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| What annoys you about paleontology?; Rant on about moronic theories, complaints, or just animals that annoy you. | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 05:04 PM (256,484 Views) | |
| CyborgIguana | Oct 10 2013, 05:35 PM Post #241 |
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Yeah, but remember that these documentaries have a tendency to quote-mine their consultants (this is what happened in Clash of the Dinosaurs). Maybe Dinosaur George didn't even support these theories, the show just made it look like he did. Speaking of Clash of the Dinosaurs, while it turned out to be one of the trashiest documenaries ever, I think it had a lot of potential. The CGI models were gorgeous and for the most part fairly accurate. It could've been a quite decent documentary if they didn't decide to add a bunch of retarded BS theories like practically superpowered dinosaurs. I like to think of the recent Last Day of the Dinosaurs documentary as a fixed-up version of COTD. It used the same dinosaur models and much of the same footage, but it portrayed the lives of the dinosaurs and their extinction much more accurately than its predecessor. Edited by CyborgIguana, Oct 10 2013, 07:46 PM.
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| Similis | Oct 10 2013, 11:23 PM Post #242 |
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Minus the ninja-rambo style deinonychosaurs... *grumble grumble* but at least in the end they're shown to be quite fragile when some weight is put on those birdy bones. |
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| Furka | Oct 11 2013, 04:04 AM Post #243 |
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yeah, but do you want me to mention the final fight ? totally unrealistic and unnecessary (although first time i see a thropod beating an ankylosaur) |
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| Sheather | Oct 11 2013, 04:23 PM Post #244 |
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!
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Just the general complete lack of any sort of knowledge of extinct animals can be annoying. Yesterday my dad asked me to name 10 cars. I couldn't care less about cars but I know 10 - Ford Mustang, Pontiac Firebird, etc. So I asked him to name three dinosaurs. He knew two: T. rex, and Pterodactyl. Not even getting into it about Pterodactyl, he couldn't even remember what the T. stood for in T. rex. Now it's understandable not to know what an Incisivosaurus is, for example... but really, you've never heard of Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, or Velociraptor? I mean yeah I get it's not your thing but just by being alive I'd think you'd learn a couple.
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| Furka | Oct 11 2013, 04:28 PM Post #245 |
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that's very odd. people usually know at least all 4 of the most famous dinosaurs (Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus and "Brontosaurus"), and many can also tell you raptor, although not many know what a raptor exactly is ... |
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| CyborgIguana | Oct 11 2013, 04:28 PM Post #246 |
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Indeed. While it's not his thing either, my dad can still name at least 20 different dinosaurs (most of which he's learned from me, but still). |
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| Jules | Oct 11 2013, 05:09 PM Post #247 |
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo
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My father knows quite a lot (he learned most from me or reading dinosaur books with me when I was a child though). |
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| CyborgIguana | Oct 12 2013, 04:11 AM Post #248 |
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The fact that almost every single depiction of Dilophosaurus these days portrays it as venomous. Yes, it was an interesting and creative addition to the JP Dilophosaurus, but do we really need EVERY SINGLE DILO TO BE A SPITTER??? (the one example I can forgive is the Primal Carnage Dilo, since it is pretty darn fun to blind Pathfinders with Dilo spit). |
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Oct 12 2013, 04:30 AM Post #249 |
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That's funny, i was just about to make the same complaint! Anyway, what annoys me about paleontology: Automatically assuming all Ceratopsids had quills just because Psittaccosaurus had them. People who still think that Quetzacoatlus was a coastal diver that was virtually the same thing as Pteranodon, but bigger. The fact that one of the first images of Velociraptor on Google images is a JP-style one. The fact that I'm too lazy to learn more pterosaurs. The incredibly confusing name history of Edmontosaurus. (I'm still not sure whether Anatotitan is a valid species) The WWD T. rex (I'll explain later) The fact that Primal Carnage's dinosaur classes are all blatant ripoffs of Jurassic Park. The fact that Plesiosaurs are still portrayed as having bendynecks. The fact that Liopleurodon is always FREAKING huge in the media even though it was actually one of the smaller pliosaurs. The fact that DM's Giganotosaurus is shorter than giga actually was.(To elaborate, here's how tall the giga is ingame: Now here's how tall it actually was: )
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| CyborgIguana | Oct 12 2013, 04:34 AM Post #250 |
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Primal Carnage is an awesome game, though. At least they made the Pteranodon toothless, had Dilophosaurus sized correctly, and left the neck frill off. |
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Oct 12 2013, 04:40 AM Post #251 |
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Meh, i always have trouble playing it because my laptop isn't exactly the fastest thing in the world. TF2, on the other hand, i do things just fine, unless it's a really active server, then it's slower than a slug riding a snail riding a sloth riding an anaconda riding turtle riding a blue whale. On-topic, i hate the way people use raptor anims for large dinosaurs in ZT2. Have you seen how fast Tyranachu's Spinosaurus is? I mean, not to offend the guy or anything, he's a close friend of mine, but it moves unrealistically fast. |
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| Similis | Oct 12 2013, 05:03 AM Post #252 |
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Anims can be slowed down as far as I recall... >.> Maybe we should start a topic "what annoys you in ZT designing?" ? |
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| Furka | Oct 12 2013, 07:31 AM Post #253 |
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agree, this is about Paleontology, not ZT2 stuff
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| DinoBear | Oct 12 2013, 10:20 AM Post #254 |
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I agree, too; although DM's Giga isn't actually too small at all, it's just that its upper legs are nearly parallel to the ground. One thing that annoys me is when dromaeosaurids are treated as gods in a paravian's clothing. There is no way 2 Deinonychus could take down a juvenile sauropod, like in Clash of the Dinosaurs. They were very cool animals, and were defiantly very dangerous, but they simply couldn't kill an animal several hundred times large their size. I'd even favor a Citipati over a Velociraptor in a fight. |
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Oct 12 2013, 10:35 AM Post #255 |
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Pull my finger!
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DeviantArt's Feather Nazis group. While I do admire their artwork (and support their cause), they're like too uber-strict about accuracy, such as toe size, amount of teeth added, etc. |
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I mean yeah I get it's not your thing but just by being alive I'd think you'd learn a couple.




Now here's how tall it actually was:
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