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Message: [QUOTE="Waffles, post: 382451, member: 703"] I was re-watching Overanalyzing Avatar on YouTube the other day, enjoying it as usual, when the guy running that show pointed out something incredibly interesting to me, a detail that both has an entire scene framed around it AND is likely to go unnoticed on a first-time viewing: Turns out that the super secret Order Of The White Lotus signals its hideouts and welcomes its members to them through a simple (yet impossible-to-crack) code: they set up a board of Pai Sho --an in-universe board game-- and have both players go through a specific series of moves coordinated between them, playing through an entire game using only those moves, effectively resulting on a board game secret handshake. It'd be like if you could walk into a place, sit down to a chess board and have an entire wordless conversation with its own rhythm and meaning by shuffling pieces around. Just awesome. I thought that was incredibly neat and a very creative use of a piece of the setting that seemed to only be there to enrich the lore without actually playing a big role on it. Stuff like that is why I still watch this show twenty years later. [/QUOTE]

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