That's a cactus, but to answer your other question: Cacti aren't able to connect to the internet despite looking vaguely like antennae, so it's a decent symbol to get the point across.
The developers chose the dinosaur theme as a reference to the game's function, a joke that not having an internet connection is equivalent to living in the "prehistoric ages".
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phorq@lemmy.ml · 56 pts · 1y
That's a cactus, but to answer your other question: Cacti aren't able to connect to the internet despite looking vaguely like antennae, so it's a decent symbol to get the point across.
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 1y
because having no internet feels like being in the stone age, when dinosaurs coexisted with humans.
(this was before Jesus invented the internet)
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Al Gore is the messiah?
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 1y
some* dinosaurs predate the invention of the internet
also the desert is a remote location less likely to get a signal
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
What dinosaurs were discovered to have evolved after the internet? Otherwise even if they still exist in some way they predate it.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
I was right for the wrong reasons, I was thinking of chickens
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
Is that why we call them predators?
rossome@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 1y
Make sure to hit the space bar a couple times when you see that screen.
Mickey7@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
what happens if you do?
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 1y
He jumps
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
And then runs. Forever. Until cacti or a crow kills it.
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1y
Say this is a joke?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_Game
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
You are kidding, right? 😒
Hamknight@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It starts a dinosaur themed game where you scroll endlessly and have to avoid obstacles
Mickey7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
How do you start the game?
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
So that you could play the funny T-rex game.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
To distract you from the Epstein files or something
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
*trumpstein
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 1y
Ermahgerd Errrpschternnn!
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Release the Trump/Epstein files
Dicska@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Boring answer: T-Rex has proportionally short arms. It can't reach the Internet.
Actual answer: They didn't have a choice in that. They programmed it at gunpoint, held by a T-Rex.
individual@toast.ooo · 4 pts · 1y
m3t00@piefed.world · 2 pts · 1y
always thought it seemed related to kitten cannon. same timeframe maybe. still in use?
https://www.crazygames.com/game/kitten-cannon