# Dante's Action Hero Mafia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 29, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988 "2015-09-29T22:59:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/181 "2015-10-02T19:34:32Z")
More meta: We have four days to talk shop. Shouldn’t we use them wisely? ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/182 "2015-10-02T19:41:59Z")
More fluff:[I miss the summer…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCp1lE445NY) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/183 "2015-10-02T19:46:41Z")
Talking shop? Sure. Lurking is bad. People who have been warned not to lurk and say they won’t lurk and then lurk anyway are very suspect. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/184 "2015-10-02T19:50:09Z")
Exactly! Lurk lurk lurka lurka lurk! No suspect, suspect no? ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/185 "2015-10-02T19:57:26Z")
Anyone other than me and Prof. having any thoughts about this? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/186 "2015-10-02T19:58:06Z")
And actual content matters more than number of posts. It goes without saying, but there it is. ---
**Author:** ![HookerChemical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@HookerChemical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HookerChemical)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/187 "2015-10-02T20:37:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > And actual content matters more than number of posts. It goes without saying, but there it is. Agreed. Quantity is a rough cut, quality matters. Two posts with two minor ideas don’t weigh more than a through discussion in a single post. The count shows that discussion was dominated by **Prof P.** and **Astral** , which is more or less what it felt like. That is to day, the content matched up with quantity. This’ll be my last substantive post for a couple days, but I should see you at sunrise. (At least, I don’t think I’m on the scum’s hit list.) ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/188 "2015-10-02T20:42:23Z")
It bugs me that we’ve got a couple of players who have excuses for lurking. On the one hand, those excuses seem perfectly reasonable, and I don’t want to be a jerk about it. On the other hand, there’s a decent chance at least one of them happens to be Scum, and it would kind of mess up the game if that were the case. We would have no way to catch them. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/189 "2015-10-02T20:42:47Z")
> [@HookerChemical](#): > > This’ll be my last substantive post for a couple days, but I should see you at sunrise. (At least, I don’t think I’m on the scum’s hit list.) Please, I do hope you’ll show up here during the night too. Lots of fun to be had. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/190 "2015-10-02T21:09:21Z")
> [@WF\_Tomba](#): > > It bugs me that we’ve got a couple of players who have excuses for lurking. On the one hand, those excuses seem perfectly reasonable, and I don’t want to be a jerk about it. On the other hand, there’s a decent chance at least one of them happens to be Scum, and it would kind of mess up the game if that were the case. We would have no way to catch them. Excuses or not, that would be the case anyway. That’s why “lynch the lurker” isn’t foolproof. It’s not even close to fool proof. It’s one of those things you just have to accept and make the best of. We will catch scum, one way or another, or we’ll die. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/191 "2015-10-02T21:16:10Z")
In the game I played and in the several games I’ve watched, “lynch the lurker” worked a whole lot better than “lynch the loud”, but was seldom applied. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/192 "2015-10-02T21:23:59Z")
That is true. Lynch the loud is just as sketchy, but a lot more applied. In an ideal situation, none of this would matter, but they do. Now we have the potential to stretch that to the night! ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/193 "2015-10-02T22:07:19Z")
So at night we’re not allowed to talk strategy or make accusations or anything, right? That’s going to seriously limit my posting. If I can talk in general terms - the vote order matters to me a lot more than who someone voted for. I’ll explain what I’m thinking in more detail when I can start talking naming players and making arguments. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/194 "2015-10-02T22:21:34Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > So at night we’re not allowed to talk strategy or make accusations or anything, right? That’s going to seriously limit my posting. We are! We are allowed to talk strategy at night! As long we don’t accuse anyone directly, or vote, we can dicuss all night long, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Dante\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dante\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante_G)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/195 "2015-10-02T22:29:45Z")
On a totally unrelated note - the click-bait pictures at the bottom of our threads. Why is it, the ones I really want to click on because the pictures look, um, interesting, for lack of a better word, why are they only showing up on my computer at work? I’m very hesitant to click on them here at my desk. But when I get home and look on the threads on my phone and can click all I want, the fun picture click baits are not there. All I see at home are the boring ones about saving money and deaging processes. Not fair man!! ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/196 "2015-10-02T22:32:15Z")
Not fair? Allowed or not? ---
**Author:** ![sangfroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sangfroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangfroid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/197 "2015-10-02T23:38:18Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > So at night we’re not allowed to talk strategy or make accusations or anything, right? That’s going to seriously limit my posting. > > If I can talk in general terms - the vote order matters to me a lot more than who someone voted for. I’ll explain what I’m thinking in more detail when I can start talking naming players and making arguments. Interesting thought, and one I have considered myself, **Mosier**. I don’t want to run afoul of the rules at Night, but have a few more detailed comments to post next Day, as has been asked of me. I’m still trying to find the balance between being accused of lurking, and of posting meaningful commentary. I think I sometimes come across as a bit opaque, sorry… ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/198 "2015-10-03T01:28:49Z")
> [@Dante\_G](#): > > On a totally unrelated note - the click-bait pictures at the bottom of our threads. > > Why is it, the ones I really want to click on because the pictures look, um, interesting, for lack of a better word, why are they only showing up on my computer at work? I’m very hesitant to click on them here at my desk. But when I get home and look on the threads on my phone and can click all I want, the fun picture click baits are not there. All I see at home are the boring ones about saving money and deaging processes. > > Not fair man!! Most of the time those pictures are referencing something your server has already looked at. I get stuff that Madame P. looked at, and sometimes stuff I looked at that nobody else in the world would want to. Since your server at work is probably accessed by other people, it’s fair to say someone at sometime looked at such items. ---
**Author:** ![Dante\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dante\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante_G)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/199 "2015-10-03T01:55:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Most of the time those pictures are referencing something your server has already looked at. I get stuff that Madame P. looked at, and sometimes stuff I looked at that nobody else in the world would want to. Since your server at work is probably accessed by other people, it’s fair to say someone at sometime looked at such items. And they didn’t invite me to look? Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988/200 "2015-10-03T15:56:32Z")
I’ve been wondering who else is in the game… Axel Foley? Tango & Cash? Rambo? Action Jackson? Idle speculation for now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dantes-action-hero-mafia/732988.md?page=11)