Category: Games
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Metal Shed Solid
Shed, what’s happening? Shed? Shed?! Sheeeeddddd!!! The base is complete! It was in the last issue, and it remains complete. Things have finally moved on with the rest of the build. I started laying out the base panels for a dry run to make sure they were well positioned. On reflection I would have extended…
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A Tight Shed-ule
One week to do a lot of groundwork, and still continue to attend my actual job… Once the trench was dug out and level(ish), I compacted the soil with the plate compactor before starting the single biggest job. Shovelling four tonnes of subbase was quite the back breaking affair. I had to change tack slightly…
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Diggy Diggy Hole
I am a man and I’m digging a hole… Last we left off, I was finishing sealing up the Hellmouth uncovered beneath my shed. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. (It’s hard to tell if you’ve made progress digging a hole by showing pictures of similar holes,…
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Project: Hedgehog (or Hedgehogs and Projects)
Rain. Rain. And more rain. Although that’s not all that visited recently… For the first time in living memory, our garden played host to a little spiky mammal who wandered into view across the patio. The area is rather exposed and patrolled by multiple cats which is probably why we haven’t seen any hedgehogs here…
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Resident Evil, and Resident Chef
Back to Ordinary Decent Gaming roots. As you may have figured out by now, Ordinary Decent Gamer isn’t always about gaming. In fact, it might feature less than almost every other topic. Food seems to sneak in more often than not. Drinks. Even electric cars. Life seems to get in the way of sitting down…
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Platelets and PlayStation
This is a late one, but I’ve crept in just before the deadline. The week got away from me this time, and as much as I tried to get this post started in the early hours, I was a little distracted. First someone stabbed my finger. Then my arm. Then I was told not to…
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D&D (Darkplace and Dining)
Come with me now, dear Reader, into the depths of my very consciousness. To a place of darkness and true horror. And discarded Peperami packets. A Dark Place This week we stepped into a particularly dark place. A place so dark, in fact, that it is difficult to even begin to explain exactly how dark…
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2024, Don’t be a Bore?
That was a struggle, but titles don’t always come easy. Here’s a little retrospective of the last year. It has been a slightly exhausting start to the year, but one filled with more gaming than the last few months combined. In preparation for this post I had a look back through my archive and found…
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Twas the Thursday after Christmas – Gluttony and Gaming
We’re firmly in that weird period between Christmas and New Year’s where the desire to sit around and do nothing is pitted against a restless energy to get out and explore. You’ll be pleased to hear that doing nothing won out. Well, not nothing. Sitting around and playing the PS5 while in a food-induced stupor…
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Metal Gearing Up for Christmas (Ordinary Retro Gamer)
Christmas has always gone hand in hand with gaming in my experience, and this year will be no different. Metal Gear Acid Trip I have played a lot of Metal Gear in my life. Hideo Kojima’s masterfully created series has been with me at every step of my gaming journey. We played Metal Gear Solid…
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