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[Virex]

It's a common Western name, which makes it relatively culture-neutral.

Isn't that the antithesis of culture-neutral, or did I miss the point at which the US/Commonwealth annexed the world?

[Lectorog]

The class name is going to be part of or derived from the English language anyway. I don't see the problem with it being derived from an English language name. Plus Bruce Lee was of Chinese ancestry (even if his name Bruce certainly wasn't).

Though it's obviously Furtuka's judgement. His prompt is probably intentionally vague. At least Brucer sounds a bit more classy than a half dozen suggestions purely involving fistfighting words.

[Squill]

Is there a away to stop receiving notifications for threads I no longer have interest in? There's a few threads in other games about games that stopped interesting me.

[GlyphGryph]

Same button  you click to receive them to begin with - the notification button should become "unnotify" if you are already watching the thread.

[Lectorog]

Alternatively, go to profile -> modify profile -> notifications. There'll be a list of notificationified threads, with the option to unnotify.

[Scoops Novel]

Why do we appreciate animals that can eat us?*

*why have other primates adopted cats?

[Frumple]

Purring is good for your heart.

Also they eats things that annoy us.

And... can doesn't really mean can. We're flat out and away this planet's apex predator and we know it. So does most animals that live around us for very long. Dominating/domesticating lesser predators is amusing to us. Probably some kind of latent dominance/superiority thing, really, above and beyond the whole is!useful cases. Also an aesthetic appreciation for deadly things we (ostensibly) control is pretty common. Think there's some kind of chemical trigger going on with that, but if I knew specifics it was years back and I've already forgotten. Also a lot of them just have a really nice texture to them when they're not trying to kill you. Snakes are pretty neat to pet, ferex. Same with alligators. Just as examples.

Other primates, well. Small furry things short circuit the whole is!baby flag, leading to etc., mostly. Least as I understand it. Roughly the same deal for non-primates, in the occasions cross species adoption-type stuff occurs.

[Scoops Novel]

Wire's crossed, yeah, but latent superiority complex smells like BS.

[Frumple]

Not superiority complex. Dominance games of varying sorts are pretty normal to our species. Most primates. Most social animals in general, really. It's pretty unsurprising when something extends that outside the species barrier.

[Scoops Novel]

Not superiority complex. Dominance games of varying sorts are pretty normal to our species. Most primates. Most social animals in general, really. It's pretty unsurprising when something extends that outside the species barrier.

Eh. I'll take that so far, but i'd like sources and alternatives.

[Frumple]

M. Wind Scorpion gave a good rundown.

[Frumple]

Possibly. Depends on how the new sex determination works out, I'd imagine. It's a ways off (massive understatement), regardless, but in the mean time it does kinda' mean males are going to be increasingly (if incredibly gradually so) prone to gene-related issues. Which they already are. The deterioration of the Y chromosome is flat fact, but what that entails for what's called male traits is up in the air, apparently. There's just nothing necessarily linking said traits in the Y chromosome. S'far as I can parse, anyway.

[Draxis]

How does one cite a technical manual in MLA - the Arm Architecture Reference Manual, in this case.  Would it fall under Technical Report, Book, or something else?
(It is almost 1200 pages, that's why it might be under Book.)

[Mr Space Cat]

Depends on just how accurate you have to be. If this is some kind of high school assignment you could probably get away with either Technical Report or Book; if it's college,...I'd still think you could get away with either, but take that advice with a grain of salt. For all I know your teacher/professor could be a hardcore OCD stickler for accurate citations of sources.

In my experience citing sources in a bibliography was only good for proving you weren't trying to fudge the assignment with made up stuff.  As long as the actual reference is a real thing that the teacher could prove is a real thing I'd assume you'd be fine.

[Scoops Novel]

Do any medical students or practitioners have a good explanation for why human dissection and vivisection was stigmatized for so long? I know our historical knowledge here is not complete, but one would think in any era they yielded obvious advantages, to the point where religious concerns would and have taken a backseat.