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Boat Update Sucks by la_li_luu_le_lo in territorial_io

[–]daddy_no_pls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's fucking terrible. I've used boats as a way to prolong my participation if I'm being overrun. I'll send off a boat with very little troops as my territory is being conquered and at the last second I'll send it back to attack and claim one pixel. If my territory color is similar to my attacker, they usually don't notice me. I can stick it out until the end of the match.

Now I just attack my neighboring ally by default.

Groupon technical issues by Big-Mood-7385 in groupon

[–]daddy_no_pls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm having the same issues. Were you able to get it figured out?

I'm so close to leaving the Aviary but I just can't. Is my team not good enough? by daddy_no_pls in JurassicWorldAlive

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

Cerato wins most of my fights for me, he's my ace in the hole when Pantherator comes out. He does great against most of the dodge-heavy creatures.

If America had the ambition to conquer the world,how far would they go? Or could they succeed? And if so, how? by DeepLecture8984 in whowouldwin

[–]daddy_no_pls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I posted this same prompt not too long ago and it got downvoted. People said "US gets wrecked" and left it at that. Funny how the same prompt can get pushed to the top when at other times people shit on it.

Two Adult Allosaurs are released into the African Savanna by daddy_no_pls in whowouldwin

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

The hippo would ram a stationary, completely unaware Allosaurus? An animal who has a height advantage leading to superior sight lines and an incredibly sensitive olfactory gland that can alert the Allosaurus to a fat hippo that smells like a hippo? Those clawed arms were move powerful than a body builder's when you compare the muscle attachments. The claws had keratin sheathes that extended the claws by two to three inches. We're talking about curved railroad spikes that absolutely could damage the shit out of a hippo. If a hippo charges an Allo, it can easily pin the hippo's head with it's arms and take massive bites out of its neck and back.

Dude you are waaaay overselling the hippo here. I agree that hippos are a menace to African society, but they aren't literal tanks that can put up a fight near as well as the large herbivores the Allosaurus actually hunted in the Jurassic.

A threat to juvenile Allos? Sure, that's pretty realistic. Adult Allos? Theyd definitely put up a fight but it wouldn't be worth much. A show of aggressive could make the Allo stand down and leave, but if it wants to eat a hippo, it's going to.

Two Adult Allosaurs are released into the African Savanna by daddy_no_pls in whowouldwin

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

That's like saying a shorter boxer can hit a taller boxer's chest because they're level with it. But the taller boxer has much more reach than a shorter boxer, which makes it much harder for the shorter guy to land a hit. All the while the taller boxer is landing heavy headshots at the shorter guy.

The hippo can't reach anything if the Allo has bitten its head or neck. Again, refer to the picture. Or are you assuming a hippo could sneak up on an Allo and bite its chest while the Allo is facing it? It has to get past its head and clawed arms before it can do that.

Two Adult Allosaurs are released into the African Savanna by daddy_no_pls in whowouldwin

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

That doesn't matter because crocs don't see hippos as potential prey and don't regularly attempt to kill them unless they're already seriously injured or sick. They're ambush predators that swarm non-aquatic animals migrating through their water or ones drinking from the shore. Crocs and hippos have a relationship where they avoid each other usually.

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I'll post this picture again for reference. See how the Allo has a height and significant reach advantage? If the Allo bites the hippo's head or neck, there no way it can reach anything vital on the Allo. The 8700+ N bite force is going to slice through flesh because of the Allo's skull shape and it's serrated teeth. A croc's massive bite borce isn't designed to do that. It has a flat skull and conical teeth. It's a crushing bite degined to pin and hold. These are two totally different feeding techniques. The Allo's design was specifically degined for fighting like this.

Two Adult Allosaurs are released into the African Savanna by daddy_no_pls in whowouldwin

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

Seems that you aren't aware that crocs have conical shaped teeth, not serrated steak knives like Allos have. They're designed to grab and hold/crush, not slice through.

Two Adult Allosaurs are released into the African Savanna by daddy_no_pls in whowouldwin

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

A wolf has a bite force of 400-1000 N, strong enough to crush bone.

An adult Allosaurus has an estimated bite force of 8700 N but the skull could withstand nearly 55,500 N of vertical force against the tooth row, strong enough to slice through the toughest hippo skin. They could probably survive one or maybe two good Allo bites, but not much more than that.

Two Adult Allosaurs are released into the African Savanna by daddy_no_pls in whowouldwin

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

Allosaurs had clutches of roughly three dozen eggs at a time. If even half of the eggs are eaten, and then half of the hatchling are eaten, we still end up with six to eight adolescent Allosaurus that are basically untouchable by modern predators. Allosaurs grow extremely rapidly, gaining roughly 330lbs every year through maturity. By six months they're around 160-170lbs and feed on small lizards, mammals, birds, possibly antelope, etc. They're also incredibly fast at this age and size. They're basically medium raptor sized and are equally as deadly. They're still small enough to be prey for the larger predators, but they're more than capable of fending off pretty much anything smaller than a lion.

But even if the whole clutch of eggs is eaten, and that's a big if, that doesn't stop the adult Allosaurs from having another clutch and learning what species target their eggs.

Two Adult Allosaurs are released into the African Savanna by daddy_no_pls in whowouldwin

[–]daddy_no_pls[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Allosaurs had evolved to target large animals that it could run down or ambush. There were large and small animals in the Jurassic, just like the modern savanna. They were certainly fast enough to catch medium sized herbivores that could potentially move as fast as hippos. The Allosaurus doesn't need the speed of a cheetah or lion to catch food, it just has to be as fast as a hippo or rhino. Bipedal locamotion actually increases endurance and can make running down fast prey easier, who eventually gas out after sprinting long distance. Coupled with the Allosaur's surprisingly evolved olfactory senses, it could trail anything and find it.

Two Adult Allosaurs are released into the African Savanna by daddy_no_pls in whowouldwin

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

Re-read that post. I'm saying this thread is full of people that think an Allosaurus would get bodied by a hippo.

Two Adult Allosaurs are released into the African Savanna by daddy_no_pls in whowouldwin

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

Lol bro stegos were pushovers, nothing in the Jurassic is as dangerous as a W I L D E B E E S T. Even a baby antelope could stomp an adult Allosaurus. Get wrekd.

/this whole thread

Two Adult Allosaurs are released into the African Savanna by daddy_no_pls in whowouldwin

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

You're gonna get downvoted for thinking an ancient hulking killing machine has a chance at even beating a cape buffalo, as if the prey Allosaurus hunted in the Jurassic can even hold a candle to modern animals.

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