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Age: 21+
I mostly post about: Media I’m interested in (including that which I plan to make), personal matters, my mind’s machinations in general
My hobbies are: Gaming, writing (including blogging as of now, I guess)
My fandoms are: Pokémon, Sonic the Hedgehog, Megami Tensei, My Little Pony, the Nasuverse, Marvel, DC, and more (mostly in the realm of animanga and video games)
Favourite Movies: Jurassic Park, Mean Girls
TV Shows: Ted, The Looney Tunes Show, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Books: Jurassic Park, Raptor Red
Games: Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, RimWorld, Hades
Comics/Anime/Misc: Lucky☆Star, Jujutsu Kaisen, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Kemono Friends, Ghost Stories (yes, that dub), Sequential Art (webcomic), Aware (webcomic), ProfessorViral (YouTuber), Super Eyepatch Wolf (YouTuber), Dragon Ball Z Abridged (TeamFourStar @ YouTube) Sword Art Online Abridged (Something Witty Entertainment @ YouTube), Fate/stay night UBW Abridged (Project Mouthwash @ YouTube)
I'm looking to meet people who: Share my superior tastes, mostly—but in general, I’m up to try and click with anyone who will validate humor me
My posting schedule tends to be: No planned schedule, but I should be able to muster something new every week or two—and I’ll more or less always be down to shoot shit (via comment threads and/or PMs) in the meantime
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Not that I’d want to invoke the term ‘anti’ (I don’t think it’d be worth associating myself with some of the cognitive dissonance I’ve seen against such), but…I’m only, like, quarter-joking at most when I call myself an edgelord/degenerate, so keep that in mind (By that same token, though, minors need not apply)
Before adding me, you should know: See above about the whole ‘degen’ thing—though on that note, my profile at time of posting should be a fair enough ‘warning’, methinks
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Date: 2024-11-07 11:28 pm (UTC)Tell me about what you thought of it/about dinosaurs. I am ready and willing for the infodumping. My favorite is, though rather generic, the spino… I guess Jurassic Park III altered my brain chemistry.
I’m also a big fan of MLP, Pokemon, Sonic… comes with the ‘tism I suppose. /hj Ghost Stories unironically the best dub ever.
(Also, softcore mood on some of the weird cognitive dissonance in… well, either direction. Ugh.)
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Date: 2024-11-08 01:33 am (UTC)’Ello there, lmao—glad to provide some vindication! As for my thoughts on the book, it’s admittedly been a while since I’ve read it (’twas back in high school; I lent it to a teacher over the ensuing summer, only for neither her nor the book to get back to me), but what I do remember was a weird experience throughout that first dive in. It was my first foray into outright xenofiction as far as I can recall (unless a Warriors graphic novel counts, which I’d say is debatable), and the atmosphere conveyed through the prose came across as almost uncanny to me—in a good way, mind. Beyond the raptors themselves, the white pterosaur, Acrocanthosaurus (especially that shoreline scene—you know the one), and whip-tailed sauropod stuck out to me in particular as extensions of the perpetually-on-edge, vaguely ‘grungy’ vibes I got from it all.
As for dinosaurs in general—thank you for the go-ahead, by the way—Jurassic Park (the movie, that is) and The Land Before Time (sequels, that is; I’m still not actually sure I ever watched the original film…at least, not in full) are what I can cite as the collective spark for my ever-enduring adoration of them. From then on I was practically a fiend for paleodocs throughout my youth—Walking with, Planet Dinosaur, Jurassic Fight Club, you name it
maybe don’t name that last one though—and I found myself scouring the net on many an afternoon for more media portrayals that I could sink my teeth into besides: Zoo Tycoon (1 and 2) scratched my Hammondian itch for a while until I figured out how to download more than a demo for Operation Genesis; meanwhile, the demo of Paraworld that I managed to nab in the meantime taught tweenage me that I was nowhere near ready to play an RTS; Dinosaur King and Fossil Fighters stood toe-to-toe with Pokémon in my mind for a long while; Primeval is still a series I owe it to my once mind-blown self to watch in full someday…I still keep an eye out for stuff in that vein nowadays, but I’m a bit less enthusiastic about it as of late—thanks in part to varyingly deep burns from the likes of ARK and…essentially the entire ‘survive as a dinosaur’ subgenre (which I realize at this rate might be an inherently sketchy concept to strike gold with). JWE2 was pretty fun for a time, though, and the full release of Prehistoric Kingdom is one of my most anticipated games this decade—and outside of games, I’ve heard dino documentaries are having a bit of a resurgence as of late, so that’s nice.
That being said, I mostly just appreciate the actual academia nowadays—(summaries of) papers, more science-minded paleoart and such.
…Oh yeah! My favorite’s Allosaurus jimmadseni, for the record; yes, Big Al is a big reason why.
For the questionable circumstances surrounding its coalescence, what came out of it all genuinely inspires me as a creative—as a snarky, self-referential, and utterly absurd dramedy-of-sorts it has probably my favorite overall sense of tone out of any piece of media I’ve consumed, to the point I think that just clipping the funny bits doesn’t truly do it justice. That being said, I never did actually finish that first bingewatch of mine…
Yeah—a bit of, well, cognizance would be nice (or consistency, at least, in how responsible one wants to say a piece of media is/isn’t for people’s reactions to it)
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Date: 2024-11-08 02:44 am (UTC)(Well, I suppose xenofiction is anything in which the main character(s) are not human, so as lowly as I think of the Warriors series, it counts!)
"Grungy" is a good way to describe the vibe of the book, I think. It certainly didn't pull any punches, especially not during predation scenes (such as at the shoreline..). A grand fun time overall!
I'd say you owe it to yourself to give the first Land Before Time a full watch, as well! It's tonally quite different from the sequels. It's far darker, for one, and quite visceral in many instances. Something Bluth seemed to put his heart and soul into. I also spent a lot of time watching the old docs and docuseries, I had (and still have) Walking With Dinosaurs on tape. I'd watch it over and over again, and always tuned into Animal Planet or the Discovery Channel in the hopes of seeing more beautiful prehistoric monstrosities. As time passed, the more our understanding grew (such as moving away from the erroneous idea that they were all reptiles), it became all the more fascinating. Now I've got a Curiosity Stream account and a backlog of dino docs' from all over the net to watch.
Funny enough, I just added Dinosaur King to my archive. Fossil Fighters is something I have a physical copy of, as well as a couple of less-physical copies, so to speak. I still need a better stylus for my Retroid, though; trying to break the fossils out with your finger alone is a pain in the ass.
Have you ever seen The Dino King (aka Speckles: The Tarbosaurus)?
I enjoyed ARK and some aspects of the genre (The Isle might have been fun if not for the terrible community), and haven't taken to a zoo-style game since Zoo Tycoon. In the vein of middling dino-survival, though, I saw an ad for one that looked like it would be quite good. Sort of an Alien Isolation kind of vibe, from what I understand. I can't quite remember what it was called. And yes! We're seeing a great deal of new docs for the prehistoric. Thank god, there was such a deep lull for a while!
Have you seen this speedpaint?
It truly was a masterpiece in its own, absurd way. Ironically, I always felt that it carried itself better than most dubs, and better than quite a few anime overall. It knows what it's tone is and wants to be! And it knows it's not serious. Granted, I'll never forgive them for the ending... but, naturally, I won't spoil it for you! And those are only my feelings on it, after all.
Truly! Almost as if the topic is quite nuanced... I suppose "it depends" and similar is the answer anyone would expect from a psyche student, though. :P Perhaps something to the effect of "just don't be a dick" would suffice for some people? If only!
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Date: 2024-11-09 02:10 am (UTC)Ah, I see—and wholly agreed, in any case!
Mhm, so I’ve heard—and seen in part, at least; I’m pretty sure the death of Littlefoot’s mom would’ve devastated me way back when…maybe not enough for me to not root for Sharptooth at some point (yes, I was that kind of kid), but still.
Y’know, I’ve been meaning to check CS out for a while now—forty bucks for a year, huh? Eh, I don’t see why not!
I tried out the Dinosaur King DS game through totally-legal-means™ myself for a spell (I wanna say a few-ish years ago), but found myself getting a bit bored past the first area—shout-out to it randomly having this banger of a boss battle theme, though. On a more recent note, back when I was still into role-playing, I tried to get my fix of that franchise through a Discord server instead…until I realized I kinda despised some of the people running the show there (still feel sorta bad for sitting on a few raffled-out character slots only to do absolutely nothing with them before leaving).
On the other hand, I first got into Fossil Fighters through one of my cousins loaning me the first game—obviously the premise itself hooked me, but I never actually got that far from what I can recall. Certainly not to the Duna reveal, at least, so I had absolutely no context when that cameo came around in Champions (which I got my own copy of
courtesy of my mom, of course, methinks—and in any case, actually played to completion). Didn’t stop her in particular (or her theme) from having an impact on me, though…I am honestly surprised that I don’t remember having a crush on her or anything. What gives, little guy?
Also, while I do have the intended hardware, the fossil minigame is honestly the biggest reason why I haven’t gone back to either game—I gave as much a shot around a year or two ago, and worked myself up way too much trying to excavate everything perfectly even from the start of the game. ’Twas too draining for my tastes, combined with the rest of the early-game drag. Before even that, though, I also ended up in a Discord roleplaying server based on the series—and it was honestly a much more enjoyable experience for how short-lived it wound up being…aside from a moderation dilemma that, as a mod (whose reaching-out for recruitment was honestly one of my life’s highlights), I probably had a heavy hand in making worse than it needed to be. Oh well.
Maji, if you’re reading this, I’m sorry. You were still kind of a jackass though, I hope you’ve read up on actual paleontological academia since then.Yes; yes, I have, actually! I can’t remember how I first came across it—I think it was just pure YouTube algorithm shenanigans—but once I sat down and gave it a shot…well, it was certainly a trip. A very cheesy trip with way more production value than I was expecting, but one I enjoyed in any case (though perhaps not quite according to authorial intent). I have yet to watch the sequel, but I do know of how it generally goes—which is indeed tempting to take a look at myself. Two things I could review/opine about in my journal, I suppose!
Hm; not sure if it’s what you’re talking about, but looking things up did remind me that Jurassic Park: Survival is (going to be) a thing—which is something that I’m definitely crossing my fingers for
now that I do remember it. There’s also Instinction, of which this gameplay showcase came to mind based on that description.No I have not, for whatever reason—though I’ll definitely consider changing that! I’ve known of Fred, at the least; my mind was blown when I found out those claymotion animations I occasionally saw in my YT feed were from the same guy as some of the illustrations on Wikipedia!
Good to know, in any case—I’ll brace myself for when I get back to it, lmao
“It depends” and “if only” indeed…
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Date: 2024-11-16 09:39 am (UTC)I have a print of a lovely depiction of the quote Littlefoot's mom says to him... even today it tugs at the heart strings. But I can't argue there; the sharptooth WAS the coolest dinosaur!I was so happy when Chomper was introduced to the main cast!
Truly! Cheaper if you're a student, iirc. I admit I would love a little more variety, but for the price it's phenomenal!
Lord! The music in it does go hard. I'm shocked you found a community for such a niche franchise! Then again, I suppose one is out there for anything, though they tend to be rife with... what I believe you're describing, among other issues. I still miss indie tumblr RP blogs. So much less pressure, and I met some truly talented writers back in the day!
I don't remember getting too far either, even when replying it recently. The early game really is a slog. Gotta say though, the music for that one went hard too. I mean, really! Very Pokemon-esque and adventure-y.
I feel like if I crushed on someone, it was probably the emo kid or something... not a lot of terribly memorable characters though, methinks. Maybe that was why? xD
The fossil minigame is hard as hell without the DS stylus. I kind of like trying to 100% all the excavations, it's one of those idly sissiphean challenges. "Make number go up" and serotonin, or something.
It showed up on... Netflix? For me once, and I conned my friend into watching it with me. Boy were we not prepared! I keep forgetting there was a sequel... I hope it's as wild a ride as the first! If you do write on it, I'll be thrilled to read.
Actually, I think it was Instinction! Oddly, The Lost World also looks virtually identical... I suppose I won't complain about more games in a genre I enjoy, but it does make things confusing. Here's hoping the best for Jurassic Park: Survival, too!
Dude is super talented... him and Dead Sound. Paleoart is so cool! And I hadn't even realized Fred's stuff was on Wikipedia! He really is talented.
Now... hopefully I formatted that one right! xD
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Date: 2024-11-23 09:15 am (UTC)Not gonna lie, it took me time to warm up to Chomper—I first watched the fifth movie before I did the second movie, so I was essentially introduced to him out of context; that being said, how sweet and soft-hearted he was felt more like a betrayal to my conception of the sharpteeth at the time…which was, of course, part of the point (kinda), but preteen me didn’t like said point (about predators and prey being all buddy-buddy) anyways. Though, the subtitled sharptooth dialogue did pique my interest to see in any case.
Though by the time I started looking into the TV series, I’d mellowed out enough about “muh realism” to appreciate him—especially in that one episode where he ended up talking theropod-to-theropod with one of the recurring antagonists. I’d say I remained ambivalent overall, though.
…Also I just found out that apparently Ikue Ōtani voiced him in the fifth movie’s Japanese dub. Over the years, I’ve come to realize what a small world my childhood media palette comprises…
My main pain point was not being the biggest ego in the room by far—I jest, in part, but there was one mod in particular who would just not shut up about his crackpot Saurophaganax speculations…
…Not that I could definitively dismantle said speculations, of course (and I couldn’t muster up the will to even try and poke holes after enough heel-digging on his part), but it got increasingly tiring seeing someone doing basically the opposite of what Horner did for T. rex—that is, pile extreme estimate upon extreme estimate to peddle his already questionable taxon of a comfort theropod as the definitive biggest, most badass sauropod-slayer to ever apparently overhunt and subsequently starve itself into extinction—and then use that much as justification to even further centralize the server’s goings-on around whatever self-aggrandizing antics he and the rest of his clique(’s characters) wanted to get up to.
He also often touted that he was pursuing a paleontology degree as an avenue to prove all those assertions himself, so I have to wonder how that’s going by now.
Petty as I am, I hope for the worst.Man, for how much I found myself eventually (and admittedly, a bit unfairly) bristling against tumblr, one of my favorite things to tune into were those nifty little in-character “ask” blogs—especially those courtesy of fellow bronies back in the day (which were how I was introduced to tumblr in the first place)…including a few especially notorious ones that I honestly should not have ingested from such a young age for how formative they might’ve ended up being for me. Ah well.
Tremolo Hunter, When Dark Sparks Fly, and Category Six are up there on my favorite tracks to have come out of the DS—pretty sure the latter two especially played a large part in keeping me pumped up as I kept bashing my head against the final boss.
Yeah, that tracks—even for how much I remember Champions’ twist villain reveal absolutely flooring me as a kid, I keep forgetting there even was one nowadays.
Duly noted; I’ll keep it in mind, thanks lmao
Talented indeed; wholly agreed on the Dead Sound shoutout—artistry of the whole Dinosauria series aside, “The Last Tyrant” genuinely gutted me in a way I thought I’d grown past…
Speaking of talent, the ever-prolific RJ Palmer definitely has my respect in that regard—especially for that freakish edge to a lot of his fiction reinterpretations in particular. And on the topic of reinterpretation, for as much of a stick-in-the-mud as he sometimes comes across to me, Unnatural History Channel provides a proverbial smorgasbord of food for thought when it comes to creature design.
Nothing looks off to me, at least!
And I suppose now we’re about even as to the delay, hehno subject
Date: 2024-11-26 06:08 am (UTC)Y'know, I haven't watched the TV series yet. Was thinking about tossing it on my Plex server sometime to do so. I really like the idea that Chomper talks with... what's his name? Redclaw? And the other theropods. I wish they cared enough to go into the lore of why pterodactyls, notoriously fish and small creature-eating beasts, wouldn't be LBT's version of bilingual... or why they were welcome at all. Maybe fish aren't people in that world? (Mo is an ichthyosaur, if I'm remembering correctly, and therefore a marine reptile)... Mm, I might have to think on that more later.
With VAs, it truly is a small, small world!
That's certainly an interesting take on... well, any single theropod, really. As much as I love dinosaurs, I've done little actual work regarding them, so I can't do much more than raise a brow on that one. It does feel very "justifying my OP/super cool character"-y, though, with that context.
Perhaps even if they are successful in their studies, they'll be shot down by every professor and colleague for such a bold claim? Sweeping statements like those tend to be laughed out of the room in many academic circles, as far as I've seen (again, mind, I'm not in the paleo-sphere).
Ah, Molestia or Little Miss Rarity? XD
On bronies though, I do greatly miss the glory days of them... certainly the most accepting, thoughtful fandom I had been a part of since the golden days of furries. Or perhaps my glasses are rose-colored because I was younger, and less people made discourse their entire life. Ah, well.
Truly; I found the first Yo-Kai Watch to be rather tedious, but main battle theme really kept me engaged. Music is strange that way. Or maybe I just really like monster tamer games (I do). Funny, when you listen to that theme on its own, it sounds... different? Than when you're actually mid-battle. Neat!
Oh yeah, there was a twist...
That entire series of shorts felt so profound and meaningful, but I agree with you on that one in particular.
I completely forgot he had a YouTube! I think I remember some annoying remarks from him on Twitter, admittedly (a stick-in-the-mud indeed), his work is gorgeous and his videos are incredibly helpful. I should go back and rewatch a bunch of them, I've been meaning to design some creatures...
Excellent! And I suppose so. Ah well, no rush. Long-form blogging and forum communication doesn't need to be instant... Which I quite prefer at this point, honestly.
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Date: 2024-11-30 03:48 am (UTC)Yeah, that’s what I figure will happen at some point—here’s to hoping, at least…
Both, actually! Though more so the former; mini-me was a bit too squeamish at what little I did wind up seeing of Lil Miss to want to dive much deeper at the time, my sense of morbid curiosity being exceptionally cowardly back then (I don’t even remember giving Cupcakes a read until I was already out of high school).
…Meanwhile, mindlessgonzo’s ‘performance’ for the Princess (etc.) herself is practically embedded into my brainfolds, for how long it’s been since I listened to such repeatedly.
For what it’s worth, I feel the exact same way (except without broader furrydom as a frame of reference beforehand)—granted, I definitely had an easier time fitting into places in general back then, but the heyday
or hayday, evenof the brony community truly seemed to me like it had a place for all sorts……Even if some of those places (expectedly enough) wound up at each others’ throats for whatever reason. As one of my first big fandom scenes, this was also my first big exposure to fandom drama—and honestly, part of why I look back on those days so fondly is probably because my (more) conceited and myopic ego let me stay comfortably detached from a lot of the more involved/‘meta’ discourse throughout (which I could in turn just sit in front of my screen and laugh at snarky recaps of).
…Not to say I wasn’t personally invested in at least some of the pot-stirring, though; this was also around the time the allure of ✨critical analysis✨ started appealing to the aforementioned ego, so I soon enough found myself with a firm stick up my ass courtesy of whatever internet critics came off as funny/well-articulated enough for my liking: Twilight’s wings, Equestria Girls, Discord’s redemption(?) arc, Starlight Glimmer in general—you name it, I’d probably made it my personal 9/11 at some point before the oxymoron that is “objectively good writing” started to crumble against my increasingly opinionated psyche.
Same here—one of my most consistent sources of remorse is not giving myself enough time to formulate my thoughts properly, so it’s nice to not feel as put on the spot as I would be on, say, Reddit (or especially Discord).
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Date: 2024-12-01 07:30 am (UTC)Note 2: Oh thank god I fixed it.
Same, honestly. I was in jr high when MLP:FiM came out (2013-ish?) but wasn’t reading grimdark or horror until I was out of it (2017-ish). I actually have a reclist of grimdark fics. I skipped over Cupcakes and Rainbow Factory and that one about Big Mac and the CMCs until way later, which was a massive downgrade to the kind of stuff I was reading at the time. I hold very little nostalgia for them, sadly… but I do really like infection AUs. What I don’t like is how they’re all on TikTok and made by minors with “bronies DNI” in their profiles… Wild times we live in.
Er, anyway, I loved Molestia back on tumblr dot com. I’ve heard all sorts of rumors about the creator, but never looked into whether any of it was true. I just thought Celestia being a sex pest was hilarious.
I’m going to add those videos to my watch list. I either don’t remember them, or never got around to them. They look fun!
LMAO, hey, we all make mistakes. Personally I really like looking at media critically, but what the internet thinks of as “critical analysis” is… very not that. Like that infamous one about a certain show about sparkly rocks turning into people… Woof.
“Objectively good writing,” gods I hate people who are still in that mindset. Or at least, I hate their vibe. Just have fun, damn you! Stop making disliking a show your whole personality! (General you used, of course). I had a couple of stints like that, though it was less of a personal 9/11 and more of a blanket unwillingness to watch or read something because I arbitrarily decided they were “bad.” I still have some things like that, but it’s less disguised as “media critique” and more “I just like other shit, man.”
I’d make a Cinemasins joke, if I had something clever for it.
Fr. Character limits are also fuckin’ awful. Writing out a discussion in a limited text box is like pulling teeth. Half the time I have to rely on tone indicators because there’s not enough room for me to do anything but state the most monotone, bland version of what I want to say known to man. (No shade to tone indicators, they’re very useful for many people.)