Really confused here, WM. You said ants killed a cute villager, but then you said he is ugly. Or was ugly, if he died.

yeah. if you look at the post above yours, then you will see that a dead villager is worse than a food-taker.

he is cute and ugly.

The one where you ring the gong! it takes a life. If I get a bad one, I just restart the game. To get another event!

Well, that cleared up MY confusion. I'm a moron. I must be, because I still don't understand. Since it's my own fault, I don't need to bother to understand. Crisis averted!

ummm... is the gong a event? i do not think so.......

okay, that is enough. what about island event that you like or even love? i hate the events where you get more people. no, no, arnie, you need to keep your popualaton below 14 or such a event could be disastrous. the more villagers you have, the more tech points the parrot takes away. i have only one scientist, and i had that parrot, it only took away 200 tech points.

I generally consider gong events to be 'events,' though they are a separate class of events from the usual 24-hour events. I'm not sure what this refers to. The last reference Arnie makes to events - which was in March, mind you - He says that in a small tribe, a few extra villagers might tip them into starvation. He seems to be agreeing with you.

As for the parrot, I don't see him mention that at all. If this is about tech points, the parrot is not the only thing that takes tech points. I've had events totally wipe me out before, right down to zero no matter where I'm at. As Arnie says, this isn't a big deal in a complete village - you don't have anything to spend them on, and tons of scientists to make more. In the early game, when you're struggling to get fishing before you starve, lost tech points can kill you.

And finally . . .
Since Neymar started this topic, how about instead of derailing his topic, we start a new one?

I dislike most any of the 'find a mysterious liquid' events. If I dump it, nothing happens, and no more events for the day. But am afraid to try any because the outcome always seems bad. Anybody ever have a good outcome from trying a liquid?

For the liquid, generally, there is a colour that's good and another that's bad! You may look in VV2 Guides, there is a topic about events!