This is awesome. I played through the whole saga except The Phantom Pain a few years back and wrote them all up (it’s languishing somewhere on my Tumblr), and I’m really looking forward to reading through and finding out your throughts.

Oh yes. One of my favourite easy dinners is to marinate some chicken overnight in a mix of yoghurt and whatever curry powder I have lying around, shaking off the excess, then baking it in an oven turned up all the way until it nearly burns. Slice that up and serve it with a nice vegetable curry and a naan.

No love for stirring some porridge oats through your shepherd’s pie to thicken the gravy?

Folks, can we PLEASE stop giving the Daily Mail and its free counterpart Metro pageviews for this clickbaity garbage? Besides being the British tabloid of choice for xenophobes and rape apologists and being so notoriously pro-fascist they didn’t stop supporting the Nazis until Britain declared war on them, they have ru…

If your phone came with a USB-C to USB-A connector (or a USB-OTG adaptor if it's older) you can plug in a mouse and Android will show a mouse pointer and let you select things with that. Only works if the screen is readable though.

Your solution to there being too many people blocking several specific narrow streets in a UNESCO world heritage site is to put food trucks and benches in them as well? Have you even been to Florence?

If you took the basic plot of the first game, that’s basically just Die Hard in a nuclear disposal facility with a giant robot at the end and superheroes for Eurotrash terrorists, and dialled back the conspiracy stuff a little, you’d have a great structure for a movie. It’s really only when you get to the third one…

I have a friend who would make a six-serving pot of bolognese sauce with two bulbs of garlic, a bulb of black garlic, two tablespoons of garlic granules and then season with garlic salt. To be fair we never had a vampire problem.

It’s a legal requirement. Freepouring is illegal, and if you get mystery shopped by a Customs and Excise inspector and are off by more than a millilitre averaged over three shots you and the venue can get fined, or in repeat cases have the venue alcohol licence revoked. We used to drill pouring shots on downtime.

Only if the glass has a pint line on it. If it doesn’t then the pint plus head must reach the top of the glass. Pretty much every beer festival and all good  real ale pubs have the lines, bars not so much.

On the other hand, I’ve read the books and had to force myself not to shout MY LASAGNA! during that scene.

That seems like an unnecessary spoiler of the entire forth book.

Obviously The Churn is a must, too.

Do you get pancake rolls in the US? Maybe it’s a Glaswegian thing. It’s a spring roll the size of a small burrito. It’s staggeringly unhealthy but then so is most of our diet.

I just made this in a pressure cooker and it’s great. Give it an hour. Could probably throw it all in on a timer in the morning if you have a One Pot type unit.

If you’re a fan of that series’ “am I in hell or just crazy” stories I would definitely recommend watching it. The central thread of all the good Silent Hill games, not to mention most of their visual style, owe a lot to it.

And here I thought being a DM was about to crush your players, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their characters.

End of the next episode, judging by who is Special Guest Star in the credits.

Point being some people do it ritualistically at any place they get chopsticks with their meal, which is sorta like going to a fine dining restaurant and polishing the cutlery with your napkin, as if to remove the dried egg stains.

That’s fine, but if you do it in a nice place with decent chopsticks you’re basically telling the staff “hey, I think your place is a cheap dump with shithouse chopsticks”.