In all fairness, it's been a couple years since I've read it as well. I've just never met someone else who's given it a go! Most people stop one or two chapters in. It's a shame, since it reads like a well-made docuseries, like Walking With Dinosaurs if it were focused more on narrative than overall education. (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!
…Oh yeah! My favorite’s Allosaurus jimmadseni, for the record; yes, Big Al is a big reason why.
what came out of it all genuinely inspires me as a creative
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.
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)
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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(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!