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Older men who’ve been through it: What should young men know about surviving the financial system, a brutal dating market, and a world that feels stacked against us and how do we fight back?

Honestly, I'm at that age where the stacks just feel impossibly high. The system seems rigged against regular middle-class guys laws feel one-sided, the dating market is brutal, and the world acts like we're the problem by default. I've looked at MGTOW and the whole "go your own way" thing, but it often feels like foolishness just a bitter retreat dressed up as a philosophy, not a genuine way to live.

so want your advice,open for your opinon to present all types of views

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u/Decent-Call1719 — 2 days ago

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I know Studio Mir is the Avatar gold standard, but imagine if MAPPA took over for the *Seven Havens* or future projects. Their rotoscoping alone would make the bending insane. They already use real martial artists for fight choreography—just like the original team did with Sifu Kisu—allowing them to translate exact weight, momentum, and physics to the screen.

Beyond movement, MAPPA consistently delivers some of the best adaptations out there. Their VFX, lighting, and pacing are top-tier. Just look at *Attack on Titan*—they know exactly how to create a heavy, cinematic experience with massive scale. Add in the epic musical scores they always use, and the elemental battles would be unmatched.

Mir gave us the soul of bending, but MAPPA could easily evolve it into a next-gen visual spectacle.

What do you guys think?

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u/Decent-Call1719 — 13 days ago

I just finished watching season 4. I started thinking about the whole series. The way Book 2 ended still bothers me a little. I really love the show. The big fight with the blue spirit in the bay and how Korra lost her past lives felt kind of weird to me. It was like Unalaq just took them away from her. She could not do anything about it.

I was thinking about how they could have made Korra losing her past lives feel like something cool that the Avatar did instead of just something bad that happened.

What if Vaatu had caused an explosion that would have gotten rid of all the light in the world?

Team Avatar would have been in a tough spot. Mako would have realized it was their chance and he would have said something really emotional to Korra like "It was great fighting with you."

Korra would have known it was an idea but she would have jumped right into the explosion anyway.

To stop the energy she would have gone into the Avatar State.. Instead of just her eyes glowing she would have been completely covered in light. As she was trying to hold the explosion back she would have started to change fast into all her past lives. We would have seen her change from Aang to Roku to Kyoshi and all the way back to Wan. She would have been using all the power of every Avatar to hold the explosion back.

She would have been able to stop it and save the world.. The force of holding back that much dark energy would have been what stopped her from being connected to her past lives.

I think this would have been better because it would have made Korras loss feel like a sacrifice. Of just losing her past lives Korra and the other Avatars would have given them up on purpose to save the world. It would have been a cool thing for her to do and would have made her loss feel more meaningful.

This is something I thought about when I finished watching the series. Do you guys think that if Korra had made a sacrifice, like this people would have liked it more when Book 2 first came out?

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u/Decent-Call1719 — 15 days ago