Haha, where to start. The game itself is fun, and the stories in it are awesome. When I saw that the one sprinter is Kenyan, that would have to be the moment I said "This game is fucking awesome."
Glad to know you're feeling better and are able to do get started on doing these again...just in time to have to stop doing them because of upcoming finals!
I don't envision other members as a general rule. That would entail thinking of other members as actual people, and it would be quite depressing to think of some of the users as members of the same species as me.