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Iroh could?
Must have forgot/missed the episode he does it. Been a while since I watched, and on Nickelodeon itself, I was thinking on downloading it today to rewatch outside tv airings.
Still supposed to be really hard though.
 

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Since, you know, Azula was considered a genius for being able to do it and her older brother wasn't, even Iroh could not do it and just developed a counter. Could Ozai? (No seriously, I don't remember. But if he could I guess I would?)
Have to nitpick a bit: Azula was considered a genius for how quickly she learned the basics, well before she learned lightning (that she was still perfecting when she was sent to hunt Zuko down) or even shifting her flames to blue, with Zuko not being considered one because he was being compared to her when he's in fact well above many experienced firebenders at 16. And Zuko was the only one of the family who couldn't bend lightning, not due a lack of skills but due his emotional turmoil, as it requires to reach peace of mind and absence of emotions.
Lightning Bending however was already known, just really really rare. And really really hard to learn. Yet they made a whole industry of those and no one imagined a better way?
As said above, the hard part in learning Lightning Generation (the proper name according to the wikia) is the ability to reach a peace of mind and absence of emotions, something not easy to reach. As for the rarity, it's actually been explained in side novels and materials: it was an ancient technique that was dying out already in Kyoshi's time, with the last known practitioner, the bandit leader Xu, getting in a duel to the death with Kyoshi, and when the Fire Nation managed to reconstruct it (as they had Xu in their hands for a while) they reserved it to the royal family and a few high-ranking officers. Presumably, once Zuko became Firelord he let it spread, or one of his opposers happened to know it and spread it, though the sheer difficulty of reaching peace of mind and absence of emotions on command means it remains very rare.
As for the power plant, I can only guess that Lightning Benders cost less than oil or coal, at least for that purpose.
Iroh could?
Must have forgot/missed the episode he does it.
He does it in episode nine of Book Two, "Bitter Work", when trying to teach Zuko.
 

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Iroh could?
Must have forgot/missed the episode he does it. Been a while since I watched, and on Nickelodeon itself, I was thinking on downloading it today to rewatch outside tv airings.
Still supposed to be really hard though.
By the lore it was a really old lost bending art that the royal family had rediscovered and it's really hard to learn, there is no reason so many people could learn it that it become a low paying job unless it wasn't 'true' lightning bending but another form of lightning bending that's easier to use for the workforce and probably isn't as strong (but that's kinda improbable given that Mako make no difference between the two so they probably just fucked up)

Becoming a martial art and spiritual grandmaster doesn't become easier just because technology has advanced.
 

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lost art people did not get permission to learn. fair enough. as it was explained in side-material, which as I said above I didn't look for because... well, look at the people angry at the comics.

either way.

become a martial artist! joing this small cave-like room where you use this one technique for hours each day for a small wage! perfectly valid use of your time training.

also, while I can believe sme lightning benders could be cheaper than fuel plants, it would probably be cheaper to use hydroelectric or aeolic plants.
much easier to train basic waterbenders to throw the water in wheels, or even just use rivers, even if we for some reason say plants that use waterfalls, or if just they don't want to make dams (which with some water and earth benders they can make easily withou much enviromental issues like we have) the sea waves, like ours can, would be too hard to do with their tech level (combustion engine forklifts).
making some wind for electricity could be basic airbending training.
Seriously, with their bending they have much more options for power plants than just "bunch of people throwing pure lightning"... yet that is exactly what they went with.
 

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Also the only naizuri scene so far...I don't like maledom but I'll be damned if Book 3 Slave isn't this game at it's finest.
Yeah,that always surprised me considering the...uhm...age scale of the cast in the original(*cough* which obviously doesnt apply to this parody *cough*).
Blame Mity´s fear of Patreon,since its documented that at last one character was redesigned to be more stacked during development and its feasible to assume that that mentality endured for a unspecified amount of time...(and if I seem deliberately vague here that isnt at all on purpose).
 

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Blame Mity´s fear of Patreon,
I'm gonna blame patreon itself instead, them and every payment processor and banks behind all that censorship bulshit, If I want to fap to a dude banging his grandmother who look like a 10 years old and give money to the creator of it, I don't see why some fucking wage slave in a bank halfway across the planet should get a say in it
 
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Just so!
I tried to do book 3 slave route, but I broke down when it seemed I to make Suki a prostitute. Fuck this shit, I'm off!
I'm going to tough it out to the end, but it will deeply, deeply hurt me. I'll post updates on my progress and final thoughts when I finish, but I have no doubt none will be positive.
 
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I'd like to note how despicable MC is in the slave route, hes really written as a horrible manipulative piece of shit.
"Oh I'm being benevolent this whole time, I'm helping you and your people to survive, Katara, I'm saving the Fire Nation, Azula, I'm just trying to help you look more like an adult, Toph, so when I do something horrible and cruel to you, I'm going to guilt trip you by saying I was only trying to help and threatening to leave if you don't apologize."
God I wanna fucking gut the little rat so much, especially when he starts using his mind games on sassy, cute, innocent Toph.
 

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I'm gonna blame patreon itself instead, them and every payment processor and banks behind all that censorship bulshit, If I want to fap to a dude banging his grandmother who look like a 10 years old and give money to the creator of it, I don't see why some fucking wage slave in a bank halfway across the planet should get a say in it
Well yeah obviously but that would have been too long of a sentence :p ,I trust people around here are old enough to think that far for themselves(then again I have met enough 20 year olds that can barely wipe their own arses).

I'd like to note how despicable MC is in the slave route, hes really written as a horrible manipulative piece of shit.
"Oh I'm being benevolent this whole time, I'm helping you and your people to survive, Katara, I'm saving the Fire Nation, Azula, I'm just trying to help you look more like an adult, Toph, so when I do something horrible and cruel to you, I'm going to guilt trip you by saying I was only trying to help and threatening to leave if you don't apologize."
God I wanna fucking gut the little rat so much, especially when he starts using his mind games on sassy, cute, innocent Toph.
He aint that bad...at least not on the VN scumbag scala.
He doesnt get his harem addicted,pass them around,prostitute them,hit them or outright dismember them.
That already puts him on the tame side of the spectrum for me.
All things considered,he is actually a pretty nice bastard(comparatively...and why the fuck am I arguing in favor of the slave routes when Im not a particular fan either?).
 
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He doesnt get his harem addicted,pass them around,prostitute them,hit them or outright dismember them.
I didn't see the 'hit them' thing but the 'addiction' and 'passing around' thing was always so boring and a buzzkill whenever it happened, Why would I play a game where you choose the girls based on their archetype / personality just to remove said personality, making the route less fun as it goes (and also it's just lazy to begin with so the writer doesn't have to come up with a reason of WHY they'd want your dick / obey you) ? And If I wanted to get in a relationship with a bunch of town's bikes, I'd put an 'actress wanted' ad in california, I wouldn't buy a freaking game.
 
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Well yeah obviously but that would have been too long of a sentence :p ,I trust people around here are old enough to think that far for themselves(then again I have met enough 20 year olds that can barely wipe their own arses).


He aint that bad...at least not on the VN scumbag scala.
He doesnt get his harem addicted,pass them around,prostitute them,hit them or outright dismember them.
That already puts him on the tame side of the spectrum for me.
All things considered,he is actually a pretty nice bastard(comparatively...and why the fuck am I arguing in favor of the slave routes when Im not a particular fan either?).
I'd almost rather he overpower and just flat out rape them than what he does. He doesn't hurt them physically, at least not much, he doesn't use force or anything like that, its worse. He finds their insecurities, their inadequecies, the things that cut to their very core, and he just twists them for his own personal enjoyment. By the time hes done with them, the characters have no self-respect, self-control, or feelings of self-worth. He ruins them for the rest of their lives and convinces them that they're only worth is to be his cocksleeve.
They don't break because he forces himself on them, they don't do it because its better to just bite their lip and take it rather than resist and be hurt, no, MC stabs in deep to their very core, and twists the knife into the one thing they can't help but be vulnerable to.
Its good writing, for sure, but its also just disgusting.
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Shes so cute... look at that face, I just wanna hug her and kiss her and make her feel happy. But I click onward to advance the plot and know that before this is over, I'll have ruined her, body and mind, forever.
I hope that when we get to the series end, the Slave Route MC gets whats coming to him.
 
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