This page is an archive of selected posts from my old Cohost account, republished more or less as they appeared in their original form.
This archive is still incomplete.
Eggbug forever.
- On Cohost shutting down
- what happens when you get a 3d printer
- those goose-necked electric-arc contraptions that probably hurt your retinas just like a tac welder
- 2023: The Year in Fallen London, Part 2
- Fallen London: The Making of Irem
- 2023: The Year in Fallen London, part 1
- The Fallen London approach to worldbuilding, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the lore
- ship of theseusing it
- The Ancient Secrets of Writing Item Descriptions
- of flags and tlds
- The Recent History of the Philadelphia 76ers, or: The Basketball Gods are Real and they are Angry, part 4: The Simmons Saga
- There are three problems an animal needs to solve to evolve into being a really, really large flyer
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 21: The Era of Business Decisions
- technology is never just technology
- The Recent History of the Philadelphia 76ers, or: The Basketball Gods are Real and they are Angry, part 3: Definitive Proof of a Curse
- The Recent History of the Philadelphia 76ers, or: The Basketball Gods are Real and they are Angry, part 2: A Tale of Two Fluids
- The Recent History of the Philadelphia 76ers; or: The Basketball Gods are Real, and they are Angry; part 1: The Colangeli
- The Ballad of Sam Hinkie, or: What if Less Wrong bought a sports franchise
- Topology of Hitman levels
- a sous vide machine and a pacojet are, philosophically, the same thing
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Part 20: What if I didn't cast any spells?
- One of my favorite game design things
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 19: Three Stories about Kamigawa Block
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 18: Mark Rosewater Breaks Magic
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 17: What if Onslaught doesn't matter?
- In this house...
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 16: What if Card Advantage Doesn't Matter?
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 15: We Didn't Start the Fires; or: Opposition Research
- Starfleet replicator regression test suite
- Starfleet replicator stress test suite
- The Ancient Secrets of Naming Things
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 14: EOTFOFYL
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 13: Mark Rosewater Succeds, Perhaps too Well, in Not Breaking Magic
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 12: Mark Rosewater Breaks Magic
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 11: A Game of Zones
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 10: Whirlwind Tour of Tempest-era Standard
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 9: What if Nothing Matters?
- A Compleat History of the Magic Metagame, Appendix A: A Brief Introduction to Magic's Formats
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 8: What if my 60th card doesn't matter?
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 7: What if my opponent's cards don't matter?
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 6: What if playing good cards doesn't matter?
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 5: What if life total doesn't matter?
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 4: What if You Didn't Cast Any Spells?
- A Compleat History of the Magic: The Gathering Metagame, Chapter 3: What if I Played Good Cards And Not Bad Cards?
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 2: NOW That's What I Call Magic
- A Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, Chapter 1: Magic as Dr Richard Garfield, PhD Intended
- every major casting decision and performance in Sandman (2022), ranked
- Phylogenetic facts ranked in order of how disturbing they are