#this is the side blog i made specifically to be abnormal about video game men

[certifiedwizardfucker]

He's so pretty and for what? To be a bunch of pixels? Unfair.

[glassgob]

my dearest darlingest mutual gob, what The Fuck is the video game blaseball about bc it quite obviously isnt about the sport baseball and from what all i know about it (legit just looking at your kickass art) blaseball straying farther and farther from baseball

and you would be correct! (also thank you very much btw haha <3) in a sentence, blaseball is an absurdist baseball simulator that's run on your web browser. fake teams and fake players go up against other fake teams and players and we, the audience, bet on who wins, who loses, etc. you use your earnings to vote on what you want to happen next season. the narrative is controlled as much by the simulation and the developers as it is by the fans. fun stuff! (side note because people have asked this before: no blaseball doesn't use real money nor is it anything related to cry/pto. completely free to play!) of course there's a lot of really abnormal elements-- like the umpires sometimes setting players ablaze when there's a solar eclipse. or finding loopholes in the simulation to necromance a fan favorite. or a player becoming so popular that they're encased in a human-sized peanut shell indefinitely. silly (and terrifying) things like that. my friend waveridden wrote a pretty comprehensive breakdown of blaseball which you can read here (i have this linked on my blog under ‘links and shit’ as well)

people make games also made a video giving an overview of blaseball which i also recommend as an artist, i really like blaseball because the sim gives you such little visual content/description, you can really go wild with what players look like or how events take place etc etc. also i’m terrible at statistics and barely know much about real baseball, so i tend to stick to making horror art or writing about sad men with trauma. blaseball has been on hiatus since july of 2021, but it’s planning on coming back in the summer. usually i would redirect you to the official blaseball discord if you wanted to check it out, but it’s currently under maintenance until may 4th. there’s other team-specific servers to join, but i’m kind of getting into the weeds here.  sooo yeah! hopefully this was at least a little helpful. you (or anyone else for that matter) are welcome to dm or ask me more questions about it if you want! it’s a big fixation of mine, and i have a lot of feelings about it