MutantScalper
Dogmeat
Actually, his posts have vanished. Do you see any of his posts here on this board? His posts from my "Tactical shooters" - thread had vanished.
This is a mystery. Mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma.
Oh brother, this sounds almost unbelievable and just is begging for it to go wrong.
These are some of my most favorite comments:
Honestly, while I would love to talk with some developers to ask about how they come up with designs and storylines and if they could teach me new ways of thinking, a phone service in which you need to pay ridiculous amounts of money per minute makes it sound like some kind of phone sex call service.
It also rather speaks a lot about these developers, charging that much like they are some kind of rock stars.
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
There is no confidentialy clause on this part of the contract so I think I can share these Sketches. We are making a campaign to introduce a new system to an agency, I am not involved with the actual development with this one but They asked me to make a character and a slogan for the campaign. They liked the character but then asked me to do a female alternative and these are some of the concepts I brainstormed today.
Ragemage
Wept for Zion
MutantScalper
Dogmeat
Saw this pic on RT about the folks who are protesting the proposed oil pipeline in North Dakota, it's military veterans come to join the protestors. Kinda reminds me of Fallout. 'Fallout - North Dakota'?
https://www.rt.com/in-vision/369409-dakota-pipeline-veterans-protest/
https://www.rt.com/in-vision/369409-dakota-pipeline-veterans-protest/
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Dinosaur tail in amber:
That stuff ^^^ is, once and for all, actual feathers:
That stuff ^^^ is, once and for all, actual feathers:
Walpknut
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So dinosaurs were actually giant chikens, my childhood was a lie. Damn you Spilberg!
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Even more correct than merely joking about it - the feathers are very close to chickens, as in, baby birds, more so than the developed feathers of adult birds
They were "fur-like" feathers, long and soft, like thick hairs
But also, like birds, dinosaurs had scales. Birds have scaly feet. Dinosaurs were a hugely diverse group, and we're seeing evidence of spines (like porcupines) as well as lizard scales on many types of dinos, along with "feather-fur"
Walpknut
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That sounds adorable.
Raptors in particular probably had squirrel-like tails, well, the tiny ones at least
Yeah, what a chicken ...
There is still so much stuff that we will probably never know about them. Like the colour of the scales and feathers or their actuall voice, the colour of their eyes and so on.
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
Imagine a gritty Reboot of Jurassic Park with scientifically accurate Feathered dinos.
Actually, that is what the last Jurrasic Park movie should have done, trying to cram as much science into it as possible ... instead of going for 'teenage mutant ninja raptor/tyrano hybrids ...'.
The only part that was somewhat entertaining, was the training of the raptors and such.
Walpknut
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Didn't that movie have Raports on motorcycles?
Yeah, what a chicken ...
There is still so much stuff that we will probably never know about them. Like the colour of the scales and feathers or their actuall voice, the colour of their eyes and so on.
Funny you'd mention, with very recent technology, color can be deducted from extremely complete feathered specimens. Color in living tissue is a molecular behavior, and by anticipating what behavior fits what color, this can then be analyzed in the fossils: Different molecules degrade at different velocity, and are thus replaced by different minerals over time.
With this knowledge, scientists have managed to completely "color" at least ONE dinosaur, while others we know slight color patterns, such as "dark overside, light belly", which is pretty typical for animals.
This is the one we know the colors of exactly:
We also see striped tails in small carnivorous dinosaurs, which is also typical for long-tailed animals, like lemurs. The stripes "break up" the animal shape, and help camoflage.
As for voices, it's more tricky, but at least with duck-billed dinosaurs with "trombone"-like nasal structures, most famously Parasaurolophus, their "voice" has been reproduced. However, HOW they used their voice is of course not know, and will never be
Walpknut
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They were feathered living Trombones.
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They were all kinds of weird shit, and it's kind of odd that it's taking the scientific community this long to realize how little a skeleton tells us about the living thing.
Sure, the skeleton DOES provide a template for every single muscle, because skeletons serve as muscle attachment points. But beyond that, cartillage, skin, integument, we are only scratching the surface of how profoundly weird (or ass ugly, depending on how you judge it) many of these creatures were
