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(Payned)---Officer Chunk + Guybrush Threepwood would be pretty boss

We actually had a discussion about something similar to this in one my lectures at uni. There's a treatment involving fertilising human ovums in vitro and running genetic tests on the zygotes to determine which of these have less risk of a particular disease for subsequent implantation into a...

I think he was looking at Empire Earth 3

I was really confused because I thought Empire Earth was great, so I looked it up. You mean Empire Earth 3. I didn't even know there was an Empire Earth 3, maybe there's a reason for that...

Yes I said that sex is determined by the Y chromosome to simplify things because I assumed that most people here wouldn't have a strong background in genetics. Apparently I was wrong :P But yes the TDF (testis determining factor - what determines your gender) is thought to be the SRY gene found...

Quick thingy, having a monosomy/trisomy doesn't make you "intersex". Sex is determined by the presence of a Y chromosome and not by the number of X chromosomes. Of course you can have some genetic anomalies (such as with Klinefelter's Syndrome XXY), but it doesn't make you "partly the other...

People always seem to knock Taris, which I don't get. I freaking loved it!

Good to know I wasn't the only one.

Oh right, yeah, thanks. Been too long since I played that game

How do you manipulate two nations into fighting each other?

Jazz Jackrabbit 1, Orbitus Level 2, there was a part in it where the developers obviously hadn't play tested and you had to exploit a glitch to get passed it. Of course I didn't know this as a kid and so I beat every part of the game except for this. Well, got back to it not too long ago, found...

Wo, wo, wo. Wo. Taris was bad?? Taris was my favourite level from any game ever! But yes the mining asteroid level in KotOR 2 was pretty boring, and the fact that it was automatically compared to Taris made it so much worse for me. It's actually why I haven't been able to do a second run through...