• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Of all the games they try to demonize, they demonize a game type people have played at home for decades at parties, in person, with no computers.

    Brilliant.

    90s house party game here, I’m sure people played it earlier.

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        2 days ago

        Interesting, had no idea about its origin story.

        Also… of course

        In June 2006 a Rockingham school inquiry was launched after parents complained of the traumatic effects classroom Mafia was having on their fifth-grade children. Davidoff responded to the reports, saying that as a parent who had studied child psychology for 25 years, he felt that the game could “teach kids to distinguish right from wrong”, and that the positive message of being honest could overcome the negative effects of an “evil narrator” moderating the game as if it were a scary story.