The Syndicate

alexa wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 12:28 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 7:46 pm alexa, you are an amazing mafia player but I want to know more about the real alexa!

- what traits do you look for in a friend?
- and what characteristics would turn you off enough to break or never start a friendship?
- what are your greatest non-mafia strengths?
- what areas about yourself do you want to further develop?
- what profession are you in or type of school? (only if you want to divulge)
- what things in life are you passionate about (besides anne!)
- what do you hope you'll be doing in 10 years? in 20 yrs?

thank you juliets!

-someone who shares my sense of humor, trustworthyness, intelligence, usually i get along with competitive and blunt people
-probably just like complete lack of intelligence
-creative writing, teaching/tutoring
-just my overall confidence and my drive to get things done
-i work as a student advisor for the MCAT with a test prep company. i only tutor SAT
-CATS, mafia!!, foooooood, writing, coffee, my friends, video games like stardew valley and animal crossing
-10 years, i'd probably like to have a family. in 20 years, kinda the same thing - hoping i also make a lot more money by then and get to travel!

dyachei wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 7:17 pm

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 7:00 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 12:38 pm thats awesome!! also totally agree on pajamas/no bras/only comfy stuff around the house, i've been living that way ever since working from home started :P

am i the only person who likes bras idk man, they give me support ;p

yes, they are god aqwful

dyachei wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 10:16 am That and most counting crows songs from August and Everything After

dyachei wrote: ↑Sun Apr 17, 2022 9:22 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Sun Apr 17, 2022 5:40 pm Would you ever consider moving back to Japan?

Do you read a lot (prolly not now for sure)? If you do/did do you have a 'top 5' books or any book you consider 'significant' to you personally?

What would you say is your most controversial non-mafia related opinion?

Who or what influenced you most in becoming the person you are today?

yEs I would move back to Japan

I don't have a top 5 books, but I love the Assassin books by Robin Hobb, Belgariad by David Eddings. A wrinkle in time by L'engle. Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury. Enchantment by orson scott card

I dont know about a controversial opinion tbh. Probably that I support capital punishment

I think the vet I shadowed in middle school had the biggest impact on me. Her and Paula Danziger (children's author who helped me with bullying issues). I turned my life around in the 7th grade. Was having issues evreywhere, battling depression, etc. By 8th grade I was a straight A student and wasnt bullied anymore. Part of it was taking a Johns Hopkins CAA course over the summer. Some of it was my older brother finally moving away.

dyachei wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 3:57 pm

dunya wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 2:45 pm what are some of your biggest pet peeves?


what's the best show on tv atm?

pet peeves are when people put pickles on things because that juice permeates everything. You can't just remove a pickle. it taints everything it touches

otherwise, its the word irregardless

best show on TV rn is probably lower decks

srceenplay wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 6:21 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:02 am My husband and I went to Europe for 3 weeks some years ago and only got to 3 cities lol! There was so much to see just in those 3 places, and later went to London for a week. Hope to go back someday!

My wife plans everything. I can just imagine how it would go with us. I like going with the flow but she has to make sure every bit of time is used efficiently.

srceenplay wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:15 am

juliets wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 12:51 am Are you in school or working or both or neither? Tell us about either or both!

To old for school. I'm part time in the school of life. Full time shop foreman. We work on suspensions for semis, trucks and some cars.

juliets wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 12:51 am What's your dream vacation and when will you take it?

Dream would be to take a month long trip through SE Asia or Europe. Probably not going to have time for that until I retire.
We do take family vacations some where every year. This year we are planning on California. Daughter wants to see "the tall trees." Next year my other daughter graduates and wants out trip to be in Hawaii. We are also planning Costa Rica for winter 2023.

Scotty wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 11:53 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 5:22 pm @Scotty I couldn't find answers to these questions so imma ask:

Best books (or favorite books) you've read, up to 5:

Besides Inception, favorite movies up to 5:

Do you ever watch tv/streaming services? If so, favorite shows up to 5:

>Favorite books:
Honestly, I haven’t been on a reading binge very recently, but my favorite series I’ve been involved with is The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson. Epic fantasy, he’s currently on book 4 of 5, 5th will come out in a couple years. Would highly recommend. fantastic world building, and what he lacks in realistic dialogue (I was reading and no lie I was like ‘is this guy Mormon or something? His dialogue is a little stilted when writing romance. Looked it up, he is Mormon. No offense if anyone is Mormon, just made me chuckle). Again, highly recommend.

I remember reading Executive Orders, written in 1998 talking of hijacking planes and an Ebola scare. When I read it, there was that worldwide Ebola scare and I was tripping out. Nice little political drama in the Jack Reacher series I think.

>favorite movies
This is one of those questions that I know the answer to until you ask me.
In no particular order as I remember them:
-Whiplash- EXCELLENT movie
-Ex Machina
-LOTR all of ‘em
-Children of Men
-Ocean’s Eleven
-Being John Malkovich
-That was 8 I’m sorry

>Favorite shows
-Lost
-Survivor
-Dexter (haven’t started the new season)
-I’ve been liking The Boys.
-‘You’ was pretty good in an uncomfortable way

Scotty wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 4:00 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:44 pm Scotty, you said earlier you're a theater guy and living in NYC would seem to be ideal, but you also said you and your wife would like to live somewhere with forests and mountains. Is there a place that meets both your requirements?

We are formulating plans to eventually maybe get a little house an hour or two upstate that is close enough to drive to the city when we need and still have a backyard and hiking opportunities

Central Park is at least partially helpful for our mental well being

Scotty wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 8:31 am

juliets wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 12:23 am @Scotty you're one of the most spontaneously funny people I've ever known. Do you perform comedy, like improv comedy maybe? Your quips come so fast I'm amazed.

Wow thanks juliets!

Not particularly. IRL I’m more self deprecating in public, which seems to brighten up the spirits of those around me. When I was younger I would often go out with my uncle to public places and we’d just feed off of each other and create banter in a running improv skit of sorts, which has helped me in todayland, and has kept me from turning into a frog.

More importantly tho, I’m in the performing arts and I like creating. My mind is always whirring..which is a blessing and a curse. This means I’m never bored because in the downtime I’m always crafting something in my head. But lately I’m also less grounded and up in the clouds in day to day life.

I have several friends that I think of as the funniest people I know. And they never show it, but they’re tormented inside based on BTSC. I think this is overgeneralizing but I feel those that constantly use humor in their everyday life are distracting from deep seated issues they’ve chosen to ignore. I’d like to think I don’t have those sort of issues IRL and have the awareness of not hiding behind the yuckyucks. Online I can have a degree of obscurity so I do tend to have more of a bizarro or biting humor all the time, if that makes sense?

Syn wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:00 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 7:59 pm I came here to ask some questions but I became exhausted reading all of Syn's questions and now I have to rest.

Benson wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 9:58 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2019 6:34 pm @Benson were you in the wild card 1 game? If not, how did you know about 112's dead kitty cat that never existed?

I was always watching from the shadows, waiting for my time to pounce.

I now live to serve as a reminder that 112 is not to be trusted.

Lady LambdaDelta wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 4:30 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:01 am @Lady LambdaDelta I'm going to concentrate on Movies and Literature -

- What are your top 5 movies and what movie are you looking forward to seeing, if any?
- What are your favorite books, fiction and non-fiction or biography or whatever you like to read?
- What book has made the biggest impact on you? It can be one you read as a child that really turned you on to reading or one that you read as an adult that made some other impact.

Movies huh... again, best by genre asked, but I'll take a stab from the top of my head.

The Thing 1985
Halloween 1984
Scream 1996
Alien 1979
The Princess Bride 1987

I like Horror, is what you are getting from this. Lol
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Favourite books

His Dark Materials Trilogy
Kushiel's Dart, and that whole series
The Dark is Rising series
I loved Animorphs as a kid, and they're still very good when I go back and read them now.
Basically everything Christie has ever written ignoring her Marple stories... well most of her Marple stories. But like, Orient Express, And Then There Were None, Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Three Act Tragedy, The Big Four....
Same for Holmes novels. Hounds of the Baskervilles, Study in Scarlet, The Final Problem.... etc
Anything that is Murder Mystery really suits me, honestly.
Catch-22, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World
Frankenstein
Count of Monte Cristo
Wrinkle in Time/Swiftly Tilting Planet etc
Dorian Grey
A bunch of Steven King stuff, but not Dark Tower fuck the Gunslinger series so bad
Neuromancer
Ysabel (and the whole Fionavar Tapestry series but Ysabel was so fucking good)
Black Company
There are more but honestly I could be here and while and I'm not even including series that I read and was like ""this is okay" but not great.
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What book made the biggest impact on me, huh?

Hard to pick just one....

As a kid, I would say The Subtle Knife (book 2) from His Dark Materials? I remember giving a book presentation on it in 3rd grade 4th grade something like that, because I was so taken in by the story.

Though the Dark is Rising(book 2 in the series) is another one that really got me around the same time. Concepts of fantasy and magic in localized settings, urban/low fantasy still to this day my favourite series (Dresden is fun for this, but not great.) They did shape me as a person, I mean my bed time stories were ones about faeries and not the kind that flew and spread dust, the kind that sewd eyes and mouths shut.

Oh and a Wrinkle in Time was about the same time frame for me. I like, read Animorphs and Goosebumps when I was like 3-6 and then Wrinkle in Time, Dark is Rising and His Dark Materials around 7-10. So yeah that kind of works.

as an adult, lots of books shaped who I am over the years at different times. Ysabel was great, Kushiel's Dart... fantastic....

I dunno, they all kind of shaped how I thought, and my parents loved pouring new books into me to see how I'd react, so it really did shape me.

Let's say for biggest, Kushiel's Dart.

Pawn Lelouch wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 6:27 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 1:12 pm Pawn Lelouch, what have we not asked you that we should have?

General non mafia hobbies, pets, probably favorite comedian, favorite tv shows and that's about it off the top of my head.

Pawn Lelouch wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2019 11:42 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2019 5:33 pm I haven't been to Yellowstone but it's a top destination on my wishlist for sure. What were some of its highlights?

Have you been to any other National Parks?

Probably just a combination of the lush forests and a small waterfall that I saw when hiking through a section. And I've also been to Yosemite but that's it.

Fayt wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 9:04 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 5:46 pm I love that a pop tart is a ravioli!!

Also, great taste in movies Fayt, memento was sooo good.

Do you have a favorite book or poem or short story?

Where did you go to school?

ooh yeah Memento is one of my favorite films when I was young.

I don't really have a favorite book. The only one I read recently is the lies of locke lamora, that was recommended to me. I still need to start on the wheel of time.

I went to UCI, university of irvine.

lapluie wrote: ↑Fri May 25, 2018 1:55 pm
~I am actually from canada, I grew up in the french regions of canada ~ traveled quite a few places, most memorable trip as Italy, I love a lot of art museums & galleries.

Iron_Dwarf wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:45 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 12:11 pm Hi Iron_Dwarf, I don't know you at all so my questions are pretty simplistic -

Two of my bestest online friends are from the Netherlands - they are tall (as opposed to Kites friends)
What do you do for a living?
Instead of just listing your favorite movie please your top 5.
What movie that was popular or critically acclaimed did you think was lame?
Are you a better mafia or civilian? Why?
What are your interests outside mafia and movies?
Whats the best thing about being Dutch?

And welcome to the syndicate!

I work in financial services both parttime and as a freelancer. And at the side I'm a writer.

I can go on and on about favorite film lists, here is my top 50 which I compile at the end of each year:
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Iron_Dwa ... mber-2017/

But for your convenience, the top 5 is:
1. A Woman Under the Influence
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. Sunrise, A Song of Two Humans
4. Tokyo Story
5. City Lights

Quite a few, but the most recent one is Call Me By Your Name.

Not sure, but I think mafia, because people never really know how to read me. On the other hand, this means I often get read as scum.

Music (I'm from the site rateyourmusic after all), philosophy and Dungeons & Dragons.

The one thing I really like about the Dutch is our directness.

speedchuck wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Hopefully you'll be around when I actually have time (and the player interest) to host this game.

On the one hand, I really want to play that. On the other hand, keeping up with 33 of you guys...