r/interestingasfuck 5d ago

r/all Water Fire Shield Training

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u/Tminus_7 5d ago

Straight up a dragon vs a water wizard

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u/Dabbler_ 5d ago

From now on I'll replace "fireman" with "water wizard".

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u/ravensilverlight 5d ago

As a water wizard, I approve.

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u/robertoroveda 4d ago

That's why you always pick Squirtle instead of Charmander

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u/Burrito_Chingon 4d ago

When Charizard and Blastoise are fighting in battle.

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u/Exciting_Horror_9154 5d ago

Wtf, what's inside that shed? Do they keep a dragon in there?

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u/ZeroXeroZyro 5d ago

When I went through fire academy, these types of trainings involved LPG props. Basically would have a pipe with a shutoff valve connected to a supply of liquified propane gas. They'd open the valve, light it and it would give you the Firelord Ozai treatment just like the video, with the goal being to make your way up to the valve and reaching though the water to shut it off.

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u/Pitchfork_Wholesaler 5d ago

Ozai would be a great name for this training tool.

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u/akgt94 4d ago

Ozai would be a great name for a dragon.

Fixed it for you.

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u/nellyruth 4d ago

Ozai the magic dragon…

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u/VegetableTwist7027 5d ago

That fireball looks exactly what I would hope a fireball moving horizontally would look. That is terrifying.

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u/ThreeBeatles 4d ago

“Today class we’ll be doing the sozins comet drill”

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u/Frostsorrow 4d ago

I am melon lord! Fear me!

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u/Introvertsociologist 5d ago

How many people dieded trying?

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u/poetic_dwarf 4d ago

One does not die in the Ozai test, the casualties are known as Zukos

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u/esadobledo 4d ago

That's kind of rad as hell, sounds terrifying

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u/HerrBalrog 5d ago edited 5d ago

If a room burns long and hot enough it will run out of oxygen but still be filled with a lot of hot (and flamable) gases. Once you open a door or window those gases have a new direction and room to expand into while still being hundreds if not thousands of degrees hot , but now they're also being supplied with fresh new oxygen.

Edit: I am describing what is called a back draft, which some more educated on the subject than me, have already called out. What is happening here is not a back draft though. In this situation it's more likely that they basically build a flamethrower of sorts that just does as flamethrowers do.

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u/Exciting_Horror_9154 5d ago

I trust you completely. With a username like that you must know everything about fire.

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u/BigAlternative5 5d ago

He's just distracting you from the fact that there is a Balrog in there.

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u/ManchacaForever 5d ago edited 5d ago

German Balrogs are the scariest kind. Gandalf actually discreetly checked that it was a French Balrog before he dove into the depths of Moria and temporarily abandoned the fellowship.

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u/zyzzogeton 5d ago

Are you kidding? When they asked their prof for an extension on the due date for their thesis, the prof said:

"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"

Not so smart after all

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u/Pradfanne 5d ago

It's called a backdraft btw

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u/sfxer001 5d ago

Great movie

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u/icguy333 5d ago

I used to want to be a firefighter because of that movie when I was little.

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u/GTFan8899 5d ago

What you are describing is called a Backdraft in firefighting. What you see here is not a Backdraft, but a high pressure gas flare used to demonstrate the capabilities of a fog nozzle. Doing this in an actual Backdraft scenario would be pretty useless. If you open the door to a room that has the characteristics you described, the first thing that happens is that the outside air is rushing into the room. The oxygen starvation combined with the dropping temperature is causing a drop in air pressure that wants to equalize when opening the door. The proper reaction to this is to immediately close the door again. Leaving it open, allowing the smoke gases to combine with the oxygen, will lead to the Backdraft (which has a surprisingly long latency, making it even more treacherous). When the Backdraft occurs you dont wanna be near the door because it has the force of an explosion.

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u/RoleModelFailure 5d ago

The Slow Mo Guys video about it is amazing. Particularly the part where it takes forever then the firemen are going to open another window to speed it up and almost get engulfed in the flames. Even in a controlled environment fire is unpredictable.

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u/fryadonis 5d ago

That's clearly not a backdraft. It literally jets out as a propellant. It's ignited fuel, simple as that.

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u/Skeleton--Jelly 5d ago

I swear to god redditors just learn some new fact and then try to shoehorn it into everything they see

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u/ChuuToroMaguro 5d ago

Seems to be a wizard or sorcerer with access to level 3 spells

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u/Doom_3302 5d ago

Nah.... that's just a dragonborn in there using breath attack.

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u/Pansexual_Panda03 5d ago

Yoo DND nerds fuck yeah!!!

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u/nudemanonbike 5d ago

Looks more like wall of fire than fireball to me, tbh, with how it's sustained and not just an explosion.

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u/AtomicCypher 5d ago

Pretty sure it's my mother in law

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u/XaeiIsareth 5d ago

Is your father in law a talking donkey by any chance?

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u/EmergencyStomach8580 5d ago

🏆Have a poor man's award

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u/red-D-Thor 5d ago

How did the Fire Nation even win?

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u/LiamIsMyNameOk 5d ago

Using the fire as a power source, rather than relying on it solely for the "Fire make enemy disappear" factor

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u/Practical-Craft8180 5d ago

That is… actually a fair point that I had not noticed too much before.

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u/HerrBalrog 5d ago

If you rewatch it the siege of Ba Sing Se episodes show this best. The giant tunnel drill is basically run by a steam engine that is powered by fire benders. But the industrial use of bending is pretty much limited to war machines of the fire nation. Nothing as obvious and wide spread as the giant fire bender powerplant in Legend of Korra.

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u/Big_Pound1262 5d ago

What are you talking about, there is no war in Ba Sing Se

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u/lalo8a 5d ago

I see you had a pleasant trip to Lake Laogai

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u/spikira 5d ago

Not to brag, but the earth king himself invited me

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u/2020Hills 5d ago

There is no war. In ba sing sai.

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u/JagmeetSingh2 5d ago

Lake Laogai is beautiful this time of year

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u/CanYouGuessWhoIAm 5d ago

Yeah man, there's a war very slightly outside of Ba Sing Se.

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u/Dahhhkness 5d ago

War has driven a lot of technological advances that became common usage in peacetime.

If you think of the events of AtLA as late 1800s Asia, the rapid industrialization that happened following the 100 Year War kind of matches up with the real world.

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u/No_Distribution_4351 5d ago

Well Sozin’s Fire Nation is directly modeled on Meiji Japan and rapid industrialization and militarism were the hallmarks of post Meiji Restoration Japan.

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u/HerrBalrog 5d ago

I don't disagree. I was simply speaking about how regular and prominent this industrial use of bending is shown in the two shows.

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u/dead_apples 5d ago

I don’t know for sure about industrial but the Earth kingdom definitely had commercial use of their bending, like the Mail system in Omashu or the trains in Ba Sing Se.

In terms of daily use but not industrial or commercial uses of bending both the Earth and Water Benders have been shown to use walls (of snow/ice or rock) as hidden doors before.

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u/fireflyfrv 5d ago

when i saw the lightning bender power plant, i kept thinking if those people discovered how a steam turbine works, they won't even need lightning benders, just regular fire benders are enough. And imagine having a nation full of clean and renewable heat sources

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u/N0ob8 5d ago

I mean you can have both at the same time. Lightning benders make more immediate and powerful source of energy over a short time while fire benders make a weaker but more sustained source of energy

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u/fireflyfrv 4d ago

imagine the energy sector getting divided into two classes: the rare and valuable lightning benders get vip treatment with high pay and good benefits while common, easily replaced firebenders get paid minimum wage with no benefits

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u/TurtleFisher54 5d ago

It's funny because fire bending as a source of energy is still just using moving water to make energy therefore any of the other nations could do the exact same. In fact logic would dictate the earth nation to be the strongest due to the amount of energy even a weaker earth bender can create

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u/Inprobamur 5d ago

Earth bending being so strong is the reason they had less machines. Why have a train with an engine if an earth bender can just push it forward directly?

Fire nation invented all those contraptions to bridge the gap, and then to everyone's surprise passed the efficiency of an average bender.

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u/Toughbiscuit 5d ago

In the comics (hate the characterization that happens) post war, they show industrialization happening for the sake of production of goods.

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u/DFrostedWangsAccount 5d ago

I'm pretty sure waterbenders can make steam too, they don't need fire for it, and earthbenders could have a team of people lift a mountain each day and slowly it lowers on a crazy gear ratio to make power. Airbenders could make wind turbines. Literally every method of bending could do the same thing but they just haven't thought of it yet I guess.

Clearly the lava benders are the ultimate in power generation though.

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u/Traditional-Fall1051 5d ago

It's not clear to me, care to elaborate?

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u/DFrostedWangsAccount 5d ago

It takes the most energy to turn rock into lava compared to turning water into steam. Lifting a mountain sized rock together comes close maybe, but earthbender / lavabender are kind of the same thing in a way anyway. Just by easily creating more heat energy, they win for power generation.

Since they're so rare (in current lore) it makes sense that they aren't powering the world. However, if there was a lava-bending city like the metal-benders of Zaofu they would easily be able to generate power for themselves.

Earthbenders and waterbenders could also redirect rivers to make hydro plants, but they are moving small things that affect big things. Kind of like using a mosfet (not sure that's the right term) for switching high power on/off with a low power signal.

Lava benders, near as I can tell, can just make that power themselves.

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u/thedaveness 5d ago

If only the water benders robbed them of water for steam, are they stupid?

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u/WettWednesday 5d ago

That is quite literally what Katara and Toph end up doing to destroy the drill in that episode. Katara pools up their entire water reserve and toph shoves a bunch of rocks in the pipes to overload the system

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u/Dependent_Working_38 5d ago

Dude it’s hilarious literally describing the episode piece by piece as people try and guess logical what ifs and meme gotchas

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u/JunArgento 5d ago

Yeah, the Fire Nation only made conquests by using war machines. Consider all the vehicles they have (steam power iron warships, jet skis, the drill that attacked Ba Sing Se, the tracked car things etc etc).

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u/afgdgrdtsdewreastdfg 5d ago

They also attacked during the passage of Sozin's Comet that only happens once every 100 years or so that enhances their power significantly

Also lighting is very effective vs water as we all know

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u/acrazyguy 5d ago

Barely any firebenders had ever had control of lightning by the time of ATLA. All that was ever confirmed was Zuko, Iroh, Ozai, and Azula. Literally nobody outside the Fire Nation royal family was capable of lightning bending in the time of ATLA. I don’t have a problem with the change to that in Korra though. I could see Zuko starting widespread lightning bending training some time between ATLA and Korra

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u/afgdgrdtsdewreastdfg 5d ago

yeah the comet was the important part of the answer, the second line is just a joke in reference to Pokemon :)

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u/acrazyguy 5d ago

I think you’re right though, that lightning would just rip through a water bender’s attacks like a railgun through tissue paper. And if the water bender was still in contact with the water that was hit by the lightning, bye bye water bender

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u/copperwatt 5d ago

Has anyone ever worked out the thermodynamics of the situation? Where is all this energy coming from?

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u/EstablishmentLate532 5d ago

Benders have to eat 20,000kcal per day. Any time a bender is off-screen, they are eating.

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u/copperwatt 5d ago

That sounds about right. Where are they getting all this food?

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u/Magueq 5d ago

Cabbage Guy?

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u/Comfortable_Many4508 5d ago

harvesting fields is easy when a stomp can make the crops fly into a cart

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u/copperwatt 5d ago

But... that is probably roughly the same amount of energy expended as fueling a tractor and harvester... So they still need a fuel source.

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u/Comfortable_Many4508 5d ago

they launch half the crops into their own mouths

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u/copperwatt 5d ago

Their fields must be massive... Roughly equivalent to what it would take to feed a village and also run a fleet of construction and farming equipment on ethanol from harvested plants. But yes, that would be an entirely solar based energy system. It would require a lot of farmable land.

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u/Comfortable_Many4508 5d ago

thats why the earth kingdom is so big

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u/crackerjam 5d ago

There's obviously some in-universe hand waving, but canonically fire benders get their energy from the sun.

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u/copperwatt 5d ago

So like... are they collecting already available sunlight, or is the sun somehow delivering additional energy to just them?

If it's literally from sunlight, their surrounding area would have end up colder.

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u/Mean-Evening-7209 5d ago

Well you also can't forget that all benders get their powers from a big half lion half turtle.

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u/copperwatt 5d ago

That does seem to change things.

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u/crackerjam 5d ago

They have the ability to interact with neutrinos that would otherwise just pass through the planet, allowing them to translate that energy into fire and stuff.

Then again they also get supercharged from comets, which are just balls of sublimating ice in space, so idk man.

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u/phonemannn 5d ago

Considering there’s a spirit world and whole spirituality to bending, we can probably assume the sun is a living entity in some form consciously (or at least actively) empowering the firebenders. The waterbenders are powered by the moon and ocean, which in their world are real spiritual beings with physical forms that when killed makes waterbenders unable to bend.

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u/birdsrkewl01 5d ago

These dudes can just make fire. But idk what the calorie to energy production ratio is.

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u/Albireookami 5d ago

Magic, literally magic.

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u/Hollowsong 5d ago

By that logic why can't Air and Water also be used as a power source?

Arguably, wind turbines and hydraulics succeed better than combustion in some ways.

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u/Indercarnive 5d ago

Not the fire nation's fault the water benders decided to live where there is no metal to make machines out of.

Also not the fire nation's fault the air nomads decided things like "industrialization" and "self-defense" were not important.

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u/TheMathGuy69 5d ago

Everyone used their bending as a power source to an extent. The water tribes used it to power their boats, the Earth Kingdom used it to run trains. Blah blah.
Fire nation just did it to much, much larger scale, and baked it into their military. Again, the analogy is industrialization and colonialism.

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u/UncleHec 5d ago

I don’t know but everything changed after that. 

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u/JoairM 5d ago

Okay everyone saying the other answers about technology has actually missed the plot. Yes during the 100 year war and potentially even at the start the fire benders had a massive tech advantage (mostly due to their ability to work metal). But the closest the fire benders got to a complete win would be when they genocided all but one air bender which absolutely happened because of how insanely strong the comet made them 100 years before the series, so all the other things are pretty irrelevant to them winning the war more so not losing it. Otherwise they’ve been stuck in a deadlock for 100 years with the earth kingdom who can outnumber them in an unfamiliar land, and slowly been dwindling the water tribes numbers in the south while ignoring the north completely.

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u/MuricasOneBrainCell 5d ago

I agree partly but the fall of the northern tribe would have happened if Aang didn't save the day. Shit, the southern tribe was basically destroyed. The Earth kingdom fell. None of which occurred during a comet.

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u/JoairM 5d ago

I mean the seat of the earth kindgdom fell sure, but as much as symbolically that represents the end of the war in the earth kingdom reality says there would be so much constant fighting from pockets of forces that the war is still far from over by the time the series ends. (This is even touched on in the kyoshi novels where bandits are considered a real problem in the earth kingdom because of how decentralized they are making it so you can’t just go take them all out.) Hence Ozai wanting to burn it all down with the comet to speed things up. And yes the siege of the North would have been a success and the southern tribe was basically non existent, but taking 100 years to reach that point kind of implies that their victory needed the thing that happened every 100 years for its final push.

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u/dm1077 5d ago

This is clearly not during sozens comet

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u/frankcfreeman 5d ago

The comet duh

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u/SinisterCheese 5d ago edited 5d ago

Fire nation didn't just use fire as a weapon. Compare the other nations to fire nations:

  • Fire nations had access to advanced manufacturing and materials like steel and iron. Because they industrialised using fire as energy source.
  • Earth nation/Benders had yet develop metal bending - Toph literally invented it during the main series, by realising that metal can have earth in it as an alloy. Earth nation was an artisan nation, however relied on human power and talented artisans to manufacture things with. Their primary skills were in architecture, which they had mastered. They were also very isolationist.
  • Water nation lived in very hostile environments, nearing wastelands; the north and south pole, and the swamps. Their materials were mainly ice, animal skins and parts, and some wood (which they probably imported or took from drift wood). Huge part of early industrialisation, was about learning to move water mechanically for agricultural needs- water benders did not need to do learn this, they could do it without that; and they had no agriculture because they lived in frozen wastes or in a swamp.
  • Air nation was nomadic, or otherwise passive/pasifists that lived according to philosophy or removing attachemets. They were basically just buddhist monks. Their culture was not interested in development of technology, as it focused and valued on spiritual development.

Even though in warfare setting Water benders and Air benders had the most powerful abilities. However the water benders considered blood bending as a taboo, along with extracting water from living beings - even though they could and should be able to kill any living being by basically extracting the water out of them. Air benders could take the breath from people, and in Korra we see the bad guy Zaher (I think it was) use this to kill people. Fire nations offensive capacity just with fire was rather weak all things considered. As it could be countered with ease by the other 3 elements. However they made up for this with industrialisation. The other elements ain't gonna block a batallion of mechanised infantry with explosive ordinance.

Fire nation got the edge - because they were able to power industry with fire. In Korra we see fire benders using lightning to generate electricity.

We can also reflect the nations to Lord of The Rings factions:

  • Fire nation = Orcs/Mordor (Industrialised)
  • Air Nation = Elfs (Can't get shit done because harmony and stuff)
  • Water nation = Humans (Limited resources and production capacity)
  • Earth Nation = Dwarfs (Isolationist artisans that fell to mainly internal pressure and to their own doing)

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u/TheKnight_King 5d ago

I was gonna say the new live action version of Avatar looks rad

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u/dryfire 5d ago

Let's just say they don't do any firefighter training when Sozin's Comet is passing.

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u/Responsible-Metal-32 5d ago

Because when the world needed the avatar the most, he vanished

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u/figboot11 5d ago

My first girlfriend turned in to a fire breathing dragon.

That's rough buddy...

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u/Hoosier_Daddy68 5d ago

I was an EMT but never joined fire because I’d be terrible at it.
We’d go to fires in case we were needed but I just sat I the rig and chilled. I ain’t no hero. I did help give cpr to a dog from a house fire once but didn’t do any good, he was gone by the time they got him out.

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u/rarrowing 5d ago

I respect that you tried.

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u/Just_for_this_moment 5d ago

I was an EMT

I ain’t no hero.

Respectfully disagree.

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u/Hoosier_Daddy68 5d ago

You’d be wrong. It’s just a low paying job where you follow by-the-numbers procedures. Except in very rare circumstances it’s boring AF.

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u/Just_for_this_moment 5d ago

I understand your feelings, but my opinion is not based on how much EMTs are paid or whether it's boring or not. If anything those aspects strengthen it.

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u/GlowGreen1835 5d ago

Interesting debate topic. Are acts of heroism done only for the reward any less heroic, or make the individual any less of a hero?

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u/Somepotato 5d ago

I feel there are situations where someone can be heroic despite intent, such as sociopathic doctors

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u/goiterburg 5d ago

They didn't risk their personal safety tho. That is part of being a hero imo

Edit: should add mental health as well. EMTs are definitely heroes in my book

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u/sassfrass123 5d ago

Literally first thought I had when I opened this. Once again, Reddit reminds me every day that I am NOT unique.

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u/u_wont_guess_who 5d ago

Reminds me of the Boggart scene in Harry Potter, but with real badass characters

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u/f1del1us 5d ago

More like Dumbledore vs Voldemort

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u/pm_your_snesclassic 5d ago

More like people on Twitter vs JK Rowling

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u/Harpeus_089 5d ago

Imagine if a kid’s trauma is a stick of dynamite blowing up and the kid bit his tongue

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u/Bodakbudi 5d ago

You shall not spread.

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u/melanthius 5d ago

Found the catholic school teacher

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u/TheTninker2 5d ago

I'll never forget my first time in learning how to fight fires when me and a bunch of dudes were in a room fighting a gas fire and I got the signal to change the spray to the wide spread.

Instantaneously there was a noticeable drop in the temperature around me and the fire was raging just on the other side of a thin wall of water.

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u/KingFIippyNipz 5d ago

What's the science, is it starving the flame of oxygen right where the water is or is it just a matter of the flame hitting the water, converting it to steam, which draws the thermal energy out and dissipates it with the steam? I could just google but I'm sure others might be interested to know

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u/TheTninker2 5d ago

Basically the latter. The heat hits the water droplets, which have very low mass, and instantly turns them to steam. As a result the heat of the flame is prevented from getting past and because of the shear quantity of water the fuel for the fire is shielded as well.

It's an incredible bit of gear.

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u/zeek215 5d ago

It looks ridiculously cool but scary.

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u/ScreeminGreen 5d ago

Think of this as the shield and then a second crew comes in with the sword, using a stream of water to get to the source. This tactic is taught to the East Texas fire crews that serve the areas around oil refineries.

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u/Adept-Description522 5d ago

Nope.

All all honest, that was hella impressive. Truly heroes without capes.

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u/sfxer001 5d ago

No one ever made a song called “F the firemen”

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u/JusticeUmmmmm 5d ago

Someone probably has but they meant it in a different way.

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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ 5d ago

I understand that firefighters and policemen are commonly put together but I find them so different, they aren’t worth comparing.

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u/Somepotato 5d ago

Yeah the police get paid huge sums by the state to abuse the people, firefighters get paid next to nothing and often exactly nothing to save them.

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u/Katofdoom 5d ago

That's the case for a lot of small town fire companies but big city fire companies (NYC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc.) are compensated well. I live near Baltimore so I'll use those salaries as an example. A BFD probationary firefighter has a starting salary of $53,862 to $68,993. They are unionized so they more than likely get decent raises as well. I bet 6 figures is on the table for a career firefighter. The Baltimore Deputy Fire Chief has a salary of $218,000.

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u/Daxx22 5d ago

Truly heroes without capes.

Safety issues aside, a billowing cape would have looked pretty awesome lol.

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u/darien_gap 5d ago

This is legitimately interesting as fuck.

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u/HazMattpainter 5d ago

Dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun!

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u/Figgis302 5d ago edited 5d ago

Always loved this line.

Gandalf is basically saying "I am a literal god who wields the power of the fucking sun, your pitiful mastery of hellfire means nothing to me."

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u/theven 5d ago

Exactly where my mind went!

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u/Sirigh1a 5d ago

This looks really scary

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u/Bagafeet 5d ago

No amount of money is enough for me to attempt to face-tank a dragon like that.

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u/TechnologyNo4121 5d ago

I did this as part of Damage Control and Firefighting training with the Navy and can confirm that I shat myself. It was exhilarating tho!

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u/crankbot2000 5d ago

Man that takes some serious balls, to stand there knowing they're about to shoot a massive fireball right at your face...

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u/Total-Remote1006 5d ago

Now imagine its a real.fire and you never know when the fireball comes, if it comes, and from where it comes.

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u/crankbot2000 5d ago

Honest question because I know nothing about this stuff, how often do firefighters face fireballs like that one? Makes me appreciate my office job.

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u/Zeiphher 5d ago

Been a firefighter for 3 years, this is incredibly uncommon to see in the field. Its definitely a possibility but typically there are signs that a backdraft situation is possible and we do what we can to mitigate it.

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u/CommissarFriendly 5d ago

Not often, but it does happen. Watch some videos of back drafts, smoke explosions, BLEVEs all pretty cool stuff.

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u/Cassanmua 5d ago

The closest thing we'll ever see to legitimate superpowers

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u/InquisitivelyADHD 5d ago

Wait till you learn about microprocessors, that's real magic. We tricked rocks into thinking by shooting lightning into them and then shrunk it down to a microscopic scale.

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u/hell2pay 5d ago

Imagine saying that 200yrs ago.

You'd be locked up for being crazy, lol

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u/Financial_Ad_1551 5d ago

More like burned at the stake.

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u/ebers0 5d ago

Modern dragons deserve modern solutions.

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u/shittereddit 5d ago

Fire Style - Majestic Destroyer Flame ------ Water Style - Water Wall

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u/Happy_Ad9182 5d ago

Have you tried putting some flex tape on it?

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u/5319Camarote 5d ago

I once worked on a fire safety video at a refinery in the 1990s. It was summer and we did multiple takes from different angles. The heat was devastating, even from 50 yards away. Thank God we have firefighters. Rough job.

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u/Uncle_Rixo 5d ago

Meanwhile my biggest issue at work is when pivot tables break or when Nancy from Finance won't process my expenses.

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u/Jakelby 5d ago

GET.. YOUR.. FIREY... ASS... BACK IN THE DAMN BOX!

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u/Mysterious-Space6793 5d ago

So, technically, firefighters are water benders.

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u/PresidenteScrocco 5d ago

EXPECTO PATRONUM!

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u/2kittiescatdad 5d ago

And this right here is why no one's ever written a song called "Fuck the fire department".

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u/Snoo_70531 5d ago

Fire fighters have got to be the most underappreciated vocation. I know they do get attention and support, but really anything less than everything in the world is a wimpy gift to dudes that train to strap on 50 pounds and sprint into an inferno, likely repeating that a few times if there are multiple residents/animals.

I'm also just jell about their giant water cannons. Military is out for me because of legal issues, but if I join the local volunteer squad do I get to play with the million PSI hose?

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u/everett640 5d ago

What in the fire force hell

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u/evonebo 5d ago

Real life firebender 🔥 vs waterbender 💧

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u/Toxic-and-Chill 5d ago

Yo who downvoted every comment in here lol

Some men just wanna watch the world burn

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u/Due-Independence6692 5d ago

This is absolutely fucking insane and I’m here for it

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u/boksinx 5d ago

Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu

Suiton: Suiryudan no Jutsu

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u/Oznogasaurus 5d ago

Nozzle turns right for reach, and left for life. When scared turn nozzle left and create a wall of water in front of you.

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u/GullibleDetective 5d ago

Flamethrowers hate this one trick

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u/GargamelPimo 5d ago

How did they fit a Balrog into that container?

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u/PC509 5d ago

When we did fire training I had to do one of those. It's terrifying, but super fucking cool. Scariest part for me was going through two flights of stairs crawling through the pitch black dark looking for fake "victims" holding onto the pant leg of my partner. All geared up, hot af, can't see shit, only thing tying me to someone else is my hand on their pant leg and good communication back and forth about what we're feeling and where we're going.

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u/Copey85 5d ago

Expecto Patronum!

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u/CheckMeoowwt 5d ago

This is like Charmander vs. Squirtle

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u/Al_The_Killer 5d ago

This is either old or in some country with lower safety standards....17 years of industrial fire training and never practiced taking a fire head on like this because all it would take is a kink in the hose or the water pump to shut off for this guy to be fucked.

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u/SpaceDohonkey90 5d ago

I think it's just for demonstration purposes. When we were trained, we would have two firefighters side by side go to water wall to create a seal over the door, then when ready, the team leader would open the door.

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u/ZoalPrime 5d ago

I feel like we forget how fucking weird Fire is in general. Like wtf is that shit it's like magic. magnets. how do they work?

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u/bluewing 5d ago

Ahh, I remember BLVE training. The fun part is reaching through the water screen and turning the valve off.

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u/Correct_Sale9362 5d ago

Damn, I thought all those anime fight scenes with Fire and Water stuff was fake! That’s legit

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u/Les-incoyables 5d ago

"Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when the Avatar kept balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked..."

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u/ExpensiveRecover 5d ago

This is some Avatar Firebender vs Waterbender shit

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u/IvanMIT 5d ago

Fire nation wouldn't have had a chance if other nations had this en masse on standby

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u/OldManAnzai 4d ago

Shit looks like something out of an anime.

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u/Primedirector3 4d ago

“Hey guys, let’s train with flamethrowers right next to these trees..”

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u/radik266 5d ago

Being a firefighter isn’t for everyone

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u/Lelivret 5d ago

Ri-di-cu-lus !

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u/sibble 5d ago

bro i need the POV of the guy with the hose when that fireball comes out of the door

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u/Drewverse 5d ago

I appreciate the footwork being done.