# Scum mafia:  On Cecil pond \[Game Over\]

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 24, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scum-mafia-on-cecil-pond-game-over/526202 "2010-01-24T05:10:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scum-mafia-on-cecil-pond-game-over/526202/1999 "2010-03-18T20:01:19Z")

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> [@Skimming the surface: Scum Mafia FORBIDDEN thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skimming-the-surface-scum-mafia-forbidden-thread/526896/37):
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> There’s the old meeko!
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> I especially like this:
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> I think he’s fallen back on his tendancy to think this is an individual game.
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> The Vig is Town. If an action is bad for Town, it is bad for the Vig.
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> Of course, he’s still taking more things personally\* than he should be, but I don’t think we’ll ever see that go away.
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> \*Not in an offended way, but in a ‘how is this related to meeko’ way.

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Ed, I would LOVE to know what MAFIA is, if it is not an “indvidual game”.  
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Tell me what else I could have done, to help other players unvote Diggit.

You can’t make anyone else do anything else, and Town lost because of it.

Tell me how Mafia is not an Indvidual game.

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