Recent content by Maynia

...que? Quacks and fundamentalist psychiatrists maybe, but homosexuality as any sort of pathology, disorder or disease was removed from the DSM in 1986 and the ICD in 1992. The two APAs (the American Psychiatric and Psychological Associations), the US National Association of Social Workers and...

It seems to make sense on the superficial level, yes. But incidences of homosexual behaviours in penguins, bonobos, dolphins, tigers, lions and even some insects, none of which have the sort of hypercomplex societies that humanity has developed, seems to imply that there is something inherent...

You... I... wait, what? A disability is a medico-legal term with a specific definition - a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits major life activities. Homosexuality fits neither clause.

HA! That... that was a joke, right? Because if it wasn't, I detect that the proponents of this viewpoint have no idea. Allow me to fill some detail in here. I spent the better part of four years attempting to convince myself that I was straight, and dragged a poor boy through a lot of crap he...

Hmm... for me, avoiding repeating what's already been mentioned - Legacy of Kain. All of it. Seriously. Especially scenes wherein Raziel and Kain interact directly. Michael Bell and Simon Templeman are damn good at what they do. Not so much in terms of action, but the voices, the script, the...

I haf two for unknown reasons! that being Donatella Liona, which is odd considering how English my first and surnames are. Hooray for conflicting parental opinions I guess! O.o

Yeah, I was about to say. Untimely? They spent twelve years on a single project with no signs of real progress. Poor management, poor decisions and poor scheduling all along - this was always going to happen sooner or later, and frankly I'm surprised their publisher didn't kick the crap out of...

Pretty much, named for their resemblance to actual brick'n'mortar walls. Reasoning against? Pretty darn straightforward. On forums, writing is the prime means of communication, as speech is in face-to-face encounters. If you went up to someone in real life and spoke at a million miles an...

IIRC it's a system that claims to remove the need for high-spec PCs in order to play games by sending control inputs and graphics/audio/etc. responses over the internet to and from a server. Most of what I've seen of it has been a whole lot of experts calling the concept a crock of [censored]...

Pers'nally, I'd argue that dissections are slightly different, if only because there's no risk to life going on there, and they have been used for centuries as teaching aids whereas surgery is generally initially learned, in the modern day at least, on cadavers/models/whatever. I did watch a...

Yeeeeeah. Borderline of the borderline, in typical C4 style. Having endured minor brain surgery (so much as there is such thing as a minor brain surgery) and fairly major abdominal surgery at various times, I'd want to be damn sure the attention of the medics was on me and me alone, not to...

Far as I can see, this is pretty straightforward. Even if you're alone in a car, not wearing a seatbelt can make you a danger to others. In the event that you have to brake hard or take avoiding action while not wearing a belt, the car will stop or turn, but you'll keep going on the same...