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Sorta' seems like it. That said, I wouldn't read to much either way into that. For the last while we've been increasingly finding that worker conditions in general in the gaming industry are pretty consistently and seriously shit. Serious exploitation or abuse of workers is apparently kinda' fucking common.

... well, drenching everybody and apparently running a fucktrain directly over parts of the bahamas.

Will it, though? Aren't they pretty enthusiastic about hammering copyright issues?

Imagine how happy their lawyers might be to get to take a swing at the american government. Protected copyright even against the POTUS is a pretty hefty feather in the cap!

I mean, should, sure. Do? Different question, that. So's able, remembers to, so on, so forth

There's also going to be a lot of people who's going through things for the first time for whatever reason (visiting, first time under own finances, etc.), or trying to restock, or whatever. Iirc the logistics of how things play out with hurricanes (days warning, etc.) vs tornados (more localized, less warning, so on) leads rightly or wrongly to different prep profiles. Want to say the difference in geography plays into that; there's basically fucking no basements in florida, ferex, and if there were they'd basically be borderline suicide to shelter in (and questionable to store emergency stuff in) due to flooding issues. Having a storm kit is a good idea, storing it can be a different question.

Though the profile for a hurricane kit differs a bit. More food and water, mostly -- partially due to being further south, partially due to hurricanes tending to level much wider swaths of land. Can take longer for relief to reach you, more or less. If I'm not misremembering it, local news stuff is suggesting a gallon of water per person per day for a solid week or so though that's for more than just drinking.

E: It's also good to remember that florida has a pretty hefty population. Even if a relatively small fraction is lacking one thing or another, them flexing all at once in the face of an incoming storm can cause all sorts of logistics problems. Everyone in a tornado alley state might be able to fit in one grocery store but that don't work in these swamplands.

*scratches head* There's probably a fair few that haven't, in fact, dealt with a cat 4 dropping on top of their head, though. Which is where intensity forecasts on landfall are going.

There haven't been many of those over my (or my grandparents', for that matter) lifetime to hit florida, and I'll speak from experience a cat 1-2 coming to visit is more than a wee bit different from a cat 4-5 deciding to shit on you from on high. The former can be fun, the latter sends parts of your neighbors houses to say hello.

If your area is in the direct impact zone and it hits you in the upper reaches of cat 4, it's actually pretty damn likely you come out the day after to the scene of it looking like the apocalypse just happened. Like, they are probably panicking a bit much, but...

The contentious part is the one where you're being a smug prick

If it's coming across like that, it's not intentional. Smugness ain't what that mess is causing me to feel, it's something between disbelief and muted horror. S'like watching a train wreck knowing the shrapnel is going to hit you along with everyone immediately involved

You're pretty definitely screwed, your government is apparently falling over itself to do clownshoes stupid shit, and its nonsense is actually making some of the US gov't's nonsense look less terrible in comparison, yes. Unless you're actually bojo or a physical incarnation of the collective incompetence of the UK's government, that hopefully doesn't include you, personally. You're just collateral damage, just like most of the UK's population is looking to end up like.