I said that I "have friends who work in social justice." I could have said "I have Black friends who are out protesting police brutality, getting maced and shot with non-lethal rounds in the process, that posted some words and phrases they'd really like to see go away because it reminds them of generations of trauma." But that seemed both on the nose and wordy.

I live in Minneapolis. My friends have some pretty damn good reasons to be upset. And no, they do not want more cops.

Okay, I'm totally down with yeet.

I don't understand the term, so I can't really support it. I will stick with "kill" personally.

The name isn't really an issue since English is not our first language, and he is at that wonderful age where he understands that sex is a thing people do but hasn't quite understood why yet. It's the whole "man forcing himself on woman with violins playing in the background" bit I am uncomfortable with.

Ah, understood. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve seen Goldfinger, so I don’t really recall what you’re referring to, but James Bond has always seemed very pushy towards women. I seem to remember the Roger Moore Bond being this was.

That's why I linked to the scene above. And yeah, misogyny is unfortunately a core aspect of James Bond - in recent years it has at least been downplayed and acknowledged as problematic, but in Goldfinger he basically rapes his way to victory which was supposed to be a good thing.

There were over 1,000 white people lynched between 1882 and 1968 (and over 3,000 black people). People of any race can be lynched.

Also, pictures are hung, people are hanged.

I'm all for getting rid of the word. In a lot of games, I tend to reference the removal in some unique way, depending on the game theme. In the last mash-up, players were deconstructed. I did use the term in some of the roles this game, so I need to discipline myself more.

Now that I think about it, I tend to use the phrasing "With X players remaining, Y votes are needed for a majority." I think the term only really ever shows up in my roles. But I do think I waffle between using it to vote when I'm playing and sometimes just saying the word "Vote."

I am also fine with retiring the term "Mafia." It could be just as simple as replacing the term with the faction name. For example, I could have referenced them in the last mash-up as "Relic Hunters" or "The Creators." Something along those lines.

I agree with this.

Just watched the scene. Very much a rape situation and is a bit uncomfortable to watch. I am glad that in recent years they have tidied up the film character a bit to not be the pushy and apparently rapey character he once was.



Anyways, Vote to Eliminate makes sense to me.


Using Removed may not be the best because I know that some mods like to use characters/roles in other games of theirs and they have used Removed from the game! as a way to keep that role alive rather than killing the character.

I think as long as it has Vote and a person's name it bold, it's probably fine.

Vote to Squash TBB

Expel. You could get "expelled" from town. And then for something less permanent in the game, you could use "Suspended."
Retire. "Larry has been retired." "Larry has been given his gold watch."
Expunge
Squeegeed
Yoinked
Shown the door
Escorted out
Invited to leave.
Excluded.
Exsanguinated. Creepy, but vampirey.
Neutralized... although that may cause confusion with neutral alignments.
Future endeavored. "We wish Larry well on his future endeavors."

Yeah, I would not suggest going back and trying to rename all the old threads. I mean, most of the game threads are titled "mafia" so trying to change those would be quite an undertaking. And people refer to it as mafia all over the place.

I also wouldn't expect you to try and go back through every thread and do a find and replace on "lynch," either. That would be silly.

Sacked
Bonked

or, could go go the route that cartoons do

"Destroyed."

I like sacked