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THIS is the highest grossing animated film of all time?
Not a great movie, but I enjoyed it
Why was this even made?
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Oh sure, I think learning for the sake of learning is great, and if people just wanted to go to university because they wanted to, that's great. My issue is that people are pressured into going to university and take on massive loans for degrees that won't pay off in the long run. Basically, I think you should go to university if you think it's a wise investment and your degree will pay off, or if you can afford to and want to.
i think the system in place now where you're basically expected to go to university for any degree is silly, since it leads to so many people going to university who just see it as something they have to do to get a job that they haven't really thought about, rather than actually wanting to be there to study and learn, or making sure the job market for that degree is worthwhile. It's just lead to a lot of people with a lot of degrees that aren't useful that they didn't really want and that they paid a lot of money for, and weird hiring practices where people are expected to have more qualifications for jobs that wouldn't have any a few decades ago.
I think the longer any government exerts its power in a way as visible as it has during the pandemic, the more people will believe in conspiracy theories about it and create their own. I don't think the recent Gamestop stock issues have helped much either.
I'd say something had a lot of cultural impact if it had groups of people talking about it, influenced other work or is commonly referenced by people in casual conversation or other media.
I haven't heard anything about this movie other than the eye-rolling before it came out and the later discovery of it being the highest grossing animated film according to Wikipedia.
I mean, it sounds nice in principle, but that's kind of a kafkatrap of trying to get me to agree with something because it sounds like it has good ideals and being shocked or appalled if I don't. I think it's just founded on the idea that most problems for black people come from white people being racist to them. Black people are killed by their fellow black person at far higher numbers and rates than white people (or cops), yet I've never seen BLM say anything about it or hold any protests or anything, do those black lives not matter? Do black lives only matter when it's a white person ending them?
I'm not even saying racism isn't a problem, but I think the framing of the discussion around it is ultimately unhealthy for the Western world.
People ARE mad about the ending, trust me, the websites I go to have people constantly complaining about the ending of the show, specifically the acupuncture rock and the fact that Aang didn't kill the Firelord. I get people being upset about the first point, it's a way the writers got themselves out the corner they wrote themselves concerning Aang's blocked chakra from Azula zapping him with a lightning bolt, but at least it provided a cool fight scene. I think the people who wanted Aang to kill Ozai had weird expectations, and I won't complain about them here.
Also I think Aang "keeping" Katara as an earthly attachment is what prevents him from entering the avatar state at will, instead of when he is in danger. Not great writing either, but I kind of like some of the idea behind it.
In the Legend of Korra sequel series (which is really disappointing in itself despite sounding great on paper) there are more sky bison because apparently some fire sages kept some in secret so the future airbenders get to fly around on them in it. I think it's a really lame ass-pull to justify having more sky bison through not wanting to depart from imagery of the original show.
I've never been that attached to John Connor as a character, but this just felt disrespectful and done only for shock value and as a way to introduce a new (female because it's "in" right now) protagonist. I also hated how apparently the future has all changed now and it's no long Sky Net oppressing humanity, but the Terminators all still look and act the same, it's almost like they didn't have any real imagination or vision for the movie and just wanted to throw in arbitrary twists to justify the changes they made to it.
It's interesting that Earth actually has a few smaller moons outside the famous THE Moon. Scientists don't take their own word as gospel, that's entirely the point of science, that everything is up to question and debate and analysis to provide evidence for future claims as scientific models evolve over time.
You make a lot of really good points, as I see it, we live a world where almost everything has already been planned out by people who have power and are willing to do ANYTHING they can to maintain it, but we also live in a world where the things that aren't planned out happen because people see it as the best thing to do at the time and the unintended consequences have been disastrous over time or are manipulated to be useful to those in power, like the emergence of the internet and social media.
I don't want to get too political, but you can see how the landscape of what is or isn't a political talking point has been carefully crafted so that it ultimately benefits those with the most power without fundamentally addressing any of the issues that are holding everyone else back, those aren't up for discussion or debate, there might be a few meagre concessions that'll be ignored and forgotten about, and instead you have to be drafted into team A or team B to hate everyone on the opposing side (and especially their big scary strawman) because they are EVIL, I mean, isn't that more fun and interesting than figuring out how the system is actually broken? Now real life is like a videogame and YOU are the main character! The game was already rigged from the start, and you weren't even invited to play.
I think there's a "void" inside people's minds that was once occupied by religion, but now for a lot of people is occupied by the idea of science. They just want to believe in something, even if they don't fully understand it, and get angry at others who don't share the same beliefs and ultimately have an unhealthy relationship with "science" where they make it part of their identity and only have an understanding of it from Buzzfeed-tier news headlines. I think "politics" is something that also can occupy the same void and results in so many people becoming increasingly polarised as time goes on as they section themselves off in their online filter-bubbles and ferment over how much the other side is so evil and they are so good.
I believe that we should "listen" to the findings of scientific institutes, but that doesn't mean I think we should take their word as gospel.
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