I wrote two songs today and put them here https://kansascitybreathmints.bandcamp.com/
I wrote them because another Blaseball team, the Seattle Garages, have a Bandcamp as well, and had advanced in the playoffs where we (the Breath Mints) hadn’t. They proceeded to utterly destroy the team that knocked us out. Then they went and got swept in the Finals but that’s neither here nor there.
The point is, Blaseball is great.
You may be wondering: “why do you keep spelling baseball wrong?” I’m not. It’s a web game about absurdist baseball and sports betting. Read this https://blaseball.fandom.com/wiki/Beginner%27s_Guide_to_Blaseball if you’re at all interested, or do what IMM major Everett Huynh did and jump right in based on my recommendation.
The cool thing about Blaseball is that it’s orchestrated by its fans. Every season, a few decrees and a lot of blessings are put up for election, and for 100 in-game coins, you can buy a vote. Blessings always get passed (as of writing this) and go to the team who voted the most for it. For decrees, only the most voted on (or 2 most voted) get passed, and change the game at large. For example, Season 6 just ended. The election ends tomorrow. At the end of Season 5, High Filter was passed, reorganizing the league’s divisions based on their main season record.
On another occasion, the servers crashed in the middle of a Los Angeles Tacos game. When the servers came back, the game had been counted in their record twice. At the end of the season, the Commissioner had declared that “The Grand Unslam Weakened the Bridge”, and that there were now an infinite number of Los Angeles. The team’s name was thereby changed to the Unlimited Tacos, and their entire roster’s names were changed to Wyatt Mason.
Did I mention every team name and player name is, for the most part, bot-generated? Even the games are automated. The gameplay is all sports betting for coin acclimation, which is used to buy votes. Cool stuff.
