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What should he use then? Mega bloks digital designer ?

Oh, so now you ask my opinion on small talk. In my opinion inb4 rant it's a complete waste of time and effort. If somebody can't tell what the weather is then they have a problem. And how many times has somebody said "Good day" when it actually isn't? And when you ask "How are you," do you really expect a honest answer which may well me "I'm so sad, my dog died and my parents divorced?" (I made that up on the spot BTW) Precisely: you don't and so therefore there is no real need to ask that question apart from niceties which are pathetic things. (If you know me on Steam, I'm rather frank and to the point ) I use Good day because nearly all days are good, for me. I continue breathing and nobody close to me has died. I also use actual answers to "How are you". Drives some people bonkers.

Oh, so now you ask my opinion on small talk. In my opinion inb4 rant it's a complete waste of time and effort. If somebody can't tell what the weather is then they have a problem. And how many times has somebody said "Good day" when it actually isn't? And when you ask "How are you," do you really expect a honest answer which may well me "I'm so sad, my dog died and my parents divorced?" (I made that up on the spot BTW) Precisely: you don't and so therefore there is no real need to ask that question apart from niceties which are pathetic things. (If you know me on Steam, I'm rather frank and to the point )

@JimbobJeffers Yeah most of my time is probably going to be spent gaming, learning Finnish, writing scripts for the Anime project, listening to Emylou Harris music, and watching Interstellar and TLM over and over @ Too late on the #Nosociallife school already took care of that for me , and as for selfies... *shudders* I am not putting my picture on the Internet... @aidenpons Yes I'm actually talking about that eating ice cream (or cold things) too fast thing Also, I like my homework, it's fun stuff like watching film and operating film equipment. @noghiri Finally someone who agrees with me on small talk, I hate it, topic is film, I can talk for hours about film. Though I'd more be the one dissecting and ruining them for everyone else Bleh, I hate cramps, especially ones you get after running too much. Though I'm more likely to throw up then get cramps after running. @BobaFett2 Don't you wish that Gender wasn't such a big issue in our society? It's more trouble than it's worth imo.

Brain freeze! Brain freeze! Ahh! It hurts! Too much ice cream! I'm with Jimbob here, me-time is important, and hopefully that will help you out. Just don't become one of those #nosociallife, self-absorbed, "it's all about me" selfie-a-minute people in the process. You'll hate it. I really hate it... the #nosociallife bit, that is. I'm not about to be like that other stuff. Siri: "What I can do for you?" HAL 9000: "I'm sorry Siri, I'm afraid I can't let you do that."

Using LEGO Digital Designer for a Mega Bloks thing? Disgraceful!

We already share a lot of DNA with other animals; the more recent the common ancestor; the more the our DNA is identical. So if you take a pig's DNA for a certain protein. You'll most likely find a similar strain in human DNA, in the same 'neighbourhood', and the only difference will be mutations that don't change the shape or function of the protein. Copy and paste the pig DNA over the human DNA, and bingo. WRONG. Not this simple. Copying and pasting involves a specially tailored variant of HIV. In addition, even among similar things, there's a lot of variation in size and shape. Bonobos and chimpanzees are very close to us as far as percentage of similar DNA. Then come mice, and some types of bacterium. It's not quite the nice line taught in schoolyard neodarwinism (which is, in addition, ten years out of date when addopted). Maybe... On a side note, the only practical way to replace a piece of DNA in all cells in the body is when the body consists of only one cell; so right after conception. Correct, but you can also use an HIV variant to go through everything. It just takes time. Humans are animals. It's impossible to change the DNA of all the cells in a mature human body to pig DNA. If you to replace the DNA of a zygote (=a fertilized egg cell) with pig DNA, the result will be a miscarriage, the womb will probably reject the embryo within days of conception. I'd disagree with the first one on one semantic level, namely, we are unique in our abstract information processing ability and I believe this makes it reasonable to seperate humans into their own category for some things. The second is correct, afaik. We've never succesfully tried crossbreeding with our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. Who knows... Some closely related animals can still interbreed, despite having a different number of chromosmes, e.g. zebroids (zebra horse hybrids) The crossbreed would likely be sterile (horse/donkey hybrids, most other hybrids). Also might have some odd or bad organ formation issues. I'm not familiar with biology of LF.Xx.3273, but I'm not aware of a method to replace the entire genome of a human body once it is beyond the zygote stage. For terrestrial organisms this question is currently meaningless. once again, our old friend HIV can do it. It just takes time and could be very very painful. Or fatal. Remember, kids, don't play with HIV! For the experimenter? No. For the experimentee? Yes. Especially because I have a powerful rifle. IF we can turn a human into a hybrid, we can probably just as easily do the opposite. If we can only play with zygotes on this, then... no. If we can SAFELY transition fully grown creatures, then... maybe, but previous caveats on pain and total organ failure apply. Growth rate isn't even synchronised in our own body... Correct, you renew your liver over seven years but renew your skin in far less time. Some 'behaviors' are encoded in the genome (example: knee-jerk reflex, metabolism, biases.) Biases are not genetic, biases are a result of where you grow up, and your culture. I have a bias against eating dogs. This is largely cultural. I could probably eat it just fine. Metabolism is not a behavior, feeling, or memory. Reflexes are... not behaviors, feelings, or memory, either. They are involuntary actions that happen on a very low level, and most still work when unconcious (breathing, hearbeat).

I don't think I've ever gotten brain freeze more than once, if at all. I'm basically in the same boat that you are. I have Asperger's, OCD, ADD, ridiculously high anxiety, and gender dysphoria. I've seen a few different psychologists and a psychiatrist.

I know how you feel on several of these things. These I can offer sympathy and understanding on. I have a mild form of autism, as well as ADD. I can deal with people in person, but I don't like it. Online, I can filter things down to a manageable level. Fortunately, I haven't had to go to a large party in years that didn't have the option of finding a small alcove and chatting with one or two people of similar interests. Time to recharge is very important. I hope you'll be able to get plenty. Also, what's with small talk? I do not see how talking about the weather, or the quality of the miniature quiches, without any objective, point, or reason is helpful, good, or useful. I also can't figure out how to properly do it without either sounding like I hate the person or like I'm trying to communicate in secret code. I hate small talk. My body likes to flip me off, too... but not as badly. I have to deal with what appears to be the starts of the same set of long-term musculoskeltal issues my mum has had for many years, a set that has no real name because the doctors have had no idea what it is. It may be related to fibromialgia. Basically, my muscles tense up, and will do like a slow-burning, less intense cramp for up to three hours... and everything is tight. I had to stop practicing martial arts due to that. Much less severe than what you describe, but I understand how hard and stressful it can be. You are lucky when it comes to brain freeze, though. Your nose feeling frozen is not as bad as when it feels like there's a shard of ice poking up into your brain, most likely. Brain freeze can hurt. A lot. A.L.I.C.E.: "There's no need to apologize."

Somewhere, a biologist has spontaneously burst into tears and/or laughter.