Klear

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Shout out to Jurassic Park 3 which, while terrible in its own way, at least added quills to some of the raptors. At first I thought it strange that only some of them got new design and some of them looked the same as in the first two movies but then it hit me - the ones with the quills were males, while the first two movies had only females!

So yeah, World has zero excuse when even JP3 got some proto-feathers in despite using the same dinos as the first one.

I was disappointed that they didn't take the chance and do feathered dinosaurs where appropriate in World. Back when Jurrasic Park came out, dinosaurs evolving into birds wasn't common knowledge and the average person saw them as huge, slow and dumb. The movie did a TON of work of bringing the then-current understanding of dinosaurs into the public consciousness. The new movies could have done the same, but decided to play it safe instead.

Such a missed opportunity! The designers could have gone nuts on feathered designs. And hell, they could still have the "classic" designs around, the movie even features some of the animals from the original island.

Second huge missed opportunity was that the second movie didn't take place in the ruins of the original park so it could be called "Jurrasic World: The Lost Park".

on Le Penguini · c/science_memes · 13 pts · 357d

Which is great news. There are species where births in zoos are in fact statistically significant =/

He has a wikipedia page with full name an employment history. I suspect it's less doxing and more than he was never keeping his identity a secret, though I only joined reddit as he was on his way out so I wouldn't know for sure.

on I'm ready! · c/fedimemes · 2 pts · 359d

Hell yeah, I've been waiting for Boost support too. Is piefed.world working for you? I'm tempted to move to quokka.au because that name is awesome.

“Choices” in story are not choices, completely useless.

That, at least, is a staple for the series, so I can't be mad about it. Otherwise I mostly agree. I was enjoying the story and worldbuilding until about the time when the portals to other dimensions started appearing and the plot went sideways. From then on it was mostly bullshit they tried to explian by repeating "quantum mechanics" over and over.