Was that a facetiously obtuse lead in, or did you misconstrue what I was posting about Liverpool? (I appreciate that not everyone would click a random link on a forum)
Anyway, don't know a great deal about MLS in the US, other than that Beckham was at LA Galaxy for a while, though I believe it is gaining more popularity these days?
Nope, didn't follow the link. My browser didn't like the website at all. I just saw "Liverpool" and assumed, as that's been a conversation we've had in this forum before. I don't really have enough knowledge on soccer to speak on it.
[disables overly militant security setting and clicks on link] Aha! Not at all what you were speaking about...I can understand your consternation now. Apologies!
Bigoted fools will continue to act like fools, and logic be damned, I suppose. Sounds similar to what happened decades ago in Skokie, Illinois. The world is fast becoming more interconnected, so perhaps the more myopic feel they must band together in the face of diversity. My father has some stories to tell from back when he was a student living in Kensington. Even more stories of when he moved to the States. Don't even get me started on the "OLD COUNTRY," I could not have been born any number of times due to the various wars and such being fought in Asia at the time. Incidentally, the first thing he bought, after buying his house in America, were firearms. It was that kind of era. Luckily, by the time I grew up, the culture had changed. However, people still looked at me sideways b/c I had a Southern accent, once upon a time. I'll admit, a 6-ft tall Asian man with a deep Southern accent is not typical, haha! Thank goodness I lost those speech patterns!
As for sports...yeah, being an ATL fan isn't always the most fun, and my soccer friends laugh off MLS, much like how so many American's laugh off FIBA (which are both mistakes, IMO). It's amazing how many NBA players find a 2nd career in FIBA, and how many FIFA players do the same in MLS...
But let's lighten the mood: the Mass Effect books actually had an interesting take on race and culture relations. Basically, the author was pointing out how much more homogenized the "alien" species looked, as opposed to humans. Mordin references this during the Tuchanka mission in ME2. In the book, however, they mention how the melting pot of cultural overflow is resulting in a mix of looks that were once extremely rare. Interesting to think how a species would change, on the genetic level, from such a huge paradigm shift as Space Travel.
And let's not get started on cross species hybrids, lol! Although, from my understanding, the only hybrids are of the Asari variety in Mass Effect, and those beings are still "Asari." Be interesting to see if test tubes or other such interference could result in Turian/Human/Quarian/etc hybrids.
And then there's the Vorcha...who reproduce by budding, of all things, haha!
I was drawn to ME because; RPG, char and environment settings. It reminded me of Babylon 5 and I had thought the story would be epic but it fell flat on its face at the end. *shrug*
I went on a marathon starting last Sat (I think) and now my togruta is 51.
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And there's a lot to be said when my togruta JK took down the bosses with considerably less time than my older human JK. I always have to ask for help from guldmates with the latter because back then, game play was really not kind to players. With game revamps, yes Bioware, for once, you did something right, the togruta JK hardly had too much trouble. However, I heard some of the level 60 Operations / FPs are impossible so I guess they missed out on some. Not a bother to me since I've no interest in those.
