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 meme(https://cdn.ewie.online/Iceberg%28Iceberg%29.png)¹ 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.⁴

WhAT

WhAT is the Blaseball version of a sabermetric⁵ statistic called wins above replacement (WAR). While I am not a baseball expert, the concept behind WAR is simple: it’s a “meta-statistic”⁶ 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…

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

whoops i forgot to take pictures while playing netrunner. maybe next time. i got to test a version of mercury using twinning that was total dogshit and got in its own way but i did get to access 5 cards once which is super funny.

what the fuck is up with so many isekai manga just being "in another world as a military otaku with a bunch of guns that i use to shoot those i deem to be evil"

lol that's so broken i need to fix it

i write a lot of my post drafts in the app Drafts[^1], but here's some drafts that didn't make the cut or like i forgot or something

i used to have a pretty nightmarish read later system, until kobo said they were going to integrate with instapaper due to the pocket shutdown. then i switched over to instapaper for everything.

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On "This didn't need to be a content warning"

Something I've seen an amount of on Cohost is the refrain, "I hate it when posts use content warnings for stuff that could've been tags", and there's been some confusion as to why. This is my attempt at explaining a few points in favor of avoiding content warnings.

Cohost has multiple systems of labeling, filtering, and gating off posts. (This is the big one.)

i have no idea what the fuck i was cooking with here. this was written about a year and a half ago, while cohost still existed. reading the other paragraph i had here, right below the crop, it seems to have been a post on how you should just use tags or something. i think i was just annoyed at people using mastodon-style content warnings and wanted to write a big callout post complaining about it. probably for the best i didn't finish it.

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Pocket on Kobo is the stuff of nightmares

Imagine, if you will, being a precocious little kid who loves to read articles on read later apps on your phone. You are also a precocious little kid who loves to read books on an e-reader, which your father let you borrow so you could read every Ender's Game book. One day, you stumble uncross an animal paw, one that feels important and magical. You don't think much of it, but some way somehow, you decide to make a wish. One that holds all of your hopes and dreams, and one that you would soon come to regret. "Gee willikers, I sure do wish that I could read those articles on my read later app on my phone on an e-reader!"

And the monkey's paw curls.

this could've been something maybe but then pocket shut down, showing i was right all along and pocket sucks really bad. i think the inspiration for this was me trying to upload an article from verso to pocket and i literally could not make it work.

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AI has hollowed out Matter so much that it's not even funny

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that reminds me, i need to write a post about how i handled adding comments to my blog. hoping that someone could point out any limitations and risks before i find them out the hard way

thinking about how my comments stuff doesn't have shadows. the leave a comment box and the comments themselves 😔 it's so tragic.

from https://belarius.neocities.org/bulletin-board-nonsense/post/the-thousand-points-of-light-above-as-below/

netrunner mentioned!!!!!!!!