In Early Cretaceous South America, a drought forces two giant predators into a life-and-death battle.

So, for context: I was going through one of my old hard drives, and I stumbled across a mostly-finished AMV that I started editing partway through last year.

I went ahead and put some finishing touches on it, trimmed down the length a bit, and am now posting it here for archive purposes.

Music: “Take the World” by She Wants Revenge

Footage from: Chased by Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Planet, Monsters Resurrected, & Planet Dinosaur

Saw this video on youtube where some guy made a 30-min rant about how much he hates the Amber Collection raptor figures. And he decided to open it by talking about how the packaging art swapped Delta and Echo’s portraits - the Delta figure has a picture of Echo on it, and vice versa.

And honestly I’m just astounded that there are people who can tell Delta and Echo apart enough to even notice that.

There is only one figure to complain about in that series, and that is the Pteranodon with its overly thick wing fingers but other than that…

The dinosaur figure collector community is quite something

Yeah, and it was the fact that this guy was getting so upset about such an inconsequential thing. He devoted almost a full minute of his rant to this mistake.

He even went on a long tangent about how Delta’s box art had “Echo’s iconic scar over her eye.” I’ve seen JW at least four times, and I literally did not know that Echo has a scar over her eye until he pointed it out. That’s not an iconic feature, that’s an incidental detail that 95% of viewers didn’t even notice.

Also, I totally agree with you about the Pteranodon. It’s an impressive display piece to be sure, but what’s the point of doing the whole “bendy wire in rubber” thing to make the wings flexible, then make the rubber coating so thick that you can barely even move the wire? It’s really strange.

Saw this video on youtube where some guy made a 30-min rant about how much he hates the Amber Collection raptor figures. And he decided to open it by talking about how the packaging art swapped Delta and Echo’s portraits - the Delta figure has a picture of Echo on it, and vice versa.

And honestly I’m just astounded that there are people who can tell Delta and Echo apart enough to even notice that.

@oceanic-panic-panic​ Exactly!

Blue has this super obvious and distinctive pattern because she’s the most marketable one the protagonist. We’re supposed to like her and be able to instantly pick her out in group shots. Charlie isn’t as distinct, but she at least has those Lost World tiger stripes that make her stand out from the rest of the pack.

Delta is a dark-green raptor with brown splotches, and Echo is a brown raptor with dark-green splotches.

And, because Jurassic World is a major Hollywood blockbuster released in the mid-2010s, it has garbage color grading, so they look almost completely identical in every shot anyways.

Delta and Echo are completely interchangeable. There is almost nothing to make them stand out from each other, or from any of the other generic raptors from across the franchise.

In the late Jurassic Period, herbivorous dinosaurs are forced to adapt and evolve to survive in the shadow of giant predators. This film provides a brief glimpse into the defensive strategies of four such plant-eaters.

Shit, I misread #8 as non-insect invertebrates. Lemme try that again.

I like glass sponges, because silicon-based life is dope as hell.

And I also love predatory tunicates, because the idea that this sock-puppet-looking bastard is one of humans’ closest living relatives is hilarious to me.

(from Blue Planet)

Portugal during the late Jurassic was home to some of the most spectacular creatures to ever walk the Earth, from the colorful Draconyx to the enormous Lusotitan. But, this beauty was not without danger - fierce predators like Allosaurus and Torvosaurus also stalked these lands.

A short style experiment – more like a brief ecology overview than a proper narrative short film.

The Rise and Fall of the Brouscar Hegemony

Eons ago, a new race reached the level of technological advancement necessary to leave their homeworld and join the rest of the galaxy as space-farers. Locked inside containers of metal and glass, they were welcomed into the universe with open arms. But, soon, their true colors revealed themselves. They began to lay waste to the splendor of the cosmos, pillaging, destroying, and conquering in a reign of tyranny that lasted a million years. Though their bodies were brittle, they ruled with an iron fist. No other species has ever so utterly dominated the galaxy for so long. And yet, while they still live on in infamy many millennia later, what they have since become is less than a shadow of a shadow of their former might.

They were the brouscari. And this is their story.

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In today’s installment of Random Factoids About Me That Sound Fake But Aren’t:

One of the gifts I got for my 10th birthday was a key to the beta of Minecraft.

I then proceeded to never activate it and waited another five years to buy the full game.

wow 0-0

this was before it got big i assume?

Oh, yeah. This was right at the very beginning of its life. It was still just this weird obscure new game at that point.

Today’s Activity

Denver attempts to turn a pint of cookie dough ice cream into an actual cookie

Step One: slap that bad boy into a strainer to separate the cookie dough from the ice cream

Welp…

I guess this is what I’ve got to work with…

I N   I T   G O E S

wow that worked really well

It tasted like burnt chocolate.

I don’t know if there’s a moral here, but this entire endeavor was a mistake.

Today’s Activity

Denver attempts to turn a pint of cookie dough ice cream into an actual cookie

Step One: slap that bad boy into a strainer to separate the cookie dough from the ice cream

Welp…

I guess this is what I’ve got to work with…

I N   I T   G O E S

wow that worked really well

Today’s Activity

Denver attempts to turn a pint of cookie dough ice cream into an actual cookie

Step One: slap that bad boy into a strainer to separate the cookie dough from the ice cream

Welp…

I guess this is what I’ve got to work with…

I N   I T   G O E S

Today’s Activity

Denver attempts to turn a pint of cookie dough ice cream into an actual cookie

Step One: slap that bad boy into a strainer to separate the cookie dough from the ice cream

Welp...

I guess this is what I’ve got to work with...

Today’s Activity

Denver attempts to turn a pint of cookie dough ice cream into an actual cookie

Step One: slap that bad boy into a strainer to separate the cookie dough from the ice cream

PULSE

The entity referring to itself as Pulse is something of an enigma. Its basic physiology is a complete unknown, as it lacks any traits directly tying it to any Alliance race on record. The arms are superficially similar to those of an urotian, but none of the rest of Pulse’s anatomy matches this classification.

Its appearance resembles a skeletal humanoid figure, completely shrouded in blackness save for its eyes. No matter how powerful of a light source is shone upon it, it does not respond to the light at all. No reflections, no shadows, nothing. It always appears black as the void of space, as if light did not interact with it at all.

The name “Pulse” originated as a nickname given to it by ship captains, due to its tendency to destroy ships with powerful electromagnetic pulses. Once successful contact was made with the organism, it stated that it was fond of that nickname, and that its true name was incapable of being pronounced by organisms with three-dimensional phyisiologies. It then promptly told us to “fuck off”.

Upon further questioning, it stated that it was imprisoned “here” against its will, and that it intended to escape by “burning the fucking prison to the ground”. At present, it is not certain if the “here” in question refers to the barren moon where it was first encountered, or the universe in its entirety. Given its earlier comments about three-dimensional organisms and its bizarre biology, it seems probable that the second option is correct.

When interacting with other beings, Pulse gives off a very strong impression that it views any attempts at contact laughable. It seems to be merely humoring us in the same way that a disinterested parent would listen to a toddler’s babbling.

In the absence of any concrete data regarding its true nature or intentions, the current recommendation is that Pulse continue to be held under observation. Further suggestions will only be offered once enough information has been gathered to give it a proper classification.

JURASSIC FIGHT CLUB WATCH PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT!

Myself, @ridiculouslyphotogenicsinosaurus, and maybe some other people are hosting a live-screening of the History Channel “classic” Jurassic Fight Club!

Join us on TwoSeven this Saturday (May 9, 2020) @ 10:30am MST for four hours of non-stop dinosaur carnage, and a couple of nerds nitpicking the shit out of every aspect of it!

Keep an eye on this space for further details, and a link to the stream once the scheduled date and time actually arrive

The stream starts in 3 and a half hours, everyone!

3 hours!!

2 hours!

Also, change of plans. TwoSeven is being extremely tempermental all of a sudden, so we’re switching to a different platform, most likely Watch2Gether or Kast.

JURASSIC FIGHT CLUB WATCH PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT!

Myself, @ridiculouslyphotogenicsinosaurus, and maybe some other people are hosting a live-screening of the History Channel “classic” Jurassic Fight Club!

Join us on TwoSeven this Saturday (May 9, 2020) @ 10:30am MST for four hours of non-stop dinosaur carnage, and a couple of nerds nitpicking the shit out of every aspect of it!

Keep an eye on this space for further details, and a link to the stream once the scheduled date and time actually arrive

The stream starts in 3 and a half hours, everyone!

3 hours!!