Yeah the wide open world kinda hurts the pacing, as does the “wait seven hours to unlock a thing before you can progress the story” bit.
I also didn’t like the focus on crafting your own weapons and gear. One of my favorite moments in Dragon Age 1 was when I assembled the Juggernaut Armor from an easily missed sidequest that involved robbing graves that are haunted by super powerful undead monsters. That armor felt earned. It felt important and beloved. There was a story behind it, and it was more than “well I collected enough drakestone to satisfy the craft mechanic’s needs.”
The casting call for Artemis Fowl described him as a boy with a “fun-loving, open heart” so you knew before they even landed their eyes on the first mediocre white person the movie was irretrievably fucked
The casting call described him as what now
last i checked back in 6th grade, artemis was a fuckin dick of a child
The casting call for Artemis Fowl described him as a boy with a “fun-loving, open heart” so you knew before they even landed their eyes on the first mediocre white person the movie was irretrievably fucked
The casting call described him as what now
last i checked back in 6th grade, artemis was a fuckin dick of a child
“emotional intelligence” artemis fowl literally would rather die than express an emotion
im pretty sure he actually has on multiple occassions
im reblogging this again because i just remembered that artemis fowl hates being a Human Being With Feelings so much that he emotionally and mentally devastated *several* psychologists so badly that they gave up the profession, just because he didn’t want to admit that his father being declared dead and his mother falling into severe untreated mental illness such that she couldn’t recognize him on most days might, maybe, have upset him a little.
The archives of the Dinosaur Mailing List are a good place to keep up with recent palaeo discoveries. (it appears like it’s no longer updating, but that’s just the main page. if you put in the links to later months they’ll pop right up)
There are various palaeo facebook groups, including the Tetrapod Zoology facebook group, Zoology for Enthusiasts, and Wikipaleo on the serious side, and Paleontology coproliteposting on the memey side
There are los of discords and other chats people have set up – join or start one!
There are also old forums like the Hell Creek Forum which are now mostly dead save for some hardcore users (cough @albertonykus cough)
And of course there are tons of blogs – Tetrapod Zoology is widely popular, and has a rich comment section and a podcast, if those are thing you’re into. SV-POW! is great if you love sauropod vertebrae, Scott Hartman’s SkeletalDrawing.com is great if you love skeletal drawings…Other blogs I enjoy include Archosaur Musings by Dave Hone, DinoGoss by Matt Martyniuk, Theropoda by Andrea Cau, The Theropod Database Blog by Mickey Mortimer, Mark Witton’s blog, and of course Raptormaniacs by the aforementioned @albertonykus (Honestly, pretty much any blog on his blogroll is top-notch).
I originally planned this as a meme post which would just list obscure databases and geological formations but then I realised some people might actually want this info
So apparently tumblr is using that AI that mistakes sand dunes and pigs for porn because they are read as white/east asian skin tones but can’t identify dark skin well or desaturated skin at all so you know what that means
Monsters and Stuff 