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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

It may take a little time but I'm going to hash out the hottest take ever.

-No guessing yourself on your own hot take!

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.

Either option works, but the latter would also give you away if you go about it poorly.

I guess the one that says, "Cripples are cool" is Cel.

I recently had this conversation with a friend! I can't remember any of the takes we discussed though... 

Am I reasonably guessable enough?

I would say so

CYS HOT TAKE #1

People in triple shame should be banned if inactive for more than 6 months.

Mizal?

[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

Actually that's not a bad idea.

1. That's a good idea. Why hasn't it been implemented yet?
2. I know too little about people here, lol. I'm going to assume that it's Mizal, Thera, Ben, or Malk

YOU GET ONE GUESS 🫵

Alright, fine, I'll go with Ben

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Not a bad guess, though

A mod wouldn't say this because none of us want to keep track of that lol --- Wait, only End would

Is this RK with an actual mean take? If so, I'm proud.

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Hot dog wizard would never, I'm sure

Hm, I want to guess End? Because the Pit of Shame is his thing.

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A good guess!

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?

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for a hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

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.

Ding ding ding! Winner!

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?

With the hint I'll guess special olympic? Seems on-brand

Enterpride

A grapefruit.

CYS HOT TAKE #2

I will not read a storygame if it is item-based. Writers: just use variables! I hate items!

Enterpride, he mentioned this.

Very good take I say

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.

Which one?

Secrets of the Crag uses some items. It is a really good dungeon crawler, and one of my more favorite games here.

Gryphon's Ruins of Anzar has a lot of item puzzles, and Will's Tales of Erenel uses them too. There are a few others on the site too, the difference is really just whether a game is intelligently designed around item usage to begin with or if they're just some random thing a noob threw in for no reason.

To add on to Mizal's list of great item-based games, I really love Tower of Rowena. Walmart Game is also a pretty great item-based game since you have to strap a bomb to a toy car in the climax of the game, and there's other things you can do as well. Jurassic Fairview Park has a lot of items as well, although to be fair, the game was explicitly designed as a test case to see just how complex of a game the founders could make, so naturally items play an important role in unlocking different endings and beating the game.

The last item-based game that I can remember really enjoying is Blackwell's diamonds.

So yeah, I disagree with this hot-take because I had a ton of fun with the item-based games here.

The Wal-Mart Game is fun

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to MHD!

With the reasoning;

It is so tedious to click through items. And oftentimes a story does not even need to rely on them at all.

I think it's rather fitting Sent came in to yell during my hot take.

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"

CYS HOT TAKE #3

Rita's Italian Ice is the best thing to dip a soft pretzel in

Time to see how far my luck will go:

CavusRex?

Avo (V__V)

Not mine but whoever wrote this one is way too fucking local to me.

Well they could be in any one of these wretched states.

The specific combination of the Rita's and the soft pretzel makes me want to hone it down to only one part of the map though. Unless they happen to be a very, very weird outlier in those other parts of the US. I guess the determining factor is if the hot taker calls it a water ice.

Finding out Rita's is a multimillion dollar brand rather than a woman of Italian heritage having an ice-cream shop at some corner is very disappointing

Is this the East coast version of dipping your Wendy's fries in a frostie?

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.

What about malt vinegar?

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 had a cherry Italian ice from Rita's once and still remember it.

Did you dip a pretzel in it?

No :(

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.

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to Yummyfood!

With the reasoning;

Don't knock it until you try it

Custard implies I got Gelato. I just get straight ice most of the time. Gelato is good though.

Well it's not Ace, he would've said a 5 gallon vat of neon yellow cheese snot.

Suranna?

CYS HOT TAKE #4

New Thought as a pervasive pop culture phenomenon is the direct cause of much of what's wrong in the United States.

Those are both terrible picks. Sherb wanted me to tell you he's absolutely disgusted at your ignorance too

YOU GET ONE GUESS 🫵

I'm thinking either Daji or Milton. Could be Flux.

I'll go with Flux.(Who would certainly have very different ideas on what ""the problems in America today" are then Milton, but unfortunately this take did not specify those.

YOU GET ONE GUESS, PENGUIN 🫵

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

I'm gonna guess Mousecore.

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for a hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #1

The user is not an admin.

Sent?

Lock of shame.

LOL

All right, fine, so it reads like either a bot or a man who REALLY loves mayonnaise on white bread, therefore it is Milton.

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.

Well there'd be no point in posting it now that you gave this much detail away

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!

Lurk more, faggot. All your guesses are terrible!

Ace?

I think it's you.

My hot take has been not submitting one so far.

It's not :(

Just to clarify for Mizal, it's not Ace or not me?

Cavus? TheCanary?

It's one guess per hint given. At the time of guessing you had given two. 🫵

Alright, you win this time, shrimp- I've added a clarification in the rules. Also you're wrong, TWICE 🫵

Just so Mousecore doesn't feel singled out, let it be known that elsewhere I heaped abuse upon Suranna for these stupid, no good, very bad suggestions as well.

I'll guess benholman

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for another hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #2

The user joined the site within the last five years.

It's obviously Suranna.

Beefhotpot

A grapefruit.

Completely ignoring the content of the sentence, and just judging by how it feels I would say Cavus.

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for one final hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #3

The user is a Warden.

Petros

Milton, my one guess is Milton.

My guess is Enter

Well my guess is RK's hidden Warden alt!

lol

So far, you are all wrong 🫵

NEVER MIND THAT EDIT I guess clayfinger

Afraid not :(

Tim?

Girl the other hints still apply

....Soooo do I get another guess or was that my one guess? :(

Noooo! Please, Sherb, give me one more chance! I'll be good!

Krill yourself

SpecialOlympic

That is an excellent guess, I wish it was correct

I agree with this wholeheartedly.

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.

Daji.

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to Daji!

With the reasoning;

Bootstrap capitalist witchcraft.

I'm honestly insulted by all these people smh my head

You were one of the first people Sent guessed, I haven't been paying the greatest attention to the thread and didn't quite register that it hadn't been narrowed down officially.

Also, lol, Warden.

CYS HOT TAKE #5

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.

Clayfinger

This one actually has RK written all over it

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to RK!

With the reasoning;

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!

Lol, lightning round

Fastest shooter in the west

I'm with you on this one RK, seeing the kinds of games people can build within the CYS editor is really cool.

Right?!

See @Daji, this is what you needed to do! Make it obviously yours, put an 'uff da' in there somewhere.

Uff da

CYS HOT TAKE #6

No pizza toppings taste good

You can put literally anything edible on a pizza as a topping. This is is not a hot take, it is just objectively wrong. I think it is trolling from Mizal.

Can't be Mizal- she guessed on it.

I'm going to guess Liminal.

I am hurt on a cosmic level. I have some class. I'm not a total hell-demon.

D:<

Don't worry Avo, you can be my favorite hell-demon! It doesn't change the fact that I feel irrevocably hurt being blamed for your stupid hot take though.

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

The good ol' "proving a point while trying to do the opposite" technique, I see.

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!!!!

1. Yep! Hawaiian pizza is the best type of pizza, in my opinion
2. I consider the cheese and sauce toppings, as you can usually change the type they put on, or even omit them altogether. So my first thought was:
   
   "Are they talking about just having plain dough?!?"
   
   Although now I wonder what would happen if you ordered a pizza with nothing on it.

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How DARE you! (/j)

Don't hate on it until you've tried it!

I have!

So either they just don't like pizza, don't know what a topping is, or actually prefer bare oven dough. This is not a hot take. This is a bad take.

I'm going with the dumb kid angle. VV seems the most active.

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to Avo!

With the reasoning;

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.

Double tapped

This isn't really a hot take, this is a kid take. I mean, kids are literally known for shunning veggies of all kind, like every parent usually has to forces their kid to eat vegetables. And then once they grow up, they realize that they need to eat proper veggies in order to be healthy. Plus, veggies just taste good. They add layers and texture to a pizza. Unless you get a cheese pizza at a nice place that makes proper, gourmet pizza, I don't see why anyone would prefer a plain cheese with nothing on 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!!!

Easy there little lady. Why don't you take a breather and go play outside

>:(

:^)

>:^(

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Cheese is a topping. You can request extra cheese, which means the first cheese was also a topping. I guess an argument could be made that sauce is not a topping, although certain types of deep dish would argue against that as well.

Extra cheese is a topping.

If you're at a social gathering and getting pizza for everyone, and someone asks for "no toppings," you wouldn't get them a slab of crust with sauce on it, though (and if you do, then I'll have to add you to my list of people to never share my Papa John's login information with). Cheese is innate, it's a different category, nobody talks about it when they're discussing their favorite toppings!

Also given the response I think Avo has the strongest hot take so far

I'm gonna play devil's advocate for the dumb child here. In most contexts of ordering a pizza, there are three given foundational ingredients: the dough, the sauce, and the cheese. These are the ingredients you are expecting by default to be on a pizza. When you order a "plain pie," you are getting these three ingredients, cheese included. Toppings are considered everything ON TOP OF the foundational ingredients hence the name.

When you're ordering a pizza, even just a plain cheese, you're not going to specify "a pizza with tomato sauce and cheese." You're just going to say "a plain pizza" or a cheese pizza, sure, but a cheese pizza is the same as a plain pizza. "Extra cheese" on the other hand is a topping because you're adding something to the base pizza, not because cheese on its own is a topping.

The word "topping" in this context refers to additional ingredients beyond the base construction of the pizza. But a standard pizza, in most pizzerias, has cheese as one of its base ingredients.

So I'm with Avo on her definition. I don't agree that all toppings taste bad though (I used to hate all toppings when I was younger tbf, then grew a taste for toppings later on).

Thank you. :)

I do agree with you on the definition. A pizza without toppings is still going to have cheese and sauce, not be a slab of dough. Enter stretched that one out a little. It's reasonable to assume that when someone's taking about wanting a pizza with no toppings, they're not saying to scrape off the cheese and sauce. Interpreting it in that way makes Avo's take look more ridiculous than it actually is. I think her definition makes sense, and that's what any guy behind the counter at a pizzeria would assume if you asked them to make you a pie with no toppings.

Still, a plain cheese is boring though. I mean, if you've got vegetables and ingredients in your cupboards, add it to the damn pizza!

Cheese is too a topping though. You can order a pizza without it, or with extra.

Even if I'd allow you this one though, this take is still bad. Next you're going to say all sandwiches but grilled cheese are terrible.

You can also order pizza with pesto, Alfredo sauce, or just olive oil instead of tomato sauce. What even is a pizza? Mein gott, what have we done?

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:

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Sent

No, but he definitely WOULD have a take like this. Sent is the kind of guy to scrape all the cheese and toppings off of the pizza and then enjoy it with a flat, room temp root beer.

A pizza with no cheese is a crime! This is all slander of the highest order

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CYS HOT TAKE #7

Haze (ps3) is great, even better than the entire CoD franchise

No clue what any of that is, so I'm saying... Fabrikant?

20 years since I had time to play games and never into shooters...

I mean, CoD is so retarded and boring it's not even much of a bar for whatever Haze is to step over it.

If I had to spend a day doing one or the other I'd take even a fucking CoG game over a CoD one.

.... but anyway I'm voting that this is actually your take since I think you're deflecting here.

Just to cover bases well, I'm going to guess Chris.

Dies.

I already did that!

I can't believe that actually worked!

:/       

*2nd Boss Phase Begins*

Mousecore

Darn

Liminal?

Wizzy

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for a hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #1

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?

Hmm, comma splice so it isn't Gower. Let's see who would talk like that on this side ... ah I see, half the people. Petros?

Enter?

I've wanted to guess Sent this whole time - he seems like the sort of person who would hate COD. I feel as though this is a dumb guess, but no harm trying.

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to Sent!

With the reasoning;

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!

Well if the explanation had been posted first of course I'd have known it was Sent.

Today we learned that Chris is not a real carnivore

Wait, Sherbet, would I be considered guessable?

Depends on the take!

CYS HOT TAKE #8

Jews are running society and are going to make us all their slaves unless we rise up

Cel

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to Cel!

With the reasoning;

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.

I for one am shocked that this one was so easy!

Fastest shooter in the west don't miss

Who turned the pickles red?? Make them blue! Blue is hotter than red!

They look chartreuse to me.

1. Pickels? I thought they were peppers
2. Assuming they are peppers, the hottest pepper, Pepper X, is actually red. However, it looks way different than what is currently being shown.

The peppers have been YELLOWED!?

that happens when you leave shit in the sun

There you go Sherb, you can have your thread back.

Is it too late to enter this?

No, you can enter any time

These randos have such an advantage, we don't know enough about them to guess.

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.

CYS HOT TAKE #9

Anyone with a smartwatch and a smartphone should have their watch replaced with a mechanical one immediatly.

Malk?

Cyclonis!

DB

Time to test my luck again! Mizal?

Ogre11?

Enterpride

I'll guess Unscapeable. :]

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to UnscapeableDeath!

With the reasoning;

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.

Damn Ace, some playa's been moving on your turf, homie

Haha yes! This is actually a take I agree with but for different reasons. To me, watches are like the one mainstream accessory men have access to. It just feels like a waste to wear a plain-looking black strap with a blank screen when you could be wearing something far more snazzy like a classic metallic analog watch.

But then again, I've thought these same thoughts years ago. So I assumed that whoever posted this must have been younger than me if this is fresh in their heads.

Definitely don't need to carry a second tracking device around everywhere you go, especially with the watches logging medical info too. Not enough people really think about where all this stuff gets stored and if you can trust the company to stay on top of protecting your info.

And also like Clayfingee said, real watches just look nice.

Ace

Anthraxus

Mousecore

I'm getting thrown off by the misspelling of immediatly, hmm. I'll randomly guess Fabrikant.

You'd cast me as a dysorthographer and a luddite?

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). 

An Aceism is when he asks for the vinala ice cream to be delivered imediutly.

Someone advising against the smart phone + smart watch combo is most likely to be aware of the privacy risk those represent. I have a second guess in mind but I'm waiting for Sherb to confirm or deny the first batch.

CYS HOT TAKE #10

Tyler Robinson didn’t shoot Charlie Kirk

Cel

1. Locking this in
2. This just sounds like something cel would say
3. Godamn, it hasn't even been a minute, and Sherb's already gone. You'd think he'd stick around for at least a little bit after posting a new hot take.

Not this time!

1. Really? Huh
2. How are you responding despite not showing as being online?

Maybe you needed to refresh?

Is there even any possibility of a duplicate in these? I've been ruling out people who already had one.

He already did Cel's, don't you remember that was a whole thing?

I remember :)

I'll try Chris. :]

What are you talking about dude I'm pretty sure his neck just did that

Yeah, I was shooting in the dark with this one. No pun intended. XD

For some reason I can perfectly picture Fabrikant saying this. I guess Fabrikant.

 

...

Oh man, this could be several people. Hell, given some of the things that have happened since then this one may barely count as any "hotter" at this point than saying Oswald didn't shoot JKF.

Uh...Wizzy?

Sabley

She was the obvious one but I doubt she knows this thread exists.

I have faith

Enter.

Wildblue

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for a hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #1

The user has been on the site for more than 3 years.

Fluxion?

Afraid not

Malk

Mizal

Anthraxus

Ogre

Sent

Ok, this is probably dumb but I'll feel stupid if I was right and didn't check but... is it you, Sherbet?

Ace, I don't know. No one's guessed him yet and he has conspiracy theorist aura.

I didn't think so but possibly.

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for another hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #2

The user has less than 1500 points.

Wizzy!

Wizzy's already been guessed!

Damn-

TypedRooster?

The other hint still applies!

Anthraxus?

Anthraxus was just guessed yesterday!

CavusRex

❌

Is it BEN?!

You already guessed for this hint, shrimp!

Is it BEN?!

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to Ben!

With the reasoning;

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.

Oh never mind, Ben's take is lame after all. And here I thought he was finally being a little bit based.

Curiosity had been activated, what is the CYS-approved theory for this one?

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.

No, but I congratulate you on having the first real guess of this hint cycle so far!

Maybe you should start taking points every time someone ignores the hints or the previous guesses. Those posts and you correcting them are turning into half the thread.

Suranna

To put it shrimply, no

Damn, got no clue then

Is it Sherbet?

Do I look like a brokie with less than 1500 points to you!?

Daji

CYS HOT TAKE #11

Spoons are the best utensil

The reasoning for this one made me die instantly btw

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to Ace!

With the reasoning;

Spaghetti? Spoon. Salad? Spoon. Meat? Hands. Waffles? Okay fine fork.

All of these are fork foods (or in the case of the last two, a combination of fork and knife).

Meat? Hands.

Guess we've got another member of the LGBBQ tribe here.

LGBTQ+, not LGBBQ.

You misunderstood something about this situation but it's okay, you're not autistic, just sheltered.

?

I don't understand what he's referring to here either, but I know it isn't the LGBTQ+ group (although in some scenarios, I guess it could be). You'll understand whenever you're older, but do not seek out this knowledge until your parents/school explain it to you on their own time.

Ok...?

Hey VV, let me help you.

You see, this is a play on words where I insult Ace's heterosexuality while at the same time bringing up barbecue because we are talking about meat.

Hope this helps.

...???

It didn't help.

BBQ = Barbecue, and they were talking about meat and people barbecue meat (I cannot phrase anything correctly holy cow)

Ace may be heterosexual, and it's very haha funny to call straight people gay. I agree

So it's a play on words where instead of the acronym LGBTQ, it's LGBBQ. Changed because it sounds similar. Am I helping??

(Not trying to seem passive-aggressive by the way, genuinely trying to help!)

 

 

Yes, but are you sure? I mean no offense- but you're also young and it seemed it was something worse? I dunno.... And I know what BBQ is, I'd dare to say you're probably younger than me.

I was sure, but I'm not sure anymore! You have made me doubt myself!!! >:P

 

We'll see what these old people say hehe /joke

Sorry...

No, you're good.

 

Also, I bet there's no way you're older than me! You're, like, 11-12! (No offense)

Actually, I recently turned 13. And if you're older, you don't act much like it (no offense meant).

HA! So I am older! I act sort of childish. But I'm not childish all the time.

Ok then. Still don't like being treated like a little child so dumb I don't know what BBQ is >:/

I wasn't trying to do that!!!

Now you two, don't make me use my mean librarian voice.

Yeah, I am mostly blind. Less so than Avo, but only by slightly, lol.

I'm not sure if blind is the right term because blindness is permanent and we don't know nothing, and I would imagine you would know more than I do because you have more years (well unless you're uneducated but I'd guess that you very much are).

That's true, though it does still capture the essence of the situation.

They are really overthinking this.

As hilarious as this is, spaghetti and salads are fork foods; any claim that they are not is blasphemy. Otherwise, your claims are perfectly sound. Just make sure you are handling the meat properly; it can get messy if you do it wrong.

Also, and this is just a quick side tangent here, but assuming that this wasn't suggested in the manner that I think it was (which I highly doubt), some types of meat are legitimately meant to be eaten without any utensils; e.g., chicken, crab, calamari, etc.

I feel like he should be docked points for forgetting the noble spork.

Ogre11

Cavus

Yummy

CYS HOT TAKE #12

We will never have another child who joins the site and blossoms into a good member.

Chris

My guess too.

Just me then?

Very unlikely 

So not me then?

EDIT: Yeah not me then.

I'll take up whoever wrote this on this! >:) 

Do you mean you'll try being a good member? If so, good luck! :D

Yes, that's what I mean, lol!! That wasn't good phrasing on my behalf.

It's fine, makes sense. So I assume this means you're a kid?

EDIT: Sorry, kinda obvious, just me trying to keep the conversation going because that's what I'm used to. 😅

No, I'm actually 35.

 

No, I'm just joshing. Yeah, I am :P I was kinda planning on not saying anything at first because I'm used to being shunned off of sites for it. 

LOL, I wouldn't have believed you if you said 35. I'ev nevwer heard someone say joshing before. I can understand you getting shunned if there's inappropriate content they don't want you exposed to but besides that I don't see why they would do that.

How will you ever be good if you lose all your points to your Toggle addiction?

Hey! I commissioned Liminal! 

Wildblue

Mizal? 

Wait, was she already guessed? I wasn't paying attention.

No, she wasn't. You can easily tell by scrolling up and checking.

Yeaaa, I did that after I posted this.

Yummyfood?

Yummyfood was already on here!

Oh yeah, the ice pretzel thing. Eh, whatever, I was making a random guess anyway.

That's fair, lol 

Enterpride

Thanks for that.  It seems like something I could say.  However, I consider myself much too new here to hold a take like that.

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for a hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #1

The user's account is over 2 years old.

Malk?

Damn, that was my guess earlier but I had to delete it and wait for the hint.

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to Malk!

With the reasoning;

Because of things like AI and constant dopamine drips, children are drooling illiterates now in a way that was not the case in previous generations. The next generation will not write for pleasure at all.

Yeah I can't argue with that reasoning at all. Up until very recently I got to see the illiteracy crisis firsthand as a K-12 sub and it is fucking brutal. There's just no sparks for creativity being lit in these kids' heads when they're railroaded by Chromebook assignments all day and then sit in front of an iPad for the rest of the evening once they get home. At the older ages all of them just plug their schoolwork into ChatGPT and literally roll their eyes when a classmate insists on doing their work from scratch. And y'all boomers thought my generation was a bunch of degens smh.

Oh, he didn't mean one or a couple kids on CYS now are all the good they're going to get, he meant from the past... that makes more sense. ...Still not happy about it though.

This is a bit too fatalistic. Writing as a way to express yourself will only really die out once humanity itself is gone. As long as people are still alive and kicking, there will always be communities like ours keeping the campfire lit and driving the metaphorical wolves of AI away by swinging torches at them.

Cyclonis?

Ben?

You, Sherbet!

EndMaster idk

Suranna

CYS HOT TAKE #13

The Dutch are a pretty okay people

I'll make the obvious one: Darius?

Weirdly, this sounds like something I would say. 

But even though it is lacking effusive praise and positivity, I will guess RK.  

I'll guess Will11.

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to Enter!

With the reasoning;

Well, for the argument one should ignore Darius given that his Asiatic roots befuddle the conclusion, but this enterpride fellow seems like a pretty okay dude.

What a lad

True.  Enter is no Eddie Van Halen, but he's alright.

I don't know what things are like between Poland and the Netherlands, but I'll guess Cavus.

You, Sherbet?

CYS HOT TAKE #14

Contests are too long, it should not take more than one month to write a story

Mizal

Mizal, crap UD sniped me.

Then I will go with Enterpride

lol

Avo

I don't think so; she hasn't finished hers for the current contest yet, and it's definitely been more than a month.

I would love that, but I'm afraid I don't think I could pull a whole story in a month and I know there are people with less time than me.

You are all wrong :pensive:

Nobody, ever?

Malk

Mystic lol

Shucks, that was my second guess.

stories_unwritten

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to stories_unwritten!

With the reasoning;

I have looked at the previous competitions and it appears many only start writing at the end of the contest. But they still run out of time !!

If I had seen this earlier I would've gotten it, even the cadence sounds like her.

Plus, she already turned in her contest story - about one month in.

It's surprisingly good as well, considering how short a timeframe it was worked on for.

Wait- it's a she?! Oops...

Ahhh, that makes sense.

We don't need more than 4 hours for a contest tbh.

If you're sufficiently motivated, you might even be able to make a full storygame in just an hour, although that would be quite the stretch.

CYS HOT TAKE #15

Your teeth are soft when you aren't looking/eating or touching them

I wouldn't know because I'm always aware of my tongue 

Maybe this is misdirection, I will vote for you !

This is just straight-up false. It isn't a hot take; it's just not true.

Is it Ogre11?

And how would you know? Do you spend a lot of time with your teeth not touching your body? You seem a little young for dentures.

It's not the same, but I am trying to get braces here soon-ish. They're bloody expensive though.

Oh, and I know that it's surprisingly easy to shatter teeth, even accidentally. I don't think you can easily shatter something soft.

That's only because the teeth are touching you though, read the message! It's probably from the Tooth Fairy, she would know.

Most of my teeth are crowns, so I know they don't change in hardness over time. They just break. This is a silly idea. Maybe from Corgi?

Sherbet, is this your own?

There is a strong sherbian energy to this

Actually now that you mention it, I remember him saying once that he likes to steal people's teeth so he can snack on them when they turn soft like marshmallows. Didn't think anything of it at the time though.

Suranna?

Ace

Can the same person submit multiple hot takes? Cause I would swear it's sent.

This sounds like the type of whimsical takes Ogre would make, but someone already guessed Ogre. There are a few others that have this type of humor, but most of them have been guessed, so I'm going with Will!

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for a hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #1

The user has more than 1500 points.

Uhh, how about Mystic?

DBNB

Hmm, maybe Chris?

Is it Enter?

Mystic?

Is it Liminal?

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for another hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #2

The user's account was created more than 5 years ago.

Wizzy?

Are you SURE it isn't you?

I would never unleash a take like this on the world!

Enterpride?

It’s MHD!

Ding ding ding! Winner!

The hot take belonged to MHD!

With the reasoning;

You can't prove me wrong.

Walk up to the first person you see and find an excuse to touch their teeth instead!

But I don't like touching soft things

Let's say you go to the dentist and they numb your whole fucking mouth to drill into your teeth. Despite the complete lack of feeling or sight of your teeth, you can still hear the horrific scraping of drill bit on hard enamel.

CYS HOT TAKE #16

In most RPGs and storygames, nuanced combat systems are not enjoyable, and their presence actively makes the game worse

Technomage

Just to throw something out there, doesn't sound like anyone I know

Considering I made an XCOM joke while playing Baldur's Gate 3 with a friend the other day, I'll just say I always enjoy having combat systems, nuanced or otherwise. And it's a double win if there's a good story to go with it. Whoever that is has a steaming hot take from my point of view.

Mizal?

lol

People can't guess on their own take

I believe the instructions are you cannot guess yourself on your own hot take.  Someone conspicuously absent from guessing might be a giveaway as to the owner of the take.

I am insulted, you know how I feel about TBS.

Well, you were the first person that came to mind of those of us that would use the word "nuanced" in a sentence, and thought it was possible you threw in a crazy take to throw people off.

if it's not a joke of a take this individual should be exiled.

Agreed, it is a terrible hot take. Maybe a trolling thing from Enterpride?

I doubt it's a trolling thing, but it's got to be somebody who mostly plays VNs. I think we need to go weebier.

Enterpride never trolls I heard

Whoever this is hates Dark Souls. Honestly, this is a good hot take because I'm stumped. I can't imagine who this might be.

Bruh.

This is not a hot take, this is bait.

Sherbet?

1. I know I listed the dictionary and thesaurus in that one reading thread, but I'm not that boring!
2. I actually quite enjoy nuanced systems and dislike it whenever it's a plain RPG. (i.e., I have the exact opposite opinion of whoever has this hot take.

hah I was just yanking your chain big dawg.

Uhh, Wizzy idk.

Honestly, this one feels a bit trollish because who uses the word "nuanced" to describe something they dislike? ToT

I'm catching lots of strays in this thread, what the hell!

It was a wild guess, lol. Even if it was you, I ain't judging. Some people just want to enjoy the story, I guess...

Cyclonis

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for a hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #1

The user is not a Warden.

Mizal

If it wasn't Mizal the first time, why would it be Mizal now!? THINK, Fabrikant, THINK!

Oh that was another hint wasn't it?

Is it you, Sherbet?

Fabrikant

INCORRECT, RODENT

Why does it seem everyone's forgetting that you can't guess on your own take. I'm not saying Enter is, but because Fabrikant guessed, it's obvious it's not him :/

"No guessing yourself on your own hot take!"

You can still guess someone else to purposely mislead others. If you couldn't guess on your own hot take at all, it would just be a matter of figuring out who hasn't guessed anyone yet and choosing from them.

I explained this to her a couple days ago.  I'm not sure why she still thinks this way.

Sabley?

Corgi?

Could it be MHD for the third time? Maybe she had item-based combat systems in mind or something like that.

You, Sherbet?

This is puzzling.  I thought all the retarded people were wardens.  Or is it that all the wardens are retarded people? Except for Enter of course.  He's Dutch.

So BEN?

 

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for another hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #2

The user has been on the site for over 3 years.

Suranna?

Is it DARIUS?!

Uhhhhh... CavusRex? Idk at this point tbh, lol.

I think you are right.

It would be kinda funny if another one of my blind shots in the dark actually worked

Ogre11?

Nobody has guessed correctly yet; time for the final hint! This means anyone who's already guessed can now guess again.

HINT #3

The user has published at least 3 storygames.

No, not mine.  This take is way too retarded for even me.

You think so? I think I kind-of get what it is about: A detailed combat system can turn everything into a strategy game, and thereby distract from the actual story content. I know several role-playing games that fall into this trap. People love the battles but either the story is nothing but a thinly-veiled excuse to have those battles, or nobody gets it. So if you want to tell a gripping story, detailed combat is a distraction.

Yes, I do think so.  It is a retarded take, but you are, of course, entitled to your stupid opinion.

Edit: And the take doesnt say in some poorly written games, it says in MOST RPG and storygames.

Who was talking about poorly-written games. I think it is true universally. There is only so much attention that you can wring out of one player, so you have to decide if it should be spent on tactics or story.

Slightly tangential rant but god damn do I hate story modes in fighting games. They often have these big scenes where all the good guys go to face off against all the bad guys but then the story remembers that the game can only handle one-on-one fights so it bends over backwards to find excuses to include such fights. A good guy will just step up and say "Y'all step back, I'll handle this," and then the villains come forward one at a time to get their asses kicked while everyone else just watches on awkwardly.

I miss fighting games that just said shit like "This is a tournament where only one-on-one fights are allowed," and just gave you a bunch of fights to do.

The key issue with this "take" is the person said "most".

I can definitely agree on a few games where gameplay is trash and story is good, but for most games the gameplay exists to enhance the story. Otherwise play a visual novel.

If you know your shit well, detailed combat is an enhancement.

I'm guessing Celicni just because he has noticeably not guessed this take.

goodnight_a

Malk?

Is it urnam0?

For the first time ever, a CYS hot take has gone the distance! Nobody was able to identify the take's provider. This has never happened before, and it may never happen again. Congratulations to @Gryphon!

Woohoo! Do I win?

Anyways, I clearly have some explaining to do. First of all, a lot of people seemed to think I was talking about video games? I was specifically referring to text-based storygames and narrative-based tabletop RPGs. I think nuanced combat systems in video games and board games are usually fine and great. (Though obviously not always.) I don't play a lot of video games, so I'm not really equipped to comment on them.

Nuanced combat systems can be good in narrative-based games when the game designers commit to putting in the time to make A) A great story, B) A great combat system, and C) ensure that they're directly supporting each other rather than merely coexisting. However, I don't see that often. More often I see games whose strengths clearly lie elsewhere throwing in combat systems out of a sense of obligation. Those combat systems generally just distract from the real strengths of the game, like exploration or the storyline, and have no thematic relevance to the narrative they've been woven into.

I think Fabrikant summarized what I meant; adding a detailed strategy minigame to a game that's trying to be a story can be a major distractor from the supposed point of the game unless the authors are REALLY careful to tie everything together. Similarly, I said "most" and not just "poorly-written" storygames because I've seen this attempted and failed far more often than I've seen it succeed, and in games that were otherwise well-written.

I will concede one point: my bad experiences with tabletop RPG combat may be mainly due to having played mostly with new players who took a very long time to understand the rules. So I may change my stance on narrative-based RPG combat after I've had the chance to see how experienced players handle it.

On a more subjective level, I think I just don't personally enjoy the tack most storygames take to combat. This take was chiefly inspired by my own experiences replaying Secrets of the Crag. I put a lot of throught into designing a combat system with minimum learning curve and maximum enjoyment, and I still find myself bored-ly clicking through the combats at random whenever I revisit the game. I don't enjoy the combat in dungeon stompage either, nor have I found any game on this site that had a combat system I actually liked. If combat is going to be game-ified instead of told as a narrative, I prefer the chance to design my own strategies and attack plans and bring in outside resources, and I just haven't seen any storygame bring the flexibility to combat that something like a board game can manage. But again, this is more of a subjective opinion--from what I've gathered from the comments on Delve! some people really do like hack-and-slash combat games even when they don't provide much tactical flexibility. To each their own.

I cannot believe this take was submitted by the person with an article titled 'Coding Item-Based Battle Sequences'. I thought you were among the least likely people for this one, it's like me submitting a hot take that most stories do not need to be longer than 30k words.

Yeah lol this take was mainly caused by my years-long quest to build functional & story-enhancing battle sequences in textgames and largely feeling like I have not come anywhere close to succeeding. (I will probably keep trying though lol.) Also now I want to hear your reasoning for this imaginary take lol

Ok you saved yourself with that explanation Gryphon. I had my pitchforks ready, but given it's not about video games I'm okay with this.