# "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:** 5
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/81 "2012-03-04T03:25:18Z")
Maybe he’s got multiple personality disorder, and the persona that’s moderating isn’t the one that’s playing. Sybil, is that you? ---
**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:** [March 4, 2012, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/82 "2012-03-04T09:04:52Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > The moderator can vote? Wow. Sort-of-ish. There may be asterisks involved, to be revealed post-game. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tanaer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaer)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/83 "2012-03-04T12:11:11Z")
If you’re serious about welcoming the fresh meat, count me /in I was fascinated by the very short (ending unexpectedly early) mafia game I played. Then I started school so I absolutely am too busy to play this. It must be perfect for me! ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/84 "2012-03-04T19:13:09Z")
/in ---
**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:** [March 4, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/85 "2012-03-04T19:50:25Z")
Welcome all! 1. Mahaloth 2. Drain Bead 3. Suburban Plankton 4. Mosier 5. Scathach 6. Fubbleskag 7. Astral Rejection 8. Gadarene 9. PetW 10. Brewha 11. gnarlycharlie 12. NAF1138 13. septimus 14. GuiriEnEspana 15. Inner Stickler 16. Lightfoot 17. Silver Jan 18. choie 19. BobArrgh 20. Tanaer 21. Red Skeezix Just a few more and we should be good to go. I’d also love to have a reserve player or two just in case someone “pulls a Zuma” and their last post is telling everyone that they will be scum and that they should vote for him whenever day one begins, and then he ends up being scum, and then I have to carry his worthless body on my back to the finish line in order for me to win. I’m not bitter. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/86 "2012-03-04T19:57:52Z")
I have a glorious pair of Grover Clevelandesque nonconsecutive days off from work coming up, and I should be able to finish or nearly finish the game design, and also give a helpful introduction to new folks like Mosier which I’ve been neglectifying. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/87 "2012-03-04T19:59:11Z")
If you’re new, it’s pretty simple. I’m always right and you should lynch whoever I’m voting for. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/88 "2012-03-04T20:29:15Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > If you’re new, it’s pretty simple. I’m always right and you should lynch whoever I’m voting for. That sounds like…huh, you know what, go with that advice. Forget I posted anything. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/89 "2012-03-04T20:31:46Z")
Welp, now I’m paranoid. (Go, my legion of newbie minions and destroy Naf!) ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/90 "2012-03-04T20:47:59Z")
in ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/91 "2012-03-05T02:46:39Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > I have a glorious pair of Grover Clevelandesque nonconsecutive days off from work coming up, and I should be able to finish or nearly finish the game design, and also give a helpful introduction to new folks like Mosier which I’ve been neglectifying. Have you been? I haven’t noticed. /bitter 🙂 ---
**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:** [March 5, 2012, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/92 "2012-03-05T07:57:49Z")
I promise to make it up to you by giving you a proper introduction that isn’t lame because I was tired after working for 11 hours, on my 13th straight day of being at work. 😃 The wait shall be worth it. I need bed rest is all. ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/93 "2012-03-05T18:23:34Z")
This game over at Idle is gonna consume too much of my time, I can tell already. I haven’t even gotten a chance to check in yet, and they’re already up to page 7. So, sadly, regrettably, I must /out. I’m sorry, pizza. I think this game will be amazing, but I can’t give it the attention it deserves. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/94 "2012-03-05T18:35:25Z")
> [@Astral\_Rejection](#): > > This game over at Idle is gonna consume too much of my time, I can tell already. I haven’t even gotten a chance to check in yet, and they’re already up to page 7. > > So, sadly, regrettably, I must /out. I’m sorry, pizza. I think this game will be amazing, but I can’t give it the attention it deserves. So you’re saying “I’m Too Busy To Play This”? Congratulations, I think you just won 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:** [March 5, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/95 "2012-03-05T18:45:39Z")
> [@Astral\_Rejection](#): > > This game over at Idle is gonna consume too much of my time, I can tell already. I haven’t even gotten a chance to check in yet, and they’re already up to page 7. > > So, sadly, regrettably, I must /out. I’m sorry, pizza. I think this game will be amazing, but I can’t give it the attention it deserves. We always have insanely high first days. (We also have 30some people playing, even at 5 posts per person, that works out to 150 posts or 5 pages. And I’ve never met a single thought that I couldn’t take 6 posts to say.) Plus, I’m definitely one of the biggest contributors to the thread and I’m on the last day of a 4 day weekend so my participation has been abnormally high the past few days. I strongly recommend oyu wait a few more days before deciding just how busy the games are going to be. ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/96 "2012-03-05T18:45:40Z")
The rest of the game will be a fight for second place. 😃 EDIT: Think it’ll quiet down to something manageable? I’ve never played at Idle before, so I don’t know the culture. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/97 "2012-03-05T18:50:22Z")
Absolutely. It’s a trend you could set your watch by if you had a seriously effed up watch that used posts to keep time. Especially since high volume posters tend to get lynched. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/98 "2012-03-05T19:24:08Z")
> [@Weedy](#): > > in \<3 ---
**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:** [March 5, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/99 "2012-03-05T20:50:29Z")
> [@Astral\_Rejection](#): > > This game over at Idle is gonna consume too much of my time, I can tell already. I haven’t even gotten a chance to check in yet, and they’re already up to page 7. > > So, sadly, regrettably, I must /out. I’m sorry, pizza. I think this game will be amazing, but I can’t give it the attention it deserves. But… but… but… ☹ :(☹ :(:(☹ :(☹ ☹ ☹ :(☹ :(:(☹ I’ve never felt such… Astral Rejection! ---
**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:** [March 5, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/100 "2012-03-05T21:03:32Z")
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