Any ability that has the chance to backfire and nuke the caster or benefit the target already has drawbacks to balance it. There are ways to prevent it from hitting you that are pro-active, there's simply nothing reactive.
There's giving criticism of someone's culture, then there's stereotype whitewashing.
The latter is never acceptable, judging an entire ethnicity/gender/religion by your limited experiences with a few cherry picked incidents is a terrible …
But last time wasn't a case of someone complaining because the holder never bothered to upgrade. It was someone who was busy for a couple of RL days (while otherwise regularly maintaining it) and apparently that justified "Ermagherd, ma sperklefutt!…
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Didn't know you were born in London, home of the Magna Carta of 1215, the Habeas Corpus act of 1679 and the abolition of the Slave trade act in 1807!
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There's a fair share of those right now, sadly it doesn't seem like there's an end in sight. Every arrest and prosecution going on with operation Yewtree seems to just destroy that little bit more of my early childhood.
I still have a torus exit saved for future use, one day I'll find something for it. As is though most places can be reached through curio sets, there's very few locations that require manual travel.
Today was one of those days that went better than expected, and while not allowing myself to jump onto the optimism train that the end result will be better than previously projected, there is now a chance that things will be ok in the end, that did…
Multiple circumstances have killed both my time and drive to play of late. I'm sure as heck not quitting but don't be relying on me logging in. I know I've a few unfinished matters that I'd promised to do, and my apologies to those this let's down, …