It's been incredible playing along with Blaseball this whole time - It's hard to put into words, really, what made me put so much time into the site, I guess maybe that that narrative was so compelling to me. I didn't engage with the community perhaps as much as I could but I do still remember having some random propaganda piece I made put on blaseball out of context twitter, and the time the Beams selected me as one of three champions for a real-time online game of mafia that took weeks (for the other teams, we won in a few days!). That mafia game is I think one of my favourite things I've ever gotten to do on the internet. So, thanks for playing, everyone! Thank you to the Beams who trusted me, and all the fans besides, and the musicians and artists, and The Game Band. See you around!
Because that's the thing, right? In Blaseball, death is unexpected, and scary, but ultimately incineration is not the end; those who made Blaseball what it is are still here. I'm not saying we should necessarily build our own Blaseball and I'm not expecting it to come back. Magical experiences like that can't really be recreated. But I'm sure whatever everybody involved gets up to next will be pretty good too! I look forward to it.
Oh, and never estimate the Beams.
normal @two posting will return, but in this case you may recognise me as
-twotwos
I'm being deliberately optimistic about this so I genuinely forgot to say, it really does suck that things ended like this. Blaseball has somehow been a significant part of my life for nearly three years. All things must end eventually, but I don't think I was ready for this one yet.
In a weird way this is making me suddenly interested in things I can get into that can't vanish. Maybe I start making visual art or tiny video games or something. No matter what, though, I'll definitely always remember being a Blaseball fan.