Jim Carrey Mafia DP1

Alright, I'm excited for this one. Been a big fan of Jim Carrey's movies for a long time.

Everyone, please note where it says that scum were given 4 character claims and don't know which two are in the game. Even if you are SOP claiming, please hold off on claiming your character until we can all decide if it's necessary. And in general, everyone should be more hesitant to claim their characters this time around, even if you think the connection to the role isn't obvious (mine certainly isn't).

This is a neat anticlaim mechanic, though it incentivizes town to stay mum about their characters for as long as possible, which precludes the need for fake claims anyway.

I have a guess at a theme split, but I guess there's no point to discussing theme.

Originally Posted by Wryly on 11/2/2026 at 12:27 PM (post #3)

This is a neat anticlaim mechanic, though it incentivizes town to stay mum about their characters for as long as possible, which precludes the need for fake claims anyway.

Yep. There are a limited number of Jim Carrey movies that scum could choose from, so they may have to take a risk when forced to claim. Meanwhile, every town claim has a chance to be one of the two, increasing their odds that they get a clean character claim. Not a given that scum will be able to come up with a good role claim to pair with it and there's still the possibility of a CC even if they do, but I think it's worth being at least a little careful.

I have a guess at a theme split, but I guess there's no point to discussing theme.

I've got a few, though I'm going to stay mum about them for the time being.

Is that Mongo on your pfp???!!!

Who is Jim Carrey?

Originally Posted by Wryly on 11/2/2026 at 12:52 PM (post #5)

Is that Mongo on your pfp???!!!

And Donut, yes. Mongo is appalled!

Worth nothing that scum were apparently not given fake-claim roles

Worth NOTING

So Jim Carrey is the guy from How The Grinch Stole Christmas. I always thought that movie was way older

Originally Posted by Thoth on 11/2/2026 at 12:54 PM (post #6)

Who is Jim Carrey?

Stop ragebaiting me!

Originally Posted by whiteflame on 11/2/2026 at 12:57 PM (post #7)

Originally Posted by Wryly on 11/2/2026 at 12:52 PM (post #5)

Is that Mongo on your pfp???!!!

And Donut, yes. Mongo is appalled!

You started reading the series! I'm delighted.

I have been curious how a game would play out if we all claimed our roles on day 1. I am not saying that we should, but, with scum receiving no cover roles, this would be as good of a time of any to try it lol

Originally Posted by Thoth on 11/2/2026 at 1:24 PM (post #13)

I have been curious how a game would play out if we all claimed our roles on day 1. I am not saying that we should, but, with scum receiving no cover roles, this would be as good of a time of any to try it lol

Setting aside the possibility that scum just end up claiming last or late enough to make convincing role claims with virtually no chance of a CC, I'm just not fond of breaking the game this way. I know you're not actively suggesting it, but I'm always opposed to pushing massclaims out the gate, regardless of the opportunity it presents.

Originally Posted by Wryly on 11/2/2026 at 1:05 PM (post #12)

Originally Posted by whiteflame on 11/2/2026 at 12:57 PM (post #7)

Originally Posted by Wryly on 11/2/2026 at 12:52 PM (post #5)

Is that Mongo on your pfp???!!!

And Donut, yes. Mongo is appalled!

You started reading the series! I'm delighted.

Been loving it!

Originally Posted by Thoth on 11/2/2026 at 1:24 PM (post #13)

I have been curious how a game would play out if we all claimed our roles on day 1. I am not saying that we should, but, with scum receiving no cover roles, this would be as good of a time of any to try it lol

I would be totally willing to sign up for this crazy train lol. If everyone did it we could zero in on the roles that sounded most suspicious and demand that only those people character claim, thereby forcing scum to either choose blind from the 4 characters Lunatic gave them or make up their own fake claims entirely.

However, I think scum would just dodge it by pushing back on the idea of a mass claim altogether, and since it's quite plausible for town to object to a mass role claim as well, that doesn't leave us much to go on.

Love that anticlaim mechanic.

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Originally Posted by Wryly on 02/11/2026 at 19:05 (post #12)

Originally Posted by whiteflame on 11/2/2026 at 12:57 PM (post #7)

Originally Posted by Wryly on 11/2/2026 at 12:52 PM (post #5)

Is that Mongo on your pfp???!!!

And Donut, yes. Mongo is appalled!

You started reading the series! I'm delighted.

Is that Wryly in my game?!

Originally Posted by Magoroth on 11/2/2026 at 2:59 PM (post #21)

Is that Wryly in my game?!

<strikes Blue Steel face> Tis I

I don’t know anything about this theme

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Cause he forgot to register to vote, so he can’t vote. Though I think he’s fine with it cause he would never vote for Donald’s cause he’s black

Regarding the mass role claim thing. It could work if it was a role madness game. Here, scum would just claim Vanilla, or even straight claim if it made sense

We should get Thoth’s role claim before EOD, jfyi. He sucks at fake claiming as scum.

Pros and cons of a mass role claim.

Pros:

1. We can finally say we did it, and if it blows up in our face spectacularly we can always point back to Jim Carrie mafia as a cautionary tale.
2. YOLO.
3. Right away we'll be able to eliminate the PRs from the POE.
4. Late claimers or resistors could narrow down the POE still further; weak or shady role claims could narrow down the POE still further.
5. After we tighten the POE as much as reasonably possible, we could demand character claims from those in it, this DP -- so they basically have to think of an entire fake claim, role and character, right out the gate, which is a scum nightmare. They'd have to make their invented role at least sorta kinda fit with their character, and they still wouldn't know which characters of the four are safe, so decent chance to trap them in a CC.
6. We could potentially get a correct lynch DP1.

Cons:

1. It's crazy.
2. Everyone has to agree to it.
3. Ideally everyone should claim at the same time, which is difficult to pull off. It's easy to just stall and plead irl stuff.
4. We give away our roles to scum and basically forfeit the night game. Our PRs would be dead quickly and our mech game would be crippled by the transparency we will have brought on ourselves.
5. Whoever is last to claim will have great advantage if they happen to be scum.
6. We could easily still mislynch despite a mass role claim and then we just dropped our trousers for nothing.
7. Lunatic will have a "smh" attitude with us at endgame and that will just be the worst.

How was I supposed to get Palm Beach from "didn't register to vote"? Also wasn't it a dude who crashed that jet.