Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26923065-20160127114349/@comment-17754282-20171022144455

2602:306:32D4:8130:BC07:19E2:F713:DBF0 wrote:

Sprinter1988 wrote:

107.72.162.51 wrote:

Sprinter1988 wrote: Actually, everyone already knows what Velociraptor really looks like; just a small but nimble turkey. However, I still think of the accurate Velociraptor as deadly because... Hey; just one can cling on a person and bite his jugular, AND have 10 of these little guys, and they will shred that person to pieces alive like piranhas.
 * Note: I chose Deinonychus because the original post said that the animals would be scientifically accurate and thanks to the JP films, everyone knows the name Velociraptor, but think it looks like Deinonychus - if I put in a real Verlociraptor, everyone would get disappointed!

Sure, it's also bad to have a Deinonychus (or Dakotaraptor, Achillobator, and Utahraptor) simply bite your neck and suffocate you to death, but the point is, you are already dead when this (or these) large dromaeosaurs start to eat you. Velociraptor on the other hand, may be gradually smaller, but they are faster, more flexible, and deadlier--- something that WOULD get the public's attention. I wouldn't say that's common knowledge at all. Everyone who actually knows a decent amount about dinosaurs knows, but not everyone who has seen Jurassic Park knows a lot about dinosaurs. If you went up to the average person in the street and asked them to describe a Velociraptor, they'd describe what they saw in the Jurassic Park film, not the real animal, because the Jurassic Park filml is their only reference for that animal. Yes, only true fans can understand what Velociraptors really looked like, but if you were to say to that average person that the JP Velociraptor is just genetically modified from the actual version of the Velociraptor (nothing to do with Deinonychus), then he would understand, would he? He'd probably wonder why you didn't do the same genetic modifications to make the Velociraptor a larger, more impressive animal, like the general public expect it to be