#Blaseball

[graepix]

A new player has entered the brain!

Currently thinking about Lars Taylor

[lab-katt]

Something I've come to realize is that the internet LOVVEEESS weird sports. 17776 had football, blaseball was a feverish dream of passion and blood rain and peanuts. Now HorseRaceTests is conventionally just a bunch of vague horse shapes bouncing on a wall until one gets the carrots. Truly there is no reason for literally all of my friends to be talking about it yet here we are! We love sport.

[ducktapeal]

My "Blaseball colors of the sky" post has been going around again. And one person tagged it "#oughghgh", which is exactly the kind of reaction I was hoping for.

If you'd like to feel some more oughghgh about Blaseball, may I recommend my fan work Soulscream: A Memorial? Doesn't take long at all to experience, and has brought oughghgh to several people.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/47721322

[polkadotpatterson]

hey blesties are you aware that the five year anniversary of blaseball is in three days

[mercysewerpyro]

Jaylen Hotdogfingers at the latest batter

[churrotowns]

gotta love baseball

[siloupy]

ended 2 years ago today :( miss her

[flamebunnyy]

Extra Innings.

[arsonstick]

parker

[thesmallestfish]

[theunsubtleknife]

I love making parker 5 a little chubby. Give them a soft belly and love handles im so serious

[freshcuntgrass]

oh my goddddd I found this from my blaseball days of my one woman quest to get Goobie Ballson back on the Firefighters

[ducktapeal]

I really love all the different Blaseball-inspired games.

Like, no one can replicate Blaseball. Even TGB couldn't replicate Blaseball, and they _made Blaseball_. The Short Circuits and Coronation Era were neat, but it was pretty clear by the time Coronation went on permanent hiatus that the lightning had left the bottle and the game was done.

Then there were the leagues that popped up just post-Coronation. The one I know the most about was Narrative League Blaseball. It seemed pretty interesting, like they had some cool ideas for how to differentiate themselves from Blaseball while also keeping the parts they liked. The fact that there actually was canon prose was really neat. There's Terrorball, which as far as I'm aware didn't/doesn't have interactive elements? It was more about watching the game and less about actually affecting things. More Sim-driven. Another interesting take on the genre. And most recently, there's MMOLB, which leans way harder into the strat side of things. It neatly solves the PvP problem that Blaseball had, by making it so you have sovereign control over your team, and you don't have the ability to steal players or really affect other teams at all. You have much more fine control over your team, and while baseball is an incredibly random game, team-building feels much more skill-based than it was in Blaseball.

Three very different things that were core to the Blaseball experience: The writing, the watching, the playing. None of these alone is Blaseball, and I don't think any of the developers is trying to _be_ Blaseball. They're trying to make their own thing in a similar game-space.

Blaseball is irrevocably in the past. No one can bring it back, it has been Released and cannot be subject to necromancy. But it's opened up a whole new genre of game, one that's really good for small groups of people who want to watch their blorbos win and lose. And I think that's as beautiful an epitaph as any game could hope for.

[helltown-office-workers]

Good job on the election, gang! I'm sure this will be nothing like the last mistake! You know, the mistake? The one we will make again?

And again?

A-and again...?

T-that mistake???

- The Manager

[auramgold]

whenever i've expressed missing blaseball multiple people have been like "oh you should look at terrorball" or "mmolb is so good it's a spiritual successor" and

despite being around fans of those, i have literally never seen someone on my timeline saying shit like "the crabs killed the sun" or "kelvin drumsolo did the thing" or the snackrifice or the waveback event or even something as simple as "oh no, halexandrey walton had an allergic reaction!!!!"

i have never seen one single bit of live reaction to any of these, i have never felt like any of these are a Cultural Event, just an attempted resurrection

if all you can say about your game is that "it's like blaseball but more" but i've literally never heard anything about it otherwise, you're no better than someone resurrecting jaylen with a debt just to prove that you can