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it's got nothing to do with the physical difficulties of copulation, or the outward physical difficulties of carrying offspring to term and everything to do with how the egg and sperm interact and what happens to the offspring genetically. Species identification is actually a fair amount more complicated than this, for example with identifying dinosaur species, or bacteria and things that don't reproduce sexually. that being said, the 'produce fertile offspring' rule is still sufficient as a condition, just not necessary.

don't get me wrong, it's great that this method works for you, but it does not work for everyone I know this might just be a joke, but you did use the term 'everyone' and I know that a lot of people IRL and on internet believe that pessimism is entirely more mature and smart than being optimistic or even ambivalent. It's one way of looking at things, is all. Personally, if I were to be so pessimistic regarding all new people I meet, it would be extremely draining seeing as I already become very stressed at times interacting socially for the main topic, i agree with what seems to be the consensus: everyone should be allowed to seek out specific types of RP as a tool to filter out more enjoyment, but that shouldn't be turned into a method of judging those who don't fit into those specific types, nor should it be turned into a statement of what rp is better or more proper. After all, there really isn't any correct way to RP, and the grammar-poor hasty quicksand ERP is RP just as much as the months planned out, elaborate, no rules broken, immersion-centric RP is.

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responding just to the op, I don't see profanity as breaking immersion or anything. Just, on a personal level, I'm not too comfortable with excessively coarse language (by that I mean worse than fuck and shit). So If I'm RPing with someone and the worse words like "cunt" start coming out, I would ask them if they could tone down a bit, but that's just my sensitivity, not a comment on the validity of harsh swears in RP. For me, the only language that I would really want to change due to RP immersion would probably be units of measurement when there's a canon, known alternative, ie miles to malms and so on.

NEW CHALLENGER SANS BRINGS THE SPRAIN //okay i spent too much time trying to find a compatible skeleton pun for this and I STILL FAILED

[video=youtube] "you're gonna have a bad time"

well, gender swapping would probably get pretty ugly in a place like eorzea. My characters are all cis as far as I've developed them, so having a different gender would make them trans, and I'm not entirely sure how this world treats that kind of thing. You say opposite, so I assume you mean mtf and ftm and not anything outside of the gender binary. Lysiette was always a curious soul, so as a man. he would probably not take into account other people's thoughts on things. He'd probably go by "Lys" instead of thinking of an entirely different name than his birthname. I don't think he would experience much if any dysphoria, and so I doubt he would feel a pressing need for transitioning (assuming there's a magical method of doing so). Unfortunately, it's fairly likely that him being trans as well as being dusk wight would work double against him, probably making him much less likely to be as open with strangers as my cis woman version of the character. But to his benefit, his body was already somewhat androgynous in the face and shoulders if not the breasts. He'd probably be the type who is reckless about many things but hyper vigilant about binder safety due to a scare he had during puberty Synglona was already a bit on the shy side, but as a trans man he would be far more withdrawn so as to avoid harassment. He grew up in a pirate family, and I picture them to be more protective of each other than they are put off by a trans person. So they would be extremely protective of him, especially as he develops into a more female appearing body- spelling destruction to anyone who made comments as to his gender. He would be the type to adopt a different name entirely and probably magically transition as far as he can. However, he would also still like wearing his long hair and more feminine clothing. This would have been a source of shame earlier in life, since he would think that if he liked skirts and blouses then maybe he wasn't a boy after all. But after working through issues to accept himself, he would still only wear feminine clothing alone or with people he trusts. Because, based on sex locked clothing, eorzea is really not cool with men dressing in traditionally highly feminine clothing.

so recently Canada went through federal elections. We went from majority conservative to majority liberal, and Harper, our prime minister for almost ten years has been replaced by Justin Trudeau. My complaint is not about the politics (although personally I support the change) my complaint is the multitude of creepy comments about our new PM being hot. Now don't get me wrong, he is young for a PM (44 I think?) and I do think he's fairly pretty on an aesthetic standpoint. And there is the thing where he did some charity boxing event and professional shirtless pictures were taken and posted online, so I suppose some comments are to be expected. Still, I swear if I see another post describing him with the word "daddy" in it I might cry. (to be clear, describing any attractive older man as "daddy" has always sent a shiver of disgust down my spine and also I'm well aware this isn't nearly as damaging to how he is publicly viewed as it would be were he a woman. But it's still creepy and unexpected and I'm just waiting for some hardcore conservatives to raise a huff about women voting for him based on looks)

yep, that's why I wandered over here didn't notice the email until the next day a further note, for people interested in getting into Balmung- I went back and checked, the email notification came to my inbox at 11:07 pm pacific time, so people should especially check in at that time tonight. Of course, we're heading into the weekend now which even in the past was always locked. Also, since I was on the topic, I checked the lodestone character creation restriction page (the one that the emails follow, I think) and it says that Balmung is open now. I checked to be sure, and it is not open, but this still means one of 2 things: either it was (still?) open at 1pm pacific when it was last updated, or it was an error of some sort, in which case the email I received at 11pm could have been a mistake as well. Still, thought it was worth reporting haha

I haven't been scouting out the windows of opportunity, but last night I got the email update for balmung being open. I'm assuming this means it was actually open for a decent amount of time, because the email only operates by checking once every 4 hours, right? Anyone who's interested might want to start checking around the usual open times again, is all.

[video=youtube] ^very cool fan made song inspired by gravity falls [video=youtube] ^the full opening to Gravity falls in strings I'm not sorry at all for bringing in fandom things and none of you can make me sorry

((NOTE: NOT INTENDED TO CREATE A POLITICAL DISCUSSION. JUST A SPECIFIC INSTANCE THAT BOTHERED ME PERSONALLY THAT HAPPENS TO BE TIED INTO SOCIAL ISSUES AT LARGE. )) one time in this forum about mass effect ppl were talking about if you dated the human option in ME1 and someone else in ME2 (the same romance isn't an option because they weren't in the crew in second game), your ME1 romance will bring it up when they join the party in ME3. people were saying how, it's sexist that if you pick male protagonist, you have some option to tell your love interest off because they weren't there for you in ME2 and were actually pretty against you and you shouldn't have had to wait for them like that. But if you pick the female protagonist, you either didn't have that conversation option at all, or it was more limited (i forget cause i never played ME3). Basically, both genders are supposed to be the same character, and yet the man gets to justify his 'cheating' while the woman does not. So we were saying how that was yeah, pretty fair and definitely a little sexist. Then this person comes on spouting about how we were being so mean to the poor writers and how we needed "real" evidence about the writer as an actual person to "convict" him of being sexist, otherwise we were just baselessly pointing fingers and apparently accusing someone of sexism with reasonable but not absolute certainty is far worse than a person actually being so. supposedly, the reason that this piece of writing can't be proven as sexist is because we don't know every detail of how it came to be. One of this person's suggested reasonings was literally "the female voice actor was having a bad day and couldn't record her lines" like yikes this person was reaching far.

new hairstyles are nice, but I kind of wish they'd just remove the sex lock on them already. Double both sex's available styles for (what seems to me like) much less work. Hair styles don't have a gender, dammit >< but I digress, I may be the odd one out for this but I liked quite a few from both boards. Lots of cool and cute stuff.

There's going to be a PSN maintenance on August 31st 6-10 pm PST this isn't a guarantee since it's only ps3/4 users and even then if they stay logged on throughout they won't get booted. However, there may be a chance depending on how large the ps3 and ps4 userbase is. If it's large enough, just the act of not letting people log back in could make a difference. Probably a long shot, but I thought I'd give notice of it anyways.

the first time I did a group thing as a tank was that beginner guilhest with the goobooe and a few trash enemies. Since it was an easy guild hest, all was well in the end. But the thing was, I hadn't even learned overpower yet. That's at lvl 12. And all the people started attacking different enemies at once. They must have been new too, because everyone's first instinct was to apparently kite like mad. I didn't have any choice but to chase them. So it was just all of us running in circles like a bunch of idiots. This was literally all I could hear playing in my head. Pop culture has taught me well. [video=youtube]