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! Cross-site winter event !

The Mafia Society has joined arms with the highly popular forum mafia site Mafia Universe for an exciting winter event open to members of both communities! The Dragon Ball Super Winter Event will consist of various activities like Pokémon Showdown matches, Truth or Dare, simulwatches, Secret Santa and much more. Players will be grouped in teams and will be able to amass points by participating in those activities.

The event will be hosted in Mafia Society, with the exception of the two themed mafia games that are planned, which will be hosted in Mafia Universe. A special Discord server will be used to liven things up and will be opened to participants once the sign-ups close. Sign-ups will close on November 25th and the event will run through the whole month of December (with the exception of Christmas day).

To learn more about the upcoming festivities, check out this thread!

New club mascots and logo

Mafia Society is happy to introduce the fresh, cool, super-duper cute Magnus and Fianne! You can also call them "Ma-kun" and Fia-chan", which forms the word "Mafia" when put together. These two little folks will be showing up in the club as our new mascots. Here they are, still eager to wear their Halloween attire, but you will soon see them in their normal and holiday clothes.

Following the introduction of these mascots, Mafia Society now also has an official logo. It was designed as an emblem, and its color palette will change depending on the occasion. From now on, the new logo will be used for official Mafia Society branding such as the Discord's server icon and affiliate banners.
The talented graphics staff RE is to thank for these new visuals!

New games

Desserts Land Mafia (open) hosted by aa-dono & Togs
A closed-setup game with the theme of sweets! Cookies and cakes, pastries and sugar!
Sign up here!

Not Your Father's Mafia Game (open) hosted by osieorb18
This is a unique game where players can join in at varied intervals. In fact, the game itself is infinite (but still determines winners) and uses setups accordingly.
Check it out here!

Kemomimi Panic (freshly completed) Hosted by DenjaX & Kit
Misc game involving cute girls doing.... not so cute things~
Click here to check it out!

Bob's Burgers Mafia (freshly completed) Hosted by Ruu
A closed, basic setup built for as much success as Bob's Burgers.
Don't you four cheddar 'bout me~

Self-voting is the simple act of voting for yourself if the gamerules allow for it. It is quite common in mafia games, especially from players with a lot of character or who want to cause an impact. Self-voting is seen as controversial because it is argued that a townie should never vote for someone they know is a townie, in this case themselves.

There are two clear kinds of self-voting generally identified:
Emotional self-voting is when a player believes their lynch to be inevitable or is frustrated at the game and decides to openly give up. This tends to be regarded as a detrimental move no matter the alignment (town or mafia) of the player.

Tactical self-voting is essentially having a deeper reason than the above. For instance, a mafia player could fake the frustration that would come from a townie who has decide to give up on escaping a lynch. That said, his tactic has been quite used over the years, and a lot of players can tell that it usually comes from a mafia player. As a townie, self-voting can be used as some sort of gambit to evaluate the reactions of other players. Self-hammering is when the player's self-vote causes his lynch to be confirmed. If a mafia player strongly believes their lynch to be inevitable, it can be effective to self-hammer in order to create confusion. It can also prevent town's ability to generate reads on what would be another player's hammering vote.