Nick Gibbins

I can hear the 1541 moving its head outward by 40 tracks to calibrate before it starts to seek.

Eurosource was *much* better, and I think that the comparison is partly why I’m so down on the UK sourcebook.

Alas, Shadowrun never really clicked with me, so I haven’t read most of the sourcebooks.

It’s famously and embarrassingly bad. Perhaps not quite as bad as the UK sourcebook for Twilight: 2000, but still excruciatingly cringeworthy to most Brits.

“MY house”

ITYM “HIS house” - you’re just the staff.

(it’s wonderful to be under the paw, isn’t it?)

MT MegaTraveller (DGP) Adventure: Manhunt - Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) | Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) | DriveThruRPG Manhunt is an adventure module for MegaTraveller which takes your players on a quest for the legendary Victory Belt, an asteroid belt consisting entirely of the rare and expensive element onnesium-118...

Thought you already knew about it, tbh. DGP’s Manhunt:

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...

Well, given that someone was able to recover the source for a lost Traveller book from an Apple 2 disk…

If I look through my exercise books from early secondary school (say, 1985ish) I’m sure that I’ll be able to find my draft of an Anne McCaffrey Pern RPG. The only thing that I can recall about it is that it used a d30 (because I had a d30, and it was cool).

Mad Gav, from Mark Harrison’s comic The Travellers, as seen in White Dwarf in the 1980s. Mad Gav is sporting a suit of battle dress and entirely too many guns, and is singing a song about killing aliens. https://www.2000ad.org/markus/travellers/image.php?page=21

The Traveller in question:

* optional since 1987.

It seems…unlikely.

Pretty shabby behaviour - and I thought that things couldn’t get much worse after the story broke about Watt’s alleged behaviour.

“the players went all Traveller”

Words to strike fear into a GM’s heart.

Wait, what? @monkeyking.bsky.social wrote a B7 RPG?

It is right that our local Labour MP’s first priority is as she says.

However, I would hope that behind the scenes she’s also questioning why our government is allowing the US to use UK bases to make preemptive strikes on targets in Iran.

From where I’m sitting, it’s the current Labour leadership that looks pretty extreme. It’s certainly not the party that I had supported for thirty years.

A plate containing a Welsh breakfast (because it’s St David’s Day). At the top, streaky smoked bacon cooked until crispy. To the right, laverbread in its usual (tasty) formless glop state. At the bottom, steamed clams (for fresh cockles were not available). To the left, cakes made with laverbread and oatmeal. In the middle, a frilly fried egg.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!

Introduced the family to laverbread at breakfast.

The verdict: better made into cakes with oatmeal than by itself, and better when made from fresh laver than the dried laver I bought from a local Chinese supermarket a few years ago.

Also, clams rather than cockles alas.

imo, haggis is one of the easiest, cheapest and most satisfying offal dishes.

Also makes a great taco filling, and haggis lasagna is a thing of beauty.

Nice to see Southampton mentioned in that story - our geothermal district energy scheme was the first in the UK.

Oh crumbs. It was one of the first things I spotted when my copy arrived - I’d assumed that you’d already noticed!

Why even open the book? Just look at the spine.

(sorry, I know, too soon..)

My much-stained books by Diana Kennedy, Lourdes Nichols and Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz have been invaluable, but getting hold of certain fresh ingredients is still a problem.

We in the UK didn’t know what good Mexican food (not Tex-Mex) was until quite recently - this side of the millennium. The stuff in the 80s/90s was *dreadful*.

A determined home cook with a few good recipe books can still outdo most “Mexican” restaurants in the UK in both variety and quality.

The main difficulty is getting *fresh* regional ingredients. Dried chiles (of MX varieties), masa harina, etc are easy to get in the UK nowadays.

Things like fresh chiles poblanos, flores de calabaza, nopales, chayotes, tomatillos, jicama, huitlacoche, epazote - not so much.

I just wish that GRRM would release the short films that he produced based on short stories by Howard Waldrop: Night of the Cooters, Mary Margaret Road Grader and (obviously) The Ugly Chickens.

Just Can't Get Enough YouTube video by Nouvelle Vague - Topic

I came here to say exactly this.

…and if we’re talking about covers of Just Can’t Get Enough, this bossanova cover from Nouvelle Vague must surely rate amongst the best:

Tired: playing the games you’ve backed.
Wired: promising yourself that this time things will be different.

Yes, your analogy is broadly sound; Donny is behaving as an absolute monarch, much as was Charles I. Let’s hope that you don’t have to go through a civil war to depose him.

I hate to interrupt, but you’re getting confused with Charles I; no George was beheaded.

Gandalf takes the small curious key. Gandalf says “what’s this?” Gandalf gives you the small curious key.