There IS crying in Blaseball

Hey, it's me, Kosmo! From the chat! Mostly Blaseball, but I'll reblog Terror Ball, MMOLB, and and other splorts art I see!

[doctorwhoisadhd]

STOP ACTING LIKE BLASEBALLS DEAD. THE SIMS DEAD. ALSO THE FRIDAYS ARE STILL DEAD. BUT BLASEBALLS ONLY DEAD IF WE STOP TALKING ABOUT IT AND I PLAN TO BE VERY LOUD ABOUT THOMAS ENGLAND FOREVER

[depsidase]

[roycohn]

sorry to tack on but i have a folder full of these images bc i collect ones that make me laugh, MY TIME HAS COME

[senatortedcruz]

[transhuman-priestess]

@zoethesportsblog

[zoesupreme]

a few of my favorites

[zoesupreme]

a new one just dropped

[dappergamelord]

had to add a couple favs from my personal collection

[theprofessional-amateur]

[pallettown]

that man ryland grace doesnt fuck anybody but markiplier had to open his big fat mouth and now i cant scroll the tag without the consequences of his words plastered in front of me bro. i dont caaaaaaare show me things about the movie and book

[pallettown]

tumblr users so racist they would rather ship ryland grace with anybody but the guy he literally had a fucking baby with

[pallettown]

tumblr users so misogynistic they would rather draw ryland grace boning markiplier from another dimension than spend a single second thinking about her

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

[starrynet]

that’s his little guy!!

[cryptotheism]

I will create the world's first ontologically evil baseball team

[cryinginblaseball]

[catlips001]

FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.

[battebitch-deactivated20200410]

what was yesterday, cat?

[catlips001]

[catlips001]

I’m not missing it this year.

[fresnelprism]

TRANSMISSIONS by fresnelprism

featuring illustrations and collage poetry from the apollo 11 transcripts

my solo zine for @blaseballzinejam :] !! i'm very proud of how it came out!

about ephraim ladd, descent, and a home you can't return to. featuring illustrations and collage poetry from the apollo 11 transcripts.

[corvoda]

I'm playing a goofy game of Discord baseball called Rookie League NumberBall, where the pitcher dms the GM a random number between 1-1000, and then the batter dms the GM a random number in the same range. The GM privately compares the two, and the closer the two numbers, the better the hit. It rolls over from 1000-1, so the biggest difference between the two numbers could be 500.

You'd think the best move would be to use a random number generator, but true randomness will only give random results. Turns out you need to play mindgames like that one northernlion clip in order to actually be good at the game.

First pitch of the game, pitcher throws 823, batter throws 127. Difference of 304. Not close enough for a hit. Out.

Second pitch, pitcher copies the previous batter, 127. Batter said 57. Good hit, only 70 away. Gets on 1st base.

Third, pitcher says 127 AGAIN. batter said 504. Differential of 377. Out.

Fourth pitch 127 AGAIN. Batter expected a mindgames switch up, swings with a 627. Absolute blunder. 500 Dif. 3 Outs. Runner on 1st stranded. Inning over. Die mad about it. Fuck you.

[ionbowling]

missing the precog trio :,(

[eyeoftheaxolotl]

oh yeah you guys might like this one

took several hours of pixel art but im so happy with it. my personal love letter to the garages is putting my favorite album in this game so i can give it to all my ocs

[beanzdabean]

I am currently developing this new sport called big fucking baseball

Its going to be fun, and require alot of long distance jogging

[burningcrab]

jsut had a flashback to my blaseball hc that york silk and ruffian applesauce were edgy sonic oc forum rp rivals years before they met irl/dated and neither of them realized for a while

yorks sonic oc was Silky the Lemur and he was a surf instructor who never had to be on tv or do brand deals and he never did any sports except surfing and only when he wanted to. york had a Really Normal Childhood and wasnt projecting any desires onto his ocs at all. ruffians sonic oc was Ruff the DireWolf and she was an awesome space warrior princess from another timeline (its NOT like blaze and silvers thing. ruffian thought silver was LAME. ruff has a way cooler thing going on and its totally different) and she was BEST FRIENDS with shadow and shes SECRETLY EVIL (but still loves her friends)

and they had a whole long RP thread where they were friends and hanging out and then suddenly ruff BETRAYED silky and they blocked each other

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

liking and reblogging your mutuals' posts

[revivificating]

my brain : nagomi smile

me: GHGHGHOUGH

[soulscreamdetector]

AIAOIIEEHHHOUH

[polkadotpatterson]

Ok but actually why have I not thought about the concept of Dot just fully becoming the Monitor's servant after the unshelling... no more blaseball for them, they live in the Hall now. Probably has a kind of psychopomp role. Gets an even more squiddish unsettling deep-sea bioluminescent makeover. They can't pitch anymore but they're so disconnected from their old life that they don't even realize they miss it... this could be a 12x100

[bigdamnproject]

POV you’re on The Salt and trying to lead your coven to bring the water back, and two of the Favoured One’s entourage won’t stop singing about how much you fucked up

Another part of my Alto and Jasper should be friends campaign.

(shout out to @wiresinabox, my Alto is so incredibly based on theirs)