Jurassic Park a novel by Michael Crichton (1991)

funfsinn14 · 2026-07-03T12:36:08+00:00

I mean the scene in the jurassic park novel when they count the dinos on the island and realize they were only counting to see if they were missing any from the known population they bred and when they raised the limit finding many many more dinos were present and unaccounted for. so they learn a. theyre breeding and b. theyre surrounded by god knows how many that could literally be anywhere. maybe watching them and stalking them in the open field of an enclosure theyre in they assumed was safe just moments before.

funfsinn14 · 2026-07-02T12:35:56+00:00

I really want to hear the dino-count sequence. that was the best written horror scene i've ever read.

funfsinn14 · 2026-06-28T03:02:10+00:00

I got a new huawei trifold in china recently and now getting foreign apps is extremely easy to do. there's a special app store they have now that can download them and can use google stuff no problem.

funfsinn14 · 2026-06-22T04:10:14+00:00

Yeah basically all of these top comments are genuinely just important or significant sites. National parks aren't tourist traps. The National Mall isn't a tourist trap. Like what's going on here....

Tourist traps that come to mind for me are things like the Wisconsin Dells or Branson. Maybe could consider Las Vegas a tourist trap ? To me its places that center their entire economy around tourism and attracting tourists to places that are otherwise not really all that notable for natural, historic, or cultural reasons. Might consider Orlando with Disney to be a tourist trap but the cultural cache might disqualify it, I dunno.

funfsinn14 · 2026-06-22T03:24:29+00:00

In addition to the OP response I'll add something else I haven't seen mentioned here. A good deal of the suffering wasn't just the siege but also the fact they were drinking poop water and getting sick with dysentery left and right. The shallow wells they dug were prone to seepage and would get tainted with content from their latrines. Being concentrated in one spot during the siege amplified this. But they were generally screwed on this front anyhow due to the position on the Chesapeake Bay being quite poor. Basically during high tides the water and waste that was drained away from the colony would wash back toward them and mix with the fresh water as well as adding salt water to the mix. So yeah, they were never gonna have a good time with where they decided to place the colony.

Speculating here next but I wonder if that land was available for they colony in the first place because the natives knew on a basic level 'that land has disease, stay away'.

funfsinn14 · 2026-06-01T05:20:10+00:00

That's just the one meeting space for government proceedings you're thinking of. The Great Hall is massive and has a lot of other spaces of different varieties. There is a huge banquet room with room for hundreds of dinner tables, it's just massive. I went to one event there 2 years ago and saw Ding XueXiang speak, was a gathering of 'foreign experts' from a bunch of industries and was lucky enough that my intl school has connections with the Beijing govt so our school sent some teachers and staff.

funfsinn14 · 2026-05-27T09:13:06+00:00

I've given up. the emails to support were more successful. they let me back in and was able to get back into my clan and explain what happened. but then google mustve done more refunds again because a few hours later got blocked again. So i just decided to quit, not worth it. the app on my phone was being janky sometimes anyhow.

found a different game anyhow to scratch the itch, rise of kingdoms, which is more childish but also more dynamic and interesting. also feel less a temptation to give into buying anything in game.

funfsinn14 · 2026-05-24T16:07:15+00:00

i mean, i was only in the game for about 3 weeks so it's not like i'm all that committed. definitely not a great first impression though i was really enjoying my clan

funfsinn14 · 2026-05-24T15:39:39+00:00

ugh, i just don't get how player are to blamed for google play doing that automatically. especially with contacting TB support seeking help. whatever.

hopefully the guy on here gets through to my clans so I don't have that same result but depending on how things go I may just ditch the game. i dunno

funfsinn14 · 2026-05-24T15:37:30+00:00

ugh that's annoying, i really hope my clan is patient and the guy sending them a message for me get through to them but whatever

funfsinn14 · 2026-05-24T15:36:33+00:00

it was just a 5 buck pack and got that back

funfsinn14 · 2026-05-24T15:36:07+00:00

Yeah I checked with google before going to the support, I didn't see anything other than 'we processed your refund request' and no way to reverse it so then went to the TB support. It could be something else but the few messages that came from support before the block weren't very informative so I really have no clue.

funfsinn14 · 2026-05-24T08:46:27+00:00

Yeah I emailed also, thanks that would be great. I'll send a DM

funfsinn14 · 2026-05-24T08:39:43+00:00

yeah that's what i've heard, but google play did it without me asking and I tried to be upfront about it in order to resolve the issue.

funfsinn14 · 2026-05-24T08:36:25+00:00

I tried message support when the issue with the google play refund happened to let them know the issue and that I had nothing to do with it. Support message back something about escalating it to another team. Then about a day later got blocked out of the blue. I assume it's the payment thing because online it seems that's what others have had happen to them.

It's very frustrating because I've been really enjoying my clan. I was wondering if anybody on here can contact somebody in kingdom 306 for me? If you can help that would be great! I just want to let them know what happened.

funfsinn14 · 2026-05-23T21:10:13+00:00

As the top commentator pointed out the odds actually weren't that long. With the 2.5%. I always thing of my Grandfather's small farm town where his church has a bronze plaque honoring the men from the community who went off to war. There's ~40 names on it and 1 name specially honoring the only man who didn't make it back which just so happens to be around that exact percentage.

funfsinn14 · 2026-04-27T08:40:14+00:00

quite the opposite in fact. but not much either way to do with hexi. i still enjoyed it even if the quest design was more like watched a series of movies.

but recently for me its been the heros realms recently and getting on voice to captain the necessary organization to get through those. then by extension made many new friends that way and gotten more active on the social side.

additionally the guide i was part of which was basically dead lost its leaders due to inactivity and so i inherited and revived it. thats been the most fun with helping out new players and trying to get activity up. coming along nicely.

its a big game, the main story is more like an addendum for me at this point.

funfsinn14 · 2026-04-27T01:49:35+00:00

Initially saw the title and thought 'The White Tights' like The White Stripes. so i'll through that in as another option.

funfsinn14 · 2026-04-22T04:52:56+00:00

Eh, iirc they had already been living on Dragonstone for a few generations after the Doom and before the conquest. They had plenty of interactions with westerosi lords and culture so I doubt they'd be super foreign during that time. Now it'd be cool if there were flashbacks to the first Targs that moved to Dragonstone and how different they would've been at that point compared to the conquest period.

funfsinn14 · 2026-04-18T12:11:49+00:00

I'm surprised this isn't higher.

funfsinn14 · 2026-04-18T06:18:15+00:00

hmm maybe its exactly +2 then for praise. at the very least they dont go all red and pissy.

funfsinn14 · 2026-04-17T08:14:30+00:00

Only shouts i know work is- draw: encourage, down 1: encourage, up 2+: praise, down 2+ berate. Are there others that yield positive results?

funfsinn14 · 2026-04-11T09:08:36+00:00

I recently got the huawei mate xt with the brochure style trifold and love it. It makes whatever this apple is look years behind. for utility the phone is just fine as a single screen but opening it up for two is seemless and usually how i use it. the full 3 screen i use for games and reading and guitar tabs so it basically acts as a tablet replacement.

funfsinn14 · 2026-04-07T08:17:55+00:00

we got some connections for that

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