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Out of simple curiosity, where that would be?

Florida, ha. All the other categories are a thing, but it only takes one cat 4 or 5 (and I've been through both at this point, bloody michael) hurricane going over your house to gain a significant appreciation for housing what won't decide to go visit the neighbors quite so easily.

... though in fairness 120 mph winds is only cat 3-ish, which generally isn't that bad. Still don't want to be in its way but it's not go-screw-yourself 4 or 5.

Heh. From what I understand of polling and surveys, basically no forum is good for survey data. Size and self-selection issues mean they're really bad for reliable data unless you're trying to collect data for that specific community (and even then they're not great). Probably the best thing you can do with them is compare them to actual relatively reliable metrics to show how wildly self-reporting can vary from actual community sentiment.

Still, probably the closest you could get with something like that is either some of the major mmorpg aggregator sites, whatever large-ish gaming forums still exist (B12 doesn't count even a little, ahaha), or by trying at several (dozen) actual mmorpg communities and combining the data somehow or another (iirc there's ways to do that correctly to maintain/encourage reliability, I just don't remember what they actually are, ha).

... anyway, I'll not chime in on the survey because I'm not sure I've played a mmorpg since the 90s or at least early 00s, but regardless, good luck!

There's a very long history of racists spreading lies about them being unhygienic/dirty really hard, mostly. It's led to bans and stigma for decades at a minimum.

One of the hard drives has started failing pretty hard... finally got me annoyed enough to order a new one.

The latest shenanigans? For some reason it's turned most of the drive read only, and is refusing to let me change it off. Plenty of things are still, broadly speaking, working, but updating, say, steam games? Programs installed on the drive in general? Yeah. No, that's currently not a thing. Pain in the bum, but at least storage is pretty cheap these days

I feel like if you're worried about legislation, then you know it's potentially dangerous - and therefore probably shouldn't do it.

I'm not actually sure it is, because again, I've never seen it at that scale and in motion (probably mostly just because most folks are entirely too fond of silly things like symmetry and aesthetic cohesion, which is not on the table when you're talking basically random walking lines of inconsistent width across a car :V). Part of looking into it would be checking to see if it's actually enough of a concern it's come up somewhere. It may be that it's not actually meaningfully impactful in the specific use case being considered, in which case it'd just be a pattern I'm really fond of rather than a potential driving hazard, heh.

Yeah, I'unno. Quick check 'cause I thought I had mentioned something about it earlier (sorta', but nothing specific enough in regards to relevancy to quote) suggests it's something that might be going to come up more than just that scene, so. Yeah.

It's been the better part of a decade since I read it, but I could half-way swear the one that hit particularly egregiously (i.e. it's basically all I remembered about the Codex stuff offhand, heh) was in the second or third of series, though.

The problem I remember wasn't that it was being used to portray any specific character as being irredeemable, but that it was basically being very clearly written to titillate, more or less being used as a cheap theatrics sort of thing in a way that felt pretty off even back then, when I was notably less likely to really notice that kind of thing. Cliffhanger stuff of some of the worst kind, more or less.

At the time I was more or less hardcore trawling through even more junk-tier fanfiction than I trawl through these days, and if you're standing out as concerning compared to that stuff there's probably something wrong, heh. Codex has some fairly strong points otherwise, iirc, but from the search check I was talking about it in the same breath and same way as I was Piers Anthony, which, uh. That's an author dat got some issues, heh.

Nothing? Plenty of racing games have some degree of story or plot, iirc there's even a few that's pretty involved. It's not super common or emphasized just due to the games tending to focus on the zoomy bits instead of fluffwork, but it's out there.

... anyway, there's been several racing games over the years with RPG mechanics, as well as various vehicle-themed RPGs, so no, nothing's preventing there from being a racing RPG. I don't really know of any genre or game style that's outright incapable of mixing with RPGs, really.