Cygnis-x,

Hemingway would be proud.

Seriously, he would. He pioneered the technique of in-breeding cats to get the stump tail and thumb gene to show up.

The creepy thing is that a couple hemingway cats I've seen used their paws to pick up objects and put them in their mouth. Creepy.

chewd actually, its been shown that the pinky finger is evolving away due to non-use

No it hasn't. The speculation that humans are going to lose their pinkies is about as scientific as this article.

There would need to be some sort of selection pressure to favour four-fingered weirdos over us manly five-fingered types, and as Coach on Cheers once observed, without our pinkies we would be unable to clean our fingers out after we go swimming.

legion_of_doo is quite correct in his assessment of the conservative nature of five digits in tetrapods. There have been a few groups (such as ungulates) which have lost digits, but there is a strong selective advantage for this (less drag etc.) - there are no tetrapods which have spontaneously gained digits.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Everyone knows the engine of evolution is high velocities!

doghostage

"Evolution is defined as survival of the fittest. Therefore, children with only 10 fingers may become "unfit" for survival. He or she will eventually die off as a result of not having the 12 fingers necessary for survival, while the mutated twelve-fingered children live on."

In terms of evolutionary thought, fitness refers to how successfully an individual can reproduce, nothing else really matters. Playing videogames all day is only gonna lure yo 12-fingered ass into obesity.

This hgAS GHOT TO BE TGHE SILLIEST THGINGH I'VE EVER REad. Hasvingf twelvbe ftingers hazs never5 hyin derted m,e fr4omn bgeingt nborm,al.

Canada does not play with video fingers...

BB Spot
not
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Yet more proof that one of the moderators or administrators is sleeping with the writers at BBspot. The only thing funny about anything on that site is when I print out the articles, line the bottom of my parrot's cage with them, and watch my parrot shiat on them.

I just did an assignment on evolution. One of the questions was "What traits may humans evolve in the future and how would they be useful ?"

/pulls out assignment and edits answer according to headline

This reminds me of the SImpsons.

Anyone remmeber those anti-social mega nurds from highschool who thought they were very smart, and thus very funny, but really were not? The kind of nurd who would loudly yelp out a joke that was so lame the room would fall into an embarressed silence, but he would still cackle at his own joke in a nerve wracking laugh that make you want to beat them?

There were four in my physics class last year.

"12 fingered gamers will not reproduce. ever"

Sure they will... all they have to do is rape fundamentalist christians.

Hey, SadMan#9, when you click on your name, it takes you to a screen that says, "No such user 'SadMan'. Tastes like chicken.". Very curious.

i'm l33t like that...

I only use my thumbs...?

Got to love it when your noob teammate calls an air strike ontop of you :-D I'm a nerd so I laughed at that :-D

not even funny as a satire of satire

SadMan's # symbol farks up fark. Just manually type in SadMan#9 and youll get his awfully lame profile.


/not that mines any better

2004-02-03 02:11:36 PM Pxtl

IMHO, the PS2 gamepad is the nicest - all the other pads have switched over to having analogs on both left and right, except they're not symmetrical about it like the PS2. And for simpler games, its easy to just ignore the presence of the 2 extra sticks. A nice combination of versatility and simplicity, it just *looks* sensible. And meanwhile, those extra 2 shoulder buttons are there for the more complex games (a great move, IMHO).

I'll take the PS2 pad for versatility, but, in a game which is designed around its unique strengths and weaknesses (or uniquely adapted to them, like Prince of Persia), the GameCube stick is simply heavenly to the touch. It's strange how much of a difference that oh-so-odd button placement makes, but I could play GameCube for hours without suffering "gamer thumb" like I have on every console that has come before.

Of course, for a fighting game, those sticks become a liability--but I have a pair of Nyko PS2-to-GC adapters for that eventuality.

Spoil sport... You shouldn't help people who can't figure it out ofr themselves...