Also, how about showing some appreciation for someone who - for at least the third time - stepped up to take over a stagnating instance of a challenge whose defining traits are Quickness and brief reviews?
To clarify, I do absolutely appreciate @oldmanbuick for pushing things forward and committing to expediting what has, I agree, stagnated for a month and I apologize if my comments have come off in any ill manner. I understand that the intention of QFC is to run a challenge with a quick turnaround in place of CSR and whatnot and they have done that. It’s a bit of a change of convention for me to not see a prelim round before the finals but if that’s the host’s decision as it was here, in the end I respect it for what it is. It’s only a game after all.
Both activites are not only illegal - promoting which may be a violation of Discourse rules - but also, more importantly, dangerous and wrong. As someone who has no problem ignoring speed limits on unpopulated roads, I condemn both “cutting up” and “street takeovers” as they interfere with other people, and boycott the vote. Phrase it a different way, at the very least.
I should make it very very clear that I very much don’t condone either activity and will make this very clear wherever the brief goes. Satire will be the name of the game with either-or, and my intention was always to explicitly condemn either activity before I even dived into the challenge requirements.
However, while I understand the sentiment, one of my favourite parts of these challenges is their ways of exploring every single corner of car culture, even the absolute ugliest of it. Challenges have encompassed everything from obnoxious YouTubers, cars for Miami drug lords, the “Karen” driver archetype and many more during my 5-year hiatus from the game, and as awful as takeovers and whitelining is, there’s some fun in making the exact stereotypical car they would pick for the situation.
Why do the people who endanger everyone in traffic frequently choose M cars, Uruses, AMGs; why is takeover culture full of VQ Nissans, Mustangs, so on? And what creative cars can the Automationverse come up with based on the running stereotypes of these subcultures? That’s what I love seeing in so many of these challenges. The person buying the car is always an important context and many times the nature of the subcultures they are part of really helps narrow down the exact kind of car that they want.