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Triceratopic: Dinosaur General Discussion
#41
Posted 17 February 2013 - 08:34 PM
I was the dinosaur nut kid in elementary school. Paleontology was my thing from kindergarten to 6th grade.
I like feathered dinosaurs. They're exotic and cool and generally portrayed more colorfully. I really wish more media were portraying them that way. I think this shift is taking even longer to catch than the abandoning of the tail-dragging sluggish thing took to go away. I want to see bright colorful exotic feathered dinosaurs EVERYWHERE they show up.
-ZacWilliam, my Dino-fandom peaked with Jurrassic Park the book. The movie was good, but the book was AMAZING my freshman year of High School.
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#43
Posted 17 February 2013 - 08:41 PM
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#44
Posted 17 February 2013 - 08:45 PM
Dinosaurs never went extinct.
Only a cassowary can be so dangerous while looking so fabulous.
#46
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:16 PM
I grew up with Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park's dinosaurs are MY dinosaurs, and I don't care what science has to say about that. I want my dinosaurs big and scaly and monstrous, not as bizarre feathered monstrosities.
---Dave
#47
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:19 PM
I grew up with Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park's dinosaurs are MY dinosaurs, and I don't care what science has to say about that. I want my dinosaurs big and scaly and monstrous, not as bizarre feathered monstrosities.
So sort of like how Edward Cullen is "MY vampire" for a generation of preteen girls. Okey doke!
#48
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:20 PM
I grew up with Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park's dinosaurs are MY dinosaurs, and I don't care what science has to say about that. I want my dinosaurs big and scaly and monstrous, not as bizarre feathered monstrosities.
So sort of like how Edward Cullen is "MY vampire" for a generation of preteen girls. Okey doke!
The difference being that the feathered dinosaurs are the Edward Cullen in this equation, while the thunder lizards are more Bela Lugosi.
---Dave
#49
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:23 PM
You're just a Twihard.
#50
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:26 PM
Frilled lizard dilophosaurus and the half blind tyrannosaurus rex.
"Disabled people don’t have special needs. We have very reasonable human needs. Our needs include freedom from abuse, violence, and mistreatment, the right to autonomy and self-direction, the right to represent ourselves, equal opportunity for education and employment, the right to accommodation, and societal inclusion and acceptance.
The need for accommodation isn’t a “special need”. It’s a basic human right. It’s a leveling of the playing field that allows us the same opportunities and chances as non-disabled people."
- Amethyst Schaber, http://neurowonderful.tumblr.com/
#51
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:27 PM
Frilled lizard dilophosaurus and the half blind tyrannosaurus rex.
A poison-spitting frilled lizard is AWESOME! Who cares if there's no scientific basis behind it?
Seriously people, you accept giant alien robots but not fictional dinosaurs.
---Dave
#52
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:28 PM
You're just a Twihard.
Original vampires never existed either so your point is kind of lost in translation I think.
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#53
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:29 PM
Realism is ridiculous?
I want to point out that recently the remains of an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus was found with feathers. An adult ancestor. And so it's extremely likely that Tyrannosaurus did, too. The only reason to believe he didn't previously was that no large animal like him had been discovered with feathers in adulthood, but now there has.
http://www.wired.com...huali-feathers/
But there are also Tyrannosaurus skin impressions with scales. That doesn't necessarily prove that they didn't have feathers somewhere on their bodies, but they weren't completely covered in them like a lot of their relatives.
I like feathered dinosaurs. They're exotic and cool and generally portrayed more colorfully. I really wish more media were portraying them that way. I think this shift is taking even longer to catch than the abandoning of the tail-dragging sluggish thing took to go away. I want to see bright colorful exotic feathered dinosaurs EVERYWHERE they show up.
The tail-dragging sluggish dinosaur idea didn't really completely fade from public consciousness until Jurassic Park.
So what we need is something equally high-profile that has feathered dinosaurs in it.
#54
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:30 PM
Yeah, but if you point out that real robots can't transform into cars and aren't aliens from another planet, I don't get super mad about it.
#55
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:33 PM
Yeah, but if you point out that real robots can't transform into cars and aren't aliens from another planet, I don't get super mad about it.
But what's going to get people's attention? The scientifically accurate dullard-bots that can barely do anything, or Optimus Prime?
I rest my case.
---Dave
#56
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:34 PM
Jurassic Park 4, apparently.
For reals.
#57
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:35 PM
Yeah, but if you point out that real robots can't transform into cars and aren't aliens from another planet, I don't get super mad about it.
But what's going to get people's attention? The scientifically accurate dullard-bots that can barely do anything, or Optimus Prime?
I rest my case.
And if Optimus Prime was named "ASIMO", you'd have a point.
#58
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:35 PM
Frilled lizard dilophosaurus and the half blind tyrannosaurus rex.
A poison-spitting frilled lizard is AWESOME! Who cares if there's no scientific basis behind it?
Seriously people, you accept giant alien robots but not fictional dinosaurs.
I don't think it's cool. It turns what was actually the apex predator of its day into a hooting little lizard that vomits goo. The actual Dilophosaurus was twenty feet tall and wore a freaking CROWN on its head.
"Disabled people don’t have special needs. We have very reasonable human needs. Our needs include freedom from abuse, violence, and mistreatment, the right to autonomy and self-direction, the right to represent ourselves, equal opportunity for education and employment, the right to accommodation, and societal inclusion and acceptance.
The need for accommodation isn’t a “special need”. It’s a basic human right. It’s a leveling of the playing field that allows us the same opportunities and chances as non-disabled people."
- Amethyst Schaber, http://neurowonderful.tumblr.com/
#59
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:36 PM
Frilled lizard dilophosaurus and the half blind tyrannosaurus rex.
A poison-spitting frilled lizard is AWESOME! Who cares if there's no scientific basis behind it?
Seriously people, you accept giant alien robots but not fictional dinosaurs.
I don't think it's cool. It turns what was actually the apex predator of its day into a hooting little lizard that vomits goo. The actual Dilophosaurus was twenty feet tall and wore a freaking CROWN on its head.
Really? Why didn't they put that into one of the movies?
They tried putting in a different predator in 3, but they screwed it up because I'm fairly sure Spinosaurus is a fish eating dinosaur.
---Dave
#60
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:37 PM
"Americans FOR science and featherless skin"
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