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Post by dinosauria101 on Oct 21, 2019 1:30:20 GMT 5
No, that wasn't intended to be a spite match or mismatch. But it's still a little puzzling.
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Post by creature386 on Oct 21, 2019 1:42:07 GMT 5
Maybe spite match is the wrong word, but that thread does seem primarily designed to show off the awesomeness of dinosaurs to the SpaceBattles crowd which is similar in spirit.
On the other hand, if Octavian did not care about that point, neither should I.
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Post by theropod on Oct 21, 2019 2:18:11 GMT 5
No, that wasn't intended to be a spite match or mismatch. But it's still a little puzzling. A little puzzling≠literally can’t believe it is legit If you "literally can’t believe it is legit" with regard to what some people think about a matchup, then wh. I might literally be unable to think it’s legit that there are people who think a giant beaver would be a suitable opponent for a 10 ton plesiosaur, or people who think a 20 kg clouded leopard would win against a 400 kg giant moa, but then, I would also never make such a matchup to begin with, because it’s just not a question. Remember your poll option "great white shark on land, Baryonyx in water"? That is exactly what I mean. And exactly why I satirically voted for that. Why is there such an option in the first place, even asking the question is absurd. If the outcome of a matchup is a foregone conclusion, and you cannot tolerate any dissenters, then there is no point in making the matchup. If you make a matchup, you must assume that people could vote either direction on it.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Oct 21, 2019 2:37:45 GMT 5
1: I will fix GWS vs Baryonyx when I get the chance 2: No, seriously. Elasmosaurus vs giant beaver is not a mismatch at all; you can even debate me on it if you want. Elasmosaurus has a very small head and a LOT of exposed neck which would be devastated by one bite from the beaver's hypertrophied incisors. 3: I think leopard vs moa was just a bit of overconfidence on Taipan's part; he was even trying to state why he favored the cat or didn't think it was a mismatch. Definitely not a spite thread
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Post by theropod on Oct 21, 2019 5:19:21 GMT 5
1: I don't care about that, it's just an example 2: I also don't care about that. It was, once again, an example. Now its good that at least you don't think it's a mismatch (though I suspect you might be the only one) considering you made that matchup. But since you obviously do think other matchups that you made are mismatches (or otherwise you wouldn't find the thought of someone disagreeing with you on the outcome so hard to believe). The example was of something that I think is a mismatch, which I therefore wouldn't make. 3: I didn't say it was a spite thread (didn't the people actually favour the cat?), I meant it was a mismatch. When you match up some mammal with a sauropod 10 times its size, that is a spite match, because you purpusefully create a matchup that is one-sided, and then complain when other people don't agree with you and actually treat it as genuinely debatable.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Oct 21, 2019 5:36:10 GMT 5
No, Supersaurus is not 10 times the weight of the southern mammoth. Only about 3. As creature said on SpaceBattles, it's likely not a mismatch but it does lean towards the dinosaur. My problem with the people who voted is that there was a very large portion who did and they didn't back it up. I don't make mismatches on purpose but I do make matchups that lean towards certain animals, and my concern is people voting for animals and not explaining why they would win MORE OFTEN THAN NOT. Such as Giganotosaurus vs Therizinosaurus for instance, which is likely the best example as I have a lot of issue with people favoring Therizinosaurus by a LOT with no good reasons. I take no issue with Therizinosaurus having a chance, it most certainly does, but I take issue with people saying it would win MORE OFTEN THAN NOT with no good explanation.
Maybe my post was just a bit misdirected.
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Post by theropod on Oct 21, 2019 6:01:46 GMT 5
Fine, whatever. I was probably thinking about some of your other matchups (paralititan vs wooly mammmoth). But if it is not a mismatch, then why can you literally not believe soneone would disagree with you on the outcome?
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Post by dinosauria101 on Oct 30, 2019 23:37:54 GMT 5
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Post by smedz on Oct 31, 2019 0:10:52 GMT 5
I swear, I hate PETA so much.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Oct 31, 2019 2:08:44 GMT 5
Yeah, same. They're just radicals.
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Post by smedz on Dec 2, 2019 4:16:39 GMT 5
Here's something I can't believe is legit.
The accounts of leopards killing tigers. In all honesty, that's as plausible as a mouse being able to kill a German Shepard.
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Post by theropod on Dec 2, 2019 4:42:07 GMT 5
While a leopard killing a tiger sounds hard to believe, it doesn’t exactly seem AS hard to believe as a tiger killing an elephant…
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Post by smedz on Dec 2, 2019 4:57:55 GMT 5
I'm also skeptical of those accounts as well, a juvenile elephant I'm open to. But not an adult. A lion pride has a lot of respect for an adult elephant, so I have a hard time believing that a solitary tiger would try to hunt a fully grown elephant.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Dec 2, 2019 6:22:18 GMT 5
IIRC, the accounts were debunked/explained in our 2 most popular 'Tiger VS' threads
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Post by smedz on Dec 2, 2019 7:31:30 GMT 5
IIRC, the accounts were debunked/explained in our 2 most popular 'Tiger VS' threads Which ones are those?
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