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If you havent I highly recommend checking out this speech Arnie posted the other day. Powerful stuff and very well put.

I don't particularly like chickpeas, so that already sounds pretty bad even without tasting it

Looks tasty! I recently made a perfect ragout alla bolognese. Cooked it for over 2 hours and all. But instead of proper pasta, I used noodles made out of chickpeas, which completely ruined the whole thing. So I ended up just eating the ragout with some bread. I'll never use any substitute for pasta ever again.

Something completely different... Initially wanted to cook pasta alla puttanesca tonight, but forgot that I ran out of pasta a few days ago so had to improvise and made a similar style dip/stew and baked some corn tortilla "chips" to go with it. It was surprisingly good and I'm sure I'll make it again

I loved Tropico 2! I don't think I've played any of them since Tropico 5 (which I think I last played, sometime last year). I haven't tried 6, but I'll look into it. I've just started playing Void Bastards last night, not really knowing anything about the game at all and just being recommended it. I love it though - it plays like an old school fps (I get old school Doom vibes from it, even though it doesn't really look anything like Doom 3D - I think it's because of the flatness of the enemies) but with some really simplistic stealth mechanics. Ammo's a bit rare so it sort of promotes picking and choosing when you go in shooting & when you sneak around. I think part of the fun of the game, for me, was not really knowing much about the game before jumping in. But it was recommended to me by someone who pretty much knew I would love the game after he played it for a bit... so maybe I should explain the game more. But if you just want to go in fairly blind like I did, I wholly recommend it. I think it's a brilliant little game. The way they handle the player controlled character dying/respawning is also pretty fucking brilliant. It's a very cool game, it reminds me of a lot of different games from the past... but in a way that feels really fresh and original and the game itself, imo, is very unique.

@Mpache It's official now.

Standings after Round 4 of Last Man Standing 2020-21 @Viva la FCB and @DeadLinesman maintain the top 2 positions with four points separating them after solid performances in the 4th round. @...Dan becomes the closest challenger in 3rd after a strong run to second place. @CaaC (John) enters the table above seven competitors after taking victory and the highest score of the season so far in his first dabble in this season's competition.

Just us two tonight. Let's me watch what I want to watch, doesn't talk or show me Facebook videos whilst I'm trying to watch it and doesn't ask me what I fancy for tea in four night's time. Great company.

Re-installed Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, what a game... Just pure fun. Wish it will get a remake some time. That said, has anyone played Tropico 6? Just read that it also has raid mechanics, sounds like fun...

Cooked Uzbek-style Plov with lamb for the first time today... My grandma used to cook it when I was a kid, and I haven't eaten it for years. Served with a simple tomato & onion salad.

Big news from Bethesda. I am looking forward to it.