FireGavin

Through the Fire and all that Jazz.

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@heisola13 I've always wondered if "platnium" is a sort of exception, or if any metal purified to 100% purity is immune to earthbending.

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@Momotorocc @CrazyMashuFan @heisola13 The "platnium" in LoK has next to no similarities with the actual real-world metal, besides maybe color. They probably used the name so the wonder material they created for the show was a bit more believable, rather than come up with a fake name like adamantium.

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@MakoFukasame Also saw someone mention that there is some in-universe justification for Spring's placement. I genuinely do not care; if Spring has to be there, then swap Winter and Autumn.

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@MakoFukasame I can forgive the straight borders because these are like, immortal fairies that probably don't care about natural borders, but the fact that it can't be thematically consistent with how the courts are placed is annoying.

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@BlossomAnalysis He has these grand plans, yeah, but he also had to improvise on the fly a lot, because he was taking these massive risks. Everything involving the Zillo Beast was just one risky move after another.

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@BlossomAnalysis I think the 2008 clone wars show does a pretty good job of showing how Palpatine balances on a very thin line between "shadowy puppet master orchestrating everything from behind the scenes" and "power hungry sith lord who will jump at every opportunity to increase his power"

[Gat0w @HeyItsGat0w]

doggy barghest

[Hugo Paleoart - COMMS OPEN @MicroraptorE]

My biggest illustration ever !

The small dinosaur Zhongjianosaurus observes its surroundings.
It can see two Moganopterus fighting, Caudipteryx wandering about, and a Sinornithosaurus stalking its prey.
#dinosaur #cretaceous #paleoart #SciArt #china #yixian

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@Dolfijnmanjohns I think its people confusing "guns as a concept trumping knights" with "rapid fire machine guns of the end 19th and early 20th century ending the counter that cavalry was against firearms".

[Dolfijnmanjohns @Dolfijnmanjohns]

Seeing Twitter users claiming guns made knights obsolete when guns and plate armour shared a battlefield for 200 years and cuirasses were even used in the Napoleonic era.

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@paloma_datgirl Enough survived to continue reproducing until the "present" of AtLA, but I would bet it was a small enough pop that the genetic bottleneck and other issues (such as the lack of easily aquired food from Airbender gardens) never allowed them to really recover.

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@paloma_datgirl And it makes sense that, even if their numbers were devastated by the Firenation, the lemurs, being as small and agile as they are, would manage to stick around where the Sky Bison and Airbenders were (seemingly) fully wiped out.

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@TodayinTor Also the lack of slaves in the Twins palace (or any organics besides Hutts) could be explained by the fact that Jabba was killed by a slave not that long before when the movie takes place. Or maybe the Twins prefer droids over organics.

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@TodayinTor There might have been innocents there when it was bombed, yeah, but during the sequence prior to the bombing the only non-droids we see besides the protagonists are the twins and embo, despite the place swarming with hutts during the first visit

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@CenozoicDragons Also, I'd argue that when terraforming Venus, speeding up its rotation isn't totally necessary, and instead leaving it as is might be beneficial. The lack of tilt means no seasonal cycle as we understand it, but the long day-night cycle could be used as a replacement

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@CenozoicDragons Honestly, the biggest issue with terraforming Venus is that, like Mars, it doesn't have a magnetosphere. Or rather, the one it does have is the result of its massive atmosphere and not its active core. So reducing its atmosphere will result in it being stripped by solar winds.

[FireGavin @KossuthF]

@Memebracidae @thehorizon2b2t Venus would be a crazy fantasy world because you have roughly the same temp across the whole planet due to it having no tilt, but also 2 month long days and nights involving humid, rainy day-summers and cold, snowy night-winters.

[Aventhail @Memebracidae]

@thehorizon2b2t Counterpoint: Venus