To: everyone I've been playing a lot of Guilty Gear XX^Core lately, and I'm not very good. I want to learn how to be an aggressive player who never lets up pressure and is always rushing towards the opponent. So far my best character is Ky, but since I have like 15 hours experience I could learn anyone easly enough. What characters are reccomended for this playstyle, and how should I learn it? (my playgroup consists of about 10 people divided into three tiers of skill and I'm at the bottom of the 2nd tier - I can beat 100% of the time all the casually interested people, I lose 100% of the time against all the tournament level people, and I can beat the middle people only when they make mistakes or choose characters that aren't their main characters).
I suggest you pick up normal Sol, he is similar to Ky to but has (imo) better and easier pressure.
Inzult and xebra: Thanks for the explanation about the textbooks. Too bad there isn't some way to get such good resolution without compromising the readability. That part about being able to erase the ink might provide some fun after I've graduated and don't need the books any longer.
if homosexuality is biologically driven, shouldn't we see the trait or gene die out due to it's inherent inability to reproduce?
Negotiation is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You will be assimilated.
If there is a gene or trait passed down from parent to offspring that codes for the desire to only be with the same sex, wouldn't that child never reproduce, thus ending the genes existence?
I really, seriously doubt that something like that can be 100% born in. It seems to be a preferance, just like any other.
Homosexuality has been found in many animals, from sea lions to cockroaches. Does this mean that a cockroach has somewhere along the way decided to like male cockroaches instead of female cockroaches?
EDIT: Actually, looking at your post in more detail, there seems to be a contradiction: You say homosexuality is a preference, but then you say that it's not 100% born in. If homosexuality is just a preference, it has to be 0% born in.
IIRC a study has been made about homosexuality among identical twins, and it concluded that if the other twin was homosexual, there was something like a 50% chance that the other twin was homosexual as well. This would imply that the effect of genes (or whatever, I don't know anything about biology) and the effect of the environment is 50-50.
This could be because you grew up in the same house, had the same parents, knew the same people, or it could be genetic. With twins, it is fact that they have the same genetics, but its also true that they share a lot of common experiance (in the mroe common case where they were raised together). It is difficult to seperate the effect of their identical genes from their similar life experiances.
Homosexuality has been found in many animals, from sea lions to cockroaches. Does this mean that a cockroach has somewhere along the way decided to like male cockroaches instead of female cockroaches?
This is true, but it's been shown that comorbidity of homosexuality among monozygote twins is higher than the comorbidity of homosexuality among dizygote twins, so there is at least some genetic component. I think enironment is more important personally, but there is some evidence that at least part of it is genetic.
How does the word "preference" imply that sexuality is chosen? If you prefer apples instead of oranges, how is that a choice? Taste can't be chosen.
DarkKobold: I hate to call you out on this, particularly since you said I was right, but what does information theory being a branch of mathematics have anything to do with the question? Mathematics is a non-physical abstraction (or is at least easily viewed that way.) Telling Warp, "There is a non-physical abstraction called information theory that studies this," doesn't really answer the question of how something non-physical is transfered physically.
How does the word "preference" imply that sexuality is chosen? If you prefer apples instead of oranges, how is that a choice? Taste can't be chosen.
Is it the environment that makes you like apples instead of oranges? If so, are you implying that if everyone lived in the same environment under the same circumstances, we would all have identical preferences?
What about acquired tastes?
If the environment decides who becomes a homosexual, why are there homosexual children in ALL kinds of families? You would expect that the deciding factor would be something in the parents, be it an overprotecting mother, an absent father or something like that.
I have a strong sense in biology and science, so this question is coming from that standpoint: How is it that people believe a person can be inherently born with homosexuality? As pointed out in one of these ask me threads, the meaning of life from a biology standpoint is to reproduce. If there is a gene or trait passed down from parent to offspring that codes for the desire to only be with the same sex, wouldn't that child never reproduce, thus ending the genes existence? I understand in the past (and to a certain extent today) that social influences may have pushed someone who "felt" like they were supposed to be gay into heterosexual relationships. But with today's somewhat more accepting stance on the issue, if homosexuality is biologically driven, shouldn't we see the trait or gene die out due to it's inherent inability to reproduce?
If the environment decides who becomes a homosexual, why are there homosexual children in ALL kinds of families? You would expect that the deciding factor would be something in the parents, be it an overprotecting mother, an absent father or something like that. Why is there no pattern to who is a homosexual and who is not? Is it just some random factor which decides who becomes a homosexual?
