So i bought Path of Titans the other day, and i was honestly going to give it praises for being gorgeous and very accurate aside from the cringe spino model and (imo) overuse of osteoderms, but then i decided to look through the different speices of each animal out of curiosity and
of course it had to get disappointing at some point i guess.
It doesn’t even make sense in-universe considering the other speices of all of these animals have proper lips, this is very much just shoehorned in for the sake of having lipless theropods.
Another quick reminder since i start seeing people saying “UwU both are good” in the tags and reblogs.
Reminder : it doesn’t matter how we portray them, they are dead so like let ppl have fun
But why does it matter dude I know it’s scientifically innacurate but ppl enjoying that innacurate version doesn’t have any negative applications???? Unless dinosaurs were brought back to life and ppl misidentified them or smthn it really has only negative impact keeping ppl from having fun with the fictional lizard dinos
It makes a big difference. People who make models for museums get passed over for projects because the owners don’t want to hear that their precious Jurassic Park lizards were actually weird birds, and “the public won’t get it anyway”. It makes a feedback loop so that even when people are presented with accurate depictions of past animals, they violently reject them.
Scaly raptors are also a gift to the anti-evolution fanatics, who like to pretend that the rarity of big mainstream feathered dinosaurs is in some way indicative of conflict and confusion in the paleontology community.
It’s science denial. And normalizing science denial, even when it “doesn’t matter”, makes it more acceptable in the public eye. It allows people to doubt facts because this distrust of scientists has been normalized and proliferated in our culture. It’s less extreme for a person who denies that dinosaurs had feathers to disregard evolution than it is for someone who doesn’t. Even low levels of science denial bring the next level closer. If we are to put a stop to this unsettling trend, we need to snuff out science denial at its roots. And these are its roots.
Tldr:All science denial is dangerous.
It’s not science denial, it’s style you fucking killjoys.
The insane and rabid ravings of the science cult know no bounds
The insane and rabid ravings of the science cult know no bounds
Clearly no science denial and suspicious language here !
Another quick reminder since i start seeing people saying “UwU both are good” in the tags and reblogs.
Reminder : it doesn’t matter how we portray them, they are dead so like let ppl have fun
But why does it matter dude I know it’s scientifically innacurate but ppl enjoying that innacurate version doesn’t have any negative applications???? Unless dinosaurs were brought back to life and ppl misidentified them or smthn it really has only negative impact keeping ppl from having fun with the fictional lizard dinos
It makes a big difference. People who make models for museums get passed over for projects because the owners don’t want to hear that their precious Jurassic Park lizards were actually weird birds, and “the public won’t get it anyway”. It makes a feedback loop so that even when people are presented with accurate depictions of past animals, they violently reject them.
Scaly raptors are also a gift to the anti-evolution fanatics, who like to pretend that the rarity of big mainstream feathered dinosaurs is in some way indicative of conflict and confusion in the paleontology community.
It’s science denial. And normalizing science denial, even when it “doesn’t matter”, makes it more acceptable in the public eye. It allows people to doubt facts because this distrust of scientists has been normalized and proliferated in our culture. It’s less extreme for a person who denies that dinosaurs had feathers to disregard evolution than it is for someone who doesn’t. Even low levels of science denial bring the next level closer. If we are to put a stop to this unsettling trend, we need to snuff out science denial at its roots. And these are its roots.
Tldr:All science denial is dangerous.
It’s not science denial, it’s style you fucking killjoys.
Science denial: the dinosaurs didn’t have feathers
Not science denial: I prefer how dinosaurs in movies look with scales instead of feathers
Literally how do y'all not get this
Not science denial: I prefer how dinosaurs in movies look with scales instead of feathers
Science denial: Let me get angry about a post that’s not about me and criticises a video game made by a dev team full of anti science folk and pedos just because it implies that game devs and movie directors should, in fact, care about accuracy, and i don’t like change.
