How much have things shifted?

Ether · Post Post #84 (isolation #0) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:51 am

I'll fight you.

Ether · Post Post #86 (isolation #1) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:04 am

The design space is important and the name is a brilliant pun on at least four different levels and also it is my love letter to the English language shhhhhhhhhh.

The thing that's currently called a vanilla cop, though, the binary rolecop thing, that's a crappy role with a crappy name.

Ether · Post Post #88 (isolation #2) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:12 am

It turns out that 51% of the site assumed vanilla cops were the crappy rolecop nerf, and 49% assumed it was the version that actually does something, and nobody realized the disconnect until it was too late.

The name neapolitan is better than vanilla cop, though, on top of not coming with all of that ambiguity.

Ether · Post Post #91 (isolation #3) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:30 am

I don't really think they are that easy? You understand it because you've been in this culture so long that you even have an abbreviation for "vigilante." No one who isn't already a mafia player could even tell you what "vig" is short for, let alone what it would do. Watchers aren't obvious, either, they do different things on different mafia sites. On IRC they're a binary tracker. (Or they were. I don't know if things have changed since 2009.)

But okay, here's why it's a good name that makes perfect sense:
-It's a flavor of ice cream, like the role it's attuned to.
-Specifically, it's a flavor of ice cream that separates vanilla from other flavors.
-It's also person from a city in Italy. Obviously Italy ties into our mafia roots, not that I'm a racist or anything.

-You know that crappy old joke "There are no vanilla townies in this game"/"..."/"You are a CHOCOLATE TOWNIE"? Weeeeeeeeeell you can do this with neapolitans too. If the game completely replaces all vanilla townies with neapolitans, then they'll have no power and be functionally vanilla, they just get a different ice cream flavor.

Ether · Post Post #92 (isolation #4) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:30 am

With that said in five years we'll probably be calling them neapos or something silly like that. And by then it'll sound totally normal to us. But here and now, I'm going to apologize in advance for that.

It was worth it.

Ether · Post Post #95 (isolation #5) » Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:46 am

The neap tide is upon us. The leviathan draws near.