Reply To: Hobby Weekender 10/08/18

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hey ho … let’s go!

Funny thing is I first heard this song in ‘Space above & Beyond’ …

great series. It’s a shame it got cancelled. OTOH … it was getting a bit too much conspiracy like.
Definitely had interesting themes.

(1) What would you do if you woke up in the morning and found out that the timeline had changed, and only certain other people, if any, had noticed it? What could you do?
ssst … it’s happened already.

Don’t you know ?

They live!

Something tells me that @mage has recently seen this documentary *eh* movie.

(2) Name something new you tried this week in regards food, takeout, cakes, deserts or a new dish you attempted to cook.
I wouldn’t call it ‘new’, but I did eat something called “huzarensalade”. It’s sold at the supermarket as a finished product (which is what I got), but you can make your own.

It’s a cold dish made of potatoes and meat and lots of mayonaise … definitely the kind of thing to eat when it is hot.
The name is a possible reference to the Hungarian hussars who couldn’t use fire to cook their meals (because the enemy might spot them) so they had to rely on cold instead.

The version they sell in shops looks like this :

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huzarensalade#/media/File:Huzarenslaatje.jpg

Google got me a recipe in English so you can try it :

http://www.thedutchtable.com/2012/08/huzarensalade.html
It’s a pretty standard cold dish that is often served at weddings and BBQ’s, because it is easy to make in large quantities.

It’s not exactly ‘light’ or ‘diet’ … like all good things 😉

(3) Do you like pop culture references in your gaming? Be it computer games, board games, wargames or RPGs? If so, why, and if not, why? Also, give one good and bad example of such things.
It kind of depends on how it is done.

Shows like Buck Rogers, Futurama and Farscape had some nice references, but they kind of run into the problem that the main character can’t keep up to date with more modern memes.

Part of the problem is that it can sound ancient if they’ve picked something that didn’t last or is so ancient people don’t remember it. Try watching Buck Rogers without giggling at him doing ‘the bump’ or whatever that dance was called.
It probably was a lot cooler when that show was first broadcast …

@oriskany : Southpark has its good and bad moments, but I agree that it (and any pop culture reference) can get annoying if you don’t care for the series and someone is repeating it endlessly.

I’m going to unpack my 1:48tactic starter sets. 🙂
Plus continue my work on my name generator code. It needs some tweaking as the results with a minimal input are a bit too nonsensical to be useful.