Here's another piece where I'm publishing work I did years ago explaining entries on the Blaseball Iceberg, which I also made years ago. This one is way up near the top of the iceberg, so it's meant to be short and really simple to understand. This is good, because I'm not yet ready to explain eDensity.[^1]

Since the start of season 2 of Blaseball,[^2] there has been a section of the website titled "The Book of Blaseball" (located under the book tab of the website, of course). Inside is what is supposedly the rules of the game, although they are heavily redacted. Of note is section 5b, which reads "If a team wins three championships, they, and Blaseball, shall ascend." This was noticed by the Society for Internet Blaseball Research, who decided to tweet about this topic at the Blaseball commissioner, at the time Parker Macmillan III, on September 26th, 2020.

sure i do feel bad for failing blaugust but also surgery recovery has got hands

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…