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I don't actually hate jurassic park, the title is purely facetious.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Counterpoint: Jeff Goldblum’s bare chest.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Also life uhh finding a way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is up with power-tripping mods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They should take a page from Ned’s book.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jurassic Park did popularize the relatively new idea of dinosaurs being related to birds with the public, which is pretty awesome. They also made us finally forget the image of tails dragging on the ground as the default. It wasn't as accepted that many dinosaurs had feathers at the time, with it still being likely that the biggest ones had very few in the same way that elephants don't have furry coats.

They intentionally altered with the dinosaurs' designs to make them better monsters. They reshaped the t-rex's skull and teeth in a way that would have made it a less effective hunter, just so it looked scarier. They turned the dilophosaurus into a spitting cobra because it was cool, and made velociraptor way bigger because a human sized intelligent monster is a fantastic movie villain.

I think feathered dinosaurs will become the norm in movies because they are so freaking cool. Jurassic Park made them cooler by being more accurate to what they were actually like, so a new successful blockbuster will eventually update dinosaurs with all the cool shit we've learned since then.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

My favorite fact about all this is that Spielberg insisted on the giant raptors during production. Around the same time the Utahraptor was first being studied, an actual giant raptor about the same size.

Less fun fact, it was gonna be name Utahraptor Spielbergi but it was changed last minute because Universal was suing museums over the word Jurassic. Trademark trolls ruin everything.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

IP is just as disgusting as physical property.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

they sued over the word Jurassic? Thats like Google suing over the word Carbon , jfc

Google did not actually do that, did they? 😨

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I like both. I got two framed pictures of archaeopteryx.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

true dinosaur fan

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I like both too, I just don't get why people hate feathered dinosaurs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

You take that back!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

feathered, bipedal \n thats not a man. How do you linebreak..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Use an empty

line where you want a new line

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Or just
two spaces at the end of the line

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

oh
my
god
i
did
not
know
this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but It’s a pain in the ass if your autocomplete thinks 2 spaces means a new sentence and replaces the first one with a period.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

yeah, ive always disabled everything that could change what i wrote. now i just stopped caring and installed a different keyboard from fdroid thats way more useful (it lets me use key combinations like im in a pc
I CAN DO CTRL+C and CTRL+V ON MY PHONE!!!
it is fun)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We can finally greentext properly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Except for, you know, the green part.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Shut. Yo. Mouth.

/jk

Edit love your meme OP, made me lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Gross weird little feathered things

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stub you're toe featherboy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

THE BIRDS ARE CUTE
THE FEATHERED DINOSAURS ARE CUTE
THE UNFEATHERED SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE DINOSAURS ARE CUTE
THE PTEROSAURS ARE CUTE
THE REPTILES ARE CUTE
THE KOBOLDS ARE CUTE
THE DRAGONS are not

how did we get here? i forgot

oh yeah
THE KOWOWOW is also not cute
i just dont know your species so i cant give you the whole cladogram, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Me, seeing all the inaccuracies in Jurassic Park: "That is one big pile of shit."