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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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  • Just Keep Digging (and Mixing)

    Or should that be shovelling? We left off last time with a hole in the garden. It was a deliberately shaped hole, but a hole nevertheless. Almost a tonne of topsoil. And what do you do with a hole in the garden? Fill it in, of course. The first step was a layer of sand

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  • Grass, Gardens, and Great Heights

    The rain continues, but it has failed to (completely) dampen our spirits The deluge continues. The rain has been non-stop since the end of August. Well, that’s not entirely true. It has been start-stop. Showers followed by sunny intervals, but often of unpredictable lengths. It has made outdoor activities next to impossible to plan. There’s

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  • Death Stranding (2) and Dead Hard Drives

    Even more strandier? Even more beachier? The expansion of the chiral network brought a whole load of quality of life improvements. Death Stranding 2: First Impressions I’ll admit I dismissed Death Stranding unfairly the first time I played it. After a few awkward and uncomfortable journeys heaped on an incomprehensible plot, I drifted away from

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  • The Curse of Heathers

    Heather, Heather, Heather….and some curse This is a bit left field, but one of our latest obsessions is the 1988 black comedy high school crime flick and the subsequent 2010s musical iteration. The musical is by far the superior version with some incredibly catchy songs, but the film throws up an interesting series of occurences.

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