Faction name HAF

[Boss]

dead_shot, your attitude seems to be one of intense hostility towards -anyone- who so much as mislays a single letter of anything.

This is, quite frankly, absurd. Both the Outcasts and Corsairs are Hispanic groups, and if you check a dictionary, 'Hispanic' is listed as "Hispanic (hi-spān'ik)
adj.

1. Of or relating to Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America.
2. Of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture.

n.

1. A Spanish-speaking person.
2. A U.S. citizen or resident of Latin-American or Spanish descent."


[Latin Hispanicus, from Hispania, Spain.]

Dictionary.com Usage Note: Though often used interchangeably in American English, Hispanic and Latino are not identical terms, and in certain contexts the choice between them can be significant. Hispanic, from the Latin word for "Spain," has the broader reference, potentially encompassing all Spanish-speaking peoples in both hemispheres and emphasizing the common denominator of language among communities that sometimes have little else in common. Latino—which in Spanish means "Latin" but which as an English word is probably a shortening of the Spanish word latinoamericano—refers more exclusively to persons or communities of Latin American origin. Of the two, only Hispanic can be used in referring to Spain and its history and culture; a native of Spain residing in the United States is a Hispanic, not a Latino, and one cannot substitute Latino in the phrase the Hispanic influence on native Mexican cultures without garbling the meaning. In practice, however, this distinction is of little significance when referring to residents of the United States, most of whom are of Latin American origin and can theoretically be called by either word. A more important distinction concerns the sociopolitical rift that has opened between Latino and Hispanic in American usage. For a certain segment of the Spanish-speaking population, Latino is a term of ethnic pride and Hispanic a label that borders on the offensive. According to this view, Hispanic lacks the authenticity and cultural resonance of Latino, with its Spanish sound and its ability to show the feminine form Latina when used of women. Furthermore, Hispanic—the term used by the U.S. Census Bureau and other government agencies—is said to bear the stamp of an Anglo establishment far removed from the concerns of the Spanish-speaking community. While these views are strongly held by some, they are by no means universal, and the division in usage seems as related to geography as it is to politics, with Latino widely preferred in California and Hispanic the more usual term in Florida and Texas. Even in these regions, however, usage is often mixed, and it is not uncommon to find both terms used by the same writer or speaker. See Usage Note at Chicano.

'Hispanic' is NOT a racial slur! It never was, and isn't now. What is, and I find ridiculous, since it's just an abbreviated version for rapidity of speech, is 'spic'.

Were I to walk up to a Hispanic/Latino person around my city, and call them that, I could expect to, depending on the person, A) Get cussed out, B) Ignored, C) Knifed.

'Hispanic', on the other hand, is met with indifference from any of those. They don't care because it isn't a racial slur.

What you propose in your first post,

An faction being called Hispanic would be the same as if was called Ebonic, either Asian i.e. there would be a great deal of racial nature in the name and I myself wouldn't ever joined such faction.

is completely wrong. First off, Ebonic [Wikipedia.org] is a term that

was originally intended and sometimes used for the language of all people of African ancestry, or for that of Black North American and West African people, emphasizing the African roots of the former; since 1996 it has been largely used to refer to African American Vernacular English (distinctively nonstandard Black United States English), asserting the independence of the latter from (standard) English.

Today though, its meaning has changed to the pidgin English spoken by, and this is not my choice of word here, "niggers".

Getting upset over being called Hispanic (IC) is like me getting upset because someone in-game calls my LPI a donutmuncher. Which they do. All the time. And I don't get upset.

/endrant

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.