#Jurassic Florida

[frogshunnedshadows]

Jurassic Park themed photo op site at Universal Studios Florida, 1994.

[emaadsidiki]

Pteranodon Flyers 🚀🦖🌠 Universal Orlando

[hyper-coasters]

💙🦖 Hi Blue!

[hellokennny]

pics and a video i took on my trip to universal 😋

part 2 is coming in a sec

[ionlycareabouthhn]

Reminiscing about last Saturday at Universal. I said hi to my beloved monsters, I treated myself to a little Dracula, we hid in the Jurassic park playground caves, and I mean mugged on a rickshaw

[the1beardedgent]

Exquisitely preserved fossil of Jurassic sea turtle includes near-complete skull and limbs

[antvnger]

Florida boy! Did you grow up in Jurassic Park?!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-I7SWfOO37/?igsh=NmZpYW1nNnp0aWVy

Do you just follow a Florida tag on instagram or something, Anon? *laughs*

And no, I wouldn’t say it’s Jurassic Park. Although…in some parts of Florida, those lizards run rampant.

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[rxin3akamallory]

Double Life

Damn all these self insert OCs I have got me living a double life or something-

Full piece

(IM SO PROUD OF THIS OMG!!!)

Inserts in order (top right - bottom left)

Maggie - Finding Nemo

Maddison - The Office

Makoto - Big Hero 6

Marigold - Encanto

Marcie - Green Eggs & Ham (Netflix)

Machelle - Sing 2

Marley - Regular Show

Marnie - Fish Hooks

Maria - Onward

Mackenzie - The Florida Project

Madeline - Wreck-It Ralph

Mary-Ann - The Muppets (Modern)

Maeve - Madagascar

Mabelle - Cars

Marline - Jurassic World (Chaos Theory specifically)

Maia - Ice Age

Maci - Detroit: Become Human

Madeira - The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Marjorie - Mr. Peabody and Sherman (2014)

Marcella - Alice’s Wonderland Bakery

Magril - Guardians of the Galaxy

Martha - My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)

Maleficent - Rise of the Guardians

Mae - Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Mara - Frozen

[jurassicparkpodcast]

The Jurassic Franchise is growing at the Universal Orlando Resort! New Parade + Nighttime Show!

Jurassic fans - we have TWO new experiences coming to Universal Studios Florida. Universal Mega Movie Parade and Cinesational: A Symphonic Spectacular are joining the ranks of Jurassic offerings at the Universal Orlando Resort this summer!

First up, we have a new daytime parade hitting the streets with some great properties, including our beloved T.rex! Universal Mega Movie Parade begins July 3rd, 2024.

"Your favorite characters leap off screen onto the streets for a daytime parade. Feel the roar of the T. rex, enjoy the adventure of E.T., embrace your true colors with Trolls and more. On select days."

Back in 2018, Universal Studios Japan introduced a Jurassic World section of their Universal Spectacle Night Parade. If the parade offerings coming to Orlando are anything like the one in Japan, we are in for a treat!

Next up, we have a new nighttime show coming to the lagoon at Universal Studios Florida. Cinesational: A Symphonic Spectacular will grace our ears with plenty of John Williams’ greatness on June 14th, 2024!

"Thrill to a cinematic journey with stirring soundtracks evoking the mystery and magic of Harry Potter™, the pulse-pounding thrills of Jurassic World and the gripping suspense of Jaws. On select nights."

Recently, the park had the nighttime show Universal Orlando’s Cinematic Celebration, which featured a Jurassic World segment. The nighttime show facilities closed down after Hurricane Ian, but will be brought back this summer with a brand new show. Hopefully the show will span the Jurassic World trilogy and we get to see more than just the 2015 film.

For more information check out the Universal Orlando Resort.

Written by:

Brad Jost

[foolsdiamond]

on the one hand it sucks that jk trolling is transphobic bc of how she hurts the trans community and what it did to disillusion me from a fandom I grew up with

on the other hand it saves me so much fucking money at universal studios

[ponderlyapp]

🦕🦖 Should we bring dinosaurs back to life? Great question to spark your Monday blues

What do you think? Share your #hottake below!

@ponderlyapp is the place where everything’s debatable, even the dinosaurs 🦖 so come join in the convo

[twelvebooksstuff]

Very Big alligator vibes to me…a swamp puppy as the meme goes LOL

IT'S DOING ITS BEST, OK????

[elbiotipo]

Also, the point I always make: Jurassic Park is all about "PLAYING GOD!!!1!!1!!" because of cloning dinosaurs, and then sequels are all about "we must save the poor dinosaurs!" while canonically taking place in large islands off the coast of Costa Rica. Those islands, or at least the inspiration for them, actually exist, though much smaller.

And you know what they are? They are strictly protected reserves, because of their unique ecology and endemic species. In fact, one of the main worries is precisely the introduction of invasive species.

Could you imagine if instead of Isla Nublar, Jurassic Park was set in say, the Galápagos Islands? Could you imagine someone in real life trying to build Disneyland in the Galápagos or the Great Barrier Reef?

I know that joke that Jurassic Park is about "capitalism gone wrong" but it's even more fucked up if you think about the imperialist part too. A first world billionarie tycoon comes to a third world country, somehow achieves control of islands (it's implied that the Costa Rican military is at Jurassic Park's call; fun fact, Costa Rica has no military) which by all means should be protected as fragile ecosystems, to build a gigantic theme park with all the ecological disruption it implies, for first world tourists too. The theme park just so happens to be cloned dinosaurs, but Hammond might as well have razed the whole island and planted soybean fields and it would be the same horror story we in South America are very well acquainted with.

And then the sequels are about "saving the dinosaurs!" like they're a natural part of the ecosystem! No man, fuck the dinosaurs, they're giant walking GMOs in the most literal way possible. Hammond SHOULD have built it in Orlando, at least Florida (which has its own deep ecological troubles) is large enough so you can actually set preserved areas, wildlife corridors, better ecological practices... building a park in Isla Nublar is the same as destroying the Galápagos.

And no, the movies don't adress this fact, that Isla Nublar and etc. HAD A PREVIOUS ECOSYSTEM BEFORE JURASSIC PARK that is most likely wiped out. The book does worry a bit about dinosaurs introduced to the mainland before returning to its main message: "GENETICS IS PLAYING GOD!11!!1!!!!", yeah man, I'm a bit more concerned about the islands you're destroying for your stupid theme park. I don't mind you cloning the dinosaurs so much as much as the fact that you're destroying whole natural ecosystems to host them and then there are a bunch of freaking kids who want to preserve them even if they're THE case of an invasive species, you might as well try to preserve Pedro Escobar's hippos in Colombia.

(I did learn about island ecology and I'm reminded that during the Cold War, the paradigm of island ecology was used to use actual islands as test laboratories, including for nuclear weapons. Islands are never truly 'isolated' or 'blank slates', and at the same time they're incredibly fragile ecosystems, but if I keep writing I'm going to search actual papers and I have to do my actual work)

[hyper-coasters]

VelociCoaster and Hogwarts... who thinks Harry Potter would be more fun with dinosaurs?! Who needs a Hedwig when you have a pterodactyl?

[ionlycareabouthhn]

Saying goodbye to Poseidon's Fury. I was not expecting to go back to Orlando yet, but I couldn't imagine a world where I didn't get to say goodbye to one of my favorite attractions since childhood. The trident has come back home.

[theresattrpgforthat]

Hello Mint!

I discovered roleplaying through Lancer, and it made me love tactics with a little emergent behavior (with the occasional surprise super silly combo), the sort we also have in some tactical puzzle games like into the breach or tactical breach wizards. Do you know some tactical RPGs with combat that can almost feel like puzzles at times

THEME: Combat with Puzzles.

Hello friend! I think I have some solid recommendations here, but don't sleep on what I've already written about! You can check out some other recommendation posts at the bottom of this.

Celestial Bodies, by Charlotte Laskowski @binarystargames.

Adrift Among the Bodies of the Dead

For a generation after the calamity, the infinite dark between the stars felt cramped, crowded by refugees on ships meant for fewer people and shorter trips.  In the second generation, those who survived in their home-ships now cannibalized the metal skeletons of the less fortunate ships.  The third generation did not just expand their ships; they expanded their mecha and their operations. They fled to farther stars — populations in space stations and on surfaces booming as quickly as lives were lost in petty disputes.  The fourth generation discovered the Titans. No probe had yet reached these dead gods whose frozen bodies spanned hundreds of miles across. You are the fifth generation.

Celestial Bodies uses an inventory system that feels similar to Mausritter; you have to fit your weapons and other gear inside a grid in order to carry everything. Your “puzzle’ involves constructing your mech to work effectively in battle according to the strategy you prefer. You’re also tracking resources gained and resources used; it seems like you have to keep fighting in order to get access to the things that keep you going.

Ultraviolence Radiation, by KintaroTPC.

Ultraviolence Radiation (UVR) is an experiment in action.

Deflect bullets with a knife! Grab a guy and use him as a weapon against another guy! Take a smoke break in the middle of a hail of gunfire! Get your revenge and look cool doing it.

Featuring 100 enemies with unique Intros, Attacks and special things they do when they die! 28 Abilities to make the action hero you want to play! A rule set which takes inspiration from Beat-Em-Up arcade games and applied them to the Tabletop genre.

In Ultraviolence Radiation, one person is a player, while everyone else at the table plays the baddies. The fighter can’t use moves that draw from the same stat back-to-back; a limitation that points towards having to think carefully about what you’re going to do. There are also moves that have cooldown limitations; you can’t spam the same move, but rather have to time everything to make sure you still have access to good options. Additionally, the fighter has access to passive moves, which have no cooldown, and in some cases, might be consistently in effect. They also have interrupt moves, which can be used outside of your turn. This gives you a fairly complex list of options to choose from, which I think is an integral piece to a good combat game.

Mutation, by OneFootWall Games.

The World as we know it has changed. Two centuries from now a comet strikes Earth. This hunk of interstellar rock was an attack by some Klendathu wannabes. “Goddamn bugs whacked us, Johnny.”

It wasn’t really a comet or meteor, or even an asteroid. It was a seed bomb for terraforming sent by some alien species. This thing detonated a mile up over the Florida Keys and scattered radiation, some kind of bio-gel, and spores around the globe. It wiped out 80% of life on the surface. And we never even got to see the damn aliens…

The world was a little weird and quiet after that. But like Dr Ian Malcom in Jurassic Park says, “Life, uh, finds a way.”

A 3d6 system with a reasonable amount of crunch, distance matters in Mutation, and turns have an action economy. This plus the attacks, talents, psychic powers, skills, and gear which all constitute your character mean that you have a number of different distinct tools that can be used to overcome obstacles, especially in combat. Your character also has the opportunity to inflict and also take different conditions; having different ways to affect and damage your opponent feels like another layer of tactical precision to me.

There is a free quickstart if you want to take a peek behind the curtain before you buy.

Thrones and Threads, by OpalBreeze Games.

Throughout the land, warlords hire mercenary champions to try and dethrone one another. Once hired, these champions don cloth adornments embroidered with threads of vibrant colours that signify their allegiance. Endowed with formidable power, champions are tasked with cutting through enemy lines and destroying fortified strongholds until no obstacles remain between their forces and the enemy throne.

Thrones and Threads is a role-playing battle arena based on Songs and Sagas, product of Fari RPGs, developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas.

This game comes with 5 pregenerated characters and feels very much like an arena battle; combat is front and centre. Each character has a special move that makes them unique, and many of their traits are determined by different sizes of dice. Because each character has flavoured ways of using their stats, if you are inventive in how you describe your characters’ actions, you’ll likely be able to play to your strengths.

Strike Force Omega, by potatocubed.

It is the far future. Humanity spreads across the galaxy. Led by a council of corporate interests, the Imperial Core reaps the benefits of plunder and exploitation on an unimaginable scale, teeming trillions of human beings kept docile by mass media and the never-ending war against every other sentient species humanity has encountered.

You were a soldier in that war. Not one of the grunts, given basic training and a gun and shoved towards the enemy, although you might have started there. No, you were part of Strike Force Omega. Omega, because you ended things. Given the best training and equipment, remade by your corporate masters into a terrifying god of war, and expected to achieve the impossible on a regular basis. Which you did.

Until you got out.

But war has found you, even here. Not all the threats in the corp newsrooms are overstated.

The people of these worlds are frightened, but they will defend their homes against the oncoming tides – and they will fail and they will die. Even in their millions they cannot win.

Unless…

War is what you were made for, after all. You’ve killed and destroyed for far worse causes than this, so why not take up arms one more time and maybe try to claw back a little part of your soul?

LUMEN is generally a great system for strategic combat, all about creating combos that make you feel powerful and effective. Strike Force Omega is a setting that allows you to play with both magic and technology, and it includes 6 sample campaigns, one for each enemy faction written for the setting. Since the lore and world-building is built in, your characters already have a strong reason for fighting, something that sometimes I struggle to put together in Lancer.

demon blade ultimate, by Peach Garden Games.

Take up your Demon Blade and do battle against the oppression of the imperial army, put an end to the shaded cities, and bring the people of the undercity back to the sunlight.

Demon Blade Ultimate uses the Arts Grid, a character creation and power system pioneered in the legendary Horse Girl Infinity by Jordan Cuddlefish. Choose powers from the grid, unleash powerful summoning magic, and know that nothing is truly beyond your reach.

The grid system in Demon Blade involves choosing three powers on a grid. The spaces between the thing you want to do and the thing you are good at determines the difficulty of an action. Advancement allows you to increase your strengths, making you more powerful as you play.

This game takes a lot from shounen battle anime, so expect narratives about striving to improve yourself until you can vanquish the evil that threatens your people.

Other Recommendations:

Loot, by Gila RPGs.

My Dragoon Recommendation Post.

Fantasy With Tools Recommendation Post

Weapons & Weapon Customization Recommendation Post

Spatial Puzzle Recommendations

Combat Recommendations

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