Ordinary Decent Gamer

Your daily overdose of gaming, and life in general

If gaming isn’t a part of your life, you’re doing it wrong.

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  • A New Dishwasher (and a few games along the way)

    We’re gearing up for Christmas, a process that is in no way enhanced by having to deal with a broken dishwasher. The problem with having a lot of stuff on is the lack of time to write about it. I have managed to squeeze in some games though. Neon White Part of the beauty of…

  • Cinema, Coffee, and (Haute) Cuisine

    What would Ordinary Decent Gamer be without food? Perhaps a gaming blog… Although ODG started life as Inside Gamescom in 2011, dedicated to the latest releases from the WiFi tent in the Gamescom campsite in Cologne (later almost washed away in a dramatic flood), it has morphed into a shudder “lifestyle” blog. In that it…

  • Baking and Caking

    When life gives you, or rather, doesn’t give you yeast, make sourdough. I have been on and off sourdough since encountering it in Von’s 1000Spirits in Seattle in 2012. I was relatively late to the party (compared to the Epgyptians in 1500 BCE), but in my defence, it wasn’t much of a thing in Northern…

Ordinary Decent Gamer was born out of a desire to write about games, but it has become so much more. Food, travel, DIY and more.

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    Christmas Cooking

    Time for some Christmas cooking! It’s that time of the year when I decide to camp out in the kitchen. I love the cooking and baking that the festive season brings, and one of my holiday specials is amaretti. In particular a softer version than the commercial classics. They are easily made and don’t require

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    Taking Control

    The run up to Christmas has brought with it a bunch of gaming sales, including on the PlayStation store. Control Back in 2019, Remedy released a very interesting game. I didn’t have hardware to play it at the time and it flew under my radar. It seems as though it would be an easy win

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    Leak(s)

    A week of DIY, with a few plot holes. A little thing can generate a lot of work. An odd stain appeared at a very specific part of our kitchen ceiling. Using skills learned from the management of cellulitis (soft tissue infections in the skin), I drew around the components to check if it was

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    Didn’t it snow!

    Here’s a little taste of our time in Paris. The weather outside was frightful. And there wasn’t a fire in sight-ful. Since we’re stuck out-side, oh. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. We spent last week in and around Disneyland Paris and were treated with a rather magical experience on Thursday when

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