yeah it's very difficult to get right because they have this sort of slinking quality to their movements while also having a lot of weight and power behind them, it's indeed an odd juxtaposition for anyone unfamiliar

I was actually really impressed with how life-like the animation was (which made the pupil mistake kinda stand out, because they clearly painstakingly referenced real Komodo dragons footage). Whoever thought it was odd must be unfamiliar with dragons, which are indeed quite peculiar.

A lot of the negative comments that come in on these shows are... shall I say... stated with an unusual level of confidence. Like, the people making them are pretending they know stuff that they don't.

The one I've seen is that Tremarctines are "all wrong" because they would supposedly look the same as large Ursines. 🤷‍♂️

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.

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!?

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

I'm in love with this shot due to that.

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

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

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.

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-

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

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.

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.

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

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