#abntt

[therandomcreechur]

I’m pretty sure people have pointed this out before, but four always says “Another name than that” instead of “a better name than that”

[tapwater118]

rapid fire tpot 12 thoughts uhh spoilers duhh

eliminations were not shocking, i exactly predicted this right after tpot 10 came out

was not really expecting them to do a team swap this early but hey i guess proportions-wise season 1 did it earlier so whatev

new teams! death pact yet again is probably my favorite right now, mostly cause it took one of my top tpot teams and added pin to it. tee hee. team 2 and 🎼 are pretty good, they can definitely work well if they write them good. cloudyay is kinda whatever, if they aren’t careful the team ignoring gb could very easily turn into a retread of abntt’s schtick before 8 ball got eliminated

challenge was a bit underwhelming but i take it it was more meant to showcase the new team dynamics so it gets a pass

i really like the side plot with 1, was not expecting them to go the “deal with the devil” route with her, very excited to see what that leads to

overall the episode felt a bit rushed, but i had a lot of laughs so its fine. it honestly felt a lot more like bfdia than tpot, if that makes sense. idk maybe im crazy

pillowbook…. :(

icebook!!!! :)

tengolf….. :(

and if you were wondering, i voted for golf ball, needle, and pencil

[cupio-stardust]

In defense of 8-Ball

A lot of people in the BFDI community don’t really care for 8-Ball, and that leads to a lot of people mischaracterizing him. Because of this, I decided to make a mini essay ranting on several topics relating to him. This includes the following:

-Mischaracterization in the fandom

-His relationships with other characters

-His missed potential

With that said, let’s start with the first section!

Mischaracterization in the fandom

I can’t stress how much it infuriates me whenever I see a piece of content that portrays him as an asshole. 😭

I know it’s easy to see him like that, since he almost makes his team lose twice. But the thing is, he’s not as bad as people make him out to be. When both TB and GB died, there was pretty much no one else to lead the team to victory. 8-Ball, however, took initiative and became the “temporary” team leader. I honestly think it says a lot that he was willing enough to take on a role like that in a dire situation. Sure, you could say he was rude to ignore Grassy, but let’s be real, would YOU want to be led by the literal child of the group who does nothing besides say his name? (By this point at least that was all he did) And hey, he wasn’t THAT bad of a leader either. Yeah, he use TB’s contraption, but fair use I guess.

Also, it’s not like he was bullying Grassy, he was just more focused on the game. In fact, it’s actually GB who was bullying Grassy, but I don’t see many people hate on her for that? (This is not GB slander btw! I love her)

While yes, most of his dialogue boils down to, “I don’t have a favorite number” it’s important to note that it’s not his ENTIRE character. He’s smart when he needs to be, as shown when he used TB’s contraption in an admittedly smarter way than GB. Plus, he genuinely cares about his team. Even though it doesn’t seem like it, you have to remember that he went (with Blocky) to Four to ask him to bring back GB and TB. If he didn’t care about them, he probably would’ve held off from it and just continued to lead the team himself until they inevitably came back.

I think the fact that 8-Ball’s whole reason for the team leader thing makes him seem so much better than how he’s normally perceived. He just wanted to lighten up the mood by making jokes, but he just took it too far by not realizing that it was actively harming their team dynamic. When he realized this, he apologized in an oddly genuine way to GB. The fact that he took accountability just goes to show that he’s a pretty decent guy who may or may not be autistic. /hj

His relationships with other characters

This is probably gonna be my favorite section lol. I absolutely love his banter with the others, especially with GB. Speaking of GB, let’s start with her!

8-Ball and GB’s little rivalry is honestly really fun to watch. The way they continuously fight for the attention of their team members, their small moments of bickering, it’s just so sjahjwzjhsjshsh

At first, GB hates him because in her eyes; he’s an asshole who tries to sabotage the team and steal her role as team leader. But when 8-Ball apologizes, she admits herself that he isn’t that bad of a guy/“a completely useless moronic dumb robot”.

After that, they don’t get many more interactions, which is unfortunate because they had such a fun dynamic! I would genuinely pay so much money just to see them have more one on one conversations. 8-Ball’s teasing + Golfball’s temper would’ve been a nice way to spice up the interactions of ABNTT. But alas, we can only dream. :(

I also wish that he got more interactions with the EXITors, since they have the feeling of a found family, so 8-Ball being included in that would be nice.

His Missed Potential

Sighhhhhh, this is the most annoying part of this whole thing: the missed potential of 8-Ball.

It bothers me that he was eliminated so early on in the series. Even though his “arc” was pretty much completed, there was still room for them to expand on him. Like I stated in the previous section, his interactions with GB could’ve served as nice comic relief, along with perhaps touching on his comedian side a little more? Maybe learning to crack jokes that fit the situation, and making sure that they don’t hurt people. ALSO! There could’ve also been more interactions between other characters besides GB and Basketball. Like maybe TB or Blocky? Hell, even Grassy. Oh yeah, and they could’ve also expanded on why he’s so adamant on convincing others he doesn’t have a favorite number. And maybe, just maybe, a little angst? Typing this all out is annoying because there was SO MUCH potential but they missed out on it. 💔

Conclusion

Ending off this small rant, I just hope in future TPOT episodes he gets more than one line per episode. (His only lines so far have literally been “Four’s back, let’s go!” and “Blah blah blah blah”) At the very least, I hope this short essay has made you like him a little more than before, or even like him more!

[buddicat]

BRING IT ON.

bfdi 1: take the plunge bfdi 2: barriers and pitfalls bfdi 3: are you smarter than a snowball? bfdi 4: sweet tooth bfdi 5: bridge crossing bfdi 6: power of three bfdi 7: bfdi 8: cycle of life bfdi 9: bfdi 10: crybaby! bfdi 11: lofty bfdi 12: bfdi 13: don't lose your marbles bfdi 14: half a loaf is better than none bfdi 15: vomitaco bfdi 16: the reveal bfdi 17: reveal novum bfdi 18: recission bfdi 19: bowling, now with explosions! (?) bfdi 20: gardening hero bfdi 21: bfdi 22: bfdi 23: hurtful! bfdi 24: insectophobe's nightmare 2 bfdi 25: return of the hang glider bfdia 1: yeah, who? i wanna know bfdia 2: get digging bfdia 3: zeeky boogy doog bfdia 4: insectophobe's nightmare 3 bfdia 5a: get in the van bfdia 5b (the game) bfdia 5c: no more snow! bfdia 5d: bfdia 5e: the long lost yoyle city idfb 1: welcome back bfb 1: getting teardrop to talk bfb 2: lick your way to freedom bfb 3: don't do this on a swingset bfb 4: today's very special episode bfb 5: fortunate ben bfb 6: four goes too far bfb 7: the liar ball you don't want bfb 8: questions answered bfb 9: this episode is about basketball bfb 10: enter the exit bfb 11: get to the top in 500 steps bfb 12: what do you think of roleplay? bfb 13: return of the rocket ship (the hype surrounding this was real) bfb 14: don't dig straight down (this one too!!!!) bfb 15: the four is lava bfb 16: the escape from four bfb 17: x marks the spot bfb 18: take the tower bfb 19: how loe can you grow? bfb 20: a taste of space bfb 21: bfb 22: who stole donut's diary? bfb 23: fashion for your face! bfb 24: the game has changed bfb 25: bfb 26: bfb 27: uprooting everything bfb 28: bfb = back from beginning bfb 29: sos (save our show) bfb 30: chapter complete tpot 1: you know those buttons don't do anything, right? tpot 2: the worst day of black hole's life tpot 3: getting puffball to think about rollercoasters tpot 4: gardening zero

contestants, i'll do this per team because it's easier for me tor emember LMAOO

abntt:

8-ball basketball golf ball tennis ball blocky grassy robot flower tv

tic:

donut barf bag gelatin naily spongy bomby firey jr bracelety

the losers (i forget abt them alot honestly):

leafy (after bfb 11) firey needle coiny pin loser cake clock eggy

bleh:

teardrop ice cube book gaty saw lollipop dora taco

iance:

pencil match bubble ruby flower snowball fanny lightning

death pact:

black hole liy tree pie bottle pen pillow remote

free food:

eraser bell fries yellow face puffball marker foldy stapy

beep:

roboty david leafy (originally) balloony cloudy rocky nickel woody

tpot newbies: winner + price tag

alr hosts.

announcer flower speaker box firey speaker box puffball speaker box four x purple face (i think that's it...)

seasons. quite easy if i say so myself

bfdi bfdia idfb bfb tpot

thank u for reading through this long ass thing! some eps might be there but in different placements (especially with insectophobe's nightmare 3 hfbjhjfg)

[roboty-is-neat-ok]

ok i was joking about tv getting involved in this earlier but i just noticed that basketball literally has like. Notes on him in her room (she also has one for robot flower but thats less suprising considering shes still in regular contact with her)

maybe these were from her time on abntt but still its still interesting to think about. maybe theyll team up or something.

[smile-files]

okey doke i have sketches done for my new iance, abntt, and beep gjinkas!!! this is a lot of fun :D

[flamebearrel]

Hello! If requests are still open can you you draw human Basketball (TPOT) plz?

In BFB her jersey would read ABNTT and have 08 as the number instead, for 8-Ball! Then it just automatically switches when she changes teams. I also considered 2763 but obviously that would mean either four digits on one side (cluttered) or split between front and back (unclear)

[inanimatez]

i dont. know why i cant make the poll like 2 days or something. i dont wanna wait a week.....

[returnofdreamisland]

A summary for Return of Dream Island (RODI)

Pen, Pillow, and Bottle somehow found Dream Island’s new location. They then run into Evil Leafy who successfully possess Pillow. Not in the way she normally does though. Later few more people ended up getting possessed in similar ways. It happen to the point where Golfball had the idea to take her team (ABNTT) and Death PACT on a mission to permanently get rid of Dream Island once and for all.

During their quest to delete Dream Island some of the other teams decided to run anyway from the competition area as well. Slowly one by one those groups either died or got possessed as well.

[greenlodgecypher]

Cryptography Column

From Aivas

This month we're dredging into the classic saw: the Vignere cipher.

Letter-substitution ciphers are something we've covered before. They are limited, though. A simple alphabet- or symbol-substitution cipher is vulnerable to frequency attacks, which are analysis where one observes the frequency of a letter or character and compares it to the common frequencies of various languages. The date-shift cipher, which we have covered before, is slightly better in that the letter frequencies will not reflect the original language as easily. The Vignere cipher was another such method of avoiding patterns. Vignere's classic table is one which, across 26 rows and columns, contains 26 alphabets (each bginning with the next letter of the alphabet) and can be used to look up each letter of a message, according to its number in the sequence, and shift it according to one of those 26 corresponding alphabets. Further scrambling can be used such that 'shift' is not even the proper word anymore. The classic vignere, however, is not quite so extreme. A single keyword is chosen (let's use MOTHMAN). This makes our encryption table a little smaller than 26x26. Use this to enipher your message. For the first letter, use the first column under M, then the O column, the T column, etc. until you've enciphered the first 7 letters, then repeat using the seven columns again in sequence. For example: BATTLE CHESS turns into: NOMAXE PTSLZ Messages can be read by referencing their key sequence position, the column that corresponds to that position in the key, and checking the alphabet column on the left. Try this:

Fvx jurpgzty roenowl mnl ysgauoa at vldtnub xcqnge hahf hnp htrqn cxovl, fhnf abntt gmyx wxapq; wm maromrx hzy xubw vr ayxilpan ga halee rhsgae oe mbr oung at moqie qlbzfeaos, hy af gts ivesvnwepfy br halur rjwlaqnpq, bha anyk wg ate Cdslz, nug ub tuk fbda pomtrhsk. Ate fgpclot jmg gvf tb ns tsxuqqr mv un paboldsnfwhu, ut jmg gvf tb ns apztrp om, oawrhsk vnspgfxsk, ia xsmaqrf; fvx cqrl qlbzfeaos hm fhr owkjglnd, wmz euovsva mpndh, phe tb ns t kqaq esvyqt. Gtsll yeneikle wrds lbocregybx.

[bluepoke483]

BFB Prehistoric animals AU ABNTT

[mao-likes-2-draw]

ABNTT incorrect quotes! 

Basketball: Oh man, you have any shaving cream?  8-ball: No, I don't like the way that it tastes.  Basketball: Wait... you eat shaving cream?  8-ball: No. Why would I eat it if I don't like the taste.

GolfBall: Given the circumstances, I will let you hug me for four to five seconds.  Grassy: Forty five seconds?!?  GolfBall: No! I said four TO five seconds.  Grassy, hugging GolfBall: Too late. 

Basketball: You have to apologize to Blocky!  GolfBall: Fine!  GolfBall: Unfuck you, or whatever!

Grassy, handing a balloon to 8-ball: I have no soul. Have a good day!  8-ball, walking off: I don't have one either. 

Basketball: You’re a loose cannon, GolfBall.  GolfBall: No, I’m not. I’m a cannon, maybe, but a loose cannon? Is that what you think of me?  Grassy: I think you play by your own rules.  Tennisball: No way, they think rules were made to be broken.  Basketball: Those are all attributes of a loose cannon.  GolfBall: No, I’m just a reckless renegade. Blocky is a loose cannon.  Blocky: *smashes a chair* Aah! You shut your trap, GolfBall!  Tennisball: I’d say Blocky’s more of a cop on the edge with nothing to lose. That’s an entirely different thing.  Grassy: Now I’m just confused. Is GolfBall a loose cannon or not?  Basketball: All right, put on a pot of coffee. We’re gonna get to the bottom of this.  GolfBall: *groans*  Blocky: Aw, man.

Basketball: How would you like your coffee?  Grassy: As dark and as bitter as my soul.  Basketball, shouting to someone behind the counter: I need one vanilla latte with extra cream and sugar!

8-ball: Can you be quiet?! I'm trying to think.  GolfBall: Don't worry. Doing anything for the first time is difficult. 

[smexypencil]

Bfb14 made me realize that making fun of golf ball is the most fun thing in the world

[objectconfessions]

[64dice]

ok last post for tonight!!

[bfdying]

TV’s holographic arms are a passive aggressive move against golf ball who had to build hers with her own feet