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2017-03-06

by shaenon on March 6, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Fun for Some
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    March 6, 2017, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    But if dinosaurs were all that tough would they really have gone extinct? ^_~

    • John Campbell
      March 6, 2017, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      They didn’t.

      Have you ever seen “The Birds”?

      • maarvarq
        March 6, 2017, 12:37 am | # | Reply

        … or seen a cassowary in action?

    • BMunro
      March 6, 2017, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      OK, wise guy. Wait there while I get the trillion ton asteroid. I suggest you brace yourself.

    • Knuckles
      February 3, 2022, 10:32 am | # | Reply

      That would be why “Meteor” is one of the strongest spells.

  2. Pygar
    March 6, 2017, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Oh, boy, Uncle Beazley is coming over for dinner!

  3. Pygar
    March 6, 2017, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Even the horn-glow went out- they think of everything!

  4. maarvarq
    March 6, 2017, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Cute dinosaurs, c’mon cute dinosaurs!

    • GammarayCanon
      March 6, 2017, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      I mean, the dinosaurs they were just talking with weren’t so scary.

    • Frank Hightower
      March 6, 2017, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

      …as long as they’re not the ones from “We’re back: a Dinosaur Story”

  5. BMunro
    March 6, 2017, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    It seems he hasn’t quite grasped that this is the Extreme, Dark, Edgy remake.

  6. Robert Nowall
    March 6, 2017, 6:46 am | # | Reply

    VR train on a VR track.
    The three of us have each other’s back.
    Through the lamest section, a big fat maybe,
    On a VR train, on a VR track.
    VR train on a VR track.
    Through a dark tunnel, and a dino pack.
    Too dark to see ‘em, it’s bad we’re only
    On a VR train, on a VR track.

    VR train on a VR track.
    Will it hurt plenty when they attack?
    They might start rippin’, and we’ll start crying,
    On a VR train, on a VR track.
    Oh, VR train on a VR track.
    We took our chances, will we come back?
    Our mission fails, our quest unravelling ,
    On a VR train, on a VR track.

    —from “Lonesome Train,” Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio.

  7. The Ponytrician
    March 6, 2017, 7:41 am | # | Reply

    Dioramas? More like dino-ramas, am I right?

  8. Kanta
    March 6, 2017, 8:07 am | # | Reply

    It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

    • SVGeezer
      March 6, 2017, 8:48 am | # | Reply

      Someone still remembers Grues!! (it’s been so long! Sigh!)

      • matt w
        March 6, 2017, 9:37 am | # | Reply

        Text adventures are alive and well! Check out the Interactive Fiction Database! Not so many grues in the latest ones, though.

      • Sigma
        March 6, 2017, 10:21 am | # | Reply

        I made this quote while running a Pathfinder game the other day, and only got blank stares 🙁

      • Robert Nowall
        March 6, 2017, 11:12 am | # | Reply

        Would you like to stay in the dark?
        Or take a moonlight walk in the park?
        You could let the dog have her lark,
        Or you could be eaten by a grue.

        A grue is a monster thing that dwells in the dark;
        Attacks just anything that barks.
        It could be invisible, it could be gray.
        He can’t be sighted in the light of day.
        And by the way, if you don’t want to say “adieu,”
        You will get eaten by a grue.

        • cloudster
          March 6, 2017, 11:43 am | # | Reply

          Very good, Robert!

          • Robert Nowall
            March 6, 2017, 3:35 pm | #

            That’s just something I wrote way back when.

      • cloudster
        March 6, 2017, 11:48 am | # | Reply

        My wife was working Saturday night and I came to the observatory to hang and share a pizza. She had to go to one of the small telescopes and do a reset and took our standard poodle, commenting that she might have to tie him up outside of the telescope as dogs don’t like expanded metal stairs. I replied that he might get eaten by a grue, which is a not empty threat up here: we have all sorts of carnivores up here in a national forest on the top of a mountain at 9,000′, wouldn’t surprise me if there were a few grues too.

        They survived, but the poodle didn’t like it when my wife rotated the dome. I think the different referents messed with his brain a bit too much.

  9. SteveJ
    March 6, 2017, 8:30 am | # | Reply

    Darwin was correct.

    Flying dinosaurs – birds
    Land dinosaurs – lizards and snakes

    Size is not always advantageous.

    An alligator sized up could be right out of Jurassic Park.
    Don’t ever tangle with an ostrich (you will lose).

    And people will bemoan the extinction of the lion and tiger, all the while their housecat is rubbing against their leg.

    • GammarayCanon
      March 6, 2017, 8:04 pm | # | Reply

      Ehm, nope, lizards and snakes ain’t dinosaurs. They’re a completely unrelated group.

  10. Dr. Steve
    March 6, 2017, 9:57 am | # | Reply

    in ‘normal’ reality one would have to say “what could go possibly go wrong” to have that sort of thing happen, Here, the VR system is so finely tuned that one need merely infer that nothing can go wrong… before it catastrophically does.

  11. Frank Hightower
    March 6, 2017, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

    ♫ iiits a holiday aaafteraaal! ♪

  12. s854
    March 6, 2017, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

    SVGeezer: Nick still remembers grues, anyway. http://skin-horse.com/comic/were-sitting/

    SteveJ: Lizards and snakes aren’t dinosaurs. I think they are more closely related to them than we are, but they and dinosaurs have a common ancestor way back when. By contrast, birds have ancestors who were dinosaurs.

    Dr. Steve: Catastrophically go wrong? If anything, this is a bit safer than the last fairground ride Nick went on.

  13. Shadowmehr
    March 6, 2017, 7:05 pm | # | Reply

    What do you want to bet the dinosaurs are as cutesy as the crows and other creatures here? At least the first wave. The next few coming after is anybody’s guess.

    • OneUniverse
      March 7, 2017, 6:43 am | # | Reply

      You guessed incorrectly.

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