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  • Klear@quokk.automemes@lemmy.worldPleasantly Vanished
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    5 months ago

    For most online communities, I was the one to just disappear one day. For some reason I tend to just kinda burn out and move on from time to time.

    Still using the same username though, and I do sometimes run into people from ages ago in unexpected places.





  • Klear@quokk.automemes@lemmy.worldMember Star Wars?
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    6 months ago

    I played Outcast like that, and it makes lightsaber battles a cakewalk when you have perfect control of the motions. A “reality ensued” moment for sure. For Academy I switched to “beef recommended” settings, and yeah, that was much better balanced.





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    6 months ago

    Composition? I tried googling it. Found an article which says that while hair is made of keratin, feathers are also made of keratin, but the keratin is different.

    ¯\_(ツ)_¯

    Maybe someone who knows what they are talking about will chime in. I am not that person.


  • Klear@quokk.automemes@lemmy.worldFull circle
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    6 months ago

    Feathers, but very simple filament-like ones. Remember - feathers haven’t evolved for flight. No idea how cuddly they were (you’d have to ask a paleontologist), but I’m just going to assume “extremely”.




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    6 months ago

    We do, actually! Recent research proved there are melanosomes in some fossils/imprints, which were previously thought to be bacteria. This gives us a fairly good idea of the colouring of certain species. Check out this sinosauropteryx:

    I highly recommend reading the book Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World. It’s fun to read, has amazing illustrations and was written by one of the people who discovered this.