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Post by Admin on Sept 7, 2020 21:23:01 GMT
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 8, 2020 7:10:04 GMT
Good morning Ron Manager fans.
Today I shall be stripping down a pair of broken Sennheiser headphones aided by my new best friend, Jan Du Toit. Then, I shall be spending an inordinate amount of time staring at a soldering iron lent to me by Old Boy. By Friday, I might have plugged it in, who knows?
Stay tuned for more updates (may include swearing).
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Post by amipal on Sept 8, 2020 7:36:21 GMT
Morning all.
TVblog; first episode of the second series of The Boys. Suitably gruesome. Karl Urban is the best.
Gamesblog: no, not in the PS4 sense. Though my partner did play Skyrim.
Bookblog: finished book six of The Expanse, Babylon's Ashes. 4*
Amigablog: bunged my A600 motherboard back into its case (tight fit), and all working fine.
Spent some time last night playing Team Yankee, a US vs Soviet tank game. Three levels in, and a few tanks lost. Still, I've taken out more Ruskie tanks than they have of mine.
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 8, 2020 7:52:09 GMT
Spent some time last night playing Team Yankee, a US vs Soviet tank game. Three levels in, and a few tanks lost. Still, I've taken out more Ruskie tanks than they have of mine. Computer Gaming World in 1992 concluded that it, while more realistic than Pacific Islands, was not for "the hard-core wargamer, but for people who enjoy a quick and relatively easy run-through of a tank game".
Lightweight.
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Post by scamander on Sept 8, 2020 7:57:26 GMT
Amipal,
What character is your missus playing on Skyrim?
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 8, 2020 8:02:29 GMT
En-route to work.
MrsC back in a school today.
Everyone happy happy joy joy.
TV. Good Girls.
Games. Finishing the Strangers & Freaks missions in GTA.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2020 8:14:33 GMT
Busy day yesterday - has a meeting in Windsor that lasted ten minutes. So the hour and a half travel each way was worth it.
Games. A soupçon of Baldurs Gate. I’ve run out of arrows. And I’ve got a wyvern to hunt.
TV. Finished ep 3 of The Boys. Great set piece with The Deep. Then this weeks episode of Ted Lasso - I’m really enjoying it. Also finished S5 of Shitts Creek, and over the weekend I finished s4 of Rick and Morty. Didn’t really get on with the last one.
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Post by gongfarmer on Sept 8, 2020 8:14:58 GMT
Morning all
PrefM was back at work yesterday, and weather was grotty so I found myself with an unexpected gaming window.
Game! Flight Sim... faffed around adding a further 16GB ram so my mobo is now at max capacity. Initially didn't see much improvement, and then had a graphics bug that crashed the game and wouldn't let it restart without looking like a spectrum psychedelic loading effort. Eventually resolved by launching the game from Nvidea rather than steam and all worked fine - GPU drivers issue?
Found a helpful feature is the ability to undock various in-game windows (VFR, Camera controls) and drag these to a separate monitor thus freeing up the main screen for flying... result, suddenly i'm getting about 80 FPS even though the game is set to max at 60. Odd but i'm not complaining!
Decided to take on one of the Bush trips, and spent a happy few hours in a zen-like state pootling around the Sierra Nevadas, navigating by roads and rivers under a blazing California sky. Visually stunning and there is so little in the way of trees/town that I could up the graphics to 'Ultra' and just marvel at the scenery. Probably not to everyone's taste due to lack of pew-pew etc, but i'm really enjoying it.
OTTM - made a treacle tart, for no other reason than I fancied one a couldn't be arsed to go to the shop.
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Post by lazybones on Sept 8, 2020 9:21:37 GMT
hi I watched four episodes of 'Cobra Kai', and half an episode of 'Ronnie O'Sullivan's American Hustle' .I also cooked an ersatz curry.
How are things?
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Post by amipal on Sept 8, 2020 9:34:20 GMT
hi I watched four episodes of 'Cobra Kai', and half an episode of 'Ronnie O'Sullivan's American Hustle' .I also cooked an ersatz curry.
How are things?
I have heard reasonable-to-good things about Cobra Kai. Is it a nostalgia-fest? Will I want to listen to music from the 80s if I watch it? I'm currently casting my eyes across the study, trying to work out what I can bin, recycle, or sell. It appears my bid to get all of my stuff onto shelves has shown just how much stuff I have, but not necessarily what I need. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 8, 2020 9:49:01 GMT
What is an ersatz curry?
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Post by lazybones on Sept 8, 2020 9:50:22 GMT
hi I watched four episodes of 'Cobra Kai', and half an episode of 'Ronnie O'Sullivan's American Hustle' .I also cooked an ersatz curry.
How are things?
I have heard reasonable-to-good things about Cobra Kai. Is it a nostalgia-fest? Will I want to listen to music from the 80s if I watch it? I'm currently casting my eyes across the study, trying to work out what I can bin, recycle, or sell. It appears my bid to get all of my stuff onto shelves has shown just how much stuff I have, but not necessarily what I need. It is reasonable to good. Half an hour episodes. It has heart. Lots of nostalgia. The only thing I feel slightly unsure about is that ... Ralph Macchio is in it in, what I would say is, a supporting role. But the credits at the start say 'Starring Ralph Macchio'. Then they also credit him as an 'Executive Producer'. What's that all about? Something about that doesn't sit right with me. |
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Post by lazybones on Sept 8, 2020 9:52:17 GMT
Well everyone says a curry isn't a real thing. That the concept is a western approximation. These days you say the word 'curry' and you get locked up and branded racist. |
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Post by lazybones on Sept 8, 2020 9:53:46 GMT
It was also not any recognisable curry. Just what I thought would taste nice.
It was phenomenal.
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 8, 2020 9:54:10 GMT
If you used genuine spices it would be a genuine curry.
It might not be an authentic recipe, but my understanding is that there are massive difference in the way curries are cooked anyway.
My approach is if in doubt ask what Abdul from Eastern Eye would do?
The answer is always add more chillies.
It always works. Just never ask yourself have I already added too many chillies?
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 8, 2020 9:54:41 GMT
It was also not any recognisable curry. Just what I thought would taste nice. It was phenomenal. That's what matters more than anything with food, shirley. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 8, 2020 9:56:54 GMT
Good eating beats sticking too close to a recipe.
Though it is also good to cook a recipe properly until you are confident with making changes.
On the other hand I probably won't have weetabix and beansprouts very often.
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 8, 2020 9:57:40 GMT
Oooh so close.
Numberologists assemble!
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 8, 2020 10:01:55 GMT
Should I make a big thing of reaching 6,000? Find something intelligent sounding and meaningful to quote?
Say something profound?
Tease it out over a prolonged period?
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 8, 2020 10:02:12 GMT
Or not
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Post by amipal on Sept 8, 2020 10:02:16 GMT
It's really happening...
The 6k barrier is breached.
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 8, 2020 10:02:59 GMT
Klytus, I'm bored.
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 8, 2020 10:05:38 GMT
I feel stupid and contagious.
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Post by lazybones on Sept 8, 2020 10:33:20 GMT
I love The Eastern Eye.
It's been a while since I went.
The curry I made yesterday was kind of ... it was, I suppose sort of, more on the southern Indian end of the scale. Black mustard seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida ...
Since the age of 16 I've wanted to make delciious currys. Now, at the age of 43, I feel I've finally done it.
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Post by lazybones on Sept 8, 2020 10:35:17 GMT
Madhur Jaffrey says I'll get better results using fresh curry leaves instead of dried. So last night I made a big order with Jeff Bezos.
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