The Syndicate

Syn wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 4:53 pm Did you enjoy being put under a microscope by your peers?

Didn't feel like a lot.

Syn wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 4:54 pm What is your favourite animal?

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Snake-Panda Chimaeras.

What is your favourite animal? Still pandas though clearly dunya might make that change to snakes. do you have any bad habits? Procrastinating on tasks, not contacting people for a long time, not folding my laundry. do you have a good relationship with your parents? Probably not by most people's st...

Syn wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 7:27 pm Do you prefer mountainous or role madness?

Usually role madness, but I sometimes get the itching for a mountainous game.

Syn wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 6:47 pm Hot dogs... with icing?

Icing... on hot dogs?

It's pretty much just butter and sugar, which is a little less crazy to imagine.

what is your favorite condiment mix to add to a sandwich that i can make and enjoy tomorrow? Hmm... The last sandwich I had was a vegan reuben. Reubens are probably not my favourite type of sandwich, but I do like getting them occasionally. In terms of something a bit more exciting, I think I'd go ...

Favourite nature place within Portland city limits? I've been going for walks a bit lately and I liked the Mt Tabor neighbourhood and Laurelhurst Park, but I also am partial to the strip of park in downtown which hosts the wednesday farmer's market. I still want to check out the Chinese garden at s...

do you enjoy tv shows outside of anime? what's the last tv show you binged? I don't watch a lot of live action stuff, but I binged most of Blacklist semi-recently. do you think actors are overpaid? Some actors definitely seem overpaid. On the flip-side, most production crew members are underpaid. w...

I'm fat, and I have a hard time losing weight. It's mostly stress driven in my life, but do you have any kinds of food that I should make that can be filling without making me hate my body? Hey, me too! I tend to go for bitter greens, personally, like Kale and Arugula. Having a simple salad at leas...

Is there a trick to cooking the perfect salmon? Quick-grilled or broiled to Jelly Bean texture, IMO. Though you can even just throw salmon in the microwave for 4-5 minutes with a bit of lemon juice and olive oil. How do you know when white fish is cooked enough (and not overcooked)? Internal temper...

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:36 pm
osieorb18 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 11:48 am
mfw i see osie posted in my signup thread without signing up

That shade though... I'm on the /replace list.

are your legs longer than your arms? if so, by how much? About 3 inches longer, on a guesstimate. do you make sourdough? any tips for me as i've never made any and wanna try! I've only done so in a very controlled environment, but it seems like a fun experiment at home. The main thing I would recom...

Syn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:09 am What is your number one communication tip?

Osie's Version of Hanlon's Razor: "Never assume malice when any involved parties may be an unreliable narrator."

What is something you participated in that you regret? Not much; I made some insensitive jokes and was a bit of a brat at times as a kid. But anything I've done in my life has gotten me to this point, so I don't know that I would change anything. I suppose there were a few moments when I lost my te...

What languages can you speak? English is my first language. Estoy mas o menos fluente en Español. (I'm more or less fluent in Spanish.) - "points to self" - "right index finger rolling counter clockwise around left index finger" - closed fist w/ thumb on the front, closed fist w...

Syn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 2:23 am Can you play any instruments?

I learned piano for 10 years, violin for 6. I can also struggle through playing on a few others based on general musical knowledge (and some degree of perfect pitch).

Syn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:49 am What did you want to be when you were a kid?

In high school, a computer programmer. Prior to high school, probably an interpreter or pianist.

Comparable, yeah.

Syn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:08 am Is your girlfriend from Malaysia or did she move there? Do you plan on moving there?

From Malaysia.

Not looking likely in the long run, but possibly for a short period of time.

Do you pick your nose? Not by any habit. The nasal cavity acts as a filter for debris from wherever one goes in a day. What's the first place you want to visit once it's safe to do so again? Malaysia; I was seeing my girlfriend for the first time in person in March of 2020 and had to cut the visit ...

Syn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:24 pm Have you traveled much?

I have been in a handful of European countries (including Spain, France, UK, Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, and Poland), two Asian countries (Malaysia, Tokyo Airport in Japan), most US states, Mexico, Canada, and Chile.

Syn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:52 pm What is "So I'm a Spider, So What"?

Light Novel/Manga/Anime series about a high school girl who is reincarnated as a spider in a video-game-esque world alongside the rest of her class (seemingly not spiders).

Do you watch any television or movies? What's your favourite for both for 2021? All-time favourites? I watch a lot of anime. Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song is up there as probably my favourite anime of 2021. In terms of live action, I've been watching Blacklist, which has been fun, and I enjoyed watchin...

How many books did you read in 2021? Do you have a Goodreads? I read the first couple books of the Lost Years of Merlin series, 12 books of "So I'm a Spider, So What", and 2 books of the Ringworld series, as well as rereading The Cyberiad (Stanislaw Lem) and Catch-22. Been reading a lot o...

Do you write fiction? Not often, outside of flavour for games. I used to write restaurant reviews for a short time when helping out with the newspaper in college (the first time). Funnily enough, I do read a lot and could see myself writing a fiction story, but it'd probably be some kind-of surreal...

Syn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 6:33 pm How do you have so much energy to write so much all the time?

Hahaha.

I don't know, actually. I tend to try to have a decent number of thoughts about anything, though.

This reminds me of Victoria Coren Mitchell on QI:

cooking is my fav hobby, cleaning up after cooking ehhhh not so much. that's why i'm a "clean as you cook" type of person. never ever a clean everything after! that would be my tip :p also invest in a big dishwasher, it's worth it. also blue is also my fav color! inb4 osie is the male ver...

what's your number one tip for casual home cooking? Cooking takes time and attention. A lot of people get frustrated and/or give up because they don't want to spend one or the other. Patience is a virtue. do you have a favorite "celebrity" chef? Rene Redzepi. what subfields of math/cs did...

What is something you believed as a teenager that you no longer do as an adult? The first thing that comes to mind is a degree of belief that all members of organized religions were comedically stupid and/or disturbingly evil. That was quickly disproven by actually interacting with people. Turns ou...

What was your favourite subject in elementary school? College? - In elementary school, comfortably literature, though it shifted into math/CS later on. - When in college for Mathematics (originally Computer Science), probably my undergraduate thesis by a decent margin; I got pretty bored with a lot...

when did you decide you wanted to cook as a profession? I was finishing a bachelor's degree in mathematics and was doing food service on the side both as a job and a hobby. I started out in front of house, waiting tables, then shifted into back of house, cooking food. I've always enjoyed cooking, a...

What has been your favourite game of mafia you have ever played? I usually design or host instead, but I think I'd have to go for... Lights Out 3 where I won the game for Town. Though that's only sort-of Mafia... Hmm. For something more traditional, let's go for Zero Escape Mafia since despite all ...

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I realized I haven't actually posted in here as of yet. Hi, I'm Osie. I'm a career chef, mathematician, and game designer. My origin site is MtGSalvation, I was formerly an admin on Mafia Colosseum, and I have been a presence in roughly two dozen communities to varying degrees. I've been hanging out...

Also removed.

I'm down to clown. Message me on Discord when I should have eyes on things!

Also thanks to @Guillotine for putting up with a mountain of questions and for hosting the game.

GG. Props to Scotty and Alison in particular for exceptional play this game.

I wish I could have stayed in the game but work/life balance became a concern for me.

I think current wagons (TH/Listo) are W/W so I'm fine with either.

Welcome back @hollowkatt

Alison wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:56 pmTH and osie have been largely ignored by the thread but there have been no good reasons to clear them. There is probably scum laying low here and coasting by. TH probably fits that behavioral pattern more than osie.

I've tried engaging to very little avail.

[VOTE: Unvote] aubergine

I'm sorta feeling like there's not much point to engaging here at this point since I feel like I'm mostly being ignored when I'm posting... Not particularly enjoyable.

Anyways... The host and two of my scumreads are voting for Ender, who I townread.

[VOTE: Guillotine] aubergine

Seeing if this will work.

TH/Creature/Osi is where I am right now for scum. Maybe Scotty replaces one of them. GG could theoretically be in there but it'd have to be on a team without Creature. I honestly don't see her as scum rn. Wait what? I get TH individually, but can you explain anything about this mysterious world of ...

EnderWiggin wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 1:09 am
osieorb18 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 1:07 am @MacDougall Are you able to vote more than once in the same post? If yes, vote me twice. If no, vote me once.
Guillo warned against OGI/Angleshooting. Please stop this.

Okay. Not what I figured that was, but whatever.

@MacDougall Are you able to vote more than once in the same post? If yes, vote me twice. If no, vote me once.

Scotty wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 3:35 pm
Garden Gnome wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 3:34 pm
Scotty wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:34 pm lol I’m loving that the host vote actually counts for Ender.
Wtf is this game
the host is scum.
Well that helps the POE for sure.

Bastard isn’t even on the poll

Truly is unwinnable

We could vote for the host.

I think Scotty has been townie today tbh. He has a lot of WIM and motivation to solve, and his thoughts are free flowing and make sense. Conversely, I think Ender has looked townie today too lol However, that doesn’t change the fact that his d2 was not and D1 Michele votes don’t look good I think e...

Garden Gnome Out of the three here, I feel like this is most likely to be a hit. It will be a hit. You'll hit town. Enjoy. :llama: Most probably gnome is scum. You'll find out after you flip me and I bleed green blood all over the place. Like a Vulcan. Green blood? Must be an imposter! Gnome sus.

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