To spare twitter rambling and because it's OOC, some thoughts on Blaseball and narrative story telling in games and fandom:

I kinda love that its just browser based, I feel like making an app for it would ruin the feel of it. It reminds me of The Kittens Game before it had saves or an app and you'd loose all your progress to space fairing kittens if Firefox crashed.

It also reminds me of the text based RPGs (forum and LJ) from the 00s

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/mlb/astros-cheating-open-secret/2020/02/11/1830154c-4c41-11ea-9b5c-eac5b16dafaa_story.html

So that's why it's the Houston Spies?

And somehow Baseball is weirder than Blaseball in some aspects?? How many fucking games do they play? you have have a 100~ game win/loss ratio?? And the off season is how short??

Edit: Now with more necromancy

I love that someone figured out that you can idolize incinerated players and with in 45min Jaylen Hotdogfingers was in 14th place. Also love that everyone just seems to go "oh ok, the Garages want her back, we can help!" (Not so much down with the suggestion that some Crabs can fairweather flute over with votes, like only if they ask directly. We're evil, but lawful)