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ArmoredCoreNEXTLYNX said:

There's also ANOTHER mission in Armored Core For Answer that involves going into a kojima contaminated field that is also the equivalent of a poison swamp too

kojima contaminated field

...pffft. I dunno if Kojima is some kind of poison in Armored Core, but now I can't unsee floating Kojima pngs floating in the air and causing auditory hallucinations of MGS2's colonel telling you to turn your Playstation off, and asking if you feel like a hero yet.

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    AlsoSprachOdin said:

    But now the arms are the complete other way around, did the archeologists get it that wrong when I was a kid and interested in these things? And then how are you supposed to use your claws like that when hunting?

    To be fair most theropod dinosaurs obviously fed using their legs to immobile their prey and just took bites out of them. The only one I think used their "arms" more often than the others was the Spinosaur since it was most likely a partial quadruped

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    X-Sam said:

    Even the Jurassic Park Velociraptors had pathetically tiny arms and claws to be honest. iirc, the main way that's theorized on how they hunted was their mouth and their clawed feet being used to tear into downed prey. A lot of raptors tend to have a much larger nail on their feet compared to the others that's theorized to be the thing used to rip.

    Just because their arms looked tin doesn't mean they were weak. Paleontologists discovered that the T-Rex's arms were hella strong despite of their short length

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    AlsoSprachOdin said:

    But now the arms are the complete other way around, did the archeologists get it that wrong when I was a kid and interested in these things? And then how are you supposed to use your claws like that when hunting?

    Apparently these critters mostly hunted things smaller than themselves. Plus, even with inwardly facing arms, the creature still could use them to grasp things in front and below itself. IIRC the current popular theory for how small dromaeosaurids would eat is still this.

    Raptor feeding mechanics

    (A) grasping foot holds on to prey. (B) hypertrophied D-II claw used as anchor to maintain grip on large prey. (C) predator's bodyweight pins down victim. (D) beam-like tail aids balance. (E) low-carried metatarsus helps restrain victim. (F) “stability flapping” used to maintain position on top of prey (see Supporting Information Videos S1 and S2). (G) arms encircle prey (“mantling”), restricting escape route. (H) head reaches down between feet, tearing off strips of flesh (may explain unusual deinonychosaurian dental morphology). Victim is eaten alive or dies of organ failure.

    Sources used:
    Feathered Predators: The Role of Plumage in the Hunting Tactics of Velociraptor https://www.jscimedcentral.com/public/assets/articles/cell-8-1027.pdf
    The Predatory Ecology of Deinonychus and the Origin of Flapping in Birds https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3237572/

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    AlsoSprachOdin said:

    But now the arms are the complete other way around, did the archeologists get it that wrong when I was a kid and interested in these things? And then how are you supposed to use your claws like that when hunting?

    Paleontologists*, Archeologists are the ones studying human history, Paleontologist are the ones studying prehistory, just a small correction.

    But yeah, since then it was discovered that their hands were locked in a "clapping" position, with each hand facing each other, instead of facing downwards in a pronating pose, since their ulna and radius were incapable of twisting like ours, which is what allows us to rotate our hands. Besides that, some ichnofossils of sitting theropods directly shows us that their hands were placed in a "clapping" orientation. This is also true for every theropod.

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    Nanau3 said:

    To be fair most theropod dinosaurs obviously fed using their legs to immobile their prey and just took bites out of them. The only one I think used their "arms" more often than the others was the Spinosaur since it was most likely a partial quadruped

    Spinosaurus wasn't quadrupedal, their hands were not strong enough to support the weight, but yeah, it and it's relatives, specially Baryonyx, used their enlarged thumb claws for snatching fish out of the water.

    Besides them, Megaraptorians also used their frontal limbs for tackling prey, somewhat similar to modern Big Cats and Bears. They were the opposite of most theropods, evolving smaller heads and bigger arms, rather than bigger heads and smaller arms.

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    RiderFan said:
    Rinnosuke: [To Himself] "That woman ate all our shrimp! And two plastic lobsters!"
    Rinnosuke: "'Tis no woman. 'Tis a remorseless eatin' machine!"
    Rinnosuke: [He approaches Yuyuko/Youmu's table] "Six bells! Time for closin'!"
    Yuyuko: [with mouth full] "Can't talk. Eating."
    Rinnosuke: "Fairly warned be thee, says I! "
    [Rinnosuke snaps his fingers. The waitstaff forcibly remove Yuyuko from the table and drag her outside. However, Yuyuko breaks free and runs back inside to shovel more food in her mouth. Again, the waitstaff drag her away]

    [LATER]
    Lawyer: "Now, Ms. Youmu, tell the court in your own words what happened after you and your master were ejected out of the restaurant."
    Youmu: "Well, we pretty much went straight home."
    Lawyer: "Ms. Youmu, remember that you are under oath."
    Youmu: "We drove around until three in the morning looking for another open all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant."
    Lawyer: "And when you couldn't find one?"
    Youmu: [crying] "We... went... fishing."
    Lawyer: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do these sound like the actions of a woman whose had ALL she could eat?"

    That situation represented in Touhou...

    Excellent.

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    RiderFan said:
    Rinnosuke: [To Himself] "That woman ate all our shrimp! And two plastic lobsters!"
    Rinnosuke: "'Tis no woman. 'Tis a remorseless eatin' machine!"
    Rinnosuke: [He approaches Yuyuko/Youmu's table] "Six bells! Time for closin'!"
    Yuyuko: [with mouth full] "Can't talk. Eating."
    Rinnosuke: "Fairly warned be thee, says I! "
    [Rinnosuke snaps his fingers. The waitstaff forcibly remove Yuyuko from the table and drag her outside. However, Yuyuko breaks free and runs back inside to shovel more food in her mouth. Again, the waitstaff drag her away]

    [LATER]
    Lawyer: "Now, Ms. Youmu, tell the court in your own words what happened after you and your master were ejected out of the restaurant."
    Youmu: "Well, we pretty much went straight home."
    Lawyer: "Ms. Youmu, remember that you are under oath."
    Youmu: "We drove around until three in the morning looking for another open all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant."
    Lawyer: "And when you couldn't find one?"
    Youmu: [crying] "We... went... fishing."
    Lawyer: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do these sound like the actions of a woman whose had ALL she could eat?"

    oh wasn't that from the simpsons?

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    RiderFan said:
    Rinnosuke: [To Himself] "That woman ate all our shrimp! And two plastic lobsters!"
    Rinnosuke: "'Tis no woman. 'Tis a remorseless eatin' machine!"
    Rinnosuke: [He approaches Yuyuko/Youmu's table] "Six bells! Time for closin'!"
    Yuyuko: [with mouth full] "Can't talk. Eating."
    Rinnosuke: "Fairly warned be thee, says I! "
    [Rinnosuke snaps his fingers. The waitstaff forcibly remove Yuyuko from the table and drag her outside. However, Yuyuko breaks free and runs back inside to shovel more food in her mouth. Again, the waitstaff drag her away]

    [LATER]
    Lawyer: "Now, Ms. Youmu, tell the court in your own words what happened after you and your master were ejected out of the restaurant."
    Youmu: "Well, we pretty much went straight home."
    Lawyer: "Ms. Youmu, remember that you are under oath."
    Youmu: "We drove around until three in the morning looking for another open all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant."
    Lawyer: "And when you couldn't find one?"
    Youmu: [crying] "We... went... fishing."
    Lawyer: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do these sound like the actions of a woman whose had ALL she could eat?"

    Cool story bro.

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    yaoicocaine said:

    should we make a tag for forsaken characters different skins?

    i don't really want to.. :MokouDead: maybe when there's more posts for all of them. it's still a very small tag and it's a bit hard for me to find posts that are on-topic enough

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    T34/38 said:

    The Ryuusei in the front of the image Bombed 7 unlucky abyssals, killed 4 black tacos and 2 white tacos.

    Now you mentioned the tako kills, I just noticed the Ryuusei isn't drawn with the protruding cannons in their wings.

    And the 3rd plane in the back seems to not be a Ryuusei, the nose and the horizontal stabilizer position are different, and the tail markings are different (2 red stripes compared to the 2 blue stripes on the Ryusei)

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    laisy said:

    Now you mentioned the tako kills, I just noticed the Ryuusei isn't drawn with the protruding cannons in their wings.

    And the 3rd plane in the back seems to not be a Ryuusei, the nose and the horizontal stabilizer position are different, and the tail markings are different (2 red stripes compared to the 2 blue stripes on the Ryusei)

    It even had that decal which makes me imply that is likely a fighter.

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