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Qazimod

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We were picking everyone last night. I think Oro is my dude, but Ryu is much easier not to completely lose one's mind with. I mostly just empty jump parry all day long, though, then mash out a super or two when it looks like I'm nearly dead.

Yes! We played ALL THE CHARACTERS. Nearly. I know I played some Ibuki, Necro, Twelve, Q, twins, shotos, a bunch of random select stuff and more.. AE has completely spoiled me with it's leniency though - my execution in 3S is so bad. :(

I can't say just yet when or where I'll be around for fightings, but I'll ask around for invites if I see you guys playing and I want in. :D

EDIT: also, it's Casual Friday and I got no compliments for my Dive Kick T-shirt. Disappointment Fighter.

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I sold mine to Amazon the other week because I figured I was never going to bother trying to challenge my Pac Man Championship Edition high score again :-( They gave me £20 for it though, and Google suggests that you can still get them for that much pretty easily.

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I'm sure Haggar's will be more exciting but I can report food news from Glasgow:

Discovered a liking for haggis. Only had it for hotel breakfast, so probably wasn't even that good quality, but it's great stuff. Even if it is just a ploy for selling offal to tourists.

Jamie's Italian was disappointing, even though I wasn't expecting much. Service slower than Makoto's walk speed. My stepdad's starter was crudités in a bowl of ice, so gimmicky. We proposed "Crudités? We'll Give You Fucking Crudités" and "Obscenités" as better names for the menu. Half the dishes seemed to confuse food with crockery: the pastry dish lining for the baked mushrooms with mozzarella (am I supposed to eat this?), a deep-fried scallop in a partially deep-fried seashell. That said, I should mention that the polenta chips were fucking amazing.

Much better: saffron risotto with Italian sausage from La Lanterna near Central station. GDLK.

No booze reviews though, it's OcSober.

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Germany, eh, lads? Deutschland Deutschland uber alles and all that.

I was in Stuttgart, which is in the Swabian region, which apparently is known for it's hard work and frugality and which I imagined would be full of loads of dour, dumpy, pinch-faced middle aged fraulines who were basically all the German equivalent of Scottish people, with the food to match. Fortunately I was wrong.

The food was basically all just really nice roasted pork, in amazing beer sauces with potato dumplings and sauerkraut, which is really really ace when done nicely. Also they do this really nice local pasta-type thing called spatzle, which is excellent and good for soaking up all the sauces. They also do something called sauerbraten, which is a beef joint which is marinaded in vinegar and spices before roasting. It does something utterly incredible to the fatty outer layer, and makes it completely delicious.

The sausages are all obviously brilliant and of a very high quality, with that wild german senf style mustard. The bread is also excellent, always fresh, an excellent range of textures and blends, and often nicely salted. German bread is good bread.

I went through the black forest, but I didn't try any of the gateaux. I did try black forest trout, though, which when fried in butter and well salted is wild. Just wild.

The beer is excellent, of course. The beer festival was the wildest thing. You sit there, and then these buxom women wearing dirndls (best dress) armed with huge arms come storming through carrying like 8-10 litres of beer, and then you buy the beer from them and you have beer. Then you sing some kind of german drinking song and you no longer have any beer, and have to find another buxom wench to give you another beer. Even though the beer is lager it's always nice and crisp and keeps its flavour well, even after many, many liters of beer. You can also get really ace half roasted chickens to eat. This is definitely pretty broken tier.

The dark beers are also all pretty good, most of them with a good burnt note at the end which goes nicely with some of the breads. Weissbiers are there, but I'm not really a fan so didn't have many of them.

I guess my only real complaint is that, after an entire day at the beer festival, wakeup options are severely limited and universally unsafe, resulting in needlessly punitive punishes.

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