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

[Lauront]

I don't quite understand what your issue is with his post, I took the catgirl comment as a joke. Why would he be serious about it and what would it have to do with Garlemald?

[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.

[Theodric]

There's a very tiny portion of posters who post here consistently. With that in mind it stands to reason that certain people will gravitate towards specific issues that interest them across multiple threads. 3.3 is still a way off and the developers are - thankfully - tight lipped about future lore developments.

That does mean, however, that the people who regularly post here lack much in the way of fresh material to discuss. I'd like to think my posting history speaks for itself in that I hardly post only about Garlemald. I've also posted in many lore discussions without mentioning Garlemald at all.

So when I saw this thread I figured I'd say my piece. The setting doesn't shy away from embracing 'gritty' themes from time to time. It does, however, have a habit of only really making the antagonists rather than the protagonists display racist or xenophobic views. It's pushed as a negative thing at almost every turn and as something that should change - even when ingrained into a fictional nation's culture.

Given that one of the biggest talking points in regards to Garlemald is their racism and xenophobia I'm struggling to understand why it's being considered 'off-topic' for me to bring it up here.

As for my comment about 'cat girls' it was meant as an amusing quip, one which ironically seems to have been indirectly proven true given the fuss made in regards to it.

Not everybody is going to like me, my posts, my opinions or my sense of humour. That's fine. I'm not here to engage in a popularity contest or get up in arms over select quotes taken out of context. If someone truly finds my posts so irritating then I'm sure there's an ignore function that can be switched on.

[Berethos]

As for my comment about 'cat girls' it was meant as an amusing quip, one which ironically seems to have been indirectly proven true given the fuss made in regards to it.

I'd have to play a cat girl for that to prove true...

*checks*

Nope, no tail (there's a 1.0 vs 2.0 booty joke in there somewhere).

Apologies for getting too salty about it. It is a pet peeve of mine, but I should have just closed the thread for a while instead of posting the first time I read it.

Back on topic...sorta.

I still can't find the earlier mentioned Potatofel that is trying to touch Cat Girl butt in Aleport, and I really want to see if it's as funny as it sounds.