[unofficial weekender] Goodbye 2024

[sundancer 43014xp 2]

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First time visitor to OTT? Then please introduce yourself in the New Member Thread and look around in the Project System. Then come back and read on…

https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/introduce-yourselves-new-member-thread/

https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/

Read all of this before you start as it will save you any trouble later.

First thing you must do is make your “pledge”. It can be anything gaming related, big or small, and you don’t even have to finish it. No, in here, happiness is the road. Have fun doing whatever it is, but it is not a race. Accompany your work with pictures or we might think you are do something sinister and just using us for cover.

You are also presented with a few questions. It is to get the conversation started. Try and keep your answers ‘conversational’, no text speak, and certainly no “basically”. This is how we all get to know each other better. While you are here feel free to tell us a story, show a picture, joke, tales of love or woe, or just add your own little bit. This is the whole point…in here it is just us.

If you have never taken part before we may bark and bite, but we also like a cuddle! It is all done in the best possible taste and it is character building. feel free to give as good as you get.

A few other things to note: NO RELIGION & NO POLITICS! Glasgow pub rules are in effect. If you need to make a better point then it is fine, but don’t take the piss. And always keep it civil. This includes no philosophy, no home computer culture wars.

Play plenty of music to go with your work. Loud and through proper speakers. Write us a playlist of things we might not have heard before.

Now, after all of that there is only one ‘real’ rule in here and it cannot be broken: NO DICKS! (Exceptions may be made for little fighting men with little plastic/resin/metal wieners)

And don’t forget the highlights of the weekend: The Weekender on Friday and XLBS on Sunday. And the little show that is The Hobby Hangout over at twitch.tv

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No question this week. Just have a relaxed final 3 days of 2024. See you in 2025!

[pagan8thParticipant 10881xp 2]

Pledge is kinda weird this week.

My blood pressure been up lately, partly stress of work and life, but also too much processed food in my diet with all that salt.

So my pledge is to start cooking real food instead of opening the freezer, tins and packets all the time. I live alone and making an effort seemed too much trouble, but given how high my BP was I decided I needed to make some changes.

To that end I bought myself a bigger airfryer along with lots of fresh fruit and veg to use in recipes.

A healthy gamer is better than a stressed gamer with no motivation, or enthusiasm.

Have a healthy new year everyone… and a happy one.

[sundancer 43014xp 2]

Eating is important and as important (to me) is that the food you make makes you feel good. So if I may give some tips:

• start with simple and quick meals. Like spaghetti bolognese.
• If you make something that takes some time to make (Chilli for example) make enough for two or three days. Either to eat in consecutive days or put something in the freezer.
• use ready made “bits”. Like frozen fish fingers. Just fry them and make some mashed potatoes.
• Take your time for meal prep. It’s relaxing when you have the time to make a meal properly.
• use good ingredients. cheap stuff tastes like nothing and you’ll be adding too much salt to make up for it. Better ingredients need less spices and taste good on their own. This is even more true with meat.

And don’t be too hard on yourself if you have a cheat day. Eating should always bring joy.

[limburger 21743xp 1]

@pagan8th like @sundancer said : start simple

Spaghetti (or any form of pasta) is stupendously simple to make. All you really need is some kind of sauce.
There’s also subscription services like ‘Hello Fresh’ and ‘Marley Spoon’ that are useful as they give you all the ingredients and the instructions to use them. It’s not perfect and pretty expensive, but even a short subscription will teach you a few things.

The most annoying thing about cooking meals is that everything tends to cater to (large) families. Even recipes tend to aim for 4 grown ups. However there are cook books that focus on students which can be useful.

Oh … and ‘SMAC’ (I think in English it’s “spam”, processed meat in a tin) is quite good. Chop it in cubes and it makes for a nice add-on to pasta with some pre-made pasta sauce. Or throw in a pack of mushrooms and you got yourself a nice meal with very little effort (I think under 30 minutes, but I never checked total time myself).

Funny thing is that I’ve never used salt in any of my meals. My only real spice is (black) pepper. Oh … and garlic.
I’m probably using it wrong, because I can rarely taste I had used it so I’m always tempted to add more.

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I got all my stuff at my new house now. We needed a total of 2,5 days. Today the washing machine was moved to its proper place and we moved as many boxes into the attic as I had acquired more stuff than I had realised 😀
If I had to do that last bit myself I probably would need all of next year to finish as I’d be tempted to open all boxes before even thinking of moving them one inch.

Today I can finally relax. Next year there will be more hobby to do and a proper space for hobby.

[grantinvanman 2205xp 1]

 

Pledge: I am taking on my first commission in about 2 years, a Necrons army. A cool copper and verdigris theme, with ash basing. So my pledge is to start painting it, and make it a project. And paint Battletech in between to keep it fresh.

Music:

 

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[torros 23818xp 2]

Food wise the slow cooker is your friend. We don’t mind  having the same things 2cor 3 nights in a row

This is one of our go to’s if  we can’t think what to eat

https://youtube.com/@kitchensanctuary?si=jtD6iHrZlLDnUj5c

 

[pagan8thParticipant 10881xp 2]

Thanks for all of the suggestions, but I know what to cook and I can cook… but since my parents died I’ve lacked the motivation to make an effort… cooking for one is boring and seems like a waste of effort… although now I am making the effort.

Time is not an issue… I’m home by 2:30pm most days and I can just devote some of my hobby time to food prep time.

I seldom add salt to food… mainly just on fish and chips… but processed food is full of it and the amount in bread is shocking… I’m cutting back on bread based products (no matter what Talkie Toaster says to me) and replaceing the carbs with fruit and veg.

Never been overweight in my life, but when your work involves walking 10-12 miles a day while carrying a sack of mail you don’t put on weight… well I don’t.. there are overweight postmen out there.

Alcohol not a problem either. As I got older I found my drinking decreased because I knew I’d have a hangover before I got to the ‘fun’ part of drunk… and recently I just stopped anyway.

And weirdly… making an effort to cook makes me appreciate the taste of it more and I feel better in myself as a result.

Now back to the normal busiess of this forum… lets talk gaming 2024 and what’s to come in 2025.

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