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  • 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…

  • C&C (Cars and Coals)

    What do you do when you need a break? Spend five hours driving to Manchester, of course! Yes, that is the kind of logic I employ. It’s a day away from work, to go to a work-related meeting, but a day away from the grind is more than welcomed. Driving the Polestar 2 a couple…

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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  • That’s a fine looking media centre…why doesn’t mine look like that!

    Before I begin the post proper, there are just a few things to clear up. Yes, the exams are over, and yes I’m relieved but not yet free from university tyranny. There’s a couple of assignments for the start of the semester, and I really should be working on my CV for the intercalated degree

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  • Luck is not forthcoming

    Before I begin, apologize for my erratic posting, and subsequent lack there of. I’ve been pretty busy lately, and all my free time has either been spent being lazy, playing Skyrim, setting up an HTPC or cooking. Blogging has fallen by the wayside as a result. And just when I thought it couldn’t get any

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  • There should have been a post…

    With the stress of a looming exam, and family leaving for the states, I completely forgot about posting. I had already prepared my post in advance, or at least made notes, but I accidentally left them at home! So…what should have been Friday’s post, moved to Sunday, and now will be this Wednesday night as

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  • Don’t get too excited…it’s just a short update

    Hello hello, and almost goodbye. I’m just here with a short update, to tell you that I’m actually posting tomorrow. It’s slightly overdue, I know, but I was too busy enjoying myself with friends, food, films and Firefly of course! And various other bits and pieces – revision, computer tweaking and all the rest. It’s

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