What is Vanilla?

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Sorry for my noobiness, but what exactly is vanilla, it i posted on every topic, just about in every post, and i still have no idea what it is!

[Monsieur Alphonse]

Medieval 2 the original unmodded game. The game you bought in a store or through internet.

[PBI]

Vanilla just means the basic original Grand Campaign in M2TW. It means you are playing with no mods, expansions etc, though it generally includes patched versions of M2TW. It is the most common, ubiquitous version of the game which everyone is familiar with, with no extra "flavour" added, like vanilla ice-cream, hence vanilla.

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Oh, thanks

[Yoyoma1910]

Y'all need to stop lying to the kid.



What it is, is that the people at Creative Assembly initially were afraid that their product might not sell as well as they hoped. So as an early marketing ploy they used as special type of disc which uses a laboratory induced process that makes sugar as durable as plastic. These special discs then came in a variety of flavors: Vanilla, Pistachio, Chocolate, Strawberry, Rum Raisin, Butter Banana... they even tried experimental flavors such as the infamous Skunk Butt Tartar and Hogan's Heroes (that one had a leathery texture, and kept trying to escape from the box). And everything was fine, because if you weren't happy with the game you could use it for a semi nutritious, but totally delicious (well except for the Hogan's Hero versions), snack.


But then something went wrong, as often happens with everything is alright.


All the flavors started rebelling against their game playing masters. Computers were being taken over by strange mutant compact disk creatures, which would turn these computers then into Zombies. No, not the flesh eating version, the version that other computers use to attack nations such as Estonia (you may remember that happening a couple years ago). That is, all the flavors except for Vanilla. Something about the chemical makeup kept it loyal and decent.


So of course, there was a giant recall and cover up. People in China were further censored, and the CIA was heavily involved. And of course we were supposed all give up our more delicious versions of the games, but because the Vanilla disks had never caused trouble many people chose to keep theirs. And are probably still licking them today.

So you see, that's what all that Vanilla talk is about, and the reason you know nothing about it is that your Government doesn't want you to. But of course, there's videos all about it on Youtube. It's called the "Operation Antidiabetic Conspiracy". Check it out.



And the moral, of course to this is that Direct Download not only saves you from having to interact with Ebay merchants or your local Walmart employee, it also keeps the world free from terrorists.

[Galain_Ironhide]

Y'all need to stop lying to the kid.



What it is, is that the people at Creative Assembly initially were afraid that their product might not sell as well as they hoped. So as an early marketing ploy they used as special type of disc which uses a laboratory induced process that makes sugar as durable as plastic. These special discs then came in a variety of flavors: Vanilla, Pistachio, Chocolate, Strawberry, Rum Raisin, Butter Banana... they even tried experimental flavors such as the infamous Skunk Butt Tartar and Hogan's Heroes (that one had a leathery texture, and kept trying to escape from the box). And everything was fine, because if you weren't happy with the game you could use it for a semi nutritious, but totally delicious (well except for the Hogan's Hero versions), snack.


But then something went wrong, as often happens with everything is alright.


All the flavors started rebelling against their game playing masters. Computers were being taken over by strange mutant compact disk creatures, which would turn these computers then into Zombies. No, not the flesh eating version, the version that other computers use to attack nations such as Estonia (you may remember that happening a couple years ago). That is, all the flavors except for Vanilla. Something about the chemical makeup kept it loyal and decent.


So of course, there was a giant recall and cover up. People in China were further censored, and the CIA was heavily involved. And of course we were supposed all give up our more delicious versions of the games, but because the Vanilla disks had never caused trouble many people chose to keep theirs. And are probably still licking them today.

So you see, that's what all that Vanilla talk is about, and the reason you know nothing about it is that your Government doesn't want you to. But of course, there's videos all about it on Youtube. It's called the "Operation Antidiabetic Conspiracy". Check it out.



And the moral, of course to this is that Direct Download not only saves you from having to interact with Ebay merchants or your local Walmart employee, it also keeps the world free from terrorists.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Sure..... (is this true, now i am even more confused!)

[Jochi Khan]

'Vanilla' is a reference to the game, in the box, as you bought it.

[Martok]

He's just messing with you, Insane834. Poor Bloody Infantry & Jochi Khan are correct -- vanilla refers to the basic game you purchased in the box.

[Yoyoma1910]

Don't listen to them, they're obviously SIS agents, furthering the cover up. Or should I say ... comrades? You know the SRV has become increasingly active on the British Isles these days.




The truth of code "VANILLA" must get out!

[Old Geezer]

Now Vanilla is the real thing. We get ours from Mexico, of course. But Vanillin in an artificial flavor. Both taste and smell good but the vanillin can make your hyperacitve child even more so - at least it did mine.

Real friends don't let friends play vanilla MTW2. We got patches to fix it all better and another one has been promised really soon so we can stop modding the vanilla and patches to vanilla. This is all real clear if you have been playing for a year and read the forums every day.

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Lol, i dont know how to install mods or create mods, i hear people says change the destr_sidsjhsdiufhsiuefhshlfh to sfksjhiuhkjnkdjfghdurg, oh no not that, this:hsiufhiuilgdurgjkdfg, it makes no sense, non of the terminology makes sense.

[Redz " Preatorian Knights"]

yoyoma1910!!!this is why i love to read threads here.... make me laugh so hard in my bed i kept reading the damn thing...
anyways im not a comp-know-how person so that makes us two insane834all they talk about is download this and make this script like this hell no my friend i dont know how to do it... and guess what been playing total war sence shogun to rome to alexander but i never played a moded one though... GUESS I LIKE THAT VANILLA FLAVOR TO MUCH DONT WANT TO VENTURE ON OTHERS!!!! he he he

[Yoyoma1910]

[make me laugh so hard in my bed i kept reading the damn thing...

I don't know what you're laughing so hard about. What with impending doom lurking in your machine, and these zombie computer boots speading the lie that it's not.



Seems altogether rather tragic to me.

[MerlinusCDXX]

Y'all need to stop lying to the kid.



What it is, is that the people at Creative Assembly initially were afraid that their product might not sell as well as they hoped. So as an early marketing ploy they used as special type of disc which uses a laboratory induced process that makes sugar as durable as plastic. These special discs then came in a variety of flavors: Vanilla, Pistachio, Chocolate, Strawberry, Rum Raisin, Butter Banana... they even tried experimental flavors such as the infamous Skunk Butt Tartar and Hogan's Heroes (that one had a leathery texture, and kept trying to escape from the box). And everything was fine, because if you weren't happy with the game you could use it for a semi nutritious, but totally delicious (well except for the Hogan's Hero versions), snack.


But then something went wrong, as often happens with everything is alright.


All the flavors started rebelling against their game playing masters. Computers were being taken over by strange mutant compact disk creatures, which would turn these computers then into Zombies. No, not the flesh eating version, the version that other computers use to attack nations such as Estonia (you may remember that happening a couple years ago). That is, all the flavors except for Vanilla. Something about the chemical makeup kept it loyal and decent.


So of course, there was a giant recall and cover up. People in China were further censored, and the CIA was heavily involved. And of course we were supposed all give up our more delicious versions of the games, but because the Vanilla disks had never caused trouble many people chose to keep theirs. And are probably still licking them today.

So you see, that's what all that Vanilla talk is about, and the reason you know nothing about it is that your Government doesn't want you to. But of course, there's videos all about it on Youtube. It's called the "Operation Antidiabetic Conspiracy". Check it out.



And the moral, of course to this is that Direct Download not only saves you from having to interact with Ebay merchants or your local Walmart employee, it also keeps the world free from terrorists.

link please; sources ?

[Yoyoma1910]

IT'S ALL RIGHT HERE!!!!



Read for yourself.

[Old Geezer]

It's all too cryptic fur me.

[Tweety]

Isn't it obvious that Yoyoma is either sacked from the Secret Service or CA? Hark all conspiracy theorist!

[Yoyoma1910]

It's all too cryptic fur me.

Yes, exactly, FUR.


Cryptic fur.


As in Encryption.

the work too, as you may notice looks like binoculars, which is used to connotate that there is code in the phrase. If we look at the next set of words, fur me. Notice his use of fur instead of for. Drop the out side letters, and we have ur m, which is short hand for ERMINE.


This is code for an infiltrator.


Obviously the "Old Geezer" is try to pass messages with his talk about Mexico and vanilla, especially since we all know that the majority of the vanilla produced today doesn't actually come from Mexico. No, it comes from Madagascar. Mexico barely even registers in the Vanilla market these days, even though that's where the vanilla producing orchid originally came from.



What's he really talking about that comes from Mexico? Hmmmmm. I'll tell you this much, it isn't used to make ice cream.
[EDIT]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

You see the truth is that the flavored zombie disks are a residue of NAFTA, and the desire for world domination by a certain large North American country, which I shall leave unnamed but whose currency is referred to by a certain classic cartoon series.

[/EDIT]

Isn't it obvious that Yoyoma is either sacked from the Secret Service or CA? Hark all conspiracy theorist!

Hey buddy, let's not have another Valerie Plame affair, alright.

[Martok]

And with that last post, it's safe to say we've gone far enough afield.

Time to shut 'er down!