Juan Yu
@sjuanyu.bsky.social
Palaeo-enthusiast, also a fan of Transformers, Ace Attorney and One Piece Live-Action.
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New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: the giant Meganeuropsis hawks Dunbaria in Early Permian Kansas, reaching to trap it with long, spiny legs. This image is set at the coast to reflect the marine occurrences of Meganeuropsis and Dunbaria fossils - not all Carbo-Permian insects lived in swamps! #sciart
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: the giant Meganeuropsis hawks Dunbaria in Early Permian Kansas, reaching to trap it with long, spiny legs. This image is set at the coast to reflect the marine occurrences of Meganeuropsis and Dunbaria fossils - not all Carbo-Permian insects lived in swamps! #sciart
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The one I've seen is that Tremarctines are "all wrong" because they would supposedly look the same as large Ursines. 🤷♂️
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The one I've seen is that Tremarctines are "all wrong" because they would supposedly look the same as large Ursines. 🤷♂️
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I don’t mean to get angry about it but I hate seeing such an obviously colossal labour of intense, high-quality research smeared so wrongly by people that aren’t making arguments in good faith. Again, there are some legitimate criticisms that can be made, but rude dismissiveness is not okay.
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I don’t mean to get angry about it but I hate seeing such an obviously colossal labour of intense, high-quality research smeared so wrongly by people that aren’t making arguments in good faith. Again, there are some legitimate criticisms that can be made, but rude dismissiveness is not okay.
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An example: I’ve seen four people suggesting the consultants were bad at their job since mammoths are shown in extremes of snow and ice or in dry environments since “they lived on mammoth steppe and wouldn’t risk going elsewhere.”
Because animals NEVER move around or experience weather!?
Because animals NEVER move around or experience weather!?
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
An example: I’ve seen four people suggesting the consultants were bad at their job since mammoths are shown in extremes of snow and ice or in dry environments since “they lived on mammoth steppe and wouldn’t risk going elsewhere.”
Because animals NEVER move around or experience weather!?
Because animals NEVER move around or experience weather!?
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There are things in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age that could I could criticise, but I’ve seen a lot of bad faith complaints coming from younger palaeontology enthusiasts who frankly don’t have a clue what they’re talking about and it’s very frustrating. I hope I wasn’t that annoying as a teenager!
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
There are things in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age that could I could criticise, but I’ve seen a lot of bad faith complaints coming from younger palaeontology enthusiasts who frankly don’t have a clue what they’re talking about and it’s very frustrating. I hope I wasn’t that annoying as a teenager!
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Yes, there was a deliberate push to get rid of all scientific names; of course, I think this is a massive mistake. And, indeed, no roaring for sabretooths, their hyoid anatomy indicates that they couldn't do it :) #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Yes, there was a deliberate push to get rid of all scientific names; of course, I think this is a massive mistake. And, indeed, no roaring for sabretooths, their hyoid anatomy indicates that they couldn't do it :) #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
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OK, soooo at some point in the future we'll start talking about the animals and sequences that were considered for #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge but didn't make it over all the hurdles. We're talking giant lemurs, deinotheres, paranthropines, additional cats, zygomaturines and more.
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
OK, soooo at some point in the future we'll start talking about the animals and sequences that were considered for #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge but didn't make it over all the hurdles. We're talking giant lemurs, deinotheres, paranthropines, additional cats, zygomaturines and more.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I'm in love with this shot due to that.
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I'm in love with this shot due to that.
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A mounted skeleton, as I and others have written before, is as much a sculpture as anything else, and these are bizarrely inert for what are clearly intended to be showpiece specimens
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A mounted skeleton, as I and others have written before, is as much a sculpture as anything else, and these are bizarrely inert for what are clearly intended to be showpiece specimens
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There is not a speck of dynamism or momentum in these mounts. Their legs are sedately planted, their tails at nuetral: one is apparently biting the other's neck, but it's clearly in an offhanded way, because the bitten animal does not appear to be reacting
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There is not a speck of dynamism or momentum in these mounts. Their legs are sedately planted, their tails at nuetral: one is apparently biting the other's neck, but it's clearly in an offhanded way, because the bitten animal does not appear to be reacting
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I understand that the Natural History Museum of Abu Dhabi spent a truly wild amount of money to purchase Stan the T.rex, which makes it all the odder that its mount of two fighting tyrannosaurs is so utterly sauceless
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I understand that the Natural History Museum of Abu Dhabi spent a truly wild amount of money to purchase Stan the T.rex, which makes it all the odder that its mount of two fighting tyrannosaurs is so utterly sauceless
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warning: french. in case that's a trigger
January 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
warning: french. in case that's a trigger
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Keep his family safe gets so much more impactful when you remember this is the man that gives his weapons people names, you just cant beat that.
June 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Keep his family safe gets so much more impactful when you remember this is the man that gives his weapons people names, you just cant beat that.
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No ammount of development and backstory that they try to shove on a singlecharacter will ever defeat the simplicity and goofiness of a bunch of idiots.
And thats why when the goofy idiots get actual development and backstories it hits so much more.
Heavy spending all he earns just to-
And thats why when the goofy idiots get actual development and backstories it hits so much more.
Heavy spending all he earns just to-
June 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
No ammount of development and backstory that they try to shove on a singlecharacter will ever defeat the simplicity and goofiness of a bunch of idiots.
And thats why when the goofy idiots get actual development and backstories it hits so much more.
Heavy spending all he earns just to-
And thats why when the goofy idiots get actual development and backstories it hits so much more.
Heavy spending all he earns just to-
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Part of it is that TF2 genuinely does a much better job of tying the gameplay directly into the story. TF2's story plays to the strengths of its medium while Overwatch fails to connect the game and the story at all
June 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Part of it is that TF2 genuinely does a much better job of tying the gameplay directly into the story. TF2's story plays to the strengths of its medium while Overwatch fails to connect the game and the story at all
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it just feels weird being some cheerful fake-pixar character laughing and saying cutesy marketable catchphrases as you kill others. this kind of crap doesn't want to embrace the violence and hate of killing, the satisfaction, the humor, and it comes across as phony and lame.
June 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
it just feels weird being some cheerful fake-pixar character laughing and saying cutesy marketable catchphrases as you kill others. this kind of crap doesn't want to embrace the violence and hate of killing, the satisfaction, the humor, and it comes across as phony and lame.
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and it just falls completely flat. a scout on the enemy team murders you constantly and tells you that you suck which angers you immensely and that's by design! channeling player aggression to him. tracer isn't mean in personality so when she constantly buzzes you that frustration has nowhere to go.
June 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
and it just falls completely flat. a scout on the enemy team murders you constantly and tells you that you suck which angers you immensely and that's by design! channeling player aggression to him. tracer isn't mean in personality so when she constantly buzzes you that frustration has nowhere to go.
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idk it's hard to explain, yeah. but i know there's something inherently better to scout's writing as an insanely obnoxious loudmouth that fits his role as "frustratingly fast guy that gets in your face" perfectly, whereas tracer, a character with a similar niche, is just generically peppy and cute
June 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
idk it's hard to explain, yeah. but i know there's something inherently better to scout's writing as an insanely obnoxious loudmouth that fits his role as "frustratingly fast guy that gets in your face" perfectly, whereas tracer, a character with a similar niche, is just generically peppy and cute
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i think the best name to call it is *lame*. it's what an out of touch or really boring person would find cool. the violence only ever results in ragdolls, no bloody gibs, some characters are generically sexy in a tame and acceptable way to be appropriate for TV, the humor is extremely tame
June 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
i think the best name to call it is *lame*. it's what an out of touch or really boring person would find cool. the violence only ever results in ragdolls, no bloody gibs, some characters are generically sexy in a tame and acceptable way to be appropriate for TV, the humor is extremely tame
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Sometimes he looks just like a kitten :3
November 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Sometimes he looks just like a kitten :3
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I’m bored… maybe I’ll go destroy a planet
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I’m bored… maybe I’ll go destroy a planet
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Okay, on reflection I am slightly relaxing my rule on "only human-made art".
...Oh, no, I'm still not supporting genAI art, but I *will* be allowing art made by bears
...Oh, no, I'm still not supporting genAI art, but I *will* be allowing art made by bears
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Okay, on reflection I am slightly relaxing my rule on "only human-made art".
...Oh, no, I'm still not supporting genAI art, but I *will* be allowing art made by bears
...Oh, no, I'm still not supporting genAI art, but I *will* be allowing art made by bears
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If the democrats ran on full legalization of marijuana, they'd win in a landslide.
But nope, they support the republican war on drugs, violent cops, and asset forfeiture (cops stealing from innocent people because they claim drugs were involved).
But nope, they support the republican war on drugs, violent cops, and asset forfeiture (cops stealing from innocent people because they claim drugs were involved).
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
If the democrats ran on full legalization of marijuana, they'd win in a landslide.
But nope, they support the republican war on drugs, violent cops, and asset forfeiture (cops stealing from innocent people because they claim drugs were involved).
But nope, they support the republican war on drugs, violent cops, and asset forfeiture (cops stealing from innocent people because they claim drugs were involved).
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Better yet, I'm told Rand Paul put forth an amendment to take this language out of the bill, and almost 30 democratic senators voted to keep this language in the bill.
Democrats support republican policies. They hate you.
Democrats support republican policies. They hate you.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Better yet, I'm told Rand Paul put forth an amendment to take this language out of the bill, and almost 30 democratic senators voted to keep this language in the bill.
Democrats support republican policies. They hate you.
Democrats support republican policies. They hate you.