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WCDT: 2480-2484 (1-5 July, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
mtmerrick:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 07 Jul 2013, 09:30 ---Ah, right, I've heard of people talking about vanilla Android. But vanilla ice cream doesn't make sense, because how is it unmodified? It has vanilla in it!
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Make sure you don't confuse vanilla (aka ASOP-ish, as-google-intended android) with stock Android (aka, unmodified, out-of-the-box software).
People throw around the term "stock android" and it's often not used correctly.
Method of Madness:
Well on a Nexus device, the "stock Android" is "vanilla Android", so I suppose it's accurate there.
mtmerrick:
all these userterms-turned-quasi-official-terms are confusing, aren't they? :mrgreen:
FunkyTuba:
One other nuance I enjoy about using "vanilla ice cream" as a metaphor for "plain": many other ice creams have a bit of vanilla in them as well. By itself it's one of the finest flavors, but it serves as a baseline for other, perhaps experimental flavors that might not be to everyone's taste. (Sure chocolate, but also neopolitan, rocky road, strawberry, chubby hubby, pistachio, mint chocolate chip, etc)
So IMO the metaphor works best when the subject being compared is just fine in its "vanilla" version, and can become something spectacular when extended or enhanced by creativity, even if that spectacularity is only fully appreciated by a small minority.
I don't intend the use of the term as a pejorative but I can see where someone into a "non-vanilla" scene might think to use it that way to derisively to describe someone who has never bothered to expand their horizons, especially if the vanilla person was hostile to whatever kink was involved.
Method of Madness:
Makes sense.
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