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I really hated the Netflix show, but I'm very happy it's getting some people to watch or rewatch the original. Enjoy!

It's not so much that they changed things, if anything it's extremely faithful in the overall plot progression, it's mostly just... really shoddy.

Characters are devoid of any personality or life, the dialogue is some of the worst expository garbage I've ever had to endure, and they just keep missing the point of critical moments and character beats.

Like just to give an easy example, upon being told that he's the Avatar, Aang in this version does NOT run away. He just... goes on a little trip on Appa to lighten up, and it just so happens that this is exactly when the fire nation attacks, and he accidentally gets caught in a storm and gets trapped. Running away was key to his character, it's a crucial, character defining moment. It leads into his genuine feelings of guilt for abandoning the world, and his whole arc in the show is about slowly accepting the responsibility that terrified him back then.

And that just keeps happening, super important scenes like that get butchered for no reason, completely erasing the meaning behind them. It feels like they went about the show in a very utilitarian way, believing that as long as they could get the characters from point A to point B, it didn't matter what they changed. The original is so good at that, so good at symbolism, so consistent in its characterization that you're often able to predict how a given character will react because you know them so well.

I think that's what pissed me off the most, and combined with the goddawful dialogue (seriously I can't stress enough how bad the dialogue is), and a lot of gratuitous fanservice (lots of characters and scenes appear much earlier just to show them off lol), and you end up with a show that's extremely hard to sit through if you have any affection for the original.

You'll get called dramatic for saying that but Republicans are absolutely eyeing a form of trans genocide; removing access to treatment and creating as hostile and dangerous an environment possible for trans people. They want us to disappear.

Won't be shocked if he tries. He's gotten away with lots of things he couldn't do, and if he's reelected the line is gonna get even blurrier. I don't know what could really happen and I'm not interested in finding out.

US weapons Trump would provide, most likely.

I'm really worried he'd straight up help Russia tbh. Why wouldn't he?

I watched the playoffs for the first time ever this year, and holy shit that ad was cringe inducing.

Difference is that crypto is barely even a currency, it's basically just a vehicle for speculation. Visa is actually useful.

All crypto is essentially designed around competition for who gets to be the one mining it. Things escalate, and that's how you end up with these ridiculous crypto farms that use as much power as entire cities. No crypto currency is "green". And UNLIKE cars, lights or banking, crypto serves no purpose, it's currency that doesn't get spent, it's basically just there to fuel speculation for tech bros.

Crypto is a complete waste of energy, it's not 'big money spinning Bitcoin as negative', it's just objectively idiotic, don't listen to that comment.

If you haven't, I recommend watching Dan Olson's documentary "Line Goes Up" on Youtube.

Billionaires really need to stop stealing their ideas from viral joke tweets.

Agreed.

I feel like the solution is pretty simple: if you want to AI copy someone's voice and put it in your project, you have to hire them and pay them as normal, and they have to give consent to let the AI use their likeness.

Otherwise it's theft.