How often do the different Races inter-mingle with each other?

[Berethos]

Why would he be serious about it and what would it have to do with Garlemald?

Because I honestly don't buy that it's a joke - it's consistent with the opinions I've seen him give here and on another forum more than once. Unless he was joking every single time then, I have little reason to believe he is now.

There's also the frustration that after specifically calling out the issue I had that led to my first post in response, it apparently took till this page for him to even recognize that. Might be considered a character flaw, but I tend to get quite frustrated when people what I wrote is misconstrued or people put words in my mouth, as I'm very particular about what I write down.

I also find the whole "they did it because these people are too sensitive" to be a terrible cop out to legitimate discussion, which I'm not sure if you noticed but after my initial couple sentences across two posts about that one specific part of his comment, I then continued with addressing the actual thing being discussed until I had to spend another couple posts clarifying my original comment.

As for Garlemald...again, to go with his posting history, I've often seen him drag in his problems with how the Garlean Empire is portrayed to posts where that wasn't really part of the discussion - it's his particular pet topic. Where there were criticisms of the story telling, criticisms of how Garlemald has been portrayed (some of them I are criticisms with which I agree) a typically aren't far behind.