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Actually I bet it would, as there'd be strong sociological and psychological influences from the environment to make you think like that. Of course there's always exceptions. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hah! Fair enough. You'd need to get into mind-reading to know that one for sure. I mean, aren't we missing something, which is that personality has a huge part to play in attraction. I know i can't be getting dates on my looks alone! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Don't be so hard on yourself. Until we meet the person, I'd say that physical attractiveness is pretty paramount. I can't think of anybody that willingly went up to a person of the opposite sex that they felt was unattractive with the purpose of getting a date. What can I say...we're all shallow :D

Mario, Mike, and Mr. Greatness. Coaches are definitely not my strong suit in hockey.

Actually I bet it would, as there'd be strong sociological and psychological influences from the environment to make you think like that. Of course there's always exceptions.

Ah, the book is quite new. I'll probably pick it up. I guess now that I think a bit more about it, it probably wouldn't be too different from transexuality, since I'd wager a good chunk of homosexual men are transexual in nature, and consider themselves to be a woman (TV and movies certainly fulfills this stereotype). And I do remember one of my professors talking about the possibilities of genetic traits causing the "woman inside a man's body" situations. In between the goofiness and whatnot, I actually don't mind this thread. I was making an attempt at serious discussion, but I probably should have known better than to bring up a subject like this :D

Heh, much like a counterstrike forum will have a ton of firearm "experts," seems as though this does too

I found that to be more in IWD2 than in the first one...although I haven't played the first one as in depth.

I was mentioning that the phenomenon was not just restricted to humans. The predispositions exist for other mammals too, so it would seem that there would be more than just them all moving to the big city, although the large concentrations would be affected by that as well.

It is rather verbose, and gets off to a much slower start.

Would be nice to finally get some youth on that team!

You'd have to analyze their situations while growing up. I never said it JUST happens in large cities. There are certain conditions that are highly related to overpopulated areas, and those conditions can still be replecated elsewhere through other means. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You sure did emphasise it, either you need to get better at expressing yourself, or I need to check up on my understanding of English. (damn Anglo-Saxons) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Here is what I originally said: I merely mentioned an increased predisposition. I certainly don't consider that to be an emphasis, since it just mentions one correlation.

Ultimate Fighter is neat because it's not really "reality" TV. It's a bunch of teams of guys trying out for UFC pretty much.

Is it just me, or did Florida get royally screwed?

You'd have to analyze their situations while growing up. I never said it JUST happens in large cities. There are certain conditions that are highly related to overpopulated areas, and those conditions can still be replecated elsewhere through other means.

You'd be surprised how much of your subconscious is used in your conscious decisions. I am not talking about something that evolves subconsciously while growing up. And I'm not making the claim, I just mentioned that alternative. If you look up a bit more you'll see that my belief is that it's based on environment.

Still doesn't change the fact that you can die in KOTOR 2.

Exactly.

You're just being silly. And you're also naive and think that choice is purely a conscious decision.

Splinter Cell is a very good game IMO. And the series only got better with each game.

Quantum Computing would be phenomenal. Doesn't it take the comparison search from a lower bound of n*log(n) to root(n)?

Dr. Savic (the guy that found that correlation), in an interview with the New York Times, mentioned explicilty that "We cannot tell if the different pattern is cause or effect...The study does not give any answer to these crucial questions."

Actually, current research suggests that there is more than one "gay" gene. The current theory is that these genes give various advantages to the bearers, such as better empathy, for example, and that only the agglomeration of many of these "gay" genes makes a person "gay". There is also reason to believe that it is down to the endocrimal amniotic mixture whilst the embryo is interuterine, and specifically the testosterone concentrations at various critical (and not yet determined) stages of early development. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I would really like to see a reference for this. The National Association for Resarch and Therapy of Homosexuality pretty much says otherwise There was a study that showed a slightly less than 50% correlation between twins both being homosexual, but two other geneticists analyzed the data and claimed it was more support for environment than inheritance.

If homosexuality is genetic, why is there no correlations between homosexuals and their relatives (most specifically their siblings and their parents)?

Except that the patterns can be also be found in animals other than humans.

You'll find that homosexuality is often a reflection of environment. They're more often located in locations such as overpopulation and whatnot. There's an increased predisposition towards homosexual activity (and experimentation) when overpopulation is combined with a socially restricting stigma. The patterns are also shared in species outside of human beings. I would wager that homosexuality is not necessarily genetics, since there's little correlation between a homosexual having relatives that are homosexual as well. I would think the environment has a lot more to do with it. And for some that have experimented both ways, I'd say it is choice. I would suspect that a lot of our notions of "choice" are influenced by our perceptions of homosexuality. And depending on what you would classify as homosexuality, there's certainly choice available. Is there anything really stopping us, aside from our perceptions about homosexuality and the sociological upbringing we had and all these environmental constraints, from having sex with someone of the same sex?

The forced restrictions on alarms was stupid in the originals. Chaos Theory has done away with that...and even done away with alarms causing mission failure (except when it's most prudent).