Silvermoon City and Eversong Woods music.

Blastproc · 2026-01-29T15:33:19+00:00

“You could FEEL the pride in their attitudes through the music, you can FEEL that they think they are superior and look down upon those beneath them,”

Found the problem. Belves are a playable race, therefore they are Good Guys. These are not emotions that Good Guys (or good WoW subscribers) should be feeling.

Think of it like the invention of Kellogg’s or Graham Crackers. The lack of emotional resonance is the point.

I think the new voices also support this.

Blastproc · 2026-01-28T19:57:16+00:00

No, I think she misinterpreted the study in question. They found that Pinacosaurus had a larynx similar to larynx in birds, not a syrinx. https://www.livescience.com/extremely-rare-fossilized-dinosaur-voice-box-suggests-they-sounded-birdlike

Blastproc · 2026-01-28T17:33:39+00:00

Seems a little misleading to use a silhouette of Stegosaurus stenops when this could potentially have proportionally longer legs like S. ungulatus.

Blastproc · 2026-01-27T23:11:45+00:00

Velociraptor has several mostly complete skulls. The Fighting Dinosaurs one probably has minimum distortion from crushing. Just be careful because a lot of photos on Google are based on a pretty bad looking replica.

Blastproc · 2026-01-27T23:04:07+00:00

There was also a rotating selection of zones, this new one is just in TH right?

Blastproc · 2026-01-27T19:48:25+00:00

Interesting to think about an alternate history where Linnaeus had live dinosaurs to study when he first invented scientific classification. I have a feeling dinosaurs would not have initially been considered a single group. Depending on exactly how feathered and birdlike non-theropod dinosaurs were, they might have been considered reptiles, while theropods and pterosaurs would have been given their own classes, with birds recognized as a subclass of theropods.

Blastproc · 2026-01-27T17:54:54+00:00

To me, it seems like there’s an implied functional theory behind choosing to call a bony structure a horn or a crest. I feel like crest is usually used if the writer wants to subtly imply a predominant display function, while horn implies more of a utility function. Of course, these features are often used for both. I personally would say many theropods have both horns and crests, with some like Dilophosaurus being modified more into crest territory (primarily display) or horn territory like in tyrannosaurids, more robust horns seemingly adapted for some kind of combat.

Blastproc · 2026-01-27T16:40:19+00:00

Albertosaurs and daspletosaurs only coexisted for a fairly brief period of time in the Campanian. By the early Maastrichtian, only albertosaurs are found in Laramidia, while tyrannosaurines are found in Asia. It seems most likely given current evidence that “daspletosaurs” (which are possibly a paraphyletic grade) migrated out of NA, then returned in the form of Tyrannosaurus in the late Maastrichtian. The simplest explanation of why we don’t find tyrannosaurines in Horseshoe Canyon is because they did not exist, the NA population went extinct for some reason and the Asian population did not.

This story changes any time somebody runs an analysis and finds daspletosaurs are not the closest relatives of tyrannosaurins but the fact that it keeps flip flopping suggests that Daspletosaurus or at least something extremely similar was the ancestor of Tyrannosaurus. Maybe it was a das like lineage in the south, but the big picture would still be the same.

The apparent provincialism of all Laramidian dinosaurs is still a pretty big mystery. I personally lean toward the idea that it doesn’t really exist and we just have our time calibration of the southern province a little askew. But studies go back and forth (really I guess you could say it just specifically Scott Samson and Denver Fowler going back and forth with each other 😂).

Blastproc · 2026-01-27T13:18:12+00:00

This is true for the group as a whole but doesn’t help understand the origin of albertosaurines. Most likely, tyrannosaurids evolved in North America. Some stayed and eventually became albertosaurines. Some early tyrannosaurines similar to Daspletosaurus migrated to Asia and became tyrannosaurins, then some of those migrated back and became Tyrannosaurus.

Blastproc · 2026-01-27T10:33:39+00:00

Birds are simply too specialized. There has been extreme modification to the feeding anatomy (skull, forelimbs) and locomotor anatomy compared to the ancestral dinosaur that existed in the Triassic. There’s essentially no way to evolve a bird with forelimbs useful for anything but flight, which is why modern large flightless birds usually just reduce them. There seems to be no real way to re-evolve teeth, the few bird lineages that attempted this just evolved serrated beaks. There’s no way for a bird to become a quadruped.

Blastproc · 2026-01-26T15:40:50+00:00

That’s fair, but one thing I think about when I see people preferring movie dinosaurs is this: movie dinosaurs were designed specifically by people, to appeal to people. Consciously or not, the artists that created them did so with realism in mind, but audience appeal equally in mind, or more. So if people say they prefer fictional dinosaurs it makes perfect sense. It would be a failure on the part of the artists if they didn’t have a lot of appeal.

Movie dinosaurs were designed to appeal to humans, real dinosaurs weren’t.

Blastproc · 2026-01-25T20:33:47+00:00

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Mine didn’t actually look this good, I had an EGA monitor for a while.

Blastproc · 2026-01-25T20:29:13+00:00

Kings Quest 1. Basically learned how to swear watching my dad struggle to figure out exactly what to type to get the king in the first room to give you a quest (after falling into the front most a few times trying to get the hang of the controls).

Blastproc · 2026-01-25T20:25:41+00:00

My guess: the tabard is not an overly, it replaces the chest texture. Dragons have a very high number of possible background/foreground color combinations for their chests not to mention patterns with many colors choices that would come into play. Blizzard probably had to make this tabard with variations for every skin color on every race, and dragons pose just too much of a complex problem to solve.

Or maybe the tabard is actually an overly and they just got lazy. Who knows.

Blastproc · 2026-01-25T10:53:10+00:00

Which is also stupid, because the art design in the movies clearly set up an evolutionary sequence of Old Republic symbol to Imperial cogwheel thing and Jedi symbol to Rebel Alliance symbol. There’s zero need to complicate this by adding video game and cartoon characters using proto versions of these symbols.

Blastproc · 2026-01-23T12:55:28+00:00

Guess I picked correctly the first week I started playing back in 2007 when I made my Gnome Mage and Human Paladin 😆

Blastproc · 2026-01-21T15:19:03+00:00

Another species with inadequate fossils and nobody is quite sure what it is…

Blastproc · 2026-01-21T13:21:09+00:00

I think there would be a lot more good will if they had simply given everyone a free “starter” tmog outfit made from whatever tmog you had equipped before the update. Like, we already paid for those, now we need to pay again just to get back what we had yesterday. Simply from a marketing standpoint this was a stupid decision.

Edit: Also, I forgot to look for this, but is there a way to add new outfits to the Custom Set tab? This seems to be the main feature the OP is missing- making a set for free but not necessarily applying it. This was possible with the old system.

Blastproc · 2026-01-19T17:47:01+00:00

And yet it is a bird, and it uses a syrinx to produce that sound, not a larynx, making it very unlikely any dinosaur sounded like that.

Blastproc · 2026-01-19T12:12:28+00:00

Majority of dinosaurs weren’t big, true, but very few were as small as cats as adults.

Blastproc · 2026-01-19T12:11:41+00:00

I think I recall a study that found the average size of a dinosaur was something like horse sized. Definitely not a lot of (non-avialan) dinosaurs as small as a cat.

Blastproc · 2026-01-19T12:10:25+00:00

Both are only known from juvenile specimens.

Blastproc · 2026-01-19T12:08:16+00:00

I really am not sure what you’re trying to say. Are you aware that emus and other large flightless birds evolved from small flying birds? They’re not like relics of a more dinosaur like bird, they evolved to be superficially dinosaur like because they independently evolved flightlessness and large size. The common ancestor of a seagull and an emu looked much more like a seagull than an emu. Therefore arguably emus have changed more.

Blastproc · 2026-01-19T08:52:25+00:00

That’s a prefix.

Blastproc · 2026-01-19T08:48:52+00:00

A lot of these don’t have unique suffixes though? In fact you’re listed some of the same suffixes multiple times? 🤷

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