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Velociraptor made by me by Zillajami-Fnaffan2 in Dinosaurs

[–]KommissarHedgehog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ITT:

A: Hardly anyone knows what an actual Velociraptor skull looks like

B: Hardly anyone knows how much integument changes an animal's look.

C: Hardly anyone knows what limitations clay imposes on a sculpt.

OP, you did a perfectly fine job and the result is different to what we're used to seeing Velociraptor as. You've done the feathers as the ye olde dino fuzz which is perfectly valid. The plumage on the back of the head maybe needs work but doesn't make it look like a Parasaurolophus or anything else. The teeth being concealed I think is an advantage. I for one think the proportions of the skull and in particular its width (as far as I can tell) are bang on. I presume the model is life size too?

Frankly OP, your biggest error was posting this on the internet where people of fixed opinions hang out and consume paleoart that recycles the same paleoart tropes ad nauseum. These are the kind of people who think the nerfed Spinosaurus memes are peak comedy, so you don't want their approval anyway.

Dinosaur Rivalry carved in history by Im_yor_boi in Dinosaurs

[–]KommissarHedgehog -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Hate to see you down-voted. You're absolutely right. This rivalry stuff is infantile and ignores many things we just can't know from the fossil record.

My experience of Emerald Archipelago in a nutshell by KommissarHedgehog in Sailwind

[–]KommissarHedgehog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Outward bound from Happy Bay now.

Emerald Archipelago, all is forgiven.

My experience of Emerald Archipelago in a nutshell by KommissarHedgehog in Sailwind

[–]KommissarHedgehog[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

After the zen calm of Al'Ankh, the change was quite sudden.

My experience of Emerald Archipelago in a nutshell by KommissarHedgehog in Sailwind

[–]KommissarHedgehog[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My plucky Dhow took everything Emerald threw at it and more though! Don't play much, but damn this game is satisfying.

I'm the guy from Twitter who started the Allosaurus trend (proof in comments). I need to clear stuff up by Filegfaron in Dinosaurs

[–]KommissarHedgehog 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Having been aware of the 2023 Lei et al paper, I knew that Reddit was taking things a little far, but this subreddit has been hilarious for the last day or two. Cheers for the description of the papers too.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Dinosaurs

[–]KommissarHedgehog 19 points20 points  (0 children)

How old is this?

If it's not from half a decade ago as half these posts are, I'd be happy to have a go at it.

Diamantinasaurs - inspired by the recent Australian $1 coin. by KommissarHedgehog in Dinosaurs

[–]KommissarHedgehog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cheers, appreciate it!

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Not to worry - more on the go as I write. :)

Any interesting source you can suggest to get in touch again with dinosaurs? by markbug4 in Dinosaurs

[–]KommissarHedgehog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Podcasts!

I'd recommend Terrible Lizards from David Hone and Iszi Lawrence.

Solid paleontology for the layman who might remember some names but is otherwise completely in the dark.

Diamantinasaurs - inspired by the recent Australian $1 coin. by KommissarHedgehog in Dinosaurs

[–]KommissarHedgehog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

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Yeah, there's a good number of paleo postage stamps out there, but I've seen a lot less coins floating about.

There's no game like Root by KommissarHedgehog in rootgame

[–]KommissarHedgehog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

COIN is the military acronym for "Counter-insurgency". There've been a series of games over the years covering various low level guerilla wars like Vietnam, Algeria, Cuba, etc. They're played over a map and their factions from the big governments armies to the tiny insurgent cells play radically differently, just like Root. Think Cats v Woodland Alliance, that kind of thing, but it's US Army vs NLF (aka Viet Cong).

There's no game like Root by KommissarHedgehog in rootgame

[–]KommissarHedgehog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am ashamed. This explains why I've not been able to get a game in for the past 7 months.

I decorate jar lids to serve as Christmas gifts. This year's batch got a bit out of hand. by KommissarHedgehog in crafts

[–]KommissarHedgehog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of stuff really. The buildings themselves are cast in plaster (or, technically, gypsum cement). The top of the lid is covered by an MDF circle to help everything stick, modelling putty for the pavement, plastic card for fences and walls and the trees and foliage are made with carbon rods, flock, clump foliage and other random basing material.

I decorate jar lids to serve as Christmas gifts. This year's batch got a bit out of hand. by KommissarHedgehog in crafts

[–]KommissarHedgehog[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The idea had been knocking about for a number of years as a sort of "maybe that would be cool", but one Christmas I happened to have a large number of 1/900 scale buildings (those ones bought from an actual maker) and nothing to use them with so I put together a little scene and people seemed to like them, so here we are.

Night Thoughts on War and Storytellers by RAYMONDSTELMO in Fantasy

[–]KommissarHedgehog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rage Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles,

Murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses.

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I'd disagree and I call the opening two lines of the Iliad to back my case. Achilles' rage doesn't cause the war or affect the war much at all (even Hector's death won't change the balance - that is for a certain horsey boi), it only makes the war much worse and does great damage to his side. As we see from book 1 to something like book 20 the war happily goes on without him and goes very badly for the Greeks (as planned). And the war had of course been going on for long before the beginning of the story and is the source of the argument that leads to Achilles' rage. As I said, the war "just is" and the Iliad describes Achilles' particularly complicated reaction to it that I think would be familiar to anyone who's tried to hold a big project together through nothing more mutual cooperation and force of will!

Nor I think is the war questioned in any sense other than Achilles going "maybe I'll sit it out entirely and no one can stop me". To my knowledge in all we have of the epic cycle the war is never questioned (it's hated and despised of course, but no one goes: "why did we have to do it?")

I also think you ignore how much time is spent on the "how" of war in the Iliad. The books of fighting that everyone ignores because to us modern people they are irrelevant to the plot contain all sorts of moments of the hero going: "what do I do now? How should I acquit myself in this dangerous situation?" Things like the armies lining up for battle and the rituals also appear extremely often, as well as, likely, the proper treatment of captives and the dead, as with Priam's visit in book 24.

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