The Syndicate

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I’m here to ask questions and take names

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Sorry guys, I forgot all about this Going to get it going this weekend!

Welcome all to the interrogation room! A place where we get to know a little more about our Syndicate members. Every Sunday a new member will be chosen then all week long other members can ask them whatever they like (within reason.) Members will be chosen at random; Message me here or on discord (fingersplints#2231) if you are interested.

First up is @osieorb18

What has been your favourite game of mafia you have ever played?
What is a mafia ability you have not received that you would like to?
If you could be any animal what would you be?
What is the best kind of pie?

fingersplints wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:16 pm 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 of the insanity it provided a lot of good memories.

fingersplints wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:16 pm What is a mafia ability you have not received that you would like to?

Creepy Doll (Role): The Creepy Doll passes a doll to someone on Night 1. Whoever has the doll can pass it around as a Night action. The Creepy Doll wins the game if a person holding the doll dies before the Creepy Doll.

fingersplints wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:16 pm If you could be any animal what would you be?

Panda. I even enjoy the taste of bamboo!

fingersplints wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:16 pm What is the best kind of pie?

Poached Pear and Marzipan Tartelette

osieorb18 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 12:40 pm Panda. I even enjoy the taste of bamboo!

don't be shitting with me

literally ever since i was a baby i was a panda and till this day, dunia = pandas. lol. yay.


osiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee

when did you decide you wanted to cook as a profession?


do you remember the first dish you prepared from scratch? what was it!


do you have asian heritage/background?

dunya wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 3:01 pmwhen 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, and had some degree of inspiration from my maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother.

dunya wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 3:01 pmdo you remember the first dish you prepared from scratch? what was it!

No idea in the long run, but a few dishes I prepared prior to graduating high school include:

Tuna Pasta Nicoise (a concept from my dad) - Macaroni and Canned Tuna with Green Olives, Scallions, Mustard and Vinegar
Tummytickler (from Roald Dahl) - A 2-layer quesadilla, again with olives and scallions in addition to mustard and mayonnaise, pan-fried
Pizza Bagel - Bagel with tomato sauce, cheese, onions, stuck in the microwave

The first dish that I prepared FULLY from basic ingredients (not counting something like scrambled eggs) would arguably be one of these three:

Cold Noodles and Cilantro-Peanut-Soy Sauce - Somen Noodles with a ton of cilantro, scallions, fresh tofu, and cilantro-peanut-soy sauce.
Bokkeumbap (Korean Fried Rice) - Rice with Shrimp, Lap Cheong Sausage, Garlic, Ginger, and Oyster Sauce
Mushroom Stroganoff - Linguine with Mushroom-Cream Sauce

dunya wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 3:01 pmdo you have asian heritage/background?

Heritage? Not unless you count 1880s Soviet Russia (Which is now Eastern Europe).
Background? I have an aunt-in-law, girlfriend, and many close friends who are of Asian heritage. Most of my interest in Asian cuisines comes from personal experience. Despite the rest of my body rejecting it sometimes, I've always had more of a palate for Asian and Latin cuisines. (And while I still usually find them enjoyable to cook and/or eat, most non-Latin non-African Western foods, be they American or European, don't usually EXCITE me in the same way.)

What was your favourite subject in elementary school? College?

Syn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 4:05 pm 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 of the bureaucracy in the introductory classes.
- When in culinary school, my favourite subject would be either Cuisines of Asia or Food History.

What is something you believed as a teenager that you no longer do as an adult?

do you like music? what sorta music does osie listen to?

what's your number one tip for casual home cooking?
do you have a favorite "celebrity" chef?
what subfields of math/cs did you focus on /what was your thesis about?
have you ever blended your hobbies of cs and cooking in a single project?

Syn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 4:44 pm 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 out that critical thinking helps to dispel prejudice. Who woulda thunk it?

dunya wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 4:54 pm do you like music? what sorta music does osie listen to?

I listen to a lot. As somewhat of an audiophile, I've found myself using Amazon Music nowadays since most music is in some degree of HD quality.

My go-to genres include but are not limited to: classical music (since a young age), musicals, trance/dance, anime music, latin pop, asian pop, eurovision music, a bit of "adjacent to whatever my friends and family listened to at some point", and relatively acapella/drums-and-bass music. Also a lot of random comedy stuff.

A handful of Repeat Listens in each category:

Pas de Deux (Coda) - from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker"
Anitra's Dance - from Grieg's "Peer Gynt"
Ein Vogelfanger bin ich ja - from Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte"
Danse Macabre - Saint-Saëns
Hut on Fowl's Legs - from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"

Non, je ne regrette rien - Edith Piaf
I could have danced all night - from "My Fair Lady"
Rewrite the Stars - from "The Greatest Showman"
Infected - from "Repo: the Genetic Opera"
Brand New Day - from "Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"

Kill the Lights - Birthday Massacre
Integral - Pet Shop Boys
Butterfly - Smile.dk
Lone Digger - Caravan Palace
The Riddle - Gigi D'Agostino

Shinjo to Uta - JUNNA, from "Fena: Pirate Princess"
Friends - Aiko Nakano, from "Dance in the Vampire Bund"
Mediational Field - Susumu Hirasawa, from "Paprika"
Fluorite Eye's Song - Kairi Yagi, from "Vivy"
Sparkle - Radwimps, from "Your Name."

A Dios Le Pido - Juanes
Taboo - Don Omar
Waka Waka (Version Español) - Shakira
Bailando - Enrique Iglesias

Usseewa - Ado
Dancing King - Taeyung
Love So Sweet - Arashi
Excuse Me - AoA

Yodel It - Ilinca
Husavik - My Marianne (Okay, this doesn't really count.)
Maps - Lesley Roy
On Fire - The Roop

Propane Nightmares - Pendulum
Squeeze Box - The Who
Papaoutai - Stromae
Bad Day - Daniel Powter
Fire Coming out of the Monkey's Head - Gorillaz

Hallelujah - Pentatonix
Bard's Song - Van Canto
We are Pirates - Orden Ogan
Vater Unser - E Nomine

Death Death - Voltaire
Birdplane - Axis of Awesome
I'm OK - Little Big
7th Element - Vitas
Shake Your Euphemism - Blue Man Group

My current music library has about 430 songs in it, and that's not including the massive amount of stuff I couldn't find on the platform or just haven't thought to add.

What is your favourite colour?

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 5:19 pmwhat'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.

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 5:19 pmdo you have a favorite "celebrity" chef?

Rene Redzepi.

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 5:19 pmwhat subfields of math/cs did you focus on /what was your thesis about?

I wanted to do bioinformatics (e.g. indexing the human genome) when I first started college. My thesis was on Kasteleyn's Theorem; which in one real-life form can be stated as "The number of ways you can tile a chessboard with dominos can be expressed as the permanent (a slightly complicated sum of the elements) of a matrix." (A part of Graph Theory, and relevant to crystal structures and flow rates.)

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 5:19 pmhave you ever blended your hobbies of cs and cooking in a single project?

Sorta in that I have used my ability to use a computer well to be more effective in menu planning and research. I've had some morbid curiosity in the "Neural Network creates recipes" experiment, though.

Syn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 5:46 pm What is your favourite colour?

I'm gonna be a bit basic here and say blue as an overall answer, but realistically it absolutely depends on context.

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

also invest in a big dishwasher, it's worth it.


also blue is also my fav color! inb4 osie is the male version of me with better cooking skills.

your music is so wildly varied it's great lol. lots of songs / artists i don't recognize though. will check some out.

How do you have so much energy to write so much all the time?

dunya wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 6:28 pm 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

also invest in a big dishwasher, it's worth it.


also blue is also my fav color! inb4 osie is the male version of me with better cooking skills.

My rule at home when cooking for someone else with whom I live is "if you cook, another person has to clean."

But when that context isn't relevant, I just buckle down and clean sooner rather than later.

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:

Do you write fiction?

Syn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:11 pm 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 insanity.

How many books did you read in 2021? Do you have a Goodreads?

Syn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:19 pm 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 of HP fanfiction as well (insert comment about the concept of death of the author).

I do not have Goodreads; I tend not to maintain those sorts of lists very well.

Do you watch any television or movies? What's your favourite for both for 2021? All-time favourites?

What is "So I'm a Spider, So What"?

Syn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:51 pm 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 watching at least some of Into the Badlands and Iron Fist.

In terms of movies... I don't know that I watched any movies in 2021 that I hadn't already seen. I've been intending to watch Shang Chi and Encanto.

In terms of all-time favourites...

Castle
Good Omens
Sherlock

Hellsing
Trigun
Trinity Blood

12 Angry Men
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Triplets of Belleville

A Silent Voice
Paprika
Your Name

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).

Have you traveled much?

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.

Do you pick your nose?

What's the first place you want to visit once it's safe to do so again?

Are you from Oregon? How'd you end up in Portland?

Syn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:10 am 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.

Syn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:11 am 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 short to get back to the US while I still could.

Syn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:11 am Are you from Oregon? How'd you end up in Portland?

• I was born in Chicago, IL. (1993)
• We moved to New Haven, CT.
• We then moved to near Sacramento, CA (With possibly a bit of time in Berkeley along the way), the area in which I grew up. (1996-2010)
• My family went for sabbatical for a year to Ithaca, NY while I was still in middle school. (2005)
• After I graduated from High School, I went to college for Math near Albany, NY. (2010-2014)
• After I graduated from college, I then lived in Madison, WI for a couple years, during most of which I worked for a corporate culinary group at the headquarters of an insurance company. (2014-2016)
• I then went to culinary school in upstate NY (between Albany and NYC). (2016-2018, with an internship in Boston, MA during the summer of 2017)
• After I graduated from culinary school, I then lived in Denver, CO for a while, near the beginning of which I started a long-distance relationship with another mafia player. (2018-2020)
• In August of 2020, having returned to Denver about a month or so prior, I left Denver to avoid being around for a covid surge and chose between Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle. A buddy of mine in the Portland Metro Area offered me a couch on which to crash for a bit, so I stayed there for a while (read: until March of 2021), then worked in the area on and off over the rest of 2021. (2020-Present)

Is your girlfriend from Malaysia or did she move there? Do you plan on moving there?

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.

Is Malaysia's cost of living similar to Thailand/Indonesia? I have seen TikTokkers living in Thailand for $30/day where they eat out for all meals and have relatively decent digs.

Comparable, yeah.

What did you want to be when you were a kid?

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.

Can you play any instruments?

What languages can you speak?

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 2:23 am 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/ thumb tucked after third finger, closed fist w/ thumb on the side, index finger and thumb forming a 90º angle with index pointed up, index finger and thumb forming a 90º angle with index pointed up
- closed fist w/ thumb on the side, closed fist w/ thumb after third finger, open hand w/ thumb and other fingers forming a circle, fist w/ index and middle finger up, fist w/ thumb tucked after second finger, fist w/ thumb tucked after first finger.
- (I know a small amount of basic American Sign Language.)

Je parle francais petit peu. (I speak very little French.)

What is something you participated in that you regret?

Is there a person you ended a relationship with, that you regret not trying to work out issues with? (friend, family, partner, etc)

DaughterOfOmega wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:00 am 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 temper that I would have preferred to have weathered through, potentially. Finding ways to avoid hitting rock bottom when that happened would be a thing, but again, it helped me grow into who I am today.

DaughterOfOmega wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:00 am Is there a person you ended a relationship with, that you regret not trying to work out issues with? (friend, family, partner, etc)

Nah. Most regret of that sort usually comes in the form of forgetting to communicate with people.

What is your number one communication tip?