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Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:15 am**

Michelle wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:04 amThe amount of vanilla lovers is concerning. Scum hides there mark my words.

Glad to play with everyone btw <3

Sould reading in page 1Tedex villager. Liked Nut - not a surprise ^^
Still reading to catch up. Work may stop this process

I'm glad you're town, Michelle.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:54 am**

S~V~S wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:51 am
speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:10 pm Saitama is mafia? We might as well give up now.
Hey Chuck, why the Vanilla love?

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:10 am The correct poll answer is chocolate chip cookie dough or that's how I roll but whatever.
Samesies, Jack.

Neither of you strikes me as vanillas.

@juliets (asking you since you seem to be the town historian, but anyone can answer) are Day Zero option polls with meaning a thing anymore?

Good morning everyone, after being so excited for the game to start I fell asleep! And for the record, champion.

S~V~S, I haven't seen a Day Zero vote that meant something (unless it was to elect someone) in a while BUT this is BR and LC and they are, as I'm sure you remember, famous for their Day 0 polls meaning something. So I'm assuming there is a meaning.

I really like Lime Sorbet so I'll probably vote there.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:17 am**

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:19 am**

The poll has no "Other" option so I feel like the choices mean something

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:29 am**

The first ever Winners Game on The Piano featured an ice cream theme. Or it may have been a cupcake theme. I think it was cupcakes actually.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:33 am**

You have a hell of a good memory [mention]Turnip Head[/mention].

I'll be in and out of the thread today. Mostly in after 2:00.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:59 am**

So I've already seen a few things, but like my dudes it's day 0 can we chill a bit.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:00 am**

Also I agree with Michelle, at least one of the vanilla voters are mafia.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:01 am**

Tex/Michelle are my early town read
Jay and nanook early meh reada

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:10 am**

juliets wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:54 am
S~V~S wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:51 am
speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:10 pm Saitama is mafia? We might as well give up now.
Hey Chuck, why the Vanilla love?

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:10 am The correct poll answer is chocolate chip cookie dough or that's how I roll but whatever.
Samesies, Jack.

Neither of you strikes me as vanillas.

@juliets (asking you since you seem to be the town historian, but anyone can answer) are Day Zero option polls with meaning a thing anymore?
Good morning everyone, after being so excited for the game to start I fell asleep! And for the record, champion.

S~V~S, I haven't seen a Day Zero vote that meant something (unless it was to elect someone) in a while BUT this is BR and LC and they are, as I'm sure you remember, famous for their Day 0 polls meaning something. So I'm assuming there is a meaning.

I really like Lime Sorbet so I'll probably vote there.

I'm not sure how I feel about SVS question to juliet. Seems like a fluffy way to be involved.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:28 am**

OK, sig, I’m gonna explain this to you.

My question to Jules was a two fold question. Maybe even three fold. First, it served to help me sort her out. I like to know what I think of Jules pretty fast, and I find that gauging her answer to a direct question not directly related to her helps me with that. If she is bad, I don’t think she’s on a team with any of the vanilla voters, and I am leaning civ. I might ask G-Man a direct question, too

Second, it correlates to the two posts I quoted above it, from Chuck and Jack. Of the 5 vanilla voters, they put no thoughts into the thread about their votes, Chuck moreso than Jack; Chuck just dropped his vote without any reason or discussion. If Zero polls with meaning are not common anymore, then maybe their votes mean nothing in particular. If they were more common, though, I would not expect a whole team to vote for them. Same would go for the three Pistacio voters. So, third, it’s a good way to start discussion on this topic, since I seem not to be the only one whose eye was caught by the vanilla voters.

Not sure why trying to start discussion is “fluffy”, but OK.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:33 am**

Long Con wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 10:30 pm 9. You must use the word "champion" in your first post to prove you read the rules.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:34 am**

S~V~S wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:51 am
speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:10 pm Saitama is mafia? We might as well give up now.
Hey Chuck, why the Vanilla love?

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:10 am The correct poll answer is chocolate chip cookie dough or that's how I roll but whatever.
Samesies, Jack.

Neither of you strikes me as vanillas.

juliets (asking you since you seem to be the town historian, but anyone can answer) are Day Zero option polls with meaning a thing anymore?

Vanilla is absolutely the best flavor of icecream. It just goes best with other stuff in it.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:38 am**

Maybe I'm just surprised to see so much Vanilla in an LC/BR game

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:39 am**

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:10 am Actually, all your words are washing over me. I'm taking nothing in.

One time on my home forum I spent the entire first round just gif-posting a handful of times and not engaging in the game at all because I was busy. I got myself mislynched D1. But before I went, I made a final serious post in which I named the entire scum team.

Sometimes looking at something from the corner of your eye allows you to see more. /deep thoughts

Scum tbqh

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:42 am**

speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:10 pm Saitama is mafia? We might as well give up now.

Honestly, I was thinking the same. And the other mafia has the fucking Antimonitor in charge. The only townies that aren't strickly street level are Deedee, Agatha, the Monitor and Santa and of those, only Santa really has a chance of scratching either big bad.

Luckily, lynches override traditional weight classes.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:50 am**

For the record, Santa has either extreme reaction time or extreme time alteration powers that allow him to visit the houses of all good christian children in one night without ramming his sled into anything, strength and durability to go toe to toe with Lobo and to tank Apokolips's aerial batteries, immortality (possibly due to being an elf but definitely hundreds of years old), and limited omniscience letting him know the moral choices and consciousness of millions of people at any given moment. I just don't think he can take a punch from Saitama or survive the antimatter wave. Has anyone survived either of those things?

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:53 am**

sig wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:01 am Tex/Michelle are my early town read
Jay and nanook early meh reada

No u

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:55 am**

Jay gets the most undeserved townread of all time from me based on page 1 alone.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:57 am**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:46 am
nutella wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:42 am
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:40 am It is 12:40 AM EST and Sloonei is not a civilian yet.
It's two thousand twenty america standard time and you haven't had good cookie dough yet
Man I don't like cookie dough with or without ice cream

Man, it's like you're trying to personally piss me off with hot takes lately.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:57 am**

Also why are you shitting on vanilla, it’s the best ice cream flavor. I know it’s “cool” and all to degrade the classics, but there’s a reason even hipster ice cream places have vanilla.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:58 am**

Yeah wtf luxury sloonei are you too fancy pants for cookie dough

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:59 am**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:05 am
Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:01 am
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:59 am
Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:58 amDo you not want me to ask you questions?
Explain why this question exists
ted's response looked as if he was trying to shove me away.
I don't see that. It looks like you shoehorned that in there for attitude.

I have a suspicion of Sloonei.

Hot take of my own: This is three townies fighting over nonsense.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:06 pm**

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:57 am I made one mistake:
MacDougall

all these years I never noticed Mac's big D.

Mac doesn't have a big d tho....

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:07 pm**

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:57 am Also why are you shitting on vanilla, it’s the best ice cream flavor. I know it’s “cool” and all to degrade the classics, but there’s a reason even hipster ice cream places have vanilla.

I can tell you why. Because is the flavour who's enhancing the taste of chocolate ice cream when you put it together

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:07 pm**

Michelle wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:07 pm
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:57 am Also why are you shitting on vanilla, it’s the best ice cream flavor. I know it’s “cool” and all to degrade the classics, but there’s a reason even hipster ice cream places have vanilla.
I can tell you why. Because is the flavour who's enhancing the taste of chocolate ice cream when you put it together

Chocolate ice cream is also an acceptable answer.

If you have an unrefined palette.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:13 pm**

I don't think a favorite ice cream poll is at all alignment indicative for anyone. Like my favorite ice cream flavor doesn't fluctuate with my alignment.

Nobody is actually getting lynched for an ice cream flavor vote so even Michelle/Sig saying "Bet there's a scum here in the vanilla voters" could be the barest of distancing. Not that I think either of them is necessarily scum with a vanilla voter, just that I wouldn't even rule that out, it's such a nothing thing.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:19 pm**

The poll might mean something, but I don’t think we’ll determine anyone’s alignment from it.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:20 pm**

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:07 pm
Michelle wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:07 pm
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:57 am Also why are you shitting on vanilla, it’s the best ice cream flavor. I know it’s “cool” and all to degrade the classics, but there’s a reason even hipster ice cream places have vanilla.
I can tell you why. Because is the flavour who's enhancing the taste of chocolate ice cream when you put it together
Chocolate ice cream is also an acceptable answer.

If you have an unrefined palette.

Tbh chocolate is for gourmet connaisseurs

Especially because it is so versatile and you can go wild in using it in receipes

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:21 pm**

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:13 pm I don't think a favorite ice cream poll is at all alignment indicative for anyone. Like my favorite ice cream flavor doesn't fluctuate with my alignment.

Nobody is actually getting lynched for an ice cream flavor vote so even Michelle/Sig saying "Bet there's a scum here in the vanilla voters" could be the barest of distancing. Not that I think either of them is necessarily scum with a vanilla voter, just that I wouldn't even rule that out, it's such a nothing thing.

I will keep in mind this wordy oppinion.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:30 pm**

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:13 pm I don't think a favorite ice cream poll is at all alignment indicative for anyone. Like my favorite ice cream flavor doesn't fluctuate with my alignment.

Nobody is actually getting lynched for an ice cream flavor vote so even Michelle/Sig saying "Bet there's a scum here in the vanilla voters" could be the barest of distancing. Not that I think either of them is necessarily scum with a vanilla voter, just that I wouldn't even rule that out, it's such a nothing thing.

Actually, I also kind of think so, too, and in the post sig thought was fluffy, I thought Chuck, and maybe you, were the ones who stood out.

In the culture I came from (and our hosts came from, too) factions benefiting from poll options was very much a thing, and sometimes some faction members knew if they benefited from a specific option beforehand. But I know that was going out of vogue when I last played what with the influx of people from different cultures. So we'll see if there are any known results from this poll. I just bring it up as a thing to keep in mind.

I am also curious to know what others from that background think as well. But in any case, I will not be so quick to dismiss it.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:36 pm**

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:34 am
S~V~S wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:51 am
speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:10 pm Saitama is mafia? We might as well give up now.
Hey Chuck, why the Vanilla love?

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:10 am The correct poll answer is chocolate chip cookie dough or that's how I roll but whatever.
Samesies, Jack.

Neither of you strikes me as vanillas.

juliets (asking you since you seem to be the town historian, but anyone can answer) are Day Zero option polls with meaning a thing anymore?
Vanilla is absolutely the best flavor of icecream. It just goes best with other stuff in it.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:39 pm**

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:13 pm I don't think a favorite ice cream poll is at all alignment indicative for anyone. Like my favorite ice cream flavor doesn't fluctuate with my alignment.

Nobody is actually getting lynched for an ice cream flavor vote so even Michelle/Sig saying "Bet there's a scum here in the vanilla voters" could be the barest of distancing. Not that I think either of them is necessarily scum with a vanilla voter, just that I wouldn't even rule that out, it's such a nothing thing.

Statistically speaking it’s more plausible that there’s scum there based off pure numbers

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:55 pm**

I just typed up an explanation of how the poll benefits from the old days worked and then saw S~V~S had already posted an explanation. The Erlatz 11, who remembers that?

And [mention]S~V~S[/mention], I guess I think it's more likely than not there is some meaning to the poll because it was such a big part of LC and BR games. I don't know though which option means what, as was the case in the past. The way it used to work Vanilla, for example, could be the civ option that a couple of civs were told of or it could be one of the mafia's options. Or it means nothing but a high percentage of people like vanilla best (which is the case if you look at the population). So at this point I see it as just something to watch and think about as we go forward.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:06 pm**

It's less to do with the flavor meaning anything at all and more to do with how people react when you say their flavor vote means something. At least that's the way I look at it.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:07 pm**

S~V~S wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:51 am
speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:10 pm Saitama is mafia? We might as well give up now.
Hey Chuck, why the Vanilla love?

I don't know what this means.

S~V~S wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:38 am There's nothing with Peanut Butter Moose Track FTW.

Correct. Nothing else holds a candle to Moose Tracks.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:08 pm**

Oh lol Vanilla love. Right.

Vanilla isn't even close to the best ice cream, but the best flavors aren't on the poll.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:11 pm**

nutella is mafia for liking mint ice cream

that's gross

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:15 pm**

speedchuck wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:11 pm nutella is mafia for liking mint ice cream

that's gross

No u

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:16 pm**

Mint cookie is wayyy better than chocolate chip tho. Swirls of cookie crumble stuff mmmm

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:16 pm**

S~V~S wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:28 am OK, sig, I’m gonna explain this to you.

My question to Jules was a two fold question. Maybe even three fold. First, it served to help me sort her out. I like to know what I think of Jules pretty fast, and I find that gauging her answer to a direct question not directly related to her helps me with that. If she is bad, I don’t think she’s on a team with any of the vanilla voters, and I am leaning civ. I might ask G-Man a direct question, too Second, it correlates to the two posts I quoted above it, from Chuck and Jack. Of the 5 vanilla voters, they put no thoughts into the thread about their votes, Chuck moreso than Jack; Chuck just dropped his vote without any reason or discussion. If Zero polls with meaning are not common anymore, then maybe their votes mean nothing in particular. If they were more common, though, I would not expect a whole team to vote for them. Same would go for the three Pistacio voters. So, third, it’s a good way to start discussion on this topic, since I seem not to be the only one whose eye was caught by the vanilla voters.

Not sure why trying to start discussion is “fluffy”, but OK.

The type of discussion makes you present, but overall didn't seem to contribute much.

Though it's been a very long time since we played together may just be your style.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:16 pm**

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:53 am
sig wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:01 am Tex/Michelle are my early town read
Jay and nanook early meh reada
No u

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:30 pm**

Is there any significance to Night 0 as oppose to Day 0? [mention]Long Con[/mention] [mention]Black Rock[/mention]

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:30 pm**

speedchuck wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:11 pm nutella is mafia for liking mint ice cream

that's gross

I second this statement

Mint is for toothpaste and gum

Nothing else

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:38 pm**

sprityo wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:30 pm
speedchuck wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:11 pm nutella is mafia for liking mint ice cream

that's gross
I second this statement

Mint is for toothpaste

Nothing else.

You brush your teeth with ice cream? Weird.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:39 pm**

Also mint is by far second best ice cream after chocolate.

Anyone that likes vanilla is weird.

Buuuuut ofc the best ice cream is sea salt

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:39 pm**

And juliet is 3p she picked sorbet which isn't ice cream its sorbet.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:42 pm**

Not voting strawberry is a cardinal sin

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:43 pm**

Of the options presented in the poll, I have to go with vanilla. Sure, it's ‘plain’ but it is also the most versatile flavor there is, even more so than chocolate. You can pair it with many other flavors (Neapolitan anyone?) and it’s the perfect base for just about any additional ingredient.

As for this game, I will keep up as best I can. That means that I will read back a page or two at the most when playing catch-up. I drag my feet too often doing full re-reads and I want to play more in the moment this time.

In other words, real life is very busy and my wife doesn’t know that I am playing.

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:45 pm**

G-Man wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:43 pm Of the options presented in the poll, I have to go with vanilla. Sure, it's ‘plain’ but it is also the most versatile flavor there is, even more so than chocolate. You can pair it with many other flavors (Neapolitan anyone?) and it’s the perfect base for just about any additional ingredient.

As for this game, I will keep up as best I can. That means that I will read back a page or two at the most when playing catch-up. I drag my feet too often doing full re-reads and I want to play more in the moment this time.

In other words, real life is very busy and my wife doesn’t know that I am playing.

Down with ketchup

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