my point is that the kirin/qilin has been linked to (chinese) dragons in some fashion for millenia, the whole "chinese unicorn" thing is somewhat more modernish, for obvious reasons
(also, seriously, the Monster Hunter Kirin has scales and "wyvern" is as good a term as any for their giant fantasy reptiles)
Just as point of fact birds probably did not in fact evolve from what folks generally think of as dinosaurs, instead evolving from a group that were around the same time and were closely related to dinosaurs.
Uh, not really. Birds are a branch of therapoda (Maniraptora specifically) which is very much a dinosaur clade. Heck, some of the raptors that are thought of as non-avian dinosaurs might have been descended from the avian branch after becoming secondarily flightless.
"Reptiles" are a messy paraphyletic group, just a grab bag of scaliness, really. If they're going to count all species going back to a common ancestor and make it a proper clade, mammals would also have to be count as reptiles, not just birds too.
In the dinosaur section of the Museum of Natural History I noticed there's actually a whole little thing about how obsolete the word "reptile" is but now I've completely forgotten what they tepidly proposed in its place... sauropsids?
anyway smh scientists, so tentative
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I've never gotten the impression 80s or 90s pop culture nostalgia was a character trait comic Gabe particularly had
He's about my age, so it's there. 80s is the culture of our youth, 90s is the culture of our teens.
That said, I read Ready Player One and found it forgettable. After ruminating I found it silly. So basically Twilight for teen boys. It deserves any scorn it gets.
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I don't think she's his daughter, he mentioned a bit earlier that he didn't really know her mother (and described her as Ms. Dewitte). I think they're just drawing a parallel or having him reminded of her or something.
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Yeah, it's basically just a 'beyond our understanding' bucket.
my point is that the kirin/qilin has been linked to (chinese) dragons in some fashion for millenia, the whole "chinese unicorn" thing is somewhat more modernish, for obvious reasons
(also, seriously, the Monster Hunter Kirin has scales and "wyvern" is as good a term as any for their giant fantasy reptiles)
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Did he, though?
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In the dinosaur section of the Museum of Natural History I noticed there's actually a whole little thing about how obsolete the word "reptile" is but now I've completely forgotten what they tepidly proposed in its place... sauropsids?
anyway smh scientists, so tentative
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Part ofme wants to say she overreacted, but then realized that people probably did get killed over this in the real world.
Heck, barking dogs have escalated into felony murder
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On my sleeve, let the runway start
possibly even real gabe
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He's about my age, so it's there. 80s is the culture of our youth, 90s is the culture of our teens.
That said, I read Ready Player One and found it forgettable. After ruminating I found it silly. So basically Twilight for teen boys. It deserves any scorn it gets.
On my sleeve, let the runway start
of course Zebus' mom would be Gwendoline Christie
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Well, yeah. Can't go monologuing without holo-projecting.
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I wanna try one.
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This is yesterday's WILBUR, but it's important that you read Josh's commentary.
Well that makes sense. I was gonna ask before since they have similar facial features