• @ewie
    May 3, 2025 at 7:05 pm

    I got to go on a short bike ride today

    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.

    People gathering, preparing for the next ride.

    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.

    The organizers grilling burgers.

    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.

    Footnotes

    1. We crossed illegally from a path that went alongside a railroad to a greenway, which d…

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    1. #weblogpomo
  • @ewie
    May 2, 2025 at 2:05 pm

    Some links you might like 4

    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 Pickering: The Body Element

    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!

    P H Lee: The V*mpire

    A short horror story set on early 2010s tumblr. It’s genuinely really good.

    Talia Fenix: Steaming a Good Ham

    The writer of the scene, Bill Oakley, claims it i…

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    1. #links
    2. #link roundup
    3. #weblogpomo
  • @ewie
    May 2, 2025 at 4:13 am

    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

    1. #nonsense
  • @ewie
    May 2, 2025 at 4:09 am

    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

    1. #nonsense
    2. #weblogpomo
  • @ewie
    April 30, 2025 at 4:12 pm

    i've been writing some bad custom netrunner cards. like unset level bad cards. and i gotta say, it's kinda fixing me

    1. #things that are fixing me
    2. #nonsense
    3. #netrunner
  • @ewie
    April 28, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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"

    1. #nonsense
  • @Eris
    April 27, 2025 at 12:52 am

    “Knickknack” O’Brian

    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 a…

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    1. #netrunner
    2. #elevation
    3. #card reviews
  • @ewie
    April 26, 2025 at 4:14 pm

    now that i'm done with card reviews i can do low effort posting again :) i mean i was doing low effort posting before but still

    1. #nonsense
  • @ewie
    April 25, 2025 at 12:16 pm

    Some links you might like 3

    It's been a minute1 since the last link roundup! Since I've got the new more convenient writing flow, I thought it’d be nice to actually use this to get back to doing these again!

    Gobolatula: Please Forgive Me!!!

    I’m starting this off with a whole-hearted recommendation of Please Forgive Me!!! It’s the sorta-sequel sorta-reboot of my favorite webcomic, It Hurts!!, and It’s genuinely so fucking good.

    Butterfree: When Rumours Come True: The Mew Trick

    As someone who never had a point in my life where the Mew trick was anything other than something people used to show how glitchy gen 1 was, it’s really nice to read the experiences of someone who was on the ground floor for it.

    Anna Dana Hudson: Any Percent

    I think this one made the rounds on cohost way back in the day, but I finally read it recently and holy hell this is good.

    Sciman101: A Price of Commodity

    Nothing, absolutely nothing, didn't have a human involved in the creation process at some point.

    This post from cohost alumni Sciman101 is a good reminder that, all those things you have? People made them. Even the cheap things. Refreshing to see someone point out the hum…

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    1. #links
    2. #link roundup
  • @ewie
    April 25, 2025 at 4:05 am

    Okay! That's a wrap! Unfortunately, I didn't write as much as last time (65 reviews to 40 reviews, and I didn't write almost all of the reviews this time), but I still had a great time. My big lesson from this session of reviewing Netrunner cards? Get more contributors and/or bunch things up. There were way too many cards and I didn't have enough to say about all of them.

    More contributors would be good. I really enjoyed seeing other people's opinions on the cards, and it would be good to set things up earlier and get more stuff involved, if that sounds neat to people. The other option would be to release reviews in batches almost entirely near launch, where I focus on talking about card packages and faction utility.

    Idk this stuff is hard. Netrunner is not an easy game to talk about, although it's a great game to play! Get Elevation now! Also please follow my blog via RSS to continue seeing the stuff I put out! It's only going to get better! Or maybe i disappear off the face of the Ea…

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    1. #netrunner
    2. #meta
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