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feathered dinosaurs are way cooler than jurassic park dinosaurs and even though i'm not even a huge dinosaur fan it will take a lot to convince me otherwise

 

- Indigo Individuals

I dunno, I'm still convinced that a giraffe's diet mainly consisted of lawyers.

But I've seen a purple giraffe with horns! It's right here!

 

~B~

I KNEW that this was about Jurassic Park before I clicked
 
do I get a prize

I KNEW that this was about Jurassic Park before I clicked

 

do I get a prize

 

not really since knowing i'm complaining about Jurassic Park is like knowing a Michael Bay film will be terrible

um i completely disagree because i read the book that the movie was based on which automatically means giraffes obviously are this

everyone knows anything written is true.

Jaws is a totally valid representation of sharks. 

 

Not. 

Jaws is a totally valid representation of sharks. 

 

Not. 

 

As far as accurately representing its animal, Jaws still does an astronomically better job.

 

It's still flawed, of course, but it hardly compares to the massacre on actual science that is Jurassic Park

See, giraffes are like my second favorite animal, so I was pretty lost and engrossed in this narrative until you got to "chaos theory" and it all clicked

All dinosaurs could've been super duper fat blobs, we can't know for sure cause that stuff wouldn't get preserved. What if dinosaurs were never these big scary lizards of death and were all actually big blobby doofuses

See, giraffes are like my second favorite animal, so I was pretty lost and engrossed in this narrative until you got to "chaos theory" and it all clicked

 

All dinosaurs could've been super duper fat blobs, we can't know for sure cause that stuff wouldn't get preserved. What if dinosaurs were never these big scary lizards of death and were all actually big blobby doofuses

Yeah! I forgot what it's called, but apparently the way predictions about how dinosaurs looked are almost always entirely unrealistic because they stick too close to the bones. They really could have looked like anything (within reason)!

 

Maybe.

 

Maybe even giraffes?

 

Jaws is a totally valid representation of sharks. 

 

Not. 

 

As far as accurately representing its animal, Jaws still does an astronomically better job.

 

It's still flawed, of course, but it hardly compares to the massacre on actual science that is Jurassic Park

 

Perhaps Sharknado would be a better analogue.

 

My point: fiction movies do not do a good job of scientifically representing animals. They could do a better job...but yeah.

 

 

Jaws is a totally valid representation of sharks. 

 

Not. 

 

As far as accurately representing its animal, Jaws still does an astronomically better job.

 

It's still flawed, of course, but it hardly compares to the massacre on actual science that is Jurassic Park

 

Perhaps Sharknado would be a better analogue.

 

My point: fiction movies do not do a good job of scientifically representing animals. They could do a better job...but yeah.

 

 

Not even Sharknado messed sharks up as bad as Jurassic Park messed up dinosaurs, imo. People are just more willing to overlook errors in extinct animals than extant. (Besides, in terms of a fair comparison, Jaws and Jurassic Park are far more comparable, as they are both big-budget Spielberg horror films about animals eating people, while Sharknado is a low-budget sci fi film that was made knowing exactly how terrible it is.)

 

It's a shame that's the case because with extinct animals it's even more crucial as far as avoiding the spread of misinformation. If someone makes a movie and makes a blue squirrel, people will shrug it off because they see squirrels every day and they know squirrels aren't blue. If you make a raptor featherless, however, they don't have a frame of reference for it. They will assume that what they see is correct. Case in point: every form of media to give Dilophosaurus a frilled lizard frill after Jurassic Park.

 

edit: it just occurred to me that i've been approaching your posts as though you're trying to criticize me for disliking Jurassic Park for its numerous errors when you could just be a big shark fan who dislikes Jaws the same way I dislike Jurassic Park. If that's the case, I totally understand; Jaws inspired an unfounded phobia of sharks that persists to this day and leads to their unfair villainization in the eyes of the public.

Actually, gonna have to say Fishers is more justified in this one. Poor media representation of Dinosaurs is detrimental to biological archaeology as a whole, but ultimately Dinosaurs as we know them (birds notwithstanding) have been dead for a super long time and they are never coming back.

 

Bad media representation literally kills sharks on a terrifyingly daily level, be it in fear or because they are just so tasty apparently.

 

Not to discredit you, of course. I am greatly concerned with academic oversight. It's really important to me, too.

This is not about giraffes, I am disappointed.

 

While I get that JP is not an accurate representation of dinos, it doesn't really upset me that much. It's fun to research what Paleontologists have uncovered, but misrepresentation in the media just doesn't seem like a big deal. After all, dinos are long gone and while we know some of what they look like, we don't know any exacts. (Like what color they were, for example. When have paleontologists ever uncovered the color of various dinos?) I would be more concerned about antagonizing modern day animals, be they sharks, wolves, or chinchillas. (Granted, if eveybody went on a crusade to kill all wasps and nasty hornets... not bees... then I'd be perfectly fine with that.)

 

(Like what color they were, for example. When have paleontologists ever uncovered the color of various dinos?)

 

this time

To be fair, you do get extremely pedantic sometimes, Jess.

 

Then again, I have a hard time relating to your struggles here at times because the most egregious Airplane nonsense I see just makes me laugh.

(Granted, if eveybody went on a crusade to kill all wasps and nasty hornets... not bees... then I'd be perfectly fine with that.)

 

Oh! Wasps. I forgot. Wasps are kinda my thing.

 

Caterpillars must be stopped and Wasps are the answer.

J. Edgar Giraffe does not represent giraffes either. 

 

This is a grave injustice to all four-footed spotted long-necked animals ever walking the earth. 

 

(To be clear, this is a joke. The previous comments about Jaws weren't, thanks Makaru, but this one is.)

Actually, gonna have to say Fishers is more justified in this one. Poor media representation of Dinosaurs is detrimental to biological archaeology as a whole, but ultimately Dinosaurs as we know them (birds notwithstanding) have been dead for a super long time and they are never coming back.

 

Bad media representation literally kills sharks on a terrifyingly daily level, be it in fear or because they are just so tasty apparently.

 

Not to discredit you, of course. I am greatly concerned with academic oversight. It's really important to me, too.

as i recall, especially in the instance of shark fin soup, it's not for the taste, it's for the texture

which i think makes it far worse, because it's not even like this is something valuable or this is some taste that is non-existent elsewhere

it's literally just how the soup feels, physically

all of those things are already awful but it's like that just adds an extra level of awful on top of it

 

- Indigo Individual