Speaking of unknown animals. Unicorns could pretty much be real. Just imagine: We have horses, we have horned animals (even one-horned animals), it is not impossible that a horse-like animal with a horn exists.
could get a dodgy maintainer putting malware in it, as least theoretically.
Yes, that could be possible. But this has nothing to do with the type of application you want to get from the AUR.
It's actually quite easy, because none of the PKGBUILD files are actively checked before publishing them, neither are the programs that are built from them or the packages that you install.
PKGBUILD files are basically shellscripts. Authors can do whatever they want in that scripts. If they want to run rm -rf /*, no-one is stopping them.
This is why you always should read the whole script before running makepkg and examine the ./pkg directory's contents after you did and before installing the package.
Related: MMO RPG - Many men online role playing girls
I don't see an issue with that at all. It's even in the name "role playing game". I am playing a role in that game. A role that is not me.
Whenever a game allows me to play a female character I play a female character. I am a boring white male IRL, so please let me be a magic warrior princess in my games!
Itβs an armored unicorn then!