Archosaur Archmage

A courting pair of tylosaurus Rex

my theme was the extinction of dinosaurs and their evolution into birds? I had one other piece, but it wasn’t finished and I think it was thrown away 🥀

the last piece- the archaeopteryx with the feathers- I used real feathers that my friend collected from a rescue she works at, and feathers from my own bird

the nanuqsaurus- the second piece- was supposed to have two other dinosaurs with it, but I wasn’t able to finish those in time. I don’t want to leave it incomplete, so maybe I’ll find a ceramic studio near me that’ll let me just sculpt lol—

these are all just sitting on the floor in my room lol— idk what to do with them

There is a finite amount of memory on any given device.

No matter how good your game is, players will want memory for other things on their devices.

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.