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dinosaurs-fangs · 2 years ago

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Not very active on this platform but after speaking with a friend of mine, I felt like coming online as I doubt anyone will take it seriously coming from her, whos nothing more then a dinosaur nerd.

I am a paleontologist. I have dealt with just as much misinformation as everyone else, its annoying, I understand. But some of the actions I've witnessed here are just...so incredibly immature.

I thought the whole thing with tumblr was people usually respected other peoples right to enjoy things and if they were complaining, didn't tag the thing they were complaining about. Out of respect for those just trying to enjoy media.

But the behavior I am seeing from some specific people is making me ashamed to work in the same field as them. Going out of your way to tag things as ark survival evolved to be a dick is just plain rude.

Ark is not a very accurate game. Its far from accurate actually. You can say the same thing about many pieces of dinosaur media. Honestly, almost everything made for a mainstream audience gets at least one thing wrong. Excluding things such as documentaries of course.

Ark was what started me on paleontology. Seriously at least. Its what got me studying, its what got me into this field. I find the game enjoyable and while yes its spread misinformation...is that really such a big deal to you that you have to go out of your way to be rude to those just trying to enjoy a game?

Its obnoxious, I understand, I've spent many hours trying to correct stupid things people believe about dinosaurs. But this is not just an issue paleontology faces, this is an issue in any scientific field. You can never expect every single person to understand your field.

But this does not give you any right to be rude to people enjoying a game or people who have been misinformed. Snapping at people asking you questions and being rude to them because they don't know as much as you is something a child on a playground would do.

Theres almost a sense of "i'm better then you because I know [Insert dinosaur fact] here" going on. You are not better then anyone for knowing more.

#paleoblr #ark survival evolved #dinosaurs #paleontology

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dinosaurs-fangs · 2 years ago

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A ghost stegosaurus visiting their newly discovered bones. They’re so happy you found them!

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dinosaurs-fangs · 2 years ago

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Hi. yes. i AM a real paleontologist and I support this message.

I like speaking with my colleagues, but the 'paleoblr' community and online paleontology spaces are just plain unpleasant to be around. Ark survival evolved was what inspired me to be a paleontologist myself. Without this game I wouldn't be where I am.

Its unfortunate, but you need to accept that games like ark that yes are inaccurate serve as an entry point for many people into this field. Misinformation will always exist, its very unfortunate, but it is a challenge all scientific fields face. This is not just a problem paleontology faces.

As Spook put it, you are not better then anyone for knowing more about dinosaurs. Thats playground logic my friend.

Ugh I'm annoyed at paleoblr again sorry I have to bitch.

"arks bad because its the first google search result when u look up a dinosaur"

Okay well first of all hows that the game itselfs fault?? Like. the devs have zero control over that thats all google. And second of all thats barely even true!! I went ahead and googled some dinosaurs and here are the top results for those, and by top results I mean what appears when you first look at it WITHOUT scrolling.

Tell me. Wheres the ark dino. Where is it. Where are they where are these ark dinos you bitch and moan about CONSTANTLY. I'm not saying this is the case for every single dino in ark theres like 100's of them so I'm not going to google them all and provide a post with like a mile of screenshots.

and if your talking about the wiki or something being the first to pop up. Where. I actually had to go to page two to find the ark wiki for some of them.

"Little kids are being influenced by ark!!"

And? They're little kids. They are no more influenced by ark then they are jurrassic park/world or dinosaur toys. I can't really talk on the nintendo switch dino discoveries game as I haven't actually played it, dino discoveries is the only informational part of ark, and I am not going to pretend I know anything about that.

But are you seriously telling me you're getting upset at children not having accurate dinosaurs? at children being influenced by a popular piece of dinosaur media?? Dude. Chill.

"but people are treating it as a scientific resource!!"

Literally who is doing that. Anyone who does that probably puts their left shoe on their right foot. I extremely active within the ark community, as in extremely, and I have been since the game came out. I have talked to hundreds, possibly even thousands, of different people about dinosaurs on ark now and NOBODY. not a SINGLE person has ever claimed they thought ark was scientific.

Honestly most of us are well aware the arks deeply inaccurate. Its actually mentioned in game several times, most people don't stop to read the notes but one glance at them and the person whos writing them (a paleontologist btw) mentions that all the dinosaurs are wrong and will talk about the sizes being off or other things like that.

"Well they can't just say its not meant to be accurate and call it fine"

Yeah they can actually. Again, most ark players are at least aware of the games many issues and inaccuracies, its something that is regularly discussed amongst the fanartists and lore buffs actually. The most common people who are misinformed by ark are literal children. Get off your fucking high horse.

Honestly most of the stuff I see people bitching about isn't even arks fault. A lot of it is people ripping the models from the game and using them elsewhere, such as when a (very bad) dinosaur documentary stole arks models and used them to spread misinformation. This was not the fault of ark or wildcard, its not their fault other people take their assets and use them in improper ways. I'm fairly certain that if they can they send cease and desist letters to these people anyways.

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dinosaurs-fangs · 3 years ago

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