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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).

Ooooo, quantum computing. I've done some quick reading up on it and sounds neat. My Algorithms teacher seemed really geeked up about it...which would make sense because it would speed up all those evil NP-Complete stuff

An excellent decision on the part of Obsidian!

EDIT: Continued from here Is it choice or not? I think you underestimate 'choice' as being something that you always consciously decide. If you wanted to go all Behaviourist, one could argue that there's no such thing as "choice." Lucius, how do you feel people become homosexual then?

They have skillz!

Welcome to the forums dude!

You think people are born gay? Why do you disagree with the "choice" crap? And be defending someone that did not need nor want defending...how self-righteous of you.

Quagmire!!

Nay, not sickness. Responsibility!

Hehe true. I keep waiting for the eventuality that the President grew up playing Video Games.

Gibbing bad guys in NWN and BG series WAS kind of entertaining :D

Hey, my roommate wasn't IN Oz. He just enjoyed the TV show!

He's not disagreeing with the fact that someone is a homosexual. He's disagreeing with the legitimacy of the lifestyle. He's very conservative and has a stong religious background, so it's not too surprising really.