i am hoping now that increasing my transgenderism will make me better at netrunner. maybe one day good enough to make worlds

i can't really feel shit down there, probably due to the packing and also probably due to the pain. the worst part is actually the catheter. it's really quite awful. also the food is kinda mid but better than i expected. it's like worse than a dennys but still close to dennys tier.

i still gotta do my link roundup for friday so maybe i'll get to it closer to dinner

i got bottom surgery today sorry for the typos i'm very heavily medicated rn

i still have a dumb article i could write about debunking some old cohost discourse back in that era where people just lied to make up reasons why you shouldn't use cohost but idk if it's too late or too drama to post

here is a list of every muffle or mute i use on tapestry, my rss client of choice. a lot of what i'm hiding is promotions of some sort, usually for members-only content, which i think makes sense. but what has really started crossing the line is stuff talking about ai. i follow some normal-ish publications about web dev and stuff, and the amount of ai hype i've seen on the is driving me kinda crazy, so i am now exercising my power to be the god of my own feed and silence it all. it's muffled though because obviously this hides any ai criticism from people i might care about so it's just muffling it, requiring me to click through to see it. tragic.

okay! i'm all caught up. thanks for waiting through my absence. i've been very low energy yet busy as of late. i have surgery later this week so i'll try to queue up some posts for the weekend

I go to all of these but this time I wanted to share some pictures of the games

New week new links! This one is a bit late since I was busy all weekend, but all my links are from Friday or earlier!

Bruno Dias: A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Supplemental: Commander's Road to Hell

I never really got Commander. I had a brief period where I lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan because I ran away from home, and the person I was staying with there was a huge magic fan. He would offer to pay me to sort his cards for him, which I never really succeeded at. During this time he tried to get me to play Commander with him at his local game store, and I didn't really get what was fun about it? To be fair, I didn't know Magic cards well enough to know what was going on. (I still don't.) But I also didn't vibe with the social aspect of it. I got into card games through Hearthstone, and my favorite part of Hearthstone was carefully sequencing your actions to maximize the amount of value you could get out of a turn. This could be social if you played with a friend, but the game took a backseat to the conversation as opposed to being the vehicle that facilitates the…

Years ago, I worked on a concept for a video breaking down an iceberg meme¹ for Blaseball,² a roguelike³ incremental³ management³ horror³ game with creative story prompting elements³ that I was deep into for basically its entire runtime. While this project never saw the light of day, I think it'd be fun to share some of the stories from it that I enjoyed writing. This is one of those stories.

WhAT

WhAT is the Blaseball version of a sabermetric⁴ statistic called wins above replacement (WAR). While I am not a baseball expert, the concept behind WAR is simple: it’s a “meta-statistic”⁵ of how many more games of baseball you have won having a specific player on your team compared to a hypothetical ultra-fungible average baseball player. If a player has a high WAR, you could make the assumption that firing that player would result in the team they were on losing significantly more games, and if a player has a low WAR, then replacing them would have negligible impact on the team’s overall perfor…

yall i made a soup recipe and it was so mid omg. never making soup again