This is the first part of a 2 parter. We’ve got the usual… movies, TV, video games… but most importantly, we’ve got dinosaurs! Dinosaurs are the coolest, so you know you’ve got to listen. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
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Dear Fedora Fiends, I got Fallout: New Vegas. Did you play it on the PC, and did you find it horribly buggy? — Mark McKibben *
Dear minions of the hat, Do you think dinosaurs are cooler now we think most of them probably had feathers? — Craig
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I was listening to the podcast in the car and had just gotten to the question about why kids think Dinosaurs are so cool when I pulled into the driveway and turned it off. Hmm, I thought to myself (as is my wont), prolly ’cause they’re this combination of science and magic/fantasy–real dragons! I’ll have to write that in a comment…
Turned it back on and d’oh!
Well, I still have that other thing I was thinking–that they’re like the original Pokemon…
I have theees theory (and it’s not about dinosaurs) about why evolutionary discussions are so focused on the idea that everything must have an end result purpose. It’s a theory about the way story structures changed in the modern period. Maybe I’ll tell you about it some time 🙂
I watch Dracula!
But I am not snarky about Dracula. :p
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Did I refer to the covering of birds as “foliage” when I meant “plumage”?
*sigh*
I’m an idiot. And I’m shocked that Tony didn’t point it out right after said it.
I took my daughter to a dinosaur exhibit at the local museum about a year and a half ago and they had updated, feathered models. I have to say, feathers do not make for cooler dinosaurs. The velociraptors went from looking terrifying to looking delicious.
So does that mean feathered dinosaurs basically turns the Jurassic Park movies into KFC commercials?
Persian Flaw: I didn’t recognize this by its name either, though the description of what it is was familiar to me.
Huh: Huh, huh, huh?
Tony’s Gaming Group: What are you playing again?
Fallout New Vegas: Wow that’s an old question. And yes I know how to get a hold of you; but I’m pretty sure at the time I wrote this you were begging for questions, so I figured why not? Side note: the stock PC version is very buggy but the modding community has worked to address this and there are add-ons that improve FNV’s stability.
Dinosaurs: Giant lizards are the “real-life” version of Godzilla and who doesn’t want giant lizards who could destroy a city? As for feathers or no, I too was raised on featherless dinosaurs. But I have so little contact with kids; who are the primary consumers of popular information on dinosaurs that I wasn’t even really aware of this particular controversy. So I suppose I’m sufficiently insulated from the issue that dinosaurs remain featherless in my mind.
Tony & Featherless Dinosaurs: I’m suddenly picturing Tony dressed as a caveman from one those cheesy 1960s sci-fi flicks and really not seeing much difference. :p