Everyone has their hot takes- opinions they hold that a majority wouldn't agree with. The hotter the take, the more unpopular it is- the really hot ones might even get you some funny looks if you go outside in a public area and scream them as loud as you can (go on, try it!)
Our hot takes are what make us who we are, if you agree with everyone all the time, then that's so boring, what are you even doing? (THIS IS NOT A SHOT AT RKRALLONOR!!)
So, I decided that a great way for us CYStians to get to know one another and get closer as a community (or kill one another in the heat of battle) is to share our hot takes with one another- but if we take it a step further, I want to know how difficult it would be for the community to identify users based ONLY on their hot takes. That is why I present to you...
Below, there is a Google Form for our community to send in their hot takes, and then, every few days, I (Sherbet) will post one of them, omitting the username of course, and the rest of the community can then take guesses on who the hot take belongs to. Guess correctly first and win something, probably!
RULES
-You can guess the user's identity only once when the initial hot take is posted. If nobody guesses correctly for a day or so, a small hint will be revealed, at which point an additional guess can be made (this cycle may repeat an additional time or two). You can make one guess for every hint that I (Sherbet) give. Guesses do not carry over between hints!
-No guessing yourself on your own hot take!
-If you're a noob with like no posts or personality and nobody could reasonably guess you, then your take had better be SCALDING hot
-Hot takes should not be cold takes
-Hot takes should not be boring
Submission Form
Do you mean that the user in question shouldn't post at all or should he intentionally post someone else? Cause the former would make it obvious.
I recently had this conversation with a friend! I can't remember any of the takes we discussed though...
Am I reasonably guessable enough?
People in triple shame should be banned if inactive for more than 6 months.
Actually that's not a bad idea.
Alright, fine, I'll go with Ben
I'm going to pick someone out of the blue and say Avo!
A good idea, but not mine.
Gonna go with a wild guess here, but DBNB.
As someone pointed out, it can't be a mod because they wouldn't wanna track that.
And it has to be someone who is "serious" about this site.
Serious? Me? lol
To be honest I don't give any thought to who is in any level of the shame pit, including myself.
Cavus?
HINT #1
The user has less than 2000 points.
I'll go with Malk this time
No, strike that, I'm guessing Liminal
Malk has under 2k points?
No clue, lol. Hence me changing my guess to Liminal
Just looked at his profile, and he has somewhere around 7k points, lol. Almost 4x as much as the hint! Glad I didn't go with him as my answer
I was shocked- I thought all the mods were rich, glad to see I wasn't wrong.
The hot take belonged to Liminal!
With the reasoning;
Clogging up the abyssal rape scorpion pit.
XD
wait what, really?
Tbh, I didn't expect it to be him; I was just shooting in the dark, lol
Wildblue?
A grapefruit.
I will not read a storygame if it is item-based. Writers: just use variables! I hate items!
Enterpride, he mentioned this.
Every single CYStian I know? Does anyone even like items? I think maybe only Mystic.
I'll just randomly say mizal.
If that's the case then it isn't a hot take anymore.
Uhhhh, I really don't know anyone except Enter who has this opinion, so I'm going to take another shot in the dark and say that it's MHD
Intelligent people have that opinion. Items suck
Or at least the way most folks use them generally suck. Gryphon has a game with items that I like.
Secrets of the Crag uses some items. It is a really good dungeon crawler, and one of my more favorite games here.
The hot take belonged to MHD!
It is so tedious to click through items. And oftentimes a story does not even need to rely on them at all.
Unscapeable is on a roll with these blind guesses. What are the winning lottery numbers?
What's the format?
##-##-##-##-##?
#####?
#-#-#-#-#?
I'll make something up, but I need at least something to go off of, so I'll go ahead and assume that it's the first variation.
Your winning lottery numbers are:
25 63 92 78 64
Although now I kinda want to know if they are the winning numbers, lol; I do like to gamble sometimes. Shame I don't know how to do it.
the fuck?
I knew I was lucky, but I didn't think I was this lucky!
To the last two guessers, Avo and Celicni: Sherbet just called me from the hospital. The rancid fumes of your poisonous ignorance have given him cancer and he's too frail to even log in. Both of you are wrong. So hideously, disgustingly wrong, that he wouldn't have responded in person even if he could, and only for the sake of the game being able to move on from your wretched attempts at reasoning does he deign to request that I do the filthy work of shovelling your shit out from between the gears of this operation. "Fuck you," says sherbet, "Damn and blast the both of you to the bloody bowels of hell!" He said those exact words. I've never seen sherbet upset like this. Do better.
Cripes, I saw Enter mention it :/
Mine would've just stopped at: "I will not read a storygame"
Rita's Italian Ice is the best thing to dip a soft pretzel in
Time to see how far my luck will go:
CavusRex?
Well they could be in any one of these wretched states.
Never heard of this, though given the more solid nature of Italian Ice, I'm guessing they're waiting awhile for it to melt before doing this vile shit.
And the folks dipping fries into frosty milkshakes are just as vile.
All of you need to be rounded up into camps.
Malt vinegar on fries is based obviously.
What about Wendy's nuggets?
You're not suppose to be dipping anything into your frosty. Let alone meat if any kind.
A lot of foods just aren't supposed to be mixed together and I don't know when in society we started allowing this degenerate form of dining but the line must be drawn here. This far and no further!
Have you even tried dipping your fries into a milkshake?
I will say, however, that the fries and shake have to be just right, or else it does taste off. If you can manage to get them perfect, though, then it's amazing.
And a sewer rat might taste like vanilla ice cream, I'll never know because I'm not eating one. Same with dipping a potato into chocolate slurry.
You continue being a degenerate though, it's a free country.
I'm gonna guess Will11.
Having never heard of that brand before, I'm going to assume it's American and rule out anyone in other parts of the world. I'll guess Yummyfood just because it's a food-related take.
The hot take belonged to Yummyfood!
Don't knock it until you try it
New Thought as a pervasive pop culture phenomenon is the direct cause of much of what's wrong in the United States.
I'm thinking either Daji or Milton. Could be Flux.
Malk?
Mousecore already said that, and considering Mizal's reply I would say it's probably wrong.
Oh, whoops. Guess I'll have to wait for the next clue, lol
The user is not an admin.
Sent?
Lock of shame.
I had to google the term and still don't quite understand it, so no.
My hot take will probably not be posted due to being too spicy but is actually similar, being something along the lines of
X is the direct cause of much of what's wrong in the ̶U̶n̶i̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶S̶t̶a̶t̶e̶s̶ world.
I am aware most relevant people have seen the take anyway. And even if they didn't, it would be the easiest guess ever.
Hating on faeries is a distraction. Hell, so is hating on orcs. Those groups are just useful idiots for the real enemy, the gnomes.
If we were being attacked by demons from the Abyss, and illithids from the Far Realm, and I had one meteor swarm spell, I’d cast it at the Golden Hills
Everything bad that’s happening in the world…would still happen, but at least I would’ve killed a whole lot of gnomes!
Cavus? TheCanary?
It's one guess per hint given. At the time of guessing you had given two. 🫵
I'll guess benholman
HINT #2
The user joined the site within the last five years.
HINT #3
The user is a Warden.
Milton, my one guess is Milton.
Tim?
....Soooo do I get another guess or was that my one guess? :(
Noooo! Please, Sherb, give me one more chance! I'll be good!
wait, I didn't know daji was a warden, she has a very marauder personality. Has anybody guessed her yet? I can't do it no more because sherbet killed me, but someone else should.
The hot take belonged to Daji!
Bootstrap capitalist witchcraft.
The puzzles/games category is actually super duper dope and needs more love! I mean seriously, it has a ton of cool games but almost nobody ever talks about them.
The hot take belonged to RK!
It's hard to make a challenging puzzle with the CYS editor, but the puzzles and games category boasts games that do a really good job. I don't usually see much reviewing activity on those games, and usually, people don't make new storygames in the puzzle/games category, which is a shame because the featured ones are awesome! And there are a few great puzzles/games storygames like Blackwell's Diamonds and Dream Thief that are criminally underrated. I first discovered the site through the Puzzles/games category, so I'm super passionate about it lol. Besides that, no other hot takes, CYS rules!
No pizza toppings taste good
Can't be Mizal- she guessed on it.
D:<
I am going to gut you.
That would fit in with your hell-demon nature /j
Well what am I supposed to do to express anger while not qualifying as a hell demon?! ><
Good point
What? There is no opposite of what I said, it was a statement/question of how I could express an emotion without you labeling me. :/
The whole thing was a joke anyways.
UD.
Hey! Just because I like pineapple on pizza doesn't mean I like to have plain pizza dough!
You do? ...
And it's not. Plain. DOUGH!!!!
(ᗒᗣᗕ)
How DARE you! (/j)
Don't hate on it until you've tried it!
I have!
The hot take belonged to Avo!
Vegetables on pizza is the worst idea human kind has every come up with. I don't even want to talk about pineapple on pizza. And I hate anchovies, mushrooms, pepperoni (this one is more acceptable), sausage (good! Not on pizza), onions, olives, and anything else I forgot. Well, unless I haven't had it.
I like veggies, just not on pizza. Have you tried steamed broccoli?
It is not BARE DOUGH!!! A pizza with no toppings is called a CHEESE PIZZA! I am not dumb, it is not bad, it's my unique opinion not many agree with THAT'S WHY IT'S A HOT TAKE!!!
>:(
>:^(
Extra cheese is a topping.
Also given the response I think Avo has the strongest hot take so far
Thank you. :)
Actually the opposite...
Perhaps it is the controversy itself that makes it a hot take. Philosophers have asked what a pizza is for a thousand years and more. But will we ever know? I don't know. But this video I think highlights the existential pizza crisis we as a society find ourselves in:
PUSHING DOWN PUSHING DOWN
A pizza with no cheese is a crime! This is all slander of the highest order
Pushing down
Haze (ps3) is great, even better than the entire CoD franchise
No clue what any of that is, so I'm saying... Fabrikant?
Just to cover bases well, I'm going to guess Chris.
Dies.
:/
*2nd Boss Phase Begins*
Liminal?
Part of the user's explanation for the take is as follows;
"They only made as many as they needed to, they don't need to shit out another turd year by year."
I am convinced it is Cel
I don't know who you are, why do you keep insulting me like this?
Enter?
The hot take belonged to Sent!
They only made as many as they needed to, they don't need to shit out another turd year by year. Haze was released as "The Halo-Killer", but they never released any Haze-Killers because they knew it couldn't be done. This game invented yellow before Deus Ex Detroit did it. I'll fuckin fight you, I'll fight the WHOLE TOWN on this. I'll fight YOUR grandmother!
Today we learned that Chris is not a real carnivore
Wait, Sherbet, would I be considered guessable?
Jews are running society and are going to make us all their slaves unless we rise up
The hot take belonged to Cel!
Who is the major owner of most media companies, banks and so on? They certainly seem to be in all kinds of positions of power, America sure seems to be sucking Israel's cock a lot and sending billions in aid, 99% of US politicans are Israel funded. And don't even get me started on the Kalergi plan (that's not even a conspiracy theory, that's a 177 page UN document you can look at yourself). AI will price us out of everything, as is happening with computers right now.
Who turned the pickles red?? Make them blue! Blue is hotter than red!
that happens when you leave shit in the sun
That's why there's a rule about it, and because they post asking they make it easier by hinting that one will be theirs.
Anyone with a smartwatch and a smartphone should have their watch replaced with a mechanical one immediatly.
Cyclonis!
Time to test my luck again! Mizal?
Ogre11?
The hot take belonged to UnscapeableDeath!
For one, mechanical watches don't die on you due to having been accidentally activated too many times. And if you already have a smartphone, then there isn't anything better that a smartwatch is affording you, except for maybe the very crappy "health monitoring," which is almost completely useless anyways. If you actually need to monitor something, then you can probably buy something for cheaper overall that will last longer, won't die on you randomly, and will be much more accurate.
Mousecore
I'm getting thrown off by the misspelling of immediatly, hmm. I'll randomly guess Fabrikant.
It was mostly because you're online and have actively participated in the thread, otherwise I would've guessed Ace for the Aceism (though he doesn't seem like the type to hate smart watches either).
Tyler Robinson didn’t shoot Charlie Kirk
Cel
Maybe you needed to refresh?
I remember :)
What are you talking about dude I'm pretty sure his neck just did that
For some reason I can perfectly picture Fabrikant saying this. I guess Fabrikant.
...
Enter.
Wildblue
The user has been on the site for more than 3 years.
Fluxion?
Anthraxus
Sent
I didn't think so but possibly.
The user has less than 1500 points.
Wizzy!
Damn-
TypedRooster?
Anthraxus?
Is it BEN?!
The hot take belonged to Ben!
I genuinely believe that it was the boyfriend, Lance Twiggs, who committed the assassination and that the conversation between the two of them was pre-planned for Tyler to take the heat. Twiggs was a trans woman with a history of being thrown out of his parents place, and according to a relative, really hates MAGA and conservatives, whereas Tyler Robinson had not shown any outward signs of hostility towards the group other than the Discord messages AFTER the shooting. There was also the fact that Twiggs did not call the police or work with them until they came to the house, as well as that upon the ending of his police protection, Twiggs fled Utah and retained an attorney.
Hmmm... DBNB, then.
He has more than 1500 points (just imagine I put Sherb's gif here).
I thought it said more, my bad. I'll stomp myself out, though.
It was the man on the grassy knoll.
I'm guessing Cyclonis as the only one in this thread who fits the description, unless I've missed someone.