LMAOOOOO take my upvote

Wrong. Gaza is 80 km, or 49 miles from Jerusalem. Don’t make shit up.

This was not an innocent act. Nobody - I mean nobody - sets off fireworks in a war zone for funsies.

No they did not. They are continuing to refuse to let elderly and sick hostages go. Guess Hamas isn’t finished raping them.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-delegation-leaves-cairo-with-ceasefire-talks-ongoing-until-agreement-2024-03-07/

Is this the same Hamas who walked away from the peace talks because Israel wouldn’t agree to the destruction of Israel?

Don’t for a second pretend Hamas gives a shit about their people.

You didn’t get the job. Move on.

Oh, there were plenty of ads. You just didn’t recognize them as such.

2-way street, dude.

You watched it when you were a kid, didn’t you.

I don’t mind the flaming, the post itself was a little inflammatory.

[spoilers ahead]

I have a couple of things in mind. First, I think the casting is spot-on and the actors, including the kids, are immensely talented. The nuance and range of emotions that they can express, as live actors, far surpasses anything that they could do in the animated version. Katara, for example, when she’s hopelessly calling out to Aang to come back after he was transformed in Ep 8; the tears in her face, the pleading in her voice when she said “Aang, the world needs you! I need you” really moved me to tears. As did the utter despair and pain in Aang’s face when he thought that he had failed the entire world. You just can’t get that in animation. The complexity defies the limitations of that medium.

Sure, there are some misses, but overall it’s just a better experience, imho.

Second, I think one’s opinion of the live action version is highly dependent on the age at which you encountered the original version. I was almost in my dotage when I first watched the show; I watch very little television or video, so it speaks to that version’s power that I re-watched the entire series twice.

But I’m not as emotionally tied to it as someone who encountered it in their youth, or early adulthood. Things from those times in one’s life tend to become memorialized, immortalized, frozen in that time, and given a cherished spot on one’s shelves of memory. So I can see how someone who first watched the show then might be appalled at the changes wrought to bring it to life in a live action format. I mean, how could you possibly have anyone but Katara and Aang in the secret tunnels? It was a key moment in showing their budding affection.

But in the pace of the live action, that just doesn’t make sense. Kataang hadn’t nearly reached the level at which adhering to the animated version would make any sense at all. So instead, the writers used that to move forward the brother/sister story while at the same time adding to lore that would be needed later. I thought that was clever. I’m sure others thought that was Satan incarnate.

Thanks for asking, @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net I hope this explanation works for you.

It’s hardwired. And no, neither you nor I am immune to the influence.

“You don’t need a mile between houses.”

Never lived next door to a pig farm, did you

Porn. Porn companies will invent AGI.

This is called whataboutism, and appears to be your sole argument, in which case, you’ve lost the debate.

Oh, please. This sounds like sovcit shit.

Antisemitism is so easy for others to pass off as inconsequential. In fact, folks like you have been doing it for a millenia or two.

Y’all don’t really give a fuck about the actual musicians, do you.

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Why the fuck should Israel fund an organization that housed 1,200 Hamas terrorists?

Honey pot. World’s oldest espionage tool.