# Forbidden Thread: Mafia V **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 26, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509 "2007-06-26T19:02:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/481 "2007-08-30T19:13:03Z")
Wow, it is somewhat questionable that Pleonast didn’t reveal at least that part about his role. Although, I can kind of see why. Honestly, how would the town have reacted to his revealing that information. I’m sure someone would have been skeptical and used that information as reason that Pleonast was scum. In other words, how convenient that you don’t want to vote for the scum and take the risk like everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/482 "2007-08-30T19:16:02Z")
[QUOTE=CatinaSuit] Hey, it nearly worked. [/QUOTE] Yes. Nearly. But what’s the point of putting in a random kill if you’re just going to make it deterministic anyway. Well, at least Pleonast’s martyrdom prevented Cookies from getting killed. Go Gay Monk Power! ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/483 "2007-08-30T19:22:13Z")
Yikes, three own goals in the final seconds. What a spectacular way to change the course of a game. I thought the scum had this one locked up. Their hopes now pretty all reside in the convert(assuming there was one). Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/484 "2007-08-30T19:30:43Z")
Speed dunk! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/485 "2007-08-30T19:32:48Z")
[QUOTE=Blaster Master] Yes, they’re allowed to chit-chat during the Day and, of course, many of those posts could be game-breaking. Actually, I had considered the idea of making Idle Thoughts the Avatar at the time, but I specifically chose against it because he wasn’t, but had claimed he had knowledge that made him sure he was. Thus, if I’d made him the Avatar, it wouldn’t have lended undue credence to that claim. [/QUOTE] This was strategy. To give us SOME bit of a chance. I claimed because I was hoping I really was…because on the off chance I turned out to have been right, the rest of the players would have wondered how I KNEW. They would have then narrowed it down to either: A. There was only me and the Prophet left (in which case they’d think **zuma** was it). B: There was only me, the Prophet, and the recruit left (in which case they’d know **zuma** was one, and when killing him, think he was the recruit when he came up normal scum). Or C: That we recruited the Apprentice who had, that Night, just found out I was the Avatar and told us it. Either ways, it would have thrown a kink in all town knew or believed at that point. SCORE for us! Mass confusion is never a bad thing when you’re scum. So yeah, I really had hoped I was the Avatar, so we’d at least have had that chance still. Although it really didn’t matter anyway since we were/are so vast in number. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/486 "2007-08-30T19:37:40Z")
[QUOTE=tirial] Having read the contents of Pygmy Rugger’s post now BM’s added it, all I can say is I suspect you will get your wish for a NAF dunking in the near future. [/QUOTE] Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, **tiral**! Good to see you back. 😃 See? Now doesn’t this game make M3 seem pretty dang great? ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/487 "2007-08-30T19:39:56Z")
[QUOTE=sachertorte] I hope \*\*Gadarene \*\*is reading this game. I think he’ll feel much better. [/QUOTE] Oh. And I didn’t mean that as a dig at Blaster Master. Just the observation that complex and interesting games like theirs are bound to run into a snag here or there. Probably should be built into our expectations. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/488 "2007-08-30T19:40:50Z")
[QUOTE=sachertorte] Yes. Nearly. But what’s the point of putting in a random kill if you’re just going to make it deterministic anyway. Well, at least Pleonast’s martyrdom prevented Cookies from getting killed. Go Gay Monk Power! [/QUOTE] Well, the idea was to get people to think it was random, specifically the cultists, so they would think twice about ganging up on eachother. It did work, because at least once, a cultist unvoted because of that (I know, because I was told :)). ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/489 "2007-08-30T20:00:33Z")
[QUOTE=CatinaSuit] Is \*\*Idle Thoughts \*\* still playing in this game :rolleyes: 😕 He is spending more time in the Mafia thread than in the Forbidden thread [/QUOTE] Eh? I was just posting what I thought **pyg** had done since I saw what I saw in my game and on my boards. I thought I could probably explain it. ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/490 "2007-08-30T20:16:52Z")
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts] Eh? I was just posting what I thought **pyg** had done since I saw what I saw in my game and on my boards. I thought I could probably explain it. [/QUOTE] Hmmm. Skeptical. I think you’re in danger of having the two games collide. That is probably not preferable. ---
**Author:** ![tirial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@tirial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tirial)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/491 "2007-08-30T20:45:08Z")
Thanks for the welcome. [QUOTE=Idle Thoughts] See? Now doesn’t this game make M3 seem pretty dang great? [/QUOTE] Not touching that comment (or M3) with a ten foot bargepole. Personally, **Blaster Master** I think you did the right thing. The game goes on with no damage to either side that they haven’t done to themselves. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/492 "2007-08-30T21:41:53Z")
[QUOTE=tirial] (snip) Not touching that comment (or M3) with a ten foot bargepole. (snip) [/QUOTE] Why not? We did win, you know! Ok, ok, I’ll drop M3 too… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/493 "2007-08-30T21:47:41Z")
riot riot riot riot riot riot riot ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/494 "2007-08-30T21:54:12Z")
[QUOTE=sachertorte] riot riot riot riot riot riot riot [/QUOTE] What is this, **sachetorte** , a Quiet Riot? God, that was terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/495 "2007-08-30T21:55:47Z")
Interesting discussion on the cult board… too bad for them they don’t know what I know. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/496 "2007-08-30T22:02:47Z")
[QUOTE=sachertorte] Hmmm. Skeptical. I think you’re in danger of having the two games collide. That is probably not preferable. [/QUOTE] Hm? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/497 "2007-08-30T22:03:55Z")
I know what you mean, **BM**. Although you probably know even MORE than what I do. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/498 "2007-08-30T22:08:31Z")
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts] I know what you mean, **BM**. Although you probably know even MORE than what I do. [/QUOTE] I bet you’re just ITCHING to say somethin’ to them, ain’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/499 "2007-08-30T22:09:38Z")
OH Shit! I hadn’t even read the scum boards yet. Ah man, how I WISH I was still alive now and still knowing what I know now. Crap. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509/500 "2007-08-30T22:11:08Z")
[QUOTE=Blaster Master] I bet you’re just ITCHING to say somethin’ to them, ain’t you? [/QUOTE] DAMMIT, YES. Even just a “oy vey” comment. Hahah. God it is SO tempting to make some kind of post. :smack: :smack: :smack: Gah! They know not what they’re doing. :smack: Hahaha, man this is going to be SO SO SO interesting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-mafia-v/409509.md?page=26)