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Food Discussion - The Jolly Boar Kitchen / Re: What have you been eating?
« on: November 16, 2014, 08:24:26 PM »
Meaty pierogies and onions. I'm always a bit concerned that the specific meat isn't specified...
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Food Discussion - The Jolly Boar Kitchen / Re: Food thoughts
« on: November 16, 2014, 03:14:31 PM »Keep fighting the good fight flame, one day we will beat such prejudices and every disaccharide shall be free to be digested equally by all.You made her laugh
Is making soy yoghurt a complicated process?
To be honest it wasn't more complicated than making the other kinds of yoghurt. We have an Easiyo yoghurt maker (although a wide-necked thermos works too I'm told) that we got for a few quid on eBay. Easiyo sell sachets of yoghurt mixes but we wanted to figure out how to make our own.
The way that works for us is to use about a teaspoon or so of "starter"* in the prepared milk (soy or whole).
To prepare it I take a litre or so of milk and put it in a bowl and microwave it for about quarter of an hour or so. Long enough for it to boil for a bit. If I don't then other things tend to grow along with the yoghurt. Mmmmm yeasty, fermented yoghurt
Once that has cooled down to a fairly sensible temperature (I haven't used a thermometer - maybe 40 - 50ºC or so. Slightly warm to the touch but not warm enough to kill bacteria) in goes the starter.
The container then goes in the hot water bath for anywhere from 6 - 20 hours. I'm still figuring out the timing. The previous batch of whole milk took a long time whereas last night's took six hours or so. I was surprised to see it was already ready.
Depending on how much whey has separated from the curds I either drain some of it off or leave it. Once it's not too liquidy I whisk it a bit to get a nice texture.
*"starter" - originally we bought a small pot of natural yoghurt (with "live!" and similar written on it) for about 59p from Tesco. Since then we've just used a spoonful from previous batches. More seems to actually have worse results. I'm still figuring out the quantities.
At some point I plan on making a video of the process. Not until I've got it better figured out, admittedly.
I'm roasting a roast. Omnomnom.Jealous over here.
We're having meaty pierogies though so it's not all bad.
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Food Discussion - The Jolly Boar Kitchen / Re: Food thoughts
« on: November 16, 2014, 01:11:09 AM »It's to punish her for her prejudiced beliefs. She's lactose intolerant, you see.I'm pleased to say that I successfully made soy yoghurt (for the missus)You cruel man, what did she do to deserve such punishment?
On the plus side the soy stuff was tasty. Furthermore it looks like my whole milk stuff behaved much better than before (and it was fairly well behaved before). I made a bit of a mess of it whilst trying to skim off the whey but I'll give it another go in the morning.
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Food Discussion - The Jolly Boar Kitchen / Re: Food thoughts
« on: November 15, 2014, 04:11:39 PM »
I'm pleased to say that I successfully made soy yoghurt (for the missus). Now to have another go at normal whole milk. I expect it'll turn out okay but I'm figuring this stuff out still. Heating the milk up to boil for a while seems to be the key to avoiding contamination.
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Tabletop Design - The Senet House / Re: Space warfare with a focus on the effects of FTL on tactics
« on: November 15, 2014, 12:20:18 PM »
I've not forgotten about this project, I've just been busy (mentally speaking). I'm trying to setup a casting operation and it's been stressing me out which rather stunts my creativity!
On the plus side the ships for the game are coming along and I've arranged to have them printed next week so there's a plus
On the plus side the ships for the game are coming along and I've arranged to have them printed next week so there's a plus
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Food Discussion - The Jolly Boar Kitchen / Re: Welcome to the Kitchen!
« on: November 15, 2014, 12:18:21 PM »Should we have an extra subforum for tutorials?Extra fragmentation doesn't really seem worth it, to be honest.
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Food Discussion - The Jolly Boar Kitchen / Re: Food thoughts
« on: November 15, 2014, 12:11:17 PM »
I'm not a bad cook but I'm virtually incapable of reading recipes. Presumably it's something to do with a lack of connections between the relevant parts of my brain. Abstract instructions don't translate to actions or ideas related to the emotional artwork that food is for me. My gods that sounded pretentious.
On the plus side I've found a few recipe books that have extensive sections describing what a dish should be and the kinds of things involved. They also have recipes, true, but the descriptive sections are what help me.
At the moment I'm trying to master culturing yoghurt. I think I've got the basics nailed down now after a great many failed attempts!
On the plus side I've found a few recipe books that have extensive sections describing what a dish should be and the kinds of things involved. They also have recipes, true, but the descriptive sections are what help me.
At the moment I'm trying to master culturing yoghurt. I think I've got the basics nailed down now after a great many failed attempts!
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Food Discussion - The Jolly Boar Kitchen / Re: Nerd food.
« on: November 15, 2014, 12:06:11 PM »
I'm rather partial to a nice plate of slumpie but that's only because of the Discworld cookbook. On the other hand when reading Witches Abroad I would have loved to try Mrs. Gogol's gumbo. Actually the same happens when a gumbo machine is offered as a snack machine in The Simpsons. Is gumbo tasty..?
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Food Discussion - The Jolly Boar Kitchen / Re: Awesome Foods to Eat Before You Die
« on: November 15, 2014, 12:00:10 PM »
Kebab pizza from Nässjö:
Delicious.
Delicious.
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Tabletop Design - The Senet House / Re: Space warfare with a focus on the effects of FTL on tactics
« on: September 02, 2014, 10:12:26 PM »
As it stands I'm not sure how many ships each player would control. Ideally I'd like it to allow for medium-sized engagements where area denial is a major factor. The important thing being that it would have that Battleships aspect of not knowing exactly where the opponent's ships are.
Things like FTL micro jumps would mean that beam weapons could, at least in theory, be jumped ahead of. Careful not to shoot yourself!
The when aspect for command card reveals is what I'm currently thinking about. The idea of having beacons that ping the ships would mean that cards would be revealed in unison. I'm not sure how that'll interact with some other things just yet though. Some sort of queue might be important too - meaning a ship might move into scan range but the player spotting them might not know until next turn that before that happened they dropped some mines or something.
Things like FTL micro jumps would mean that beam weapons could, at least in theory, be jumped ahead of. Careful not to shoot yourself!
The when aspect for command card reveals is what I'm currently thinking about. The idea of having beacons that ping the ships would mean that cards would be revealed in unison. I'm not sure how that'll interact with some other things just yet though. Some sort of queue might be important too - meaning a ship might move into scan range but the player spotting them might not know until next turn that before that happened they dropped some mines or something.
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Tabletop Design - The Senet House / Space warfare with a focus on the effects of FTL on tactics
« on: September 01, 2014, 11:02:24 PM »
I don't see any other topics in this section (other than the announcement), just subforums, but hopefully this is the right place.
I'm currently trying to figure out a way to create a tabletop game that uses asymmetric information.
Essentially it's going to be a space warfare game that tries to take into account light lag, FTL micro jumps, and so forth.
At the moment I'm thinking that each ship model will have its own (small) deck of command cards. A card must be placed for each ship every turn even if it's only a blank one (of course the other player won't know it's blank).
I'm considering having some sort of beacon on the playfield that pings the whole battlefield every X number of turns but I'm still thinking about the concept itself.
Ideally I also want to allow for smaller skirmishes between tiny attack craft but I'm not sure yet whether that'll fit in.
I'm currently trying to figure out a way to create a tabletop game that uses asymmetric information.
Essentially it's going to be a space warfare game that tries to take into account light lag, FTL micro jumps, and so forth.
At the moment I'm thinking that each ship model will have its own (small) deck of command cards. A card must be placed for each ship every turn even if it's only a blank one (of course the other player won't know it's blank).
I'm considering having some sort of beacon on the playfield that pings the whole battlefield every X number of turns but I'm still thinking about the concept itself.
Ideally I also want to allow for smaller skirmishes between tiny attack craft but I'm not sure yet whether that'll fit in.
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Tabletop Games - The Game Room / Re: Get me into Tabletop Gaming!
« on: August 30, 2014, 07:22:06 PM »You always used to be able to download the Mordheim rules as a set of 3 pdfs from the Specialist Games website; that site is now gone, but I'm pretty sure that since they gave the rules out for free once they now can't charge for them even if they wanted to (and they've stopped supporting the game anyway). WHFB rulebooks are about that price, but Mordheim rules are free as long as you can track them down.That's...that's not how that works.
Here's a link to a google drive with all the PDFs in:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B18J5DU-6cP_aEg2dHIxbGpaMlk
They own the rights which include the distribution rights. If they choose to give them away for free that's their call but it doesn't grant everyone and their dog the right to share the files freely. I picked up Fallout and Fallout 2 when GOG.com were giving them away for free. That doesn't mean that I'm allowed to give the game to whoever I want - it's not mine to give away.
It's extremely unlikely that sharing the files will get anyone in trouble but it's most definitely not legal, at least in the UK.
If you downloaded the rules from anywhere but an authorised GW source you're taking part in copyright infringement. Whether anyone is going to lose any sleep about it is an entirely separate matter.
The only exception to this would be works in the public domain, except that none of the SGs will be in the public domain until some time in the 2100s, assuming average life expectancy of the authors and no drastic changes to the law as it stands today.
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Raspberry Pi
« on: August 30, 2014, 07:05:50 PM »
Hopefully it's not considered bad form to respond to a topic that's a few months old.
I've been using my RPi to run my media centre. I love that something that runs from a phone charger can replace the full on desktop I used to use - it even decodes X264 natively!
I'm using OpenELEC and the PM3.HD skin. The skin doesn't perform quite as well as the defaults but it's the one I've used the most and I'm comfortable with it so I'll take the hit.
I've been using my RPi to run my media centre. I love that something that runs from a phone charger can replace the full on desktop I used to use - it even decodes X264 natively!
I'm using OpenELEC and the PM3.HD skin. The skin doesn't perform quite as well as the defaults but it's the one I've used the most and I'm comfortable with it so I'll take the hit.
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Tattoos
« on: August 30, 2014, 07:03:05 PM »
Perhaps I'm a bit ignorant on this subject but I'd be far more inclined to get tattoos if they'd only last about five years or so. Most of the things I'd like would probably bore me after that.
I've considered getting UV flames down my arms before but I just don't feel I can justify anything that permanent.
I've considered getting UV flames down my arms before but I just don't feel I can justify anything that permanent.