my current text editor is trying to become cursor, and so i guess my only remaining options now are neovim and helix. anyways i'm poking around at helix since i've always wondered if it was any good.
What theme on the site is your favorite? Mine is the reddish-pinkish theme.
i'm playing umineko for the first time today. when does this happen
source: https://cohost.org/dante/post/4590040-knoll-of-the-golden (dante's current site)
Unfortunately, I forgot my bag at the start of the ride, so I didn’t get to take any pictures during it, but here’s some photos from afterwards. They were grilling burgers and they tasted great.
The ride was about 5 miles and went around the neighborhood, including some brief off-road sections1. There was a second, longer, ride afterwards that I was thinking of doing, but I came mostly for the free tune-up they were offering, which I never ended up getting. The guy doing the tune-ups took a brief look at it before the ride started and said he’d finish it afterwards, but I asked about it after the ride, he said he’d have to put in a work order since they were only doing them for free before the first ride.
It wasn’t really a huge deal, but my bike is a $25 craigslist bike, so I can’t justify a paid tune-up that will undoubtedly cost significantly more than I paid for the bike. Really unfortunate.
We crossed illegally from a path that went alongside a railroad to a greenway, which didn’t have a road. Apparently the nearby university will send campus police down like once a weekend to write tickets just because they have to or something. ↩
More links! These link roundups are something I really enjoy because I have a good collection of new articles I have stolen from other link roundups, and old articles I have stolen from other link roundups. Okay, only some of these links are stolen from other link roundups, some of them I've found myself. Anyways, I hope you enjoy them all! Please comment if you do because I really genuinely love reading these comments. It gives me real joy to know my comment system hasn't broken yet.
Heydon’s doing this series where they write an article on every single html element, in alphabetical order. This one’s on the <body> element, the one element that anyone who’s ever touched html knows about. This isn’t the most educational resource, but it is heaps of fun, and I think that’s something you can easily forget about when you’re diving into web development. It’s fun!
A short horror story set on early 2010s tumblr. It’s genuinely really good.
The writer of the scene, Bill Oakley, claims it is very unusual and doesn’t resemble any known comedy. He’s wrong; it’s a type of joke that’s old as dirt, going back at least to the Commedia dell’Arte if not to ancient Greek theatre.
This fits into my favorite genre of post on the internet: Someone with a deep knowledge in their field making a good version of something they saw someone else do badly.
I’ve been using and ignoring read-later apps since the launch of Instapaper in 2008, because precocious little dorks who cry when they realize that they will never read all the books in the world grow up to be weary adults who transfer that Sisyphean energy to hoarding thought-provoking New Yorker longreads they will also never have time to read.
It’s me. I am a precocious little dork who transferred that energy into hoarding thought provoking longreads. What hits especially hard for me is seeing the birth, rise, and fall of Omnivore from the outside. I wasn’t ever a user of Omnivore (it looked far too much like open source design crossed with a mobile port of a web app, in the worst way possible), but I respected the drive. Something that always came up when I saw people talking about it was, “How are they going to make money?” I guess the answer was that they weren’t.
But despite that, the real meat of the article comes later on. This is the hard-hitting line and the clippable sentence that I probably saw on some other website 6 months ago, which led to me reading the article, saving it somewhere so I would remember to put it in a Link Roundup, and then sharing it with you all today.
But you know what, I shouldn’t have to understand the business models of every little icon on my stupid pocket supercomputer to get through life!
Speaking of ways our modern condition is dumb, but going in a more endearing direction...
This story is silly and I love it. I love that approximately 2/3rds of the article is getting stamps. I love how anticlimactic the ending of the article is. It’s positively delightful.
something that crossed my mind is, years after being off twitter, even my short posts can easily cross twitter's 140 (times 2) character limit. it's nice to let some thoughts expaaand. not get crunched into the expectation that every idea you have must fit within a character limit
oh huh, apparently there's a little blog posting month challenge for may. i think that's something i could reasonably achieve, given low enough standards, so i'll go for it. why not? my little theme for this month is "i have a lot of post ideas but no finished posts so i should write some of those". seems solid enough
i've been writing some bad custom netrunner cards. like unset level bad cards. and i gotta say, it's kinda fixing me
me misremembering the name of the dune guy: "yeah i'm starting to get what herbert hoover meant when he said fear is the mind killer"
Shaper Resource: Connection
Install cost: 2 – Influence cost: 3
The first time each turn a run begins, you may trash 1 of your other installed cards. If you do, gain credits equal to its printed install cost and draw 1 card.
There are a hundred currencies in the undercity, and Knickknack takes them all. Creds and rupiah get you noodles. For his secret menu, he’ll take your burnt-out rigs, your sterilized virii. But to taste his smoked vatchicken stew, bring him what he values most: your story.
2 stars
With all the FFG cards going out, there was one in particular that I desperately wanted to see get a great reprint. We're saying goodbye to the goat, the OG, a piece of cardboard that my heart can't live without. Aesop’s Pawnshop is, in this girl's eyes, just the best. A real and true mf. Everything from mechanics and viability, to character, vibes and soul—this 1 credit Shaper staple is cut above everything. My absolute favorite card in the entire game.
On paper it lets you trash any card at the start of your turn to receive 3 credits. What it did actually, is it let you put in all kind of jank, off-color and niche trash, junk and (one could say) knick-knacks inside your deck at a promise that if you don't need it—you can always trade it away. And just that fact opened so many doors.
If something cost less than 3 and had a weak effect—it was worth looking at. Anything that doesn't self-heap at the end of its life becomes interesting just because of this simple interaction. It allowed for tech cards to be included in your list without feeling like you've made a bad decision. It even presented and enabled an alternate way to look at econ in green, turning you into a community-centric, mutual-aid runner roleplayer, if you were willing to hallucinate a little.
Plus dawg, that art. Just look how slick he is. The face of a guy who does not play games. No prejudice behind these eyes, no judgement, no questions. Won't ever let you down. He's gonna be there every morning, waiting for ya. He isn't interested in the actual value of what you bring, he's just happy to see you and chat, and the rest? We'll figure it out. The guy wants stuff, and for the stuff (your stuff), he has the coin. A piece of bloatware, your old toaster, ownership of your dying livestream account, even your own second-to-best friend - doesn't matter. Three credits. Take it or leave it and come back tomorrow. Glad to be doing business.
So obviously the replacement has big shoes to fill and in my eyes—it just doesn't. It barely even tries, actually. “Knickknack” O’Brian (if that really is his real nickname) lets you at the beginning of your first run to sell any card for the amount of money equal to its cost. And draw a card, I guess. Essentially, you get a refund. An effect both much less powerful (which was the point) and interesting (which I can't imagine was) compared to what the previous Junk Guy offered. No more is there a guarantee that my failed tricks will at least have some value. And while yes, there are some cards that you can install for a discount, they are nowhere near as numerous as straight up cheap ones. Its main use is to get your money back after you used up your expendable cards, which is not a lot. And Imp is dead. The Casts aren't daily, either! It's all gone! Naturally this makes it much more difficult to earn money through him, but even if it did, it forces me to run. I don't want to run, I want to build a weird engine first. It's not a free, clickless offering anymore and ends up feeling just like many other cards in the offering. I could (and many did) build a whole deck around Aesop's and even if I agree that it was too powerful - this effect is not a suitable replacement. It's just a completely different beast, rather than a simple nerf. Even the flavor doesn't tickle me, we're not even in a Location! And what a missed opportunity to call back to the peak ONR piece, first in a honorable line of pawnshops... I'm really having all the issues with this guy... I don't even want to look at his noodles, to be honest.
And the worst of all, he's lying to you! As the narrator protests in the YuGiOhian flavor text, “Bring him what he values the most: your story.”
His ass does not care about your story! The pricetag attached is the first thing he peeks at. Is your Gamedragon Pro worth 2 credits? Well I have a deal for you: 2 credits. And draw a card! Your Devadatta Drones when you're done playing? You paid 1 for it and you best believe you'll get 1 back and... draw a card!!
And true, yes, he'll pay any Timmy a nice round 10 clams (and a card!!!) for an Orca and it will feel great, but does his presence actually help me to get to that Orca? Probably not.
He is a trickster. A scamlord. Less of a gunk collector and more of a return-policy rep. He's here to make rich richer and I don't care for it! He's gonna trade you things of equal value, tease you with his soup and slip his business card in your pocket goodbye. “Get back to me when you make it big kid, heh heh.” No! I won't! I don't want to chill with him.
He's probably not even a mf either...
2/5 I wish Aesop's reopened.