Spinosaurus vs. Tyrannosaurus

To continue where we have ended, what if a T-Rex fought a Spinosaurus, rather than a carnosaur did? The simple answer is: the odds are in Tyrannosaurus’ favor. But!

As I have written previously, Tyrannosaurus had a more powerful bite than a carnosaur of its’ size…okay, relatively its’ size, such as the Carcharodontosaurus. When talking about a much bigger carnosaur, such as Mapusaurus, it is another story – yes, Tyrannosaurus is still likely to win, but it would be harder because in fights size does matter – this is something that AFO did get right, just…not entirely right.

Again, Spinosaurus was bigger; Tyrannosaurus had a stronger, more efficient, better bite and jaw power, but Spinosaurus was bigger and stronger, period. Unlike carnosaurs, but more like Tyrannosaurus itself, Spinosaurus took strength and weight over speed, just…in a different manner from Tyrannosaurus’. On land, when Tyrannosaurus went after Spinosaurus, its superior bite (to the carnosaurs’) meant that it would be able to defeat Spinosaurus faster and with more surety than any of the carnosaurs would. The carnosaurs did a ‘death of 1000 cuts’. Tyrannosaurus took far fewer – it needed far fewer, because it was that awesome.

…Yet if Spinosaurus got lucky, pinned down Tyrannosaurus with its own bite and began to pummel Tyrannosaurus with its’ claws, Tyrannosaurus would be defeated just as any carnosaur would, for the two were built much more similarly to each other than to Spinosaurus with basically the same weaknesses – a more fragile skeleton than that of Spinosaurus, for example. Moreover, in the water, where Spinosaurus held the home turf advantage…yeah, it would defeat Tyrannosaurus as well as any carnosaur, just with slightly different odds. Size matters, as well as habitat.

Okay, let us set the dinosaurs aside for now; let Tyrannosaurus and Spinosaurus figure out which of them is ‘the real king’ and mock the various carnosaurs’ in the process. Can we talk about something else? ‘For Honor’ (FH), for example?

…On May 16, 2017, a new installment of FH was released, featuring two new PCs – the Centurion and the Shinobi. As I have discussed them earlier, both of them could bring more problems to FH than solve them – but still, the two appear to be well designed and neat and with plenty of options, emoji and otherwise. Okay, so where is the commotion?

To elaborate, when FH became available for real for the first time, there was a powerful ad campaign beforehand; even the ‘AWE Me’ YouTube channel was contacted, and its’ members – contracted to forge the Raider’s Dane axe and the Kensai’s Nodachi greatsword by ‘Men At Arms’, while ‘DIY Cosplay…’ presented the Peacekeeper’s outfit. These days, ‘MAA’ has been busy forging such weapons as WW’s shield and the cutlasses from PotC franchise.

A brief note aside: DCEU’s weakest point is probably the movies – while MCU is struggling to put itself together, (and the new movie about the ‘New Mutants’ is a part of the X-Men franchise rather than the Avengers’ isn’t going to make this any easier), on TV, DCEU has got a very good thing with ‘Arrowverse’, and even if the upcoming ‘Black Lightning’ show isn’t going to be a part of it officially, (MCU and ‘Luke Cage’ are so impressed by it – not), this can still change, as it happened to ‘Supergirl’, I reckon. MCU has nothing like this; so far it just has AoS, and by now not too many people remain ‘in love’ with it. (However, I will not rant about AoS right now, no). Other shows are coming forth, of course, but until they become available for real, it is too early to talk about them; and ‘The Defenders’ franchise remains separate from AoS and the MCU films. That is not a problem, except that it means that MCU is still fractured – but its’ movies are still better than those of DCEU are. WW’s shield is precisely this point – it was so borrowed, idea-wise, from Captain America, that it is not even funny. Although, if MCU decides to troll the WW movie with its’ Captain Marvel film, (it could happen), now that would be humorous.

As for PotC? Honestly, the fifth movie already feels like a remake of the first with a rebooted cast, save for Captain Jack, of course. Meh, maybe it is time to retire this character already, however lovable this rascal is.

Back to FH? Here is the thing. Its’ story was not very good, (okay, ‘the campaign mode’, but still). There were plenty of technical flaws, but they got fixed by now, but the campaign/story mode? Not so much. And the fans were griping about it the loudest, and now that ‘Injustice 2’ (I2) is released and it is a game built along the same lines – basically – as FH, the fans and the gamers now have even more options and choices and they are not in FH’s favor. Now would be a perfect time to release something along the lines of ‘MAA’ or ‘DIY Cosplay…’, but no. All we got were some gamer videos centered on the new PCs, and…that is it, really. The new update of FH that took place on May 16, 2017 went down with little commotion; some people may have blinked and missed it, you know?..

So, FH is not doing all that great, while AoS got renewed for its’ fifth season. Good for them and their lawyers! …Except that ‘World’s End’ had the lowest numbers from the 4 seasons’ finales, and generally the numbers were the lowest for AoS ever. If this trend continues for S5, then any legalities might be pointless, for what is the point of a show that no one is watching?..

No, tonight I am not going to rant – about AoS or anything else. Instead, I am just going to tune out, for now. Until next time, everyone!