Ammon Kush: The Skeleton Coast.

[the Vanishag]

I feel bad - I think it was actually my comment about some of the sprites looking "cartoony" that prompted sombre's joke... and then everything went downhill fast.

I think this has a lot to do with the fact that, like it or not, race is still a big issue, at least here in the U.S., and while prejudice here is increasingly anti-Hispanic, living in a college-town in Florda, I can tell you that there is still a "white" side and a "black" side of town, and that all of the development money goes to the white side. Faux-plantation style apartment buildings with boutique shops on the 1st floor were sprouting up like toadstools after the rain until the market crashed, but even at the height of the "boom," east Gainesville couldn't get a [SELF-CENSORED] Walmart. Seriously. Residents campaigned for it, and Walmart offered to put one in - but only if the City would sell them a public park in west Gainesville to build a Super Walmart and Sam's Club Complex on.

And me? I protested the proposed sale of the park and felt guilty at the same time. AND I worried a lot before posting Alchera because I was afraid that I'd wind up offending someone out of ignorance.

So, what does all this have to do with the recent unpleasantness on this thread? Not much, I guess. I just figured if I told a long, rambling, confessional and slightly embarrassing story about myself it'd distract everyone from the argument.

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"Mackenzie is half demon," Dee said. "Her true self is as much a wuss as it is a demon. [...] Is that word insulting in and of itself? I apologize deeply," Dee said, bowing. "I had inferred, based on the people who used it and the context in which it was used, that it referred to a finer quality which was being disparaged by tone."