DJ has a gender...really...this is the poll

[deanna]

I mean, gah! Come on...you know all of you have looked for some proof of DJ's gender...so give your opinion, boy or girl??

[lazyfatbum]

I say girl, like you only older and probably fluent in the ways of the phalic household items.

[Weltall]

She's a girl, I think.

I'm saying this because maybe she's hot.

[deanna]

I'm gonna be so grossed out if IT is a guy...especially if IT IS hot

[A Black Falcon]

Even if DJ did reveal gender, I wouldn't expect a picture... DJ is pretty concerned about internet security.

[OB1]

Who voted boy? Whoever did is dumb.

[A Black Falcon]

Because OB1 = God and can see DJ with his omnipotent powers?

There is some evidence. Not absolute proof.

[OB1]

There is more than enough proof. Only a fool would doubt it.

[Great Rumbler]

I don't see any reason to doubt it, unless DJ ever says otherwise, which won't happen EVER.

[Dark Jaguar]

Yes, you fooooool!

[Great Rumbler]

Yes what?

[Dark Jaguar]

That was aimed at ABF.... you fooooooool!

[A Black Falcon]

Fool? I just believe what I saw... :)

I think it was really aimed at OB1. :D

[Dark Jaguar]

You know, on that note, what's the deal with Yoshi's anyway?

So they apparently just lay eggs and reproduce without mating of any kind, but like how do they become all the colors of the rainbow? I suspect that it has something to do with the game's programming...

[A Black Falcon]

What gender IS Yoshi, anyway... I mean, they look male, kinda, and have a male-seeming name, but lay eggs...

As for the eggs, it's obviously like chickens... they can lay unfertilized eggs, after all.

[Dark Jaguar]

According to SSBM, Yoshis have no gender. They are asexual creatures. They basically just produce eggs that don't need to be fetilized, and can reproduce without a mate, so long as they have the food they need to do so. That might explain why ALL Yoshis are identical, except for color.

[A Black Falcon]

That's impossible for animals, of course. Only things like single-cell creatures can do that...

[deanna]

OK WHICH FAG CHANGED MY POLL??

:( i wanted accurate opinions not stupid....options

[Dark Jaguar]

Why is that "impossible" for animals? Imagine a creature that, instead of needing outside DNA to complete a hedrix, it instead just uses it's own COMPLETE DNA. Cloning already shows that's possible. From there, just go about the normal process of making an egg. The major drawback, the main reason why sex was invented, is the sheer slowness of evolution via this method. Sexual reproduction allows random genetic combinations to occur much more rapidly than the asexual variety.

That said, there are a number of multi-celled animals that reproduce completely asexually. For example, intestinal worms. Starfish can do sorta either or. Essentially, the very simplistic animals do it that way because it's faily easy to do so, or because they have no choice. (For examples, intestinal worms really don't have much of a choice, they can't just wait around for a mate to come down the tube.)

So yeah, it'll work for more complicated creatures, but they will still need to go about the entire gestation thing. I mean, the whole sexual part is MORE complicated. They need to actually cut the DNA in half and put it in the egg or sperm and then the rest. It's easier to just put the complete DNA in an egg and let it go from there. If the body is designed like that from the start, there ya go.

...

This is so freakin' nerdy...

Deanna, this is Tendo City. We mess with each other's polls all the time. Considering there are like 8 of us here, it's not like it would really matter much. Besides, opinions are irrelevent without facts to back them up.

[A Black Falcon]

Deanna, this is Tendo City. We mess with each other's polls all the time. Considering there are like 8 of us here, it's not like it would really matter much. Besides, opinions are irrelevent without facts to back them up.

True, but adding more choices gives no chance for it to be accurate.

OK WHICH FAG CHANGED MY POLL??

i wanted accurate opinions not stupid....options

I'd assume DJ did it to try to change the topic... and yes, it happens all the time at TC.

Why is that "impossible" for animals? Imagine a creature that, instead of needing outside DNA to complete a hedrix, it instead just uses it's own COMPLETE DNA. Cloning already shows that's possible. From there, just go about the normal process of making an egg. The major drawback, the main reason why sex was invented, is the sheer slowness of evolution via this method. Sexual reproduction allows random genetic combinations to occur much more rapidly than the asexual variety.

That said, there are a number of multi-celled animals that reproduce completely asexually. For example, intestinal worms. Starfish can do sorta either or. Essentially, the very simplistic animals do it that way because it's faily easy to do so, or because they have no choice. (For examples, intestinal worms really don't have much of a choice, they can't just wait around for a mate to come down the tube.)

So yeah, it'll work for more complicated creatures, but they will still need to go about the entire gestation thing. I mean, the whole sexual part is MORE complicated. They need to actually cut the DNA in half and put it in the egg or sperm and then the rest. It's easier to just put the complete DNA in an egg and let it go from there. If the body is designed like that from the start, there ya go.

There must be a reason no complex creatures use asexual reproduction... and Yoshis definitely aren't simple creatures. :) Okay, so some multi-cell creatures use asexual division. I thought it was possible. Worms and the like, fine. But a large, complex animal like a Yoshi? I don't see how it could be possible... for one how would it create an asexually-produced copy of itsself in an egg? Things that use asexual division, I would think, don't use eggs...

Sorry, it just doesn't seem possible. But it's Mario... home of humanoid mushrooms and turtles... so does it really matter? :)

[alien space marine]

Karen !

Yoshi is a female Japanese name !

http://www.babynamenetwork.com/origin.cf...rt_row=100

Gotcha!

[A Black Falcon]

Yoshi also can be a male Japanese name, though, I'm pretty sure.

[OB1]

Yeah, it is.

DJ is girl! Or a gay man! End of discussion!

[Dark Jaguar]

ABF, you are thinking about this too hard, like asexuality instantly means dividing in half. That's not exactly what I'm suggesting for more complicated creatures. They require a lot of time to develop, more time than actually using the whole split method would allow. I'm suggesting pregnancy or egg laying, with all the seperate development that would be required.

Look, it's simple as pie. All the body need do is reproduce via normal means, except instead of depending on outside DNA, just use the existing DNA at the very basic level of reproduction, the egg level. Just make an egg with the DNA of the creature instead of half the DNA waiting for the other half to arrive. What's so hard to understand about how that could work?

As for why complicated creatures don't reproduce asexually if it's that simple, as I explained, evolution happens a lot faster via sexual reproduction. So, much more complicated systems emerged via it, so as you might imagine, all the really complicated creatures would, as a result, BE sexuallly reproducing creatures. All I'm saying is it's very possible. Just don't overthink it.

OB1 must have some doubts. Either I'm a girl or I'm a guy. Wow, how certain you seem. Oh sure, you packed in a little insult there, but you can't hide your doubts! Just admit it, you really aren't sure are you? Commit or admit!

[OB1]

Why are we talking about the exact same thing in two different threads?

[OB1]

Also, I'm trying to insult you by suggestion that you are gay. I do not have anything against gays.

[Dark Jaguar]

Well it was brought up in two different threads...

But you are avoiding the point here, now aren't you? By that very suggestion, you are admitting you aren't certain at all, right? What you are saying is there is no proof and you just haven't the slightest idea, right? You just don't know at all, do you?

[A Black Falcon]

He's certain that it's something. He's just not exactly sure what (is it option A or option B, OB1? Or option C?), despite statements to the contrary... :)

OB1, why can't you just say 'I think it's X' instead of 'I KNOW it is X'?

Also, I'm trying to insult you by suggestion that you are gay. I do not have anything against gays.

Using 'gay' as an insult is a bad thing that is depressingly popular... it's insulting and demeaning to gay people and "even if I didn't mean it that way" I'm sure actual gay people would take it that way. I'm sure that you (OB1) didn't mean it that way there, but DJ probably has heard it as an insult too many times to realize that... or perhaps it's a personal bias. Who knows which. Either way, DJ, you shouldn't automatically have assumed what you did.

[Dark Jaguar]

Um, what? When he said that, that's exactly what I thought him to mean, that he was saying I was gay in an insulting manner. As in, homosexual. The gays are a very clean people though. And they have been ever since they first came over here from france...

[A Black Falcon]

You're proving my point, DJ.

[lazyfatbum]

DJ you're a woman/gay man, we dont care anymore, you have periods and eat ice cream when you're depressed. You have 'stressful outings' you get mad at yourself for watching too much television and you probably get excited when you get to organize things and to top it off you actually refered to gays as clean people. Not to mention all the examples I could use right now of Sailor Moon quotes, the fact that you would hit on me constantly and your abilitry to jump to conclusions without any concrete information and run with it as hard as you can. Okay scratch the last one.

You're a woman. It's a fact, I know it to be a fact, nothing can change that.

And do not play with other people's posts until they've been here for five years... then it's okay. Otherwise no. Please change it or I will change it and you can understand that if I change it bad things will surely result from it.

[alien space marine]

Lets hope its not somthing like this !



OMG! Dark jaguar is a transvestite

[Dark Jaguar]

That was actually a Family Guy quote, of PETER... GRIFFIN!

You know, a hilarious life form, formed the bowels of... bowls...

[Geno]

*makes a pointless post*

[Great Rumbler]

*makes an additional pointless post*

Powdered cheese toast!!

[Dark Jaguar]

I prefer POWDERED... TOAST... MAAAAN! *flies like Super Man, only backwards*

[Great Rumbler]

Bacon flakes of DOOOOOM!

[deanna]

bacon flakes? ok back on topic...DJ are you a girl or a guy?

[EdenMaster]

I still prefer bacon to shoes.

[Dark Jaguar]

I'm a... wait a sec!

[deanna]

Stupid poll...

[Great Rumbler]

Don't feel too bad, deanna, we've been trying to get DJ to answer that question for several years.

[deanna]

I think DJ has split personalities

Just my opinion...



EDIT: hours later....I notice that I spelled that wrong...:D

[Great Rumbler]

Maybe!

[Dark Jaguar]

What was your first clue?

Perhaps my title?

[EdenMaster]

Well yeah DJ, but you haven't shown many of your persona's around for quite some time. I figured you were perhaps put on some sort of medication or at least have on a permanent straightjacket.

[Dark Jaguar]

That would make it kinda hard to type...

...catnip...

[A Black Falcon]

Just get used to it, DJ won't give a straight answer to the question... all we can do is use the evidence we find and make our best guess.

[Great Rumbler]

My evidence is irrefutable! And by irrefutable I mean largely circumstancial.

I believe it, though.

[deanna]

show me some evidence...i missed this