# Mafia Reunion - Day One

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**Created:** [January 7, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577 "2017-01-07T22:01:40Z")\
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**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:** [January 8, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/102 "2017-01-08T15:19:15Z")

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**vote: Boozahol Squid, P.I.**

For these two posts.

> [@Mafia Reunion - NIGHT ZERO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-night-zero/776315/144):
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> I’m not sure I want to. You gave the bad guys cool sounding roles like “The Hitman” and “The Outrider,” and you gave us… what “The Leprechaun” and “Alternate Universe Batman?” The best Townie role name is “The Watcher” and that still just sounds like some Marvel Universe neutral Alien thingy.
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> Total bullshit. :mad:

> [@Mafia Reunion - NIGHT ZERO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-night-zero/776315/274):
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> Both of you are twerps, then. It’s a basic fact that every person in this game presents themselves as Town. You don’t need to claim vanilla town (unless you’re **Idle** , because [tradition](https://youtu.be/sWSoYCetG6A?t=6)!) because it’s understood that everyone comes at this game from that viewpoint. Trying to suss out information isn’t some coy way of pretending to be a Townie, it’s the most pro-Town thing you can do. Information is what wins these games, and the Town starts with the least of it. So you and Thing can finger me all you want (yeah, yeah) but I’d like to know exactly what you’re trying to add to the conversation yourself.

The first one was a very slight ping along the lines of what snfaulkner and ThingFish pointed out – self-consciously grouping oneself with town. The second quote morphed from defense against the accusation (‘don’t we all present ourselves as town?’) into some kind of weird promotion of information-gathering – which he wasn’t even doing – as a pro-town tactic, and manages to drive the “look how townie I’m being” ping up several notches.

And then I guess asking about scum communication is more of the same, though I didn’t notice it negatively at the time.

I’m not thrilled with Johnny Bravo’s defense against my skepticism of his vote on me, either. ‘You’re trying too hard to find me scummy’ is not exactly a convincing read in a game where even the scum have rich hunting grounds to go after. On the other hand, the ‘ohmygodyousuck for suspecting me’ impulse is strong in some townies and could be the real reason for the vote. I’ll let that one percolate a while.

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