KOMODO GALLANT'S PROFILE

Hmm... Bad games?

Well, there were a few that I had unpleasant experiences with- Dark Cloud was bearable up to Queens only because I've nulled myself to mindless, repetitive gameplay via E.V.O. (which is actually an amazing game) Dark Cloud had a nice premise to it, and I was interested for as long as I was. Then I gave up because they took a really nice idea (putting the village together) and bogged it down with hours of droning, excruciating dungeon gameplay and horrific combat systems. Yuck.

Growlanser Generations was fun, and the music, gameplay and battle system had it's charm. But there was only nine hours of gameplay- not really long enough to try and incorporate the personality-building factor that they did. The main character was cute and all, but pretty hair and funny arm-sleeves can only get you so far. I don't want to be saving the world at level 23.

I heard that a lot of people disliked Saga Frontier, but my best friend absolutely loves that game to death, and she has impeccable taste in games. Just had to stick up for it.

While I liked .Hack 3, using PREGNANCY and DIGITAL CATS to robb me of both my mages and making me scavenge the earth for endless hours trying to find that stupid "I" gate key was NOT COOL. So I stopped playing.

I played the first Halo earlier this year. I love first person shooters, but this one just made me sick. Physically. But it was just from the spinning camera. (How Halo makes me sick and not things like Metroid and Doom, I don't know.)

I think those are all my bad game experiences thus far.

author=myersguy link=topic=841.msg11680#msg11680 date=1207703957
wow, this is crazy. Also, by the way, after seeing this, my weird and twisted mind came up with something.

Now, picture this, you are a man, you go and store your sperm somewhere, get a sex change, come back, and use your own sperm to become pregnant. Have that child, and you have a real mini you!

This is assuming you can become pregnant after a male-female sex change, which as far as I know, you can't. Nonetheless, would this be considered incest?

I don't think so. Assuming that an individual's body produces both egg and sperm cells, (Which would not be the case in the situation you describe, from my understanding) it still doesn't seem possible. The genetic defects present in children whose parents are as genetically different as cousins can sometimes be crippling- I can't imagine the odds of that child developing into a healthy adult.

Out of my own curiosity, I went and did some research on cloning, and it's an entirely different process. A single cell is "programmed" to develop into an entire organism- all of your cells contain all of your DNA, which makes this possible. So there are no forms of cloning that are the result of contact between two genetically identical sex cells- possibly, fertilization can't even happen under that circumstance.

I don't think incest is the word. Something close, though.

At first I thought this was about the hoax from China, but it appears I was thinking about something different.

I don't have anything against it. It may be socially awkward, but a lot of things are that should receive acceptance anyway.

A little biological fact- all human babies start out female in the womb, with female organs. Whether or not male reproductive organs surface later, and the female organs stop developing, is of course dependent on the Y and X chromosomes and various hormones present. Sometimes one or two of those factors can be altered, usually by substances consumed by the mother. What gender you are, physically, isn't as much of a black and white thing as people often think it is.

This, as Brandonabley and NoblemanNick pointed out, isn't really a case of a "man", biologically speaking, being pregnant anywho- since the individual in question was born a female.

Socially awkward, yes. Morally wrong or disgusting, no. These are all value judgments, however, and can not be proved by science in either direction.

Here comes some icky biological genital talk, so kiddies better think twice about reading.

...Although I can think of a situation where a "male pregnancy" would be possible. The female organs every baby starts off with, that I mentioned? Some children can be born, externally, looking like one gender and have sexual organs of the other. (Such as testes or ovaries, with the external features being only superficial). Or, they can have both where one simply didn't develop enough to cause any external physical changes, but is otherwise capable of preforming it's function. Although the possibility seems rather slim, I can imagine that an individual could be born with functioning, male external organs and have a developed womb on the inside with no external, female sex characteristics. Whether or not that organ in question would be able to do anything depends a lot on hormones, and that's tricky business.

Basically, your options aren't just male/female/hermaphrodite. There's in betweens. A lot of people probably aren't one "definite gender" and don't even know it.

I'm no doctor, but these are things professionals and textbooks have told me. I admit I take the above scenario as a slightly altered example from a medical TV show, however, so that should warn you as to how credible I am in this situation. I'm just trying to shed some useful information on the topic, as well as my own musings. Believe me at your own risk.

1. A low-tech cooking system that I may turn into a smithing system.
2. Regenerating resources such as well water, milk from livestock and chicken eggs.
3. Lots of original art and creative uses for it. Hopefully.

That's about it.

Mnn, it definitely has charm, and the color balance is great. But it needs more depth of field! Unless you were looking for that kind of style.

I like it.