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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  • 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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    Celebratory eggnog anyone?

    What do you do when you get to 1,000 views? (aside from watch clips from the Simpsons I mean) Make eggnog of course! I’m fairly new to the eggy treat (first trying it sort-of last year), but I’ve been getting a head start on my recipe for this Christmas. This one seems to be a

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  • Time to celebrate, 1,000 views since I started this thing!

    My first real blogging milestone – 1k views! Thanks guys, and to celebrate, here’s Al Gore: *I fixed the embedding issue, so you can just watch it here now

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  • Locked out?! To Nerdtopia, and beyond! (or the library if I’m being realistic here)

    Through a series of unfortunate events yesterday, some beyond my control but most perfectly within it, I ended up locked out of the house on my afternoon off. Surely Thursday is your longest day, you may say, but this week was different. The week of the bussing boozefest that is BMSA Mystery Tour. I entertained

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    Back on track!

    I’ve had yet another hectic week, but the weekend is here again. And with it leaves the burden of my practical report, but next week I have another presentation and test! Such is the life of a medical student, but I could care less about that at the moment. For now, there’s a weekend of

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