It’s not, you keep doing you and enjoy yourself. This is like a non-morning person complaining about someone who is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed from the moment they wake up onwards. The morning person didn’t do anything wrong, and they don’t owe their more groggy counterpart anything. Still, that probably won’t stop the sleepyhead from grousing about it if they have to interact while their energies are mismatched.

You make a valid enough point. My threshold for “Science Guy” is pretty low; I’m a humanities grad.

But he is qualified to be called “Science Guy”, so no harm, no foul, right?

At the risk of sounding flippant, I hope they are being given the finest fishystick they could have hoped for.

“Get in here! New asshole slang just dropped!”

Honestly, that makes about as much sense to me as what I think the actual rules of rugby are.

…is that what goes on in the middle of a scrum?

Is this what activating a trap card is? Everything I’ve ever learned about TCGs has been done unwillingly through shitposts.

I’m not sure believability had much to do with it, as opposed to the flair for the dramatic. At the end of the day, Dr. John Ostrum, the paleontologist that both Crichton and Spielberg consulted for their projects had this to say:

Q: Is Steven Spielberg’s version of dinosaur’s accurate? A: I think he’s a really talented man who can put these creatures on the screen so they look real. Steven Spielberg created this image based on a story written by another extremely clever person, Michael Crichton.

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The name I gave it was Deinonychus, which comes from the Greek and means ‘terrible claw’. And Michael Crichton, in an apologetic way, explained that in the novel he decided to use the name Velociraptors, that I had said was the closest relative to the animal I had found. He said, ‘It’s more dramatic.’ And I said I recognize that most people are not familiar with Greek. Velociraptor everyone recognizes.

Then again, if you mean “believable” in the sense that Spielberg didn’t believe accurately sized velociraptors would be scary (as opposed to ‘i literally don’t believe these creatures existed’), then I’m just making your point again, but worse.

archive link to the rest of Dr. Ostrum’s interview, if anyone is curious.

(mostly facetious) irrelevant! The last time a TCG tournament player spent a few hours in the sun, we were building decks out of clay tablets!

I don’t know what direction would be funnier, the friendly local game store tournament field getting thrown onto a rugby pitch, or the All-Blacks throwing down a Blue Eyes White Dragon (don’t @ me, this is the extent of my Yu Gi Oh knowledge) during a haka.

Yeah, but describing a penis is to furry authors what talking about small town Maine is to Stephen King. They do that shit for the love of the game.

Hell yeah, tbf. Although, with how dense 40k is at this point, I’m sure that concept already exists within the universe and it’s someone’s absolute favorite setting.

I feel like a miser / I feel low and mean / for accusing you of stealing / what I offered you for free / still, it baffles the belief sometimes what thieves we lovers be

Sorry, just a favorite lyric of mine, and this reminded me of it.

If the jeans fit…

Check out their website I linked in the body! Even if the show isn’t coming to your city (and it very well might, it sounds like they’re on the road frequently), they have hundreds of prints available for order if anything sparks your interest.

Oh this is awesome! I had zero context for this event, and my friend who invited had barely any more. Apparently, all of the visual artists at the gallery (including the one who set up the exhibition) were attending a conference, and he was just filling in. This will hopefully answer several of the questions I have haha

Reminds me of art for the Dark Sun DnD setting, and not just because of the name.

No problem. Of the two, I think I also prefer The Favourite, but I truly believe there was an element of misogyny which plagued the consensus response to Coppola’s movie upon release. I’m not sure I completely agree with Ebert’s 4 star assessment, but I do find an element of truth in what he wrote here: “Every criticism I have read of this film would alter its fragile magic and reduce its romantic and tragic poignancy to the level of an instructional film.”