You’ll mentally bond with whichever one you pick so they won’t kill you and you’ll be able to train them.

  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    Is this the shapeshifting, intelligent kind of dragon? Because I wouldn’t want it as a pet but as a friend. That’s way nicer than having something that all my neighbors will treat the same way so many bigots treat pit bulls.

  • mienshao@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    If you want a dino, go buy a bird. They’re literally dinosaurs. Dragon 100%.

    • cattywampas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 days ago

      They’re literally dinosaurs in the same way that humans and other vertebrates are literally fish. Which is to say you can describe them that way taxonomically, but the saying “birds are literally dinosaurs” is misleading and disingenuous.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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        6 days ago

        Awesome user name.

        But I can’t agree. While some birds have evolved well away from their roots, others haven’t changed much at all, and should realistically count. Not just the rhea either.

  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Are we talking magic wielding fully sentient dragons (forgotten realms style) or animal like simple dragons? The first type could keep humans as pets.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Simple dragons are just snakes with bowel obstructions so the pigeon they ate fermented and then a peasant stepped on it at night (so they were carrying a torch) and it popped and the fumes made a teensy boom. That’s how people invented dragons ipso facto oceans 11s razor.

        • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 days ago

          First iteration of the myth was rats but then I remembered dragons have wings and they (peasants) probably got scared by the pop, came back a year later and found the pigeon wings in the snake skeleton. Rats got no wings.