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Underappreciated Spec?; A celebration of projects you might not have heard of
Topic Started: Aug 4 2016, 05:29 PM (6,787 Views)
LλmbdaExplosion
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Not by new "specers"
When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes.




Prepare for unforeseen consequences,Mr. Freeman!
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Jewel Cichlid the elite soldier
Jan 5 2018, 06:51 PM
Not by new "specers"
The the title of this thread says under appreciated spec.



Anyway, I would like to give a shout out to Uncanny Gemstar's Haemos Island. Check that out
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Enjoying our azure blue world

Please read the rules in the opening post before posting. This is only about projects that are on this site.
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Flashman's projects are definitely qualified for this thread. They combine good storytelling with well-done spec, running the gamut from retrosaurs to Lovecraft to terrestrial jellyfish.
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IIGS´s Punga is interesting at least his best spec so far, is not perfect but is a nice take on teh terraforming wave started by serina
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction
coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest
and who knows what is coming next...........

" I have to know what the world will be looking throw a future beyond us
I have to know what could have been if fate acted in another way
I have to know what lies on the unknown universe
I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken
throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace
the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings"
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Marvellous Valley. the premise was good for an Alternate Universe project. and i loved most of the species depicted by the creator (specially the theropodal amphibians, really neat bois), i kinda miss it, havent seen an update on it in years, i think.
Edited by xaritscin, Jan 21 2018, 07:45 PM.
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I would like to nominate two projects:

Dante...there are the occasional updates on Sheather's dA page, but otherwise nothing (so far as I know)

Morpheus
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"Marsupialless Australia" (what-if) & "Out on a Branch" (future evolution) & "The Earth under a still sun" (WIP)
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Out of my entire experience so far on SE...

My most favorite project I have ever seen is Umbriel...

I wonder if it's still active
“There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest."
"No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?”


"Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire." -Voltaire

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"One of those capsules hit a wing." Victor said. "Had to do an emergency landing." He pointed to a crumpled plane a couple dozen meters behind him and shrugged. "Not my most elegant landing."
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"I must ask you to leave now." -Everyone (not realy though) in Flisch's story "Spec Evo: Void Entry"

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Not gonna lie, I don't know why Skwidbox's Ishtar hasn't been mentioned. It's one of my favorite projects and even though it has tons of views it rarely gets much love outside the xenobiology section.

EDIT: Also SetaceousCetacean's Solais. Another favorite.
Edited by opeFool, Feb 3 2018, 02:06 PM.
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"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere."
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Feb 3 2018, 01:23 PM
Out of my entire experience so far on SE...

My most favorite project I have ever seen is Umbriel...

I wonder if it's still active
Don't worry, its not dead. ;)

I don't promise anything soon, but activity will resume when the time is right.
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https://pristichampsus.deviantart.com/gallery/64372791/The-Future-is-Wild

Remember that scene from Homie the Clown where Homer (dressed as Krusty) beats up the Krusty Burglar and one of the kids watching tells him to stop because he's already dead?

Tim Morris = Homer
The Krusty Burglar = The Future is Wild (and King Kong and Primeval)
Me = The kid
My sporadically updated Youtube page

Do you get it? I hardly ever come here so I'm like something a cryptozoologist would study
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http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/1194918/1/

Despite the art needing some work, the concepts here are still quite solid; funnily enough, I actually met the creator of this project, and he still carries his username based on this project. (http://professorcene.deviantart.com)
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truteal
Feb 10 2018, 03:58 AM
https://pristichampsus.deviantart.com/gallery/64372791/The-Future-is-Wild

Remember that scene from Homie the Clown where Homer (dressed as Krusty) beats up the Krusty Burglar and one of the kids watching tells him to stop because he's already dead?

Tim Morris = Homer
The Krusty Burglar = The Future is Wild (and King Kong and Primeval)
Me = The kid
At least some of these guys are plausible.Except the fucking squids,insects and pinch catfish.Cat's barbels are used for smelling and tasting the surrounding water for prey.I DOUBT that catfish could evolve such organs.
When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes.




Prepare for unforeseen consequences,Mr. Freeman!
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Feb 28 2018, 02:57 PM
truteal
Feb 10 2018, 03:58 AM
https://pristichampsus.deviantart.com/gallery/64372791/The-Future-is-Wild

Remember that scene from Homie the Clown where Homer (dressed as Krusty) beats up the Krusty Burglar and one of the kids watching tells him to stop because he's already dead?

Tim Morris = Homer
The Krusty Burglar = The Future is Wild (and King Kong and Primeval)
Me = The kid
At least some of these guys are plausible.Except the fucking squids,insects and pinch catfish.Cat's barbels are used for smelling and tasting the surrounding water for prey.I DOUBT that catfish could evolve such organs.


Can you not be so inflammatory with the things you say? You're veering dangerously close to breaking the terms of service.
Edited by Talenkauen, Mar 1 2018, 01:58 AM.
PLEASE NOTE: If I come off as harsh or demanding whilst talking to you, please tell me. I apologize in advance.....


UPCOMING PROJECTS:

Projects here
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Talenkauen
Mar 1 2018, 01:32 AM
JewelCombineAdvisor
Feb 28 2018, 02:57 PM
truteal
Feb 10 2018, 03:58 AM
https://pristichampsus.deviantart.com/gallery/64372791/The-Future-is-Wild

Remember that scene from Homie the Clown where Homer (dressed as Krusty) beats up the Krusty Burglar and one of the kids watching tells him to stop because he's already dead?

Tim Morris = Homer
The Krusty Burglar = The Future is Wild (and King Kong and Primeval)
Me = The kid
At least some of these guys are plausible.Except the fucking squids,insects and pinch catfish.Cat's barbels are used for smelling and tasting the surrounding water for prey.I DOUBT that catfish could evolve such organs.


Can you not be so inflammatory with the things you say? You're veering dangerously close to breaking the terms of service.
I am a cichlid.That's what fish do on the web.I am the angry.


Childish joke.

Anyways.I wasn't that angry but at least when somebody is doing something related to spec evo,you don't turn biology upside down for your pleaaaaasure.Sure everybody do whatever they want,but you know,at least do it right.
When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes.




Prepare for unforeseen consequences,Mr. Freeman!
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