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Aha. I guess I'm going to try that at inappropriate points in games and not know whether or not it worked, like my option select.

While you're all in the mood for dropping knowledge, this week my girl ordered a bunch of weird vegetables that I now need to cook. So if you have any suggestions for how best to prepare any of the following, let me know:

Purple carrots

Parsnip

Shallots

Butternut squash

Fennel

Celery

Cale

Red Cabbage

Leek

Those aren't the only permitted ingredients, just the ones I need to incorporate. We already did garlic/thyme roast vegetables and there is talk of soups and noodles. Tonight I'm doing jerk tofu with tomato and shallots in there. I have a tried and tested butternut squash chilli invention and I'm fully aware that I have the makings of a kingly coleslaw there, but I'm kind of struggling beyond that. Celery and fennel in particular I've always considered to be pretty pointless (possibly evil?) vegetables.

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For me the only true conduits for houmous are various breads and of course chilli heatwave Doritos. I guess if things get desperate we can go that way.

Roast fennel sounds curious. I will investigate further!

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Butternut squash roasts beautifully, and can be very satisfying in a coconutty curry also. really works nicely in Thai red.

leeks should always be slowly fried in oil or butter until they're delicious and melting and golden. great in soups too. and delightful with cheese.

red cabbage you could probably braise in cider vinegar to make a kind of sauerkraut or something. or worcester sauce, that also goes well with cabbage.

parsnips you treat like any tuber. roast, boil, mash, fry. honey roast parsnips are great.

cale is best paired with a salty nate.

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We're all out of butter, cheese, honey and Nates but I'm sure I can adapt. Worcester sauce and cabbage is something I hadn't considered.

Speaking of salty Nates, I'm salty at Crystal Cave this evening. Those invisible bridges are probably the only thing I actually dislike in Dark Souls. I need to man up and learn the route.

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Yeah, I wasn't sure which of those were full vegan or had equivalents so I just cast my net wide. Nigel Slater is worth looking at for things like veg. Even though he's a meat eater he's fanatical about vegetables and maintains that they're the heart of any meal he cooks.

Crystal caves are next on my to do list. I've just cleared the dukes archives, so its onto seath next. I want to buy all of big hat Logan's new magics too.

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Tonight I manned up and learned the route!

...and then had a lovely time running around in circles and adjusting the camera with the same hand that was holding down the sprint button - for about half an hour before landing a hit. When it was finally all over I did a little victory dance around the severed tail.

I wouldn't have wanted to do it on my first (or second) game, but playing solo/offline now I know a bit about it all is amazing. Everyone should play Dark Souls for, like, 200 hours or something. Nothing too crazy, just long enough to get your teeth into it properly. It's a good game.

So I guess it's DLC time now. Hope it's good. I wonder if there will be any particularly impish bits to look out for.

Street Fighter.

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Good work sir. That tail is where I almost game up my platinum run, it's really tough solo.

Dark Souls ruined games for me. After I completed it there were about 8 months where I couldn't get into anything else and I kind of stopped playing anything that wasn't Dark Souls, with a little bit of Street Fightin' on the side, I've only just recently got back into single-player games in the last couple of months. I completed Vanquish today and that was utterly superb even though I thought videos of it looked hugely unappealing.

Um. DreamHack is this weekend and there will be fighting games.

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The invite list for Curleh Mustache 5 is excellent. Full player list is here: http://www.brokentie...t-coast-edition

I keep meaning to watch one of those Ultimate Fight Night events for SF4 as well, where they do online FT5 matches people have asked to see.

Last one had a really strong line up:

Main Event

LU|Alex Valle (Ryu) vs Happy Medicine (Bison)

Co-Main Event

DMG|iPeru (Fuerte) vs MMS Native (T-Hawk)

Undercard

UYG|Nuckledu (Guile) vs MMS Smug (Dudley)

MMS Brokensoul (E.Ryu) vs Glitch211 (Rufus)

FreeJay (Dee Jay) vs Volcanic Akuma (Akuma)

Archives here: http://www.twitch.tv...ing/b/341470172

http://www.twitch.tv...ing/b/341521791

Also I have mostly been playing sonic Racing 2, which I love even more than I loved the first one.

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I was told my internets would be turned on last night, but they weren't. I am sad about it. Also, I don't have a wireless adapter for my xbox and I am scared of running a 10 metre ethernet cable under the floorboards. It's bright blue. I've been playing Pullblox instead. It is wonderful.

I thought about getting Sonic; it's pretty cheap, but I think I'll maybe end up getting it on Wii U when I cannot hold out for Mario Kart any longer. I looks brilliant. I was never a sega kid though.

I think celery is ok as a conduit for hummus, or as a flume for playful peas. It doesn't have the grip of some toasted Pitta bread though, plus it rarely allows for a nice, clean bite; there's always that odd stringy shard. Plus there's an odd kinda aniseedy flavour about it that I can only really taste if I close my mouth over it and breathe out my nose. Maybe it tastes a bit like cumin actually. I dunno.

I got a huge chicken spinach alfredo pizza from Papa Johns. I like them. I also got more Rauchbier, as it is delicious. Thanks, Camel. Thamel. I'm half tempted to visit Bamberg, since I'm gonna be in Munich this december. I'll probably waste my time looking for arcade cabs instead.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Josep, you could try the hellish and wild method I'm using of buying the cheapest wireless bridge you can possibly buy, which comes with frankly derisory amounts of instructions, and spending several anguish filled afternoons trying to get it to talk to the sodding internet.

It saved me £40 on the official wireless jobby, though.

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This one is lovely:

(For Joffocakes'phone: most of Zangief's wakeup options will lose to Abel's tornado throw, but if Zangief does a jump input then the tornado throw will whiff quickly enough for Zangief to then do any wakeup option he wants during his pre-jump frames, meaning that with this technology suddenly none of Zangief's wakeup options lose to Abel's tornado throw).

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Qazi, if you can genuinely afford it*, go for it. It just is more fun, I would not still be playing this if I'd not bought a stick.

GGs to all this evening. Many hype moments, my flatmate calmly cooked and checked his email while I went "oooo!".

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So Zhi just confirmed he's going to be at the Capcom 25th... wonder who else is going.

Any of you guys planning to make the trip to scenic Telford? It's not too far from me so I'll be going.

Sticks... well, shit... I just bought some sanwa parts to try and mod a dreamcast stick... they cost like £35. I should have bought one of the Madkatz and padhacked it or someshit.

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