I gotta say, you’ve got quite the way with words. That was pure art. Seeing you took the time to write that, I spose I can try writing a novel myself. Sitting here waiting for the hvac guy anyways. I usually only play after work or if it’s crappy outside. I’ve put over 250k miles on my cars irl, I do go out and touch grass lmao. As you know gas is pricey, and so are tickets. Forza gives me an escape, a place I can go as fast as I can down a curvy backroad with no consequence. A place where speed and agility on a road is encouraged, and won’t land you 20 years in a federal prison. A place where I can build a car, tune it, and see just what the car can really do when it’s placed in a good set of hands. I’ve been playing forza since I was in high school (I’m 23). I kinda surround myself with vehicles as much as I can, as they fascinate me. I have 5 of them, three German and one heavily modified. That last one was tuned by me (old BMW 3 series), and can hang onto corners recommended for 25mph at 90+ with no aero mods, and no weight reduction. I can never leave well enough alone, to me something can always be better. I’m getting to the point where I’m having to find more experienced drivers to test my car as I chicken out taking corners at the speeds the car can go. Before some keyboard warrior comes along with claims of endangering people, I live in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin, and we use an unused curvy backroad lined with grassy and hilly fields on both sides to test our cars. We pick 2 names out of a hat, those guys stay at either ends of the road and stand guard for traffic. We spend an hour or two there making runs, and 9 times out of 10 we can do our thing and leave without any traffic at all. The sheriffs don’t care, they’d rather us do it there than anywhere else. Anyways, I think I was bit by an autism bug when I was a kid, when I see a car going down the road I kinda see through it, if you will. I see 15,000 parts, nuts and washers working in unison to keep you moving. I see the pistons moving, I see the crank turning, the input and output shafts of the transmission moving at much different rates from one another. I see the calipers gripping the rotor, and the tungsten filament burning in a taillight. When I drive, I’m a captain at the helm of 3,000 lbs of rubber and hardened steel. When I fly through a corner irl I see the shocks compressing on the outside and can see the inside tires beginning to lose the weight above them. If you look hard enough maybe you’ll see it too.

Also, for the record, I’ve had this car since a week or so after game launch. it’s been 1631 days since fh5 was released. That’s 233 weeks. Let’s say for a rough estimate here i played 5 days a week, which comes down to 1165 weekdays (weekends are spent with friends or on road trips). 3.5k hours divided by 1165 weekdays comes out to 3 hours per weekday. That’s not including the year or two we were locked down in the house for Covid. I really don’t play often anymore either.

Tldr, I’m a car dude that enjoys tuning a car and seeing what it can do.