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Feathernazis; a rant
Topic Started: Feb 7 2016, 05:22 PM (2,371 Views)
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No hard feelings Glarn, but you might want to quit while you're ahead.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
The Ditch- Nothing is what if seems..
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GlarnBoudin
Feb 7 2016, 07:30 PM
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Feb 7 2016, 06:14 PM
Hey GlarnBoudin, if you have problems with extremists it is fine, but do not come to plague the forum with the stupid hate about this kids fight.
Oh yeah, because nobody's EVER been dickish about this before. Remember my Ark thread? Out of all the discussion threads I've seen here, not one devolved as quickly as that one did. The entire thing was basically a contest of "who can shit on Ark: Survival Evolved the most".

To everyone, I'm certainly not disputing the fact that dinosaurs had feathers-they definitely did. I have no problems with the idea of feathered dinosaurs-in fact, I grew up with the idea of feathered dromaeosaurs. What I do have a problem with is the fact that you people decided to take that information and use it as an excuse to say, "Because this thing really looked like this, I'm going to tell anyone who ever draws it with even the slightest change that their opinion is wrong and that they should be ashamed for 'betraying' nature by depicting said thing in such a way."

To Russwallac, you do realize that Johnfaa alone has pulled shit on a much greater caliber than this multiple times, right?

To Hybrid, thanks for pointing those out, actually. I was referring to the Dodorex as the 'biggest, baddest creature'. Also, that texture artist is not back with The Isle-she tried applying for a job with Saurian, but they literally just laughed when they saw her application. She's actually working for Mesozoica now, revamping all of their textures.
As for palaeofail, I sadly don't think that there's a way to prove that I submitted those pieces-I'm pretty sure that only the one who runs the blog has access to that.
I used that one asshole as an example-again, something I should have stated-due to the fact that he has a large following, has made a lot of shit like the stuff I showed, and his attitude towards anyone who disagrees with him is, "I'm the smartest person in the world, I have scientific followers, those who like what I dislike are my enemies, so I'll do everything in my scientific power to put them down so I can build myself up further. I'm smarter than they are, no matter how much I don't know about that guy, I just know I'm smarter."
Dinosaur Island is a crappy movie that only made money because a crapload of feathernazis creamed themselves over the idea of a rainbow-colored feathered T-rex in a film, causing them to completely forget about the fact that the film was incredibly crappy.

To Sayornis, I meant the animal as a whole-something I should have elaborated on. We're never going to know dinosaurs' metabolisms or behaviors, what sounds they made (Besides the hadrosaurs), what they smelt like, how they raised young. Ultimately, all we're going to get is ancient traces of what once was.
Also, you do have a point there with the scaled raptor, although whether or not it would get chilly depends on the environment.

Think about it this way. Say that a game depicts dragons slightly differently than other games do-let's say with poisonous gas as a breath weapon, and as a result, shitloads of dragon fanboys start shitting on the game mercilessly, saying that the game's dragons aren't 'real' dragons, but "plagued lizards" or something along those lines, creating thousands of pieces of art, videos, online rants, etc. That's essentially what's happening here with dinosaurs. People can do what they want with a setting in fiction-if they want scaled dinosaurs, there is nothing wrong with that, no matter how much you whine about it.
HOLY SHIT and I thought I was already having a bad day.

Peace out.


Not. This thread seems a bit ridiculous, don't you think? No offense.


By Deinonychrists Feather Beard man, I was joking. (Sort of) Just chillax man, even though the designs of ARK are horribly inaccurate on purpose to piss offevery single short-tempered paleo-nerds (I'm joking, jeez you don't have to take this so seriously man.) and that at least the first JP movie tried to be accurate (For its time), but JW kind of ****** up. For example by trying to show dinosaurs had feathers with tiny subtle hints that nearly no one would ever notice and appeasing to the audience that doesn't want their dinosaurs and politics to change?

Dr. Wus statement and the feathered lizard. WHY JW WHY?! And the politics thing is even worse. Voting for Donald Trump...

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Don't take this too seriously man... Really, don't. It even has the unholy name of "Donald Trump" in it to show that this is definitely not serious.

Why are you luring me into this silly discussion Glan? Why Glan, why must you do this? (No offense, this is definitely not to be taken seriously.)


Dodorex? You mean that abomination that was more creative than Verizonous Pepsisaurocus (Indominus rex) , but VERY slightly? By making a shrink wrapped T. rex and sticking beaks, fire breath and giant awesome bro stuff on it? Yeah... The only animal in the game that makes sense to me is the Megalosaurus. Which is suprisingly accurate compared to EVERYTHING else in the game. EVERYTHING. (Glan, really don't take this seriously.)


Glan are you being serious or is this a joke thread made to lure people into the madness? (Definitely not, but I'm being serious this time.)


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Feb 7 2016, 08:46 PM
No hard feelings Glarn, but you might want to quit while you're ahead.
You're implying he was ever ahead to begin with.

Honestly having the most fun I've ever had in a long time reading this thread. It's like watching a car accident, except that it isn't an accident, and instead of cars, it's a bunch of beefy dudes shoving a tiny nerd into his own locker.
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That's quite the false-equivalency, to put it politely
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Can we please just lock this thread already? It's going nowhere, and I think locking it should give time for all parties involved to calm down.
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Hey, their right to get freaky ends when it goes up my nose.


I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now

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Feb 7 2016, 06:21 PM
lamna
Feb 7 2016, 06:19 PM
But remember, we have excellent skin impressions and preserved skin showing that not all dinosaurs were covered in feathers or quills. There was a reason people assumed that dinosaurs had scaly skin, it was all the scaly dinosaur skin that convinced us.
Skin impressions made by dead, rotting animals from a stage where the feathers had decayed enough for the skin to imprint into the mud.
(how did I not see this before?)

then how do you explain all the fossils of feathered dinosaurs who have their feathers intact?
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Feb 7 2016, 06:52 PM

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Every single dinosaur in Jurassic World NEEDS to have feathers, dammit!

Strawman.
I want a feathered nodosaur and a feathered ankylosaur.
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Feb 7 2016, 10:03 PM
Can we please just lock this thread already? It's going nowhere, and I think locking it should give time for all parties involved to calm down.
Agreed, this isn't going anywhere good and I'm going to lock this.
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