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John Nash (yes, that John Nash) is speaking at my college this Friday. Unless something goes very wrong, I'll be attending.

... Dude's website is kinda' amazing.

Incidentally, is that happening anywhere near north florida? Dunno if I would understand a single word said, but it might be interesting to listen anyway

So they've revealed Gnar.

AND OH GOD HE'S THE CUTEST FUCKING THING EVER!!!!

*goes and looks*

It... it's a gremlin wereboar. I think I'm okay with that.

E: Sweet zeus that e-r combo looks terrifying. Spread the hell out or your entire team gets slammed into a wall and stunned ;_;

Actually, does anything in the game right now have the potential to move an entire enemy team in one go, as that ult seems to?

I thought it was open-mouthed guy with shut eyes.

it's a sad clown with one of those giant noses

(is trans-sexuality a psychological feature, too?)

... what does this have to do with the discussion on sexual preference? Transsexuality doesn't really have anything in particular to do with that. Is an issue with gender identification, not sexual preference, so far as I'm aware. Verra' different things.

Separate discussion being such, I do think some areas are beginning to treat trans as a legitimate psychological issue of some sort or another. With appropriate treatment: Gender reconstruction and hormone therapy, after which the person in question is psychologically normal for their (previously misaligned) gender and operates as well as anyone. 'Course, there's plenty of bigots/ignorant individuals up in arms about nationalized medical systems or anything remotely resembling them actually forking out money to fix the issue in question, but what can you do? You've got people that value what they view as "normalcy" over others' health and sanity in every society, s'far as I know.

Still, it is certainly not biologically normal behaviour, and as such should be considered a problem.

And here is kinda' the fundamental problem with the way you're thinking, methinks. Something not being biologically normal behavior (though note: Homosexuality is biologically normal, by everything I've seen. Relatively low probability, but normal) does not mean it's a problem. It means it's different, but whether that's an problem is an entirely separate consideration.

E: But nah, the stronger reason why it's not considered a problem is that homosexuality has no meaningful effect on psychological functioning. It is little-to-no more impactful on how you think and how you function than preferring brunettes over blondes. Has no impact on work ethic, morals, intellectual or physical capability, the vast, vast majority of social interaction... it's a non-harmful sexual preference, and that's it. Which is why it's not a problem.

Quote from: ivze on July 29, 2014, 11:55:16 am

Nope, I mean something like 'mothership' from science fiction.

Which is of course nonsense. Ukraine is the mother of Russia.

No, no, it makes perfect sense. Mothership in sci-fi sense: Xeno invader coming in and anal probing all your cows, kidnapping people and killing/experimenting on them, etc., so forth, so on. Like... X-Com mothership, y'ken? Seems fairly close to apt, t'me.

There's no real need to weaponize it. Extendoneck cows would be strictly inferior in combat capability to normal cows, which are primarily useful as ammo, disguised explosives, and disease vectors, the first of which would be made more difficult due to awkward neck shenanigans and the latter interfered with by their freakish eldritch deformity making people and other cows avoid them like the r'lyehian plague.

I just want you to know that if I saw a cow extend its neck up to the roof of a decently sized one-story building, I would flip the hell out.

And probably burn the surrounding countryside to the ground, just to be sure.