What was your reaction to this?

>>95061656
>once we begin mass production...

>"We're all sons of the patriots now!"

>>95061656
>>95061735
Major, I'M BURNING UP

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>>95061656
*starts humming*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH_6iFYiryY

>It's 2014 and you idiots still cant get CGI to look like the rest of the animation style

The ability to do that has been around forever.

>>95061656
How many years did it take to build that mecha?

Korra had some good ideas, but horrible execution. And characters.

>>95061656
i thought it was dumb

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>>95061656
I expected a Railway Gun. Instead I got an Eva rip-off.

>>95061971
if most of the metal was derived from zaofu's domes? probably only months if not mere weeks.

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>>95061656

I thought that even a mech half the size of that would have been stupid.

>>95061656
Thought it was rad as fuck.

There was never any chance they were going to write a non-retarded finale, so it was better to go retarded/awesome than retarded/lame.

>>95061656
>instead of getting an awesome 1v1 like zuko vs azula we get a lame giant mechzilla wannabe robot

Leave anime to the japs, man. You can't do it as cool so don't even try

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>>95061656
>Artillery that has recoil and requires a carefully maintained setting to fire properly
>Let's put it on a humanoid mecha!

The kind of love for gigantomaniac inefficiency that only Adolf would appreciate.

Much like the entire series, 'Holy shit you were so close to being good but you had to fuck it up'

Amon could have been A+ but they throw it out as just blood bending and the bender / non bender relations are never really solved.

Actually liked the avatar origin with the spirit host thing but lol nope korras usless bitch and messed it all up and never learns her lesson.

Earth kingdom wants old rightful clay. Actually has a justified claim as by then the president ruled alone without representatives of all nations as was the original treaty. and shit was spirit fucked.

>>95061656
*breathes in*

>>95062126
I would have expected a Zeppelin gun or it mounted to a battleship.

>>95063033
They didn't call her Metal Hitler because she did anything wrong.

>>95063156
AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

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>>95061656
Pic related. I still can't believe nobody on staff paused for a moment and asked "is this fucking retarded, guys?"

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>>95063033
Yeah that's what I hate most about mechs of all kinds. The human body is not designed as a war machine, the human body is a long-distance-running and toolmaking machine.

A war machine should look like a tank or, if you insist on being freestanding, a tripod or spider-like configuration. There's absolutely no reason for an elongated torso and dangling arms.

>>95061656
Lots of smaller mechs each individually controlled by a metal bender would have been cool. Make them different sizes so that the stronger metal benders could use larger ones.

Have Korra and the police take one down and have them pilot it.

Queue an Avatar piloted mecha that uses fire, water, and wind in addition to metal.

Then it gets ripped apart by all the enemy metal benders combining their will only for Korra to jump out Avatar mode and start ripping and tearing.

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>>95063259
b-but m-muh eva. everyone likes eva right?

>>95063282
The thing with the Evangelions is that you can hand wave the impracticality of a humanoid warbot of them away with the AT Field.

>>95061656
As soon as I saw it I thought "OH SHIT WE'RE GETTING MECHA VS GIANT SPIRIT KORRA THIS WILL SAVE THIS SEASON!"

Then it didn't happen and I spat on the ground in disgust.

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>>95063373
E-earth Kingdom is literally Hitler!

>>95063458
SIX BAJILLION FIRE BENDERS

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>>95063259
I bet you're the kind of tasteless realism-fag that likes the look of SB: Heavy Armor mechs.

>>95063491
Thing is, first Avatar had no problem with presenting reasonably scaled war machinery.
Once you manage to lay down such quality, why forego it in favour of utter BS?

>>95063491
Not to mention that this machine in your post would still collapse upon itself. :^)

>>95061656
That it's fucking stupid that a world that can throw giant hills, create lava out of thin air, and can fucking control limb by their blood can't take down a metal robot.

>>95061656
>Such a lust for revenge! WHO!?

>>95061656
Now witness the firepower of this FULLY armed and OPERATIONAL battlestation!

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>>95061656
It just works!

>>95061656
It was just yet another stupid decision in a long line of stupid decisions, so it barely got an eye roll out of me. My expectations were so fucking low by that point it would have taken something truly outrageous to really get a big reaction out of me.

>>95061656
I thought it was a very interesting take on what a WMD would look like in the Avatar universe. Fuck /co/ and their shitty opinions.

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>>95061656

Saw it in the catalog and was glad I stopped watching a few episodes into season 2.

>>95064026
did the show fuck up your head canon

>>95061656
I would have said "Shark Jumping Time" if Korra hadn't done that back in season 2.

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why do retards think that the original avarar didn't have any technology

>>95063259
>There's absolutely no reason for an elongated torso and dangling arms.

But it looks cool.

>>95064078
The drill was interesting. This was lame.

>>95063397
Can't lie. If I was a dictator, this is the kind of shit I'd do.

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>>95061656
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298Cw3_qGwE

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>>95064214
yeah let's forget about the tanks jet skis and factories

>>95062126
>EVA ripoff
Because Evangelion invented the giant robot

>>95062126
I wouldn't have even minded a walking tank so much if it were treated like the Vector Cannon. Long, vulnerable startup process where the machine anchors itself to the ground and becomes completely immobile.

>>95064078
The drill was fucking awesome because we didn't get to see much technology like that, but it still felt natural and something conceivable. It was built up slowly by it's lack of speed, like a slow motion train trash which gave it this 'oh shit'.

A giant robot is fucking lame. We could have had giant tanks, guns and cannons but instead they tried to go EVA.

>>95063334
Plus Eva units are more like advanced alien life with cybernetic implants.

>>95061656
Well, I was originally hoping for them to mount the cannon on train tracks and just use it to out speed Korra, as a good technology advancement vs traditional bending fight.
But I love giant robots, so setting it appear was great even if it needed better build up. Its where they went with it the next few episodes that dragged it down

>>95063491
Call me old fashioned but I actually like the tank-esk design. Something made of metal should look heavy. The giant mech in korra looks like someting out of evangelion and while evangelion made the "mechs" feel giant thanks to the animation and the framing (note that most of the time they are move by trucks) but also made feel capable of moving really well thanks to the color scheme that made them look not made of metal but plastic or some other futuristic material.

>>95064078
the original avatar had tecnology as well but it evolved relatively slow, the tanks looked clunky and basic, the giant drill was slow and masive and the zeppelins from the second half of season 3 where a natural evolution of the flying ballon from season 1. Korra whent from biplanes to tecnology imposible even to modern 21 century humans.

>>95063373
so what happens if the railway isn't pointed directly toward what you need to aim at

>>95064504
The real life counterpart of that weapon was an experimental nazi cannon but it was designed to defend an strategic point like a city providing auxiliary artillery moving on a small rail system. It was not suppouse to be use to attack a city.

>>95064498
i dont git why people are mad at this its not like everybody was some bumbling retard if they can make gient drills and jet skis why not other shit whith outside help

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>all the pleb-tier mech knowledge in this thread

>>95064630
>jehuty
>pleb-tier

Honestly, I just liked the jokes about it in the days that followed, but I actually expected Kuvira to (somehow) develop tanks with the bullshit power or just a really large one with the cannon that was in the train. I still don't know why they went with the mecha, but it doesn't bother me that much to this day.

>>95064705
Jehuty is /v/ wank, m8. You must be this ginguiser to talk in the /m/ club, kapeesh?
I kid, but honestly the mech discussion is a bit lacking.

>>95061656
>well that's dumb, wonder how they're going to beat it.

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>>95061656
>oh shit they can't bend the platinum!
>show then reveals that only the outside the plat, all the insides are normal metal that can and does get bent up and fucked
so did they retcon it so that platinum blocks the bending? Also why was there barely any people inside? She had an army of thousands but put less than half a dozen soldiers inside?

>>95061971
Not long enough. 2 weeks to a month i'd guess.

>>95062166
They had to melt the domes and create the mecha shell by hand like non-benders. No way they should be able to do it in weeks.

>>95065181
you're approaching this as if the writers aren't hacks
remember that Korra opened the fucking portals

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>>95063782

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We went from steam punk tech has just dawned on an ancient Asian culture to super giant death ray armed robot in a single lifetime.

My first thoughts were, good God Bryke couldn't give an iota of a fucking fuck. Korra was ruined and stupid the moment from the moment season 1 ended, but they kept driving the standard of writing lower and lower and lower to the point that they have Korra fight a giant sci fi robot. Literally. That's her final opponent. A giant futuristic robot. It's the equivalent of ATLA ending with the Gaang fighting Ozai on the fire nation's moon base.

>>95063373
Should have kept this, but made it off-road capable.

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>>95064214
The drill was also fucking lame.

Could've have the fire nation setting a new kind of super bomb, or fucking with a lava flow underground to get the walls to quake apart. But a giant drill shows up out of nowhere. It's obviously a Mike and Bryan idea. They're so tone deaf to genre and do a fantastic job of horribly ignoring the arduous amount of tight world building they create.

The Drill was this bullshit all stems from.

>>95061656
metal benders were all over the place in this shit series.

i thought it was cool but it was definetelly lacking something and the fight was disapointing.

>>95061656
Was hoping for something a little more original. After seeing the awesome uberweapon cannon I was hoping we'd get some kind of cool walker tank or maybe some kind of flying base or something.

A mech was just dumb. Crappy ending to what was otherwise a pretty solid fourth season.

>>95063397
>Does it please you, mein Fuhrer?
>Hmm... it's a good start. Uh... yeah it's definitely big alright. I just wonder if it's *too* big, y'know? I mean, are people gonna be remembering me, or the big ass gun?

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>>95065516
this - creepy, heavy ass walking tank would have been cool

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>>95063491
>He doesn't like realistic mechs

>>95064243
why is Mercy so smug

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>>95061656
It made me glad that I dropped this shitty series.
If I were a fucking idiot and actually watched all of Korra to this point, I would have been super fucking pissed.

>>95065619
>realistic
>mechs
mechs are retarded

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>>95061656
Pfffffthahahahahahahaha.

>>95061656
"i bet /co/ is losing their autistic shit over this"

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>>95063397
>>95064602
>The real life counterpart of that weapon was an experimental nazi cannon
top?
You know railway guns were a real thing in WW1 used by basically everyone and they were generally considered effective until this clown came along and ruined it by going way over the top?

>>95061656

"Ahahahahaha......oh wow."

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>>95061656
AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP

WITH THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE

>>95064218
Don't let your dreams be memes.

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>>95061656
Get in the Giant robot Meelo!

>>95061656
Laughter.

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This was the exact moment where the show became awful and never stopped. Every episode after this one was worse than the one that came before it until it ended in the gutter.

>>95067809
Imo it had already hit the shit peak couple of seasons ago and had built a cloister on that peak where it reached the Nirvana of shit.

>>95067809
Wasn't it like the second to last episode?

>>95061656
Cringe, like really hard

>>95061656
Dumb idea but execution was surprisingly okay.

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>>95061656
It wasn't this, but those big daddy looking robots made me completely drop the show.

Is it worth coming back to 2 years later?

>>95068328
Not really no. there are some newer more advanced mechs and season 2 is shit.

>I know LoK has constantly been trying to straddle the line between Diesel Punk and Atomic Age, but this is just genre mixing at this point.

>>95064504
Then you mount it on a giant robot.

>>95061656
>this shit is why they should've stayed old and magical rather than modern and scientific
Seriously, fuck these retards that tried to modernize that universe

>ESPORTS!!!
>CARS!!!
>ELECTRICITY!!
>ROBOTS!!!
The fuck would you have any of these when magic fucking exists? Its always one OR the other. You cant have both at the same time.

>inb4 hurr what about harry potter, index, and all those other stories with both
Fuck you. In HP, the magic side is fucking hiding because they know there'd be war if the muggles learned of magics existence.

>>95061680
underrated post

>>95068517
"modernizing" the setting wasn't the problem, it was the fact that they couldn't pick a period and stick with it. The 1920s aesthetic was neat, and the early model cars were cool, all of that made sense and having some amount of technological advancement makes sense, especially with them trying to explore relations between people with literal magic powers and all the poor normies who can't shoot fire out of their dicks. Going full gundam was retarded, there was no reason for a jump in technological sophistication of that magnitude, it made no fucking sense. It would have made way more sense if the big weapon Kuvira was having made was just a nuke-equivalent using the spirit vines to make bombs, but I'm guessing Nick wasn't okay with something like that.

>>95068608
While you're right it didn't have to be a problem, i do know some people who dropped LoK because of it's modernization of a fantasy setting. I do get why someone wouldn't like the modern touch to it since it is originally made to be mythical and those kind of stories/worlds just don't work very well in the mordern era. It's the same reason i dislike the idea of going even further into the future with Avatar, like space travel and cyborgs, at that point we're just not talking about Avatar anymore.

What i think was the real problem is that Bryke, and especially Bryan, seemed to want to make a sci fi story, not an avatar story.

>>95068732
If that was the case then they would have had Aang live to be as old as Kyoshi and then have the next Avatar be in a group trying to discover water on other planets.

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>>95068732
I agree, the setting should never go any farther than the turn of the century feel Korra had, but I also didn't really care to see the series continue after Korra (not saying that because I disliked the series, I just mean going into Korra I was fine with that being the end).

>>95065653
Old man dick.

>>95061656
Literally exclaiming "What the fuck!?" in a 'holy shit that's incredible' way.

>>95061656
>AW COME ON, FUCK YOU

>>95063259
Go UUUUUULAAAAAAA! somewhere else, martian.

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>>95068517
>You cant have both at the same time
what a fucking fool

>>95068517
>Its always one OR the other. You cant have both at the same time.

>pleb doesn't know about technomancy.
>not using magic to power an army of robotic footsoldiers
>not creating an airforce that flies using levitation magic so all power can go to highly sophisticated AI targeting programs that can cut down your foes from afar

>>95064214
>The drill was interesting.

Not really. Kind of boring.

The shitty robot was lame though.

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>>95068517
Get geeked, drekhead.

>>95068517
It wasn't esports, it was magic sports, your local quidditch.

>>95065653
Because she just got back from the ptr and is having a laugh at Blizzard's definition of the word "support"

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>its ok when the original does it

>>95061656
Why are American mecha designs so fucking terrible?

>>95069224
You don't need magic to power robots, and animated armor shenanigans work in medieval settings. Robots don't need magic and wizards don't need robots.
Not to say that I disagree with you on principle but that's a bad example.

>>95069599
The submarines weren't the final boss. They were still powered by bending, had a limited air supply and their use ultimately failed as the mission failed.

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>>95068517
>Its always one OR the other. You cant have both at the same time.

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>>95061656
>Internal Dialogue
"Boy, Pacific Rim was a pretty good movie, wasn't it?"

>mfw

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>>95068517
>One or the other

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>>95069694
yea like i said its ok when the original does it

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>>95061656
I mean... we had a cannon on a fucking train ala Railway Gun (look it up) in a world (and props to the writers on this) where guns were not a thing so they didn't even have a 'word' for what this 'thing' did when this burst of energy exploded outwards from the 'things' opening.

But we didn't put it on a zeppelin, we didn't put it on a super tank, we didn't just keep it on a super-train to drive straight into the city, We didn't just make a giant firing-base near the city... we put it on a fuck hueg robot.

This is why you need various opinions in the writing/storyboard room. THIS SHIT is what happens when you echo-chamber.

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>>95069636
Wrong, try again later

>>95069936
Right, because submarines (an old technology and concept that dates back in the weird world centuries) is comparable to a fuckhueg gigga robot ripped straight from a Weeb's fanfiction home-made manga.

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>>95061656
i would have preferred something that looked like the "rail"-gun used for testing

like a magitek land cruiser

the EVA look clashes with the inter-war aesthethic of everything, going full diesel punk robot would have been better

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>>95069636
Try again. The Korra-bot is the Asian-bot. Western bots usually look more like tanks with legs, or abominations on humanoid stances

This shit really gets me thinkin; We always bring this topic up as well as other topics where we all scream "this looks stupid as shit" and we spend three seconds on Google Images to post better looking shit that, generally, a lot of us agree on.

So how is it that the creators thought in any way this was a good idea?

I'll repeat; we found sexier, better designs by spending three seconds on google images. They could've looked at those and taken inspiration...

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>>95070067
Love me some chicken walkers

>>95070067
mostly because of battletech and the powerloader from aliens that western mechs have that look
comicbooks have the sentinels and iron man, cartoons went with outrageous toy designs, nd the transformers look far more japanese in the hands of americans than they ever did with the old blocky japanese toys

japanese VOTOMS certainly look "western"

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>>95070160
Patlabor has a good mix of designs

>>95068732
The original concept was aang waking up on a post apocalyptic future he was supposed to be frozen for a 1000 years not only 100 but I guess part of the problem is that if you make the setting to similar to the real world you fall in some kind of suspension of disbelief uncanny valley, to strange to be relatable but to similar to real life to make it fantastical. That is why when you have a story with fantastical elements the character usually travel to another world like Narnia or the black tower or enters a secret world with its own rules like harry potter.

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>>95070150
Hmmm... hardwaaare...

>>95070160
Had to google them. Okay yeah. Those are sexy as fuck, with the nice blend of being humanoid and mechanical. They don't look human for the sake of it, but they're not just tanks either. Plus I dig those visors and the pilot loadout.

>>95069224
While I agree to your point (chrono trigger and shadowrun are one of my favorites games) I can´t stop noticing that the that setting isn´t the most popular on TV or Movies. The closset I can think of is James Cameron Avatar and even then they had a lot of tecnobable about how the weird tree magic had a scientific xplanation.

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>>95070227
Oh fuck. And Ghost in the Shell.

Just the tachikomas and whatever military-version of them they're fighting in the opening was dope as hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxkMzn4et2U

>>95061656
Why would they even built an android mecha? Wouldn't it be hard to balance? Why not a train, zeppelin, tank, or anything industrial?

>>95061656
>Reactor Online.
>Sensors Online.
>Weapons Online.
>All Systems Nominal.

>>95063282
Eva units as well as Mobile Suits are built to act like human bodies. Kuvira's mecha was just a big stiff mannequin that couldn't do any of the stances in your picture.

>>95070387
A top-heavy bipedal mech is especially retarded in a world where people can basically cause earthquakes, landslides and storms. That shit should have fallen on it's ass as soon as it was confronted with a handful of competent benders, let alone a fucking army and the avatar.

>>95063282
Does that red robot use a fucking box cutter as its melee weapon?

>>95061656
CHICKS

>>95061656
Well that's dumb.

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>>95061656

Why does everybody keep comparing this shitty mech/robot to an Eva when they barely look alike?

>>95063259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77gw2Pp3aY

>>95070587

Honestly box cutters are fucking sharp.
I accidentally cut my hand open with one once.

>>95069936
To be fair, I also thought the Fire Nation jetskis were a bit retarded as well.

>>95070768
Because Eva a popular non-combining "robot"

>>95069936
The jet skis are in a one off episode that was added in because Nick wanted an "Earth Day" themed episode in the series. And not many like that episode, the one episode that technology was featured in versus the grand finale that centered on the giant robot.

>>95070587
To be fair it's hot and vibrating at incredibly hihg speed

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>>95070882

This is painful because none of those people have watched the show long enough to realize that an Eva is barely a robot.

>>95071157
>>95064344

Less than halfway through the thread m8.

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>>95070150

>>95061946
9 times out of 10, CGI in 2-D animation is a cost-saving measure. Most people aren't going to put the extra effort to make it look like 2-D since it's already a shortcut.

>>95070824
Well yeah but they're pretty impractical as weapons. I mean they work but they're not designed for it nor do anything a sharp knife couldn't.

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>>95071965
You might need to cut a giant cardboard box

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>>95071507
>the missile batteries are made of a battery box

pretty funny. also RIP madcatz

>>95068517
Fuck you, magitech is kickass when its done right. The problem is that the Avatar universe advanced way too quickly by going from slightly more advanced Three Kingdoms China type setting straight into 19th century era technology in the span of two generations. Then they started bringing in mechas and other bullshit steampunk which made the jump in technology even less believable. They also neglected a lot of the more spiritual aspects of Avatar outside of the spirits which were handled rather poorly compared to how they were in the previous series.

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>>95061656
>HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT'S AWESOME

Also, remember that some people who say this was dumb will defend the equally giant drill in Avatar.

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>>95072316
how did they get away with this?

>>95064504
you build rails to move the cannon in the direction you need.

which would be easy with an army of metal benders.

>>95064504
Well since it runs on a dual track. You will be building new rail lines for it. Which you then assemble the gun on the spot. The track will have a curved section to give you all the firing arc you need to whatever city you're aiming at. Hope this answers your question.

>>95061656
"Jesus that's one ugly fucking robot.
Holy shit, that's a lot of platinum.
Wait, why not build the weapons platform with a more stable form?
Wait... Why build it with the gun on one arm at all?
How the fuck did they built it so fast?
So what, take out the legs and it's gone.
Jesus Christ it's only going to get worse from here."

>>95061656
To laugh my ass off in /co/ threads while the show went down in a Ball of flame with lesbian undertones.

>>95061971
Remember the entire point is that it can't be bent.

>>95064504
Metal benders chucking track right in front of you.

>>95067920
>Imo it had already hit the shit peak couple of seasons ago

Nah, peak was Red Lotus stuff in S3.

>>95061656
I never got around to watching Korra, and I wanted to, but seeing screencaps of this fucking thing made me completely lose interest.

>>95072820
only on /co/ everybody liked it

>>95065742
That's why the military is developing them, right Mr. Tactical Genius?

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HEY! NOTHING YOU CAN SAY!

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>>95073195
Seriously though I miss my wife. God I love her no disrespect against Orton.

>>95073132
No.

>>95061656
That's no Zaku, boy!

Why do they keep using CG for these robots? It never looks authentic, and it probably would be easier to just draw sections of the big ugly thing from special angles and make it look better because of it.

>>95072847
PURE PLATINUM BABY!!!


...i know what my next draw request will be...

>>95071965
I imagine it was intended as a play on how japanese kids lash out using box cutters instead of guns because of the strict gun laws. Box cutters are more available than knives and guns, and the Eva pilots being teens, it fits.
At least that's my theory. Has Anno ever said anything to support this? Because it feels sound.

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>>95061656
I thought it was retarded. The giant mecha was just one of those things that ruined my suspension of disbelief for the show. I thought the hummingbird mech was retarded too.

>>95073617
That's a neat theory.

>>95069936
Fire Nation was already shown to have engine powered water craft.

>>95063282
Evas are not even fucking mecha. They're literally giant humanoid bodies covered with armour and is control by a kid in their backs.
These things have more in common with the Titans from AoT than with mechs.

>>95073931
clones of angels, and also a clone of Shinji's mom. that also happened to be related to Rei.

>>95073846
I don't even mind that they look like the'yd drop faster than an anvil, after all impractical designs that only function powered by rule of cool are a staple of steampunk settings, but THEY DON'T EVEN FUCKING LOOK COOL.

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>>95064276
I'm not that guy but come on look at the two of them side by side

>>95061656

>"Boy, you know this show really can't get any stupider that it already is. ...oh. Well, I stand corrected."

>>95072197
>blimps
>jetskis
>mountain climbing tanks
>warships
>trains
>submarines
All of that shit was in ATLA.

>>95074354
Yeah, and they were all relatively recent inventions of a war machine that had been fairly successful for the past century and most of those inventions were powered by fire-bending. Notice that just about every other nation wasn't nearly as advanced since they were all on decline.

>>95074129
Uh... sorry sweetie but those look absolutely nothing alike.

CONTINUED LAUGHTER

>>95074129
Damn it does look like a EVA ripoff.

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>>95061946
>>95071927
I watched the Hunchback of Notre Dame recently and couldn't stop to notice the cheap CGI they used in the background characters.

>>95073467
Exactly why can't they bend the platinum because I don't understand. Did they somehow find a way on how to remove all the earth from it?

>>95073151
None of the military superpowers are seriously looking at full-blown, super-sized mechs.

The closest you get is exosuits, the size of something like the loader suit from Aliens at the largest... none of this 30 ft tall robot suits shit.

They could have at least made it look cool.

Are there any animes that are better than atla and korra?

>>95061680
I love you.

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At what point did you realize the Legend of Korra is waifu garbage?

>>95061656
i haven't been on 4chan in like a year and I binged all of legend of korra this week, just watched the final episode. i come here to look for the korra comics and this was the first thread i see. BLESSED

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>>95061656

>>95075330
>better than
>atla
A bunch.
>korra
Every anime is better than it.

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>>95074581
>its on when the original does it

>>95074608
T. Bryke

>>95075487
not an argument

>>95064602
>>95064504
In WW1 the German Empire created a railway gun that could launch a shell into near space and bombard France.

Those wacky German Empire soldiers. How they are all forgotten because Muh Ebin Nazis!

>>95064498
>Technologically impossible
The zap gloves used by the Equalists are just strongesr versions of stun gloves and batons though. All you need a very powerful generator for the damn things.

Even the mech suits can replicated, but won't be efficient or useful. Only thing impossible is the mecha.

>>95075480
All the tech in TLA was extremely crude and outside of the tanks being able to climb mountains didn't really do anything that wasn't possible in our world. LoK on the other hand had fucking mech suits.

>>95075015
Holy fuck, I never noticed that. Then again, I haven't watch the Hunchback in more than a decade.

>>95069936

STEAM POWERED JETSKIS

>>95065209
the timeline is really sketchy (we have no idea how long events took place in between). sometimes it feels the whole thing only (zaofu falls, the cannon, republic city invasion) happened in mere days.

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>>95072731
you're asking for a more stable platform but asking for symmetrical guns?

>>95075015

that was one of the first uses of CGI at that scale.

>>95075119
checked the actual wiki (not the avatar wiki), pure platinum is fully metal (impure platinum exists though). i guess the show just made all platinum pure for story reasons (sato's rich, he could afford pure platinum if he wanted to).

>>95061656
Laughter, then frustration at the impeding dread that some people would defend it.

>>95073151

Thats why the military isn't developing them.

>>95065181
Metal bending is bending the impurities. Even Tof needed to have some point of contact with the metal to begin. Naturally other people can use sight in lieu of vibrational awareness but without awareness of your target there is no bending.
The thick platinum coating would do the trick, especially if it was moving and people were being attack so they were unable to focus on sensing and interacting with the metal inside.

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>>95076600
that's why nerds are doing the job for them.

seriously though /m/ can argue the real world practicality of mechs all they want but a lot of the shows they cite that would make mechs possible have in-universe explanations why mechs are plausible.

>>95076186
How does it aim?

>>95075502
not a fugument

>>95076644

Literally neither of these are designed for the purpose of anything but entertainment. Hell the second one was developed as an advertising strategy.

Mech's aren't plausible for military use and aren't being developed by the military for combat.

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>>95076645
manually

kuvira has to set the target on the center of the circle to aim for it.

>>95076644
Not that guy but
a) some shows with mecha in them don't seem to scale appropriately. For example the walls in Knights & Magic are large human scale siege walls when robots are basically the same size or a bit shorter. that would provide no feasible defence from creatures (as there are huge ones) or enemy humans. The scale of the world should be massive to meet the advent of bipedal mecha.
b) there's no reason for something so top heavy in our current world. Tanks can fire shit more stably and likely move faster. If there were still things left to siege rather than starve out or bombard then there might be a need which mecha could fill but until then there's not much at all
c) we will never advance to mecha until at least space. As it stands now there will never be another 'real' war. Just proxy guerrilla wars. Nukes make war immediately accelerate to its logical conclusion. Regardless or army sizes as long as both parties have nukes it will come down to whether they are willing to use them.
tl;dr fuck nukes. If we'd never figured them out war would be much more prevalent and we'd have way cooler technology.

>>95076691
that's why i said nerds are developing them (stuff like 'practicality' aren't necessary for them).

did you not read the line below that? mechs have to have some sort of excuse for them to be viable (fancy reactor is pumping out particles that makes radar and guided munitions useless for example).

not to mention how much each unit would cost.

>>95076644
Saw the one on the left live shotting paintballs. It looks humanoid, but in movement it was just like a glorified tank. I like my mechs dexterous

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>>95076753
i mentioned the impracticality. just stating that nerds are the ones making them instead of the military.

even with this, one design if favored over the other because

>>95068517
literally star wars

>>95076839

Yes, they're developing mechs

They aren't developing mechs for military purposes which was the initial point made in this comment chain.

Congrats for missing the initial point.

>>95061656
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05p646nlYS0

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>>95075330
Jojo. It's not even close.

>>95073846
That shit was just as stupid. They weren't even really needed since we've seen Mako cut through metal with firebending anyway, an avatar state Korra should have been able to melt a hole in the hull of the big one no problem. Or knock it over with Air/earth bending, melt the feet with lava, break the glass on the head etc.

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>>95061656

>>95076124
We do know that it's only 2 weeks between the weapon testing and the invasion of RC since Zhu Li specificly mentions it when brought back to RC. Actually it might be less, doesn't Kuvira attack earlier than scheduled?

>>95070364
YES.

...i came...

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>>95061656

Why couldn't they use airship?

>>95063134
>Amon could have been A+ but they throw it out as just blood bending and the bender / non bender relations are never really solved.
Nah, bloodbending was good, but the entire season 1 feels like they deliberately avoided making sense.

Amon being a bloodbending would make sense if paired with Ty Lee technique to make effect permanent. This revelation could've let Katara (Who is established alive) step in and use her own skill to fix everything eventually.

Instead we got something incoherent.

>>95063259
fuck off, anthropomorph is beauty

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>>95061656
Is that a motherfucking EVA reference?

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>>95068517
don't forget the cultural marxism

>>95078621
i think so. asami and her dad was supposed to have a squad of flight mechs up and flying but the attack happened earlier as you said.

>>95077104
i already mentioned that in the initial post. you know, the whole
> /m/ can argue the real world practicality of mechs all they want but a lot of the shows they cite that would make mechs possible have in-universe explanations why mechs are plausible.

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>>95061656
That's it?

>>95075894
Advances in technology aren't linear.

Reminder: the Fire Nation's colonization was critical for the technological leaps made by the Earth Kingdom. Those people would still have been dirt farmers if not for Sozin.

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any official explanations why no one figured out how to make a gun/gunpowder in the avatar universe?

I scrubbed it from my memory, why did you have to remind me? It was fucking dumb.

Especially how the ultra rare material was suddenly abundant enough to make a huge mecha out of.

>>95079771
The fuck is it with Avatar threads and gun sperging lately?

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>>95079817
Feels like it's been a thing since LoK started. It's not really that interesting though.

>>95079771
no alchemists. when bending exists, especially water bending with its healing abilities, the worlds scientists would look to that as the gateway to immortality moreso than just mixing and refining chemicals.

seriously, the process to make black powder really isn't intuitive if you don't already know what it results and how it works

>>95070587
Yes, for two reasons:
1. Box cutter design is pretty smart for keeping a sharp edge, since if it breaks or dulls you just click a new blade section up.
2. The box cutter is a crazy girl murderer meme, and that particular Eva is piloted by the crazy girl.

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>>95079817
wasn't there for the other threads but feels weird the avatar universe can make robots and giant lasers but not basic guns.

>>95080041
what about greek fire? sounds like something the fire nation would love to use against the water tribes (flames keep on burning even in water).

>>95061656
Hahaha holy fuck. I watched ATLA but I never watched Korra. Do they really do this?

>>95063334
>>95064344
Not to mention that Eva was one of the shows where robot mechas was a part of the premise, so it's pretty easy to overlook.

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>>95080196
In the last season, but yes. They also did some weird astral projection fight.

>>95079817
It's important for a thread about the giant mecha to establish why there's exactly only one gun in the known world. That they had all the technology to build a giant robot and a giant cannon but couldn't figure out a better way to defend it than having it slap itself.

Which is also why it's so stupid that the solution to beating it was to fly straight up to it with a miniature saw and cut a hole in it.

>>95076644
>Humanoid tank but on threads
What is the goddam point of that? Like, the entire reason a mech might have feasibility whatsoever is because of it's legs. That's just the monster trick equivalent of a tank.

>>95080002
God made men and Amon made them equal.

>>95080773
the other one has wheels.

basically both haven't cleared the whole "legs for walking" hurdle.

>>95076296
>not the lion king stampede scene

>>95079771
No. Obvious answer is that it's kids' cartoon and those seldom have firearms.

As my go-to expalination for lack of firearms in fantasy, easily accessible magic left no market for early firearms (Those were weak and unreliable compared to bows) so they never had experience to improve to better models.

Unless someone invent semi-automatic rifle from scratch, guns will never catch on.

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>>95061656
Luke
Get the snowspeeder

With its tall profile, high centre of mass and relatively narrow feet, mecha is a perfect combination of vulnerability of a low-flying helicopter and mobility of a superheavy tank prototype that was never produced because no bridge in the world can cold its weight.

>>95075391
S1E01

>>95075391
>>95082341
the trailer/promo images were enough, desu

>>95075391
>waifu
>Implying

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>>95081489
>superheavy tank prototype

>>95080041
you are an ok poster.

>>95079693
So the series would still be nice and kept with the AtLA vibe that people wanted and want to go back to?
You're just making me upset, anon.