# The Screamed: FORBIDDEN thread for Screamers **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 29, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034 "2009-09-29T21:36:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/21 "2009-10-15T18:17:32Z")
Kind of quiet in here. Obviously I waited too long to claim, but it was so frustrating yesterday. I kept thinking that once I got time to post my rebuttal to amrussel, I could get votes off me without having to claim. I also assumed that once I did claim, people would move to unvote me, although I don’t know why the hell I thought that, seeing what happened to peeker on day one. Oh well, several other people got heat for claiming too early…guess it’s hard to hit that sweet spot! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/22 "2009-10-15T18:31:25Z")
Yes, it’s a rather quiet discussion room this time. Most people who play mafia here are in the game since it has so many people. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/23 "2009-10-15T22:17:59Z")
Or are spoiled and so can’t add much of use to this discussion at the moment. You did what you could, **Thing Fish**. It was a tough position to be in. So many town power claims flying around, nobody trusts any of them, limited time to act. ---
**Author:** ![Natlaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a88e57/32.png) [@Natlaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Natlaw)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/24 "2009-10-16T18:12:04Z")
[QUOTE=Alka Seltzer] Since its night, here’s Peeker through a Markov text generator. [/QUOTE] I hardly can tell the difference :D:D:D. I considered subbing in, but decided not too, sorry. I guess you could try to convince me if all those three are no shows (no, I’m not addicted :P) ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/25 "2009-10-17T03:39:20Z")
yep, i was jousting at shadows the whole game. don’t know why i thought **fishy** would help. probably just the first person i glommed onto. oh well, bollux. ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/26 "2009-10-18T03:00:47Z")
are the folks that play mafia on this board just really obtuse or has sobriety sensitized me? ---
**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:** [October 18, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/27 "2009-10-18T03:49:17Z")
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**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/28 "2009-10-20T19:07:54Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos re: Lost] And note that the incorrect assumption about the number of Scum, which ultimately led to the reasoning that lost Town the game, was not a result of the program: We’d have made that same incorrect assumption and reasoning with or without it. [/QUOTE] I would say that each the final three lynches in that game would have gone differently without all the talk about who could pair with whom. There wasn’t even a discussion at the end of the game about who might have actually been playing scummily, because the math pointed to me, end of game. This is not a commentary on what’s going on in this game, of course, but it seems to me like **Chronos** sure has a weird blind spot when it comes to this program. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/29 "2009-10-21T18:17:50Z")
“well worn masturbatory aids”? ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/30 "2009-10-21T21:07:57Z")
c’mon my friend. when the panty section is all stuck together you have to move to the booby section. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/31 "2009-10-23T21:08:13Z")
Oh, and here I was thinking you meant fleshlights. I’d love to stay and chat, but I probably know too much to chitchat in the non-spoilered area. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/32 "2009-11-02T18:14:12Z")
Hm, guess everyone is spoilered. I just caught up with the thread. I don’t know if I’m getting better or if the game is just easier when you aren’t playing, but I figured out that **Chronos** was scum and that something wasn’t right about the Bling Brothers. Interesting game…right now I’m feeling that **Tom** is probably town. I don’t have a strong scum feeling about anyone now, but if I had to vote I would be looking at AllWalker for playing a much quieter game than he typically does. ETA: Congratulations on your new family member, **Mahaloth!!!** ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/33 "2009-11-02T18:24:02Z")
I thought this thread is where people post Screamers, you know those animated gif or video files that has a scary face at the end. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/34 "2009-11-02T19:22:10Z")
I’m insanely suspicious of Tom right now. Why would a Mafiate bus two of his own teammates? To **win** , of course. If you have time, go and read the second Mafia game on the Dope. Basically, when it came down to the last five, Storyteller was trusted by everyone because he had led the charge against two players who had turned up Mafia on death. No-one believed he was Mafia himself. He was the Godfather. He threw two of his own team under the bus, _just so_ that, at the end, he would be above suspicion. Tom is playing the “Scum wouldn’t do that” card so hard it makes my teeth itch. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/35 "2009-11-02T22:49:21Z")
I think that having read that game is the primary reason why I always get a scummy vibe off of **Storyteller** in games since then. I know that, when he’s Scum, he looks just exactly like a Townie, so whenever he looks just exactly like a Townie, I always think he’s Scum. ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/36 "2009-11-02T23:42:23Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think that having read that game is the primary reason why I always get a scummy vibe off of **Storyteller** in games since then. I know that, when he’s Scum, he looks just exactly like a Townie, so whenever he looks just exactly like a Townie, I always think he’s Scum. kind of my mindset as well but a little twist on it. i figure when i am town and don’t know any alignments then he just has to be scum and has to be eliminated. and when i am scum, i know he is town so he has to be eliminated. the above being that i have never been on his team. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/37 "2009-11-03T05:00:12Z")
@MHaye: You’re probably right. Maybe I’m not getting any better at this game… ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/38 "2009-11-03T13:05:31Z")
> [@MHaye](#): > > He was the Godfather. He threw two of his own team under the bus, _just so_ that, at the end, he would be above suspicion. But what kinds of powers did those two scum have? Throwing a godfather/investigator and a roleblocker under a bus is a much more significant gamble than throwing two goons, for example. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/39 "2009-11-03T14:32:23Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > I see that apparently I was sending some sort of secret messages to peeker that were so secret even I didn’t know about them… I think it was your “pass the haldol” comment that caught peeker’s attention, it’s an antipsychotic. > [@MHaye](#): > > Tom is playing the “Scum wouldn’t do that” card so hard it makes my teeth itch. Tom was pinging the hell out of me all game with this sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034/40 "2009-11-03T20:36:32Z")
IIRC, Scum didn’t have any powers that game other than Godfather (who was **Storyteller** ). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-screamed-forbidden-thread-for-screamers/512034.md?page=3)