# "I'm Too Busy To Play This" Mafia **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 25, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978 "2012-02-25T18:02:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/281 "2012-04-04T15:41:51Z")
> [@GuiriEnEspana](#): > > Role PM received and understood. > > I really hope that the game is fully playable and fun without having to use multiple communication channels and worrying about the experience/alignment/element/class stuff. **vote: Guiri** Not wanting 3000 PMs? Gotta be a scum tell. As for you, Visorslash, I prefer my scum steaks bloody. ---
**Author:** ![Visorslash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ee59a6/32.png) [@Visorslash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Visorslash)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/282 "2012-04-04T15:47:18Z")
> [@Normal\_Phase](#): > > **vote: Guiri** > > Not wanting 3000 PMs? Gotta be a scum tell. > > As for you, Visorslash, I prefer my scum steaks bloody. So… you eat yourself raw/rare? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![GuiriEnEspana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GuiriEnEspana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuiriEnEspana)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/283 "2012-04-04T15:47:27Z")
> [@Normal\_Phase](#): > > vote: Guiri /bleached Eager to level up, are we? > [@Normal\_Phase](#): > > Not wanting 3000 PMs? Gotta be a scum tell. Well now I’m not going to invite you to the super secret discussion proboard I set up. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/284 "2012-04-04T15:49:18Z")
\*\*HEY PIZZAGUY! When you have a minute would you repost the rules/mechanics of the gameplay to the main game thread so that I can find them quickly and easily at the top of that thread and not have to dig around through this thread to refresh my memory of how the various bits and pieces of the game play work? Thanks a million!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![gnarlycharlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@gnarlycharlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarlycharlie)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/285 "2012-04-04T15:49:49Z")
Receipt of PM: Yes Comprehension of PM: 😕 I have MSN, AIM and Yahoo. I think MSN/Live is most versatile. Let me know what you have. You can contact me via PM for now. > [@Gadarene](#): > > Confirmed. > > Anyone want to speculate on why we can PM each other freely? It’s an interesting development. i’ve experienced this on other boards ( **ATPG** ’s board included) although it’s the first time in the boards that i frequently play in. that said there might not be a special reason. > [@Normal\_Phase](#): > > Anyone who wants to talk to me can use the PM box initially and we’ll work something better out from there. I have tons of PMs on Giraffe or Idle (or totalwar, Visorslash!); I have MSN/Live Messenger, I can do quicktopics, I have a proboards … > > If this turns out like Malazan all over again I will laugh. i keep telling myself i should read Malazan but i never get around to doing it. i assume you still have the same MSN? ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/286 "2012-04-04T15:53:10Z")
> [@gnarlycharlie](#): > > i keep telling myself i should read Malazan but i never get around to doing it. I can’t imagine it makes any sense on read through anyway. We should really re run it at some point, it just takes so much work to keep running every time we have talked about it we get exhausted before we even make real plans. ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/287 "2012-04-04T16:05:02Z")
Yeah I can’t imagine there’d really be too much benefit to reading the game thread – 99% of the scheming was elsewhere. Though maybe the various tiffs between Storyteller and pretty much everyone else would be fun to see. gnarlycharlie - yes, same MSN. Guiri – Step into my lair, said the spider to the fly. Or maybe more like “I’m not inviting you into my lair, nyah!” ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/288 "2012-04-04T16:32:29Z")
> [@Normal\_Phase](#): > > Yeah I can’t imagine there’d really be too much benefit to reading the game thread – 99% of the scheming was elsewhere. Though maybe the various tiffs between Storyteller and pretty much everyone else would be fun to see. Not everyone. Mostly just **misterblockey** and **Bill**. That game was so much fun. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/289 "2012-04-04T18:22:41Z")
I can confirm that my PM inbox contains a role PM from ATPG. Let the game begin! Also, I can handle a substantial number of PMs, even though I remain a guest. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/290 "2012-04-04T18:42:46Z")
Wherest can mine eyes findeth a good resource for medieval peasant speech? Doth forsooth mine words may end up being but triffles of made up sorcellations and appellations from beyond mere mortals consternations at mine Oedipal gestalts. Et tu, Brutes? Cogito, ergo sum. Vae victis. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/291 "2012-04-04T18:47:04Z")
And lest my triffles become troubling triflings instead of touching truffles at thine ears offenses, like tribadistic tribbles or a trifle of triple trifles. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/292 "2012-04-04T18:48:10Z")
Ahieu! That last sentence was doth but a fragment. Damneth my grammar! \>\_\< I shall do better, my fair townspeoples. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/293 "2012-04-04T18:49:16Z")
and lest i forget: Is Editing posts still non-kosher? **NETCorrect:** And lest my triffles become troubling triflings instead of touching truffles at thine ears offenses, like tribadistic tribbles or a trifle of triple trifles _of tripe_. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/294 "2012-04-04T18:59:18Z")
> [@GuiriEnEspana](#): > > I really hope that the game is fully playable and fun without having to use multiple communication channels and worrying about the experience/alignment/element/class stuff. The game is fully playable and fun without having to use multiple communication channels and worrying about the experience/alignment/element/class stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/295 "2012-04-04T19:00:24Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > \*\*HEY PIZZAGUY! > > When you have a minute would you repost the rules/mechanics of the gameplay to the main game thread so that I can find them quickly and easily at the top of that thread and not have to dig around through this thread to refresh my memory of how the various bits and pieces of the game play work? > > Thanks a million!\*\* Yes. As a matter of fact I was going to do that, I even had the “reply to thread” window open, and for some reason, I became unconscious for several hours involuntarily. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/296 "2012-04-04T19:03:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Is Editing posts still non-kosher? I don’t care if people edit posts, I do care if people edit votes. No vote editing. Some people think editing is scummy, and therefore there’s a cultural reason not to edit. But no rule against it, unless you edit a vote. In which case, you immediately get thrown out of the game. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/297 "2012-04-04T20:11:32Z")
I have a PM and I understand it. (I got it the first night. While everyone else was grumbling about not getting one yet, I was chortling silently to myself. My precious, I have my precious.) ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/298 "2012-04-04T20:22:23Z")
\*\*Game Thread is now OPEN. > **[\[Mafia game\] The Realm of Phere](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=646997)** > > \[FONT=Garamond\]\*\*\*The Realm of Phere \[SIZE=3\]Mafia game Hosted by Askthepizzaguy \*\*\*\*\*Host’s request: Please do not post in the game thread until the game host opens the game officially with an announcement. Moderators, please delete any... Please continue your discussion on the Game Thread only.\*\* **Moderators, please lock this thread.** ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Jan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Silver\_Jan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Jan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/299 "2012-04-04T21:24:35Z")
> [@gnarlycharlie](#): > > receipt of pm: Yes > > comprehension of pm: 😕 > > I have msn, aim and yahoo. I think msn/live is most versatile. Let me know what you have. You can contact me via pm for now. > > I’ve experienced this on other boards ( **atpg** ’s board included) although it’s the first time in the boards that i frequently play in. That said there might not be a special reason. > > I keep telling myself i should read malazan but i never get around to doing it. > > I assume you still have the same msn? skype??? ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/300 "2012-04-05T17:46:15Z")
With the permission of the pizzaguy… We’re looking for players for a new mafia game over on Giraffeboards: > **[The Hunger Games Mafia Sign-up Thread - The Giraffe Boards](https://www.giraffeboards.com/showthread.php?t=25094)** > > The Hunger Games Mafia Sign-up Thread The Dungeon Come check it out and sign up! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978.md?page=14)