I'd like to throw some credit (or blame, depending on how this all shakes out) to my fellow Canada Moist talkers fans. A handful of them started the necromancy plan and the rest of us jumped on as soon as we saw what was happening. The Tuesday of season six was rough for us. We were dead last in the league, we had two feedback swaps that morning and most of us were devastated by the loss of Richmond Harrison. So once we realized necromancy was an option we quickly went from a period of morning to actively rebelling against the blaseball gods. And it was quick. We had to check with the garages to make sure they were (mostly) okay with it, but in a matter of hours we had necromancy posters and videos, everyone in the discord had a skull in their user name and our tweets to the commissioner had become decidedly more antagonistic and goth. That's how Canada became the necromancy team. One day we'll have a heritage minute about it
Fantastic write-up! I've been looking for more analysis about Blaseball, and wondering how the Cultural Event will be described when we all have time to Look Back at it. With significant events divided between the game log, Twitter, wiki, and discord, how does one even make sense of it retrospectively? The blarchaeology's gonna be wild....
As a Millennials fan, I also spent this week riveted by the RP saga of Randy Marijuana, and am curious about your insights on that? The community seemed to take previous incinerations relatively in stride, though I've read about discussions on how to handle it happening to the kids on the teams and such. (e.g., "York Silk got sunburned and his mom and to take him home.")
Then this happens, and AFAICT for the first time the RP accounts involved posted OOC statements that the community is discussing how to handle the situation. The result was Randy fanonically surviving incineration thanks to a combination of Hellmouth influence and his earlier Precognition Blessing. So now he's in a NY hospital getting Taco Bell from his brother (driven there by former Spies member Andy Solis because Millennials can't drive, of course).
Do you anticipate this becoming more common as people have more time to emotionally invest in players who subsequently get incinerated, thus defanging the mechanic from a storytelling perspective? Has that ship already sailed now that we've dipped our communal toes into necromancy? Will Jess and Nagomi ever get unshelled? Have you already committed to doing the Ken Blurns documentary of Blaseball, and when's the Kickstarter?
Thanks much. I'm hoping you'll have the patience to respond to these ramblings. You, and the commissioner, are doing a great job!
Gosh. I really, really would have liked to have seen what happened if all three Peanuts were idolized.
I'd like to throw some credit (or blame, depending on how this all shakes out) to my fellow Canada Moist talkers fans. A handful of them started the necromancy plan and the rest of us jumped on as soon as we saw what was happening. The Tuesday of season six was rough for us. We were dead last in the league, we had two feedback swaps that morning and most of us were devastated by the loss of Richmond Harrison. So once we realized necromancy was an option we quickly went from a period of morning to actively rebelling against the blaseball gods. And it was quick. We had to check with the garages to make sure they were (mostly) okay with it, but in a matter of hours we had necromancy posters and videos, everyone in the discord had a skull in their user name and our tweets to the commissioner had become decidedly more antagonistic and goth. That's how Canada became the necromancy team. One day we'll have a heritage minute about it
This was a great write-up. Really enjoyed reading this
Fantastic write-up! I've been looking for more analysis about Blaseball, and wondering how the Cultural Event will be described when we all have time to Look Back at it. With significant events divided between the game log, Twitter, wiki, and discord, how does one even make sense of it retrospectively? The blarchaeology's gonna be wild....
As a Millennials fan, I also spent this week riveted by the RP saga of Randy Marijuana, and am curious about your insights on that? The community seemed to take previous incinerations relatively in stride, though I've read about discussions on how to handle it happening to the kids on the teams and such. (e.g., "York Silk got sunburned and his mom and to take him home.")
Then this happens, and AFAICT for the first time the RP accounts involved posted OOC statements that the community is discussing how to handle the situation. The result was Randy fanonically surviving incineration thanks to a combination of Hellmouth influence and his earlier Precognition Blessing. So now he's in a NY hospital getting Taco Bell from his brother (driven there by former Spies member Andy Solis because Millennials can't drive, of course).
Do you anticipate this becoming more common as people have more time to emotionally invest in players who subsequently get incinerated, thus defanging the mechanic from a storytelling perspective? Has that ship already sailed now that we've dipped our communal toes into necromancy? Will Jess and Nagomi ever get unshelled? Have you already committed to doing the Ken Blurns documentary of Blaseball, and when's the Kickstarter?
Thanks much. I'm hoping you'll have the patience to respond to these ramblings. You, and the commissioner, are doing a great job!