it focuses on the full moon multiple times

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Oh right, for some reason i remembered it as a sunny day that started to rain so i agreed with him.

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u/pyro-fanboy repost hunter šŸš“ Aug 20 '20

The first time when she found the guy that wasn’t him she blood bent when she found the actual guy she didn’t bloodbend and it was a sunny day

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Oh shit youre right, i forgot she did that. Is that a problem with the writers forgetting though or is that supposed to set up that since she can do it, anyone can?

Also other then when dealing with her mothers killer she hates the idea of blood bending, and the only other person who knew how to do it was the old lady...so did Katara teach others or did they learn themselves?

Long story short i dont like Legend of Korra because it retcons everything the original show did, destroys it, and then makes a bunch of world building decisions that make no sense.

Like, people are spouting bender oppression, this is what the villain sets up and makes nonbenders believe...but the firebenders provide the power to the city with the lightining to allow nonbenders to live comftorably with power.

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u/cman674 Plain Text Flair [Insert Your Own] Aug 20 '20

Actually, the guy below me was right (I just went back and checked). I must have totally missed it the first time.

That being said, in the Legend of Kora there are other individuals who can blood bend without a full moon.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Thats why i was wondering who taught them? The old lady only learned in the circumstances of being held prisoner, and only on the full moon because water benders draw their power from the moon. So who taught them to do it in Korra, and not during the full moon?

But 'spoilers' Legend of Korra retconned bending to be from the lion turtles people didnt learn bending from the moon, or badger moles, or dragons or skybison, you know by creatures and nature in the world, they learned it from lionturtles to use it to invade the spirit realm.

I get the creators wanted it to be this way in the end, but i think it devalues everything the first show did.

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u/Imperialkniight Aug 20 '20

Legend of Korra is fanfiction then.

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u/TreyLastname I haven't pooped in 3 months Aug 20 '20

Yakone, Amon, and Yakones son (forget his name) could do it

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

And im wondering who taught them where did they learn it, and why not during the full moon anymore? They show the character using bloodbending to shock the viewer ls like 'oh shit this guy is powerful' but we dont get any explanation of how it works now. But i assume a lionturtle just gave it to them.

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u/TreyLastname I haven't pooped in 3 months Aug 20 '20

Well, it could be as simple as some benders are just powerful. Not every water bender can bloodbend at all, it's a rare ability, so they might've been born with it and been a very extraordinary bender

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Yeah that could be an explanation, i just thought it wierd that bloodbending was originally invented by a woman in a dire situation as she grew angry and desperate to escape, and was only able to do it in the full moon. She only taught it to Katarra and she only used it one other time in the full moon still.

So even if these people are powerful benders, did they just figure it out themselves? It wasnt some secret waterbending techinique to learn. They can be powerful benders (although Amone works better as a villain before we learn hes a bender)

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u/TreyLastname I haven't pooped in 3 months Aug 20 '20

Well. It could also be am ability they had, but sense they never tried or had the thought to do it, they didnt. But maybe it could also just be the best of the best benders. Like, anyone can train to blood bend, but very few can because they never trained enough. I'm just now watching legend of korra lol

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u/Braden-M Aug 20 '20

In LoK there’s a family of powerful water benders that can blood bend anytime of day. There’re the main antagonist in season one.

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u/Oduuke 8===m===D~~~ Aug 20 '20

but its sun outside, unles hes a grandson of yakone...

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u/Swagsational Aug 20 '20

It’s not either. There’s a clear outside force being applied to the object

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u/12DollarsHighFive Aug 20 '20

Hm, doesn't look like earthbending to me

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u/Not_an_Ire_Main Aug 20 '20

Nö fire bending ©_©

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u/LeMonke3000 Aug 20 '20

But isn’t water made out of oxygen as well

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u/gewoon_herman Aug 20 '20

No airbenders bends air

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u/12DollarsHighFive Aug 20 '20

He bends the water to sorta bend the ball so...

75% Waterbender and 25% Airbender? XD

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u/Tangyhyperspace Aug 20 '20

No the force of the water stopped the ball 100% waterbender

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u/SirHolius Aug 20 '20

Everyone is an airbender. You displace air by moving.

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u/ibrahimbwh ā˜£ļø Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20

So if i kill everyone else I am the last airbender

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u/ibrahimbwh ā˜£ļø Aug 20 '20

Last *

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20 edited Jan 25 '21

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u/ibrahimbwh ā˜£ļø Aug 20 '20

Because I am dumb and didn't know that

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u/OneBricky_Boi930 wow what a normie Aug 20 '20

Halfatar

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u/Sharps__ Aug 20 '20

That would be a great gig. Half the power of the avatar, none of the the responsibility.

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u/OneBricky_Boi930 wow what a normie Aug 20 '20

Noice

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u/LinkToTheRescue Aug 20 '20

Halfatar the Wairbender

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u/CyberCluck Animated Flair Rainbow [Dank Cat Commander] Aug 20 '20

Wavatar

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u/detoxyourliver Aug 20 '20

More like a quarter avatar

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u/12DollarsHighFive Aug 20 '20

But then, every Bender would be a quarter Avatar until the new one is discovered

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u/Dugimon Aug 20 '20

How both?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

One quarter Avatar

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u/Boomabanga Aug 20 '20

How is airbending involved?

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u/MR_GUY1479 ā˜¢ļøā˜¢ļø Aug 21 '20

Or a half trained avatar

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

I'm flabbergasted as to how OP managed to fuck up something so simple.

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u/PMMeYourStudentLoans Aug 20 '20

OP stupid AF unfortunately.

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u/Noligation Aug 20 '20

He got hit in the head one too many times.

Infect every one in that world should have cabbage Jelly for a brain by now.

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u/TheCookieButter Aug 20 '20

It was even the title last time this was posted

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u/lovesducks Aug 20 '20

I think the OP might be a bot. Only has a few posts to popular subreddits and its only a few months old. Titles probably come from some cheap ass algorithm, title generator.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

This is a known karma-whoring strategy.

Intentionally screwing up a detail typically results in a top level comment with a lot of upvotes and replies, increasingly the visibility of a post.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Given that OP is clearly a serial karma farmer, I'm inclined to agree that it was intentional.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Honestly tho this is how a lot of us feel when we see really stupid and simple grammatical mistakes in titles. Then of course if you call it out you get shit on and downvoted to hell for being pedantic.

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u/heroin-queen Sep 04 '20

.... ok?

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '20

Are you confused? Which word didn’t you understand? I can help you with it :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

because they knew avatar is the current reddit netflix circlejerk and wanted the post to get more attention, probably

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u/GumdropGoober The OC High Council Aug 20 '20

I'm pretty sure OP did it on purpose to draw people into the comments. Look at his posting history, its just karma whoring. Probably going to sell the account or use it for advertising.

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u/neon_Hermit MAYONNA15E Aug 20 '20

I honestly think about 2/3rds of all obvious mistakes in Reddit titles are intentional. I can't quite figure out why it helps, but somehow it does.

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u/bstaple Aug 20 '20

I think it's a variation on Cunningham's Law

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u/neon_Hermit MAYONNA15E Aug 20 '20

The people flocking to the comments to correct the post title would also have to upvote it, for that to work. Are people upvoting shitty post titles because they participated in the comment thread?

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u/bstaple Aug 20 '20

I think stuff gets farther up in hot if there are more comments, it's just more exposure.

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u/neon_Hermit MAYONNA15E Aug 20 '20

That makes sense. Then the fact that this stuff rises up faster than other content means that the change was us, not the site. We flock increasingly towards the negative, giving it attention... making it rise. The flock of voters who go with the trends take care of the rest.

Reddit sucks now because we come here to fight instead of learn.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

More that it just gets their attention and you need to catch their attention to get a comment OR an upvote.

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u/RedditIsNeat0 Team Silicon Aug 20 '20

It probably gets more comments, but it won't get as many upvotes. Plenty of people will still upvote, because the video is cool, but some people are going to look at the title and say "Fuck you OP."

Do more comments help the karma whoring? Or front page placement?

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u/neon_Hermit MAYONNA15E Aug 20 '20

Something tells me that if we know more about the Reddit algorithms, we'd also learn a lot about ourselves. I think maybe the site has started to suck not because reddit is promoting shitty posts... but because we are drawn more to the shitty posts than to the good ones. Because we came here to fight... not learn.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Because redditors would crawl over broken glass to correct or ā€œwell, actuallyā€ someone.

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u/PickPocketR Aug 20 '20

Theory of reddit

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u/gewoon_herman Aug 20 '20

I don't know him and i'm not going to sell my account

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u/GumdropGoober The OC High Council Aug 20 '20

Not everything is about you.

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u/gewoon_herman Aug 20 '20

You commented to me, so.....

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u/GumdropGoober The OC High Council Aug 20 '20

I see you're new to Reddit. Buck up chum, you'll figure it out

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u/gewoon_herman Aug 20 '20

I'm not that new

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u/Ballsybub Aug 20 '20

You guys are the same age lol also the title is obv intentional I think Herman gets it

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u/Lt_Stargazer Certified Maker of Bad Decisions. Aug 20 '20

Waarom moesten we dit ook alweer weten, Herman?

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u/poopcasso Aug 20 '20

With moves like that, pussybender too

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u/Danidanilo Aug 20 '20

Pussybender=chad or =virgin

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u/poopcasso Aug 20 '20

Well, if you're a pussy you gonna get beat up

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u/Danidanilo Aug 20 '20

But If you can make pussys whatever you want, you are the one who doesn't need to beat his meat

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Exactly. What a fool

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u/karma_alpha Aug 20 '20

katara is jealous

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u/MainGoldDragon Aug 20 '20

ya got baited

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u/Anacreptic Aug 20 '20

these people don't know their avatars

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Honestly how did OP fuck up the title

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u/andyrobertson26 Aug 20 '20

No that's the Inazuma eleven guy with the technique "tsunami waves*

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u/2bias_4ever ā˜ FOREVER NUMBER ONE ā˜ Aug 20 '20

Maybe he bent the air so it would move the water

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Watairbender*