Not a dragon in traditional sense, but I took some inspiration from furred dragons and drakes. [The original concept is mix of canines and lizards.](https://github.com/Kaelygon/Lacertocyon-plumocrista)
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basically Komodo dragon + maned wolf = maned dragon
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Thank you ^^ It's not a dragon in traditional sense, but I might just do that!
*Is it a lizard or just a funny looking dog?* I made cover art for [my own species](https://github.com/Kaelygon/Lacertocyon-plumocrista)! It sure has been a while since I drew ferals, but I think this ended up pretty alright. I barely draw nowadays as I mostly focus in 3D art. Feathers are bit wacky and shading isn't very accurate as I mostly winged it, but I just liked the process of drawing shades.
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It's funny how caught up I got about fantasy etymology after reading couple weeks of taxonomy and zoology
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Yea! That's why it's more useful to specify traditional, mythological or a certain type of a dragon that have become more popular in recent fantasy.
The dragon term doesn't necessarily need a strict definition. It's just my preference that having structure is better and then you can decide how to break the norms. Although, most of these new variants share the same name 'dragon'.
I still see the evolution of the term fascinating even if it is becoming more generic.
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I agree with the biological definition, "organism that can survive as an individual". Even if the fetus has a parasitic relation, it is capable of developing all functions to fit the full definition.
There are other definitions of 'life' and anyone is free to believe either way, but the more subjective question is: When does the fetus become a person?
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Same thing with alcohol prohibition. People are going to break the law, legal or not. The US is said to be the freedom land, but women can't have autonomy over their bodies.
What I gathered is that 70% of the US congress is men, so it's not their freedom that they sacrifice.
Christian values are important to some voters, so politicians can gain free points by promising anti-abortion laws.
The politicians who make such decisions think one term at a time and disregard the consequences as long as it doesn't affect them. If they actually cared, they would also advocate for childcare benefits.
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I just have it in muscle memory to know which way soda bottle cap tightens
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I believe abortion is killing, but it only becomes murder by definition if abortion is outlawed. The literal definition is "the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another."
The fetus won't have cerebral cortex till +12 weeks; no consciousness. So it wouldn't be much different than killing a plant or bacteria. It's debated when it becomes a human.
Yes, I justify murder as it will likely reduce the suffering. Thus, I am a monster in Christians eyes.
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It looks bad for the advertisers to use strong words or take a stance.
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That was a good watch, I can see binary view being at least part of the problem. I did think that religion might be part of the reason for some laws, but somehow didn't realize how big. And the video had many other good points worth of the watch.
It's totally fine if you believe that life starts at conception. The thing that actually baffles me are the states that passed anti-abortion laws, but struggle to provide adequate health care, especially for those who are not financially stable. I found this article, ["States with more abortion restrictions have higher maternal and infant mortality"](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/abortion-restrictions-higher-maternal-infant-mortality-rcna61585), but feel free to correct or educate me on the topic. Edit: removed "this article" appearing twice and tried to fix preview
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Thank you so much :3
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It's subjective and I prefer him being it's own species now since I started reading about zoology.
In fictional world there's no rules, but I liked the challenge thinking what species would it be if not a dragon or a hybrid, and based it on the real-life evolution.
*Furred dragons* have become a wide range of creatures, and classifying them is vague at best, so this will be my subjective view. [My fursona](https://i.imgur.com/JERPznw.png) Tiena recently had an identity crisis as I asked the important question **What is a dragon?** The most common feature among furred dragons is the snout in the picture, which is usually similar to reptiles and the nostrils are on top of it. But not exclusively, but this is by far the most common trait. I believe that the only requirement for a furred dragon is to have fur or feathers. *Traditional dragons* usually are mythological, and one or more of these features: breath attack, large size, wings, scales, whiskers, reptilian features, lays eggs, horns, etc. There are also dragon types such as, Eastern, Eastern, Wyrm, Serpent, Wyvern, and so on. ***Furred dragons* don't have strict rules about what they are other than fuzzy dragons.** They may lack wings, have ears, be mammals, and require no supernatural abilities or relation to mythology. Which begs the question of whether they are dragons at all. Although I have yet to see a furred dragon that doesn't have any draconic features, you may add that as the second required trait. Of course **a creator of their character can ignore the semantics** and have any artistic freedom on what makes them a dragon. Not necessarily in a traditional sense. Originally around 2018 my sona took inspiration from *[komodo dragons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon)* and *[maned wolves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maned_wolf)*, then 1-2 years later I found about furred dragons, which shared many similarities due to the reptilian aspects. From that point on, I called my sona a furred dragon until now. **I concluded that my sona isn't an actual dragon**, as his only dragon-like features are the snout and tail profile, but even those are based on komodo dragons. So, I made a new species based on maned wolves and komodo dragons and I came up with the very original name [*feather maned dragon*](https://github.com/Kaelygon/Lacertocyon-plumocrista). But since the species is based on early real-life mammals, the name is a misnomer as he's not an actual dragon. Which is rather poetic, and this all comes back to a full circle.
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How did i get chills listening a gif?
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Thank you! It was a fun challenge blending irl with digital art since I have done so little photo manipulation
Krita Base: https://kaelygon.gumroad.com/l/ManedDragonBase This species which is based off [my sona Tiena](https://www.deviantart.com/caecuss/art/TienaRef30Mar21-Shaded-874812976) More details about maned dragons: [GitHub](https://github.com/Kaelygon/Lacertocyon-plumocrista) Aaneu is anthro maned dragon as the species itself is feral. He'll be one of the reoccurring reference character. The character, species lore and concept are public domain, but the art is CC BY 4.0 which only requires crediting me if you use the base. For example the credit can be watermark in the art, mention or link in same post when you share it.
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I genuinely thought symlinking these files was standard because how many people I have seen suggesting it. I have had this issue so many times when I needed to that one program updated but there's no newer libraries in AUR. Surprisingly, I haven't had issues and I've been doing this past 5 years on my personal system. So I guess I consider compiling from source next time.
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It did brush my mind as I'm still baffled about some abortion laws even if there's no brain development. But if it was an egg, it would be hard to enforce it and some eggs aren't fertilized. I bet someone would try to outlaw having a miscarriage if they could.
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The more you know. So it could be more likely that humans sat on their eggs to keep them warm, or they would have been limited to tropical climates. Humans would have evolved very differently regardless.
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Yes, my parents used to have chickens. It's unlikely that the incubation period would be 9 months and being oviparous has It's own challenges. If humans did evolve that route I'd imagine that we'd have overcome most of the issues. Dinosaurs being one example, it's possible humans would be cold blooded and have learned the joy of regurgitation. It comes down to speculation whether human like intelligence could have evolved with these limitations.
-Easier birth control: Make the egg into an omelette -Relaxed child support laws: Requires deliberate decision to incubate the egg -Clean packaged periods: Egg = No mess! Although, there would be stories about partners hiding fertilized eggs: Instead of unplanned parenthood we would have unconsensual parenthood There's probably more nuances I am missing. But do discuss it in the comments.
I started writing a grimdark fantasy based in DnD (Dungeons and Dragons) in Forgotten Realms, where some outcomes are left to a dice roll. I have never written a poem or a book, but I got lost in the topic and building this character. . I see grimdark being about moral ambiguity, a gruesome world where there are no good choices or endings. This started as a freeform poem from the protagonist's perspective, which led to a tragic ballad-like structure. -Quatrain -AABB rhyme pattern -8 or 9 syllables per line . The protagonist, "Aaneu", is a rogue/warlock who lost his past life. In the desperation, he made a pact with a trickster patron without realizing the extent of the contract. The ones Aaneu knew in the past, but they don't know him anymore. But they live. If Aaneu were to defy the pact, he and his past would perish. Aaneu is tasked with cruel deeds, while his past is kept as a hostage. His sheer will and loyalty drive him forward regardless. Selfish acts for a selfless cause. . In this new life, Aaneu is part of a collective "The Veiled Accord" that he is a loyal member and enforcer by choice. The few groups and individuals he's close with, he trusts by life. It's a story about betrayal, longing, and isolation, with contrasting themes about loyalty, nostalgia, and conflicting romance of "green scales". In mental breakdown, either due to the deeds he did or surfacing memories, he falls into an apathetic state, reciting parts of the poem in tears. Trying to process, what is it that he is after? . This is just the surface of the character. You can call it edgy or cliche, but I'm really enjoying the theme.
I made this blender render quite a while ago for a drawing reference. I generated multiple frames with large pixel grain, applied few color curve filters every few frame in krita. Made those frames into a mp4 and xor:ed random bytes of the binary file using a c++ program. Few clean up cuts in openshot-qt and made it into a gif with ffmpeg
License: CC0 1.0 Universal Kaelygon 2024 **Lacertocyon plumocrista** (feather crested lizard dog), also known as feather maned dragon or simply maned dragon. Despite the name and similarities to reptiles and canids, Lacertocyon belongs to an entirely different family, Lacertherids, that diverged from late Eutherians. - Kingdom: Animalia - Phylum: Chordata - Class: Mammalia - Order: Lacertheriformes - Family: Lacertheridae - Genus: Lacertocyon - Species: plumocrista Average size: 100 cm at withers, weight 45 kg Speed: Up to 50 km/h in short sprint **Traits** - Warm-blooded, Placental Mammal, Predator, Omnivore, Venomous **Appearance** - Maned dragons are covered in thin fur, and they have a feathered mane that reaches from their head down to the tip of the tail. The mane consists of feather-like keratinous strands evolved from fur. - This mane can puff up to appear bigger when threatened and acts as a protection and in heat regulation on cold nights. - Maned dragons have long ears with tufts at the end. - Their color is a mix of yellows, browns, and greens with lighter countershading. Colorization can also vary depending on the region. - Maned dragon's teeth resemble those of canines or raccoons, which are suitable for an omnivorous diet. - Their whiskers are as wide as their body front profile. When traversing narrow pathways, these whiskers would indicate when the gap is too narrow to fit. - They have five 3-segmented fingers and four 2-segmented toes, which are closer to reptilian hands than canine paws by appearance. - Skull shape is similar to reptiles, with external nares positioned like crocodiles. It lacks a rhinarium, but smell receptors are still located in the nasal cavity. The nasal cavity is still wet to help with smell - Maned dragons have long digitigrade legs to be able to see in tall foliage. Making their gait akin to Maned Wolves. - The similarities to canines and reptiles are largely superficial. These features evolved convergently to compete with modern carnivora. **Behavior** - Maned dragons are diurnal. They have trichromatic color vision, which is more advantageous in foraging, but this comes at the cost of poorer night vision. - Their habitat is dry tropical forest and semiarid desert, and they are most active around temperatures of 10-25C. - Maned dragons may share overlapping territories. Despite this, they are rarely aggressive against others unless food is scarce. - The species is a solitary hunter and can hunt up to 60 kg, but their preferred prey weighs 20-40 kg. - Maned dragons are omnivorous and often forage and eat various vegetable matter. - When food is scarce, they can resort to scavenging. Their stomach acid is strong enough to digest bones. - Any indigestible material, such as fur or large fragments, is regurgitated in compacted pellets. - Maned dragons communicate via howls and barks or roars like Maned wolves. When they are threatened, they make hissing or growling sounds. **Reproductive organs** - The reproductive organs of maned dragons are similar to those of some aquatic mammals, such as cetaceans, with a few differences. - Unlike cetaceans, L. plumocrista's anus is located outside the mammary slit before the root of the tail. - Both male's and female's sexual organs are internal, resulting in a visually flush underside. - In males, the penis and testes are internal, with the penis extending during mating. - The species has six teats similar to canines, which are hidden under the fur and become only pronounced in nursing females. - Outside reproductive organs, the species has very little sexual dimorphism. **Reproduction** - The female gives live birth and nurses a litter of 2 to 6 young with a gestation a period of 3-4 months. - During this period, the male may share the territory and assist with raising the offspring by hunting and providing protection. They don't necessarily share the same living space until at late stage of the gestation. While the species is mostly solitary, they form some relations between individuals. **Venom** - Maned dragon has venom glands in the lower jaw. Some of the bottom teeth have grooves for the venom. - Venom is useful when prey is too large to be disabled quickly by teeth and claws alone. - If the prey becomes troublesome to kill, L. plumocrista may stalk the prey until the venom takes effect. - The venom may also be used in defense, as it induces intense pain to repel the attacker. The maned dragon would likely have evolved a unique venom composition with effects similar to these components: - Intense pain: Bradykinin, Capsaicin - Muscle paralysis: Dendrotoxin, Fasciculins, Conotoxins - Venom spread promoters: Phospholipases, Metalloproteinases, Vasodilator **Evolution** - Lacertheriformes diverged from Eutherians some time before carnivora and convergently evolved alongside them, developing a unique set of traits. - Amniota -> Cynodontia (259 mya) -> Eutheria (145 mya) -> Palutherium (100-66 mya) -> Palusaurictis (66 mya) -> Lacertocyon (34 mya) Edit2: further updates at [https://github.com/Kaelygon/Lacertocyon-plumocrista](https://github.com/Kaelygon/Lacertocyon-plumocrista)
Clip from Stand-up Maths video https://youtu.be/pgyI8aPctaI?t=75
This was a VRChat avatar commission and to showcase it I made this render.
I tested the claim of Vaporeon's impressive Base Stats for HP and access to Acid Armor. Ungodly defense stat+high HP pool+Acid Armor means it can take pounding, all day and still not faint. I wasn't planning to use Vaporeon against water types because I have Raichu and Vaporeon doesn't have any physical attacks learned. Thankfully Vappy got lucky freeze after tanking a crit. This is my first time playing Pokemon blue in +10 years. Some months ago I played through Gen 2 the first time and because I never had tried Eeveelutions before [so I caught/bred them all in silver. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/zvo54w/i_collected_all_eeveelutions_in_p%C3%B3kemon_silver/) Because I found Vaporeon's move set fun to play in silver it was my carry in gen 3 and now in gen 1. Espeon is good as well because of the psychic type. I swear it's not ~~only~~ because of the memes! Full elite 4 fight [https://youtu.be/8igSeN9_V_A](https://youtu.be/8igSeN9_V_A)
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I was impatient waiting the crops to grow, so I recorded this clip of the contraption. There's space for 20 rows of pumpkins and each row is 87 blocks which that adds up to 1740 when fully grown
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1-2 years ago I started a play through where I can't update to next version until I have collected all obtainable items. I used prism launcher to do this. Later I added few exceptions such as potion, enchanted book, arrows and firework permutations, that I only need to obtain only one of them if they have different item ID. Full list of items and exceptions: https://pastebin.com/UivnM8TR Statistics or prism launcher isn't quite accurate, but my 2hz redstone clock says 0x2F5D00 = 430 hours, which I made in beta 1.7 around day 400 and it has been running since. According to the pastebin notes I finished beta 1.7 at 83hr 42min playtime and combined 510 hours sounds about right. I rarely sleep in game because I'm underground. [I posted the updated redstone clock here at lemmy some time ago.](https://lemmy.world/post/4686582)
The goober in question: https://www.deviantart.com/caecuss/art/Tiena-Feral-876502282
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I started a third play through first time in +1 year and I found out that you can have many simultaneous fauna culling and destroy sentinel missions. I'm not sure what's the mission limit, but it's at least 70. I jumped dozens of systems while traveling to Eissentam galaxy center and accepted any such missions, then I only had to kill 15 fauna, 2 predators and few waves of sentinels no matter how many missions I had accepted.Most missions such as pirate destroying, delivery, scan etc missions are location dependent so they can't be completed simultaneously. I shat myself at 1:15 when all of the mission completion sounds played at the same time very loudly.
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This is my long term survival map where I get every obtainable item (with few exceptions) in a version before updating to next version. This used to be piston flip flops, but they proved to be incredibly unreliable in few versions, so I opted for comparators and it hasn't required maintenance since. In the video it is displaying 301503 which is about 42 hours. [My flip flop design](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/51d8ac0f-365e-4762-8bab-94bd9630a98d.png) The principle is simple, 32 flip flops chained up which counts up in binary 2 times in second. The display is little endian and split to 4 bits so I can more easily convert it to hexadecimal in my head. I use the time stamps as journal entries. But making compact redstone and routing bits to displays complicates everything. The chunks should always be loaded as this is near spawn and I am using hoppers to extend loaded chunks. The timer is still running at 1.20 displaying 28BEB0 which is about 371 hours. I have made minor changes since and it has reset and the bits can be adjusted manually.
Hello, I am new to the site and I am wondering if I am doing something wrong or if this is a browser limitation. Linking images to posts seem to work fine, but this is not an option for avatar icons I am getting strange JSON errors whenever I attempt to upload or paste images either in posts or at profile settings "Browse..." I am not too familiar debugging/logging browsers, but here's some logs I found from both Firefox and Chromium OS: Arch Linux 6.4.7 Browsers: Mozilla Firefox 116.0, Chromium 115.0.5790.110-1 Error attempting to upload avatar icon: Firefox ``` XHRPOST https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image [HTTP/2 403 Forbidden 22ms] pictrs upload: client.js:2:1776534 Object { state: "failed", msg: SyntaxError } client.js:2:1776564 SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data client.js:2:1776766 handleImageUpload https://lemmy.world/static/fd8d452/js/client.js:2 (Async: promise callback) handleImageUpload https://lemmy.world/static/fd8d452/js/client.js:2 n https://lemmy.world/static/fd8d452/js/client.js:2 DEPRECATION NOTICE: "backgroundColor" is being deprecated. 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