Melee players have to cheat at their own game for people to take their game seriously. They disguise the bugs they exploit as “advanced tech” to trick people in to taking them seriously, but in reality they’re just glitching out a broken party game.
wasn’t there a tournament a few weeks ago where someone needed a controller with a specific defect that’s found in 1-in-50 gamecube controllers and is required to do a certain technique, didn’t find any such controllers in the tournament’s supplies and left because he couldn’t play competitively without it
yknow i’ve been hearing the whole “there is no war in ba sing se” for literally ten years and still I wasn’t prepared for how sinister the city is!
god i absolutely love what they did here because it just further emphasizes the importance the show places on balance.
the city is the stubborn steadfastness of earth taken to its awful extreme: rules are rigid, social position is unchangeable, authority is absolute. this is what unchecked earth looks like.
it’s the same with the other elements. unchecked, the passion and drive of fire becomes the fire nation’s horrifying forever-war imperialism, the community-focus and adaptability of water becomes Hama’s trauma-driven crusade against the whole fire nation. even the free-flowing nature of air, the way it can find its way around obstacles, becomes Aang’s difficulty with facing his problems and feelings head-on.
none of the elements are bad! the only bad is in locking yourself so much into one kind of thinking that you can’t see the wisdom in others! gosh what a great moral!
look man she may not have done much in the later plot but we got her right on the heels of the mope-fest that was twilight princess so her happy-go-lucky personality was a goddamn sight for sore eyes and i’ll hear no arguments against that
Link between world’s who canonically is ready to trow down at any time
Oracle Zelda who actually goes to the people suffering and helps them.
