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So true. The experiment ended up a bit too greasy for my stomach but not bad for a first attempt!

Home made nachos with chilli cheese, sour cream, and salsa.

Yellow Thai curry is amaz-e-balls. It's just so... nom.

A whole load of chilli cheese is going on some cheap pizzas as an experiment. Hopefully it'll be tasty. The rest is going with chilli and nachos tomorrow

Jammy bastard. Were they running out of date or is it a potentially widespread promotional deal upon which I could capitalise?

There was a whole stack of them going out of date. They came home with us and went into the freezer for use in lasagne. Nom.

Much like C4, jam is meant to be used, not stored.

I just managed to snag two 250g bags of grated cheddar from Co-op for 65p each. Is that related?

I had a lamb kebab from a fairly dodgy place today. As per usual it was delicious.

Not planning on making it a serial experience?

Oooh are those them thar polish dumplingy things that look a bit like large fan shaped ravioli and taste weirdly awesome?

Indeedy do!

Homemade?

Nah. Bought them in ASDA for less than £1.50 per pack (£1.29 maybe?).

Yogurts sounds like a bit of a bitch to make. Not a big ole bitch but still I could not be bothering with that. Particularly since I don't eat a lot of it. A quarter of an hour seems a very long time for something to be in a microwave.

It doesn't need to be on full power the whole time and it should be noted that our microwave was the cheapest one in Wilkinsons back in 2012. It's not great...

One can cook it on the stove too but that requires supervision. It probably doesn't need 15 minutes either but I'm not about to lower the time and risk having more dodgy yoghurt!

I do enjoy a game that accepts its a game on occasion. Saints Row: The Third was like that. Hold the sprint button and press the "enter vehicle" button and the character leaps through the window into the driving seat. Does it make all that much sense? Not really, no. In the context of that game though it's fine and keeps things from getting bogged down.

I suppose this could be summarised as "not being a slave to game conventions". Just because that's the way other game have done it doesn't make it the best way of doing something.

Adventure games definitely are, Elite definitely is, but Pac-man and Space Invaders aren't. Lemmings on the other hand very much is.

I still don't understand the obsession with Pac-man and things of that ilk. Bejewelled I can understand but the others seem so mindless.

Whilst I enjoy graphics it's more about the art style than what kind of anti-aliasing options are available.

I enjoy what used to be termed "god games" (at least I think that's the genre). They're often management games these days although I feel like there's very few still around. Pretty much any of the Bullfrog games from the late 1990s.

I also like a game that can charm me. British games tend to do that for me with their quaint idiosyncrasies but Dreamfall managed it.

In general though I want a game to be a game - not a mini-game. I don't care how much skill a fighting game takes to master, to me it's essentially a mini-game. It might be beautiful and well made but from my perspective I'm left asking "Where's the rest of the game?"
If it's less complex than Worms or Time Crisis then I'm probably not going to have much fun with it.

I was lucky to be born late enough that there were plenty of "proper" games (by my definition) on the market by the time I was old enough to enjoy such things.

Something I do enjoy is a cinematic journey. I really enjoyed the newest Tomb Raider game for that very reason. It wasn't a movie but I had fun along the ride.

I've got a vanilla minecraft server. Mods seem like a lot of hassle.

Scones with clotted cream and jam at three in the morning make for a good life.