#arsonstick

IT IS MY FAVORITE LIVE ALBUM (besides the final live performance, but nothing can compare to 'and until the quiet takes us, dream of gentler stars')

the set list is just banger after banger. 'second time' is so underrated imo like i swear folks dont talk about it nearly as much as they should, and the live version is my favorite version of it for sure. it truly gets stuck in my head all the time. mike townsend, sun 2, stay gold, like are you kidding me.. some of the most iconic songs out there. chorby soul?? CURSE OF CROWS?? curse of crows was one of my original original fav garages songs and the only one i know on acoustic guitar, so good. and then shelled?? honestly i love the live version of shelled even more than the discipline album version

everything about how it was put together, the editing is just AHHH. i love how LOUD it all is?? i want these songs to echo off my walls and into my brain

and last but not least of course PARK IT !!!!! watching it right now for the hundredth time, i swear i get chills every time with that intro. EVERYONE IS SO GODDAMN COOL! quinne and erica on lead vocals too?? this crew absolutely took what the og park it envisioned and brought it to the absolute moon. and im an ABSOLUTE killer for saxophone so rosie's solo is just. absolutely everything. (the prevalence of sax in this whole album is to die for honestly. looking at you, second time). this is the kind of song i could absolutely yell, it builds up the energy and captures the emotions of being frantic and moving and devastated and determined and i am so insane for park it live @ riv

another thing to highlight about the performances is just how much fun everyone was having. little dancing, stomping with the beat (looking at you, park it), the outfits and recording styles, everything. its just SO FUN

THERE ARE OFFICIAL ITERATOR PLUSHIES NOW

hold on i need to go do. something

oh MAN let me tell you about how much the ohio worms suck (i say this with so much love in my heart btw)

first of all, i actually managed to dig up the worm event history doc i had made back during blaseball beta that lists almost every single good or bad or cool thing that happened to the ohio worms spanning from season 13 (our first season in active play) up to season 23, along with relevant links to reblase! tbh i need to update it to include before sibr links and add stuff that happened after s23 lol. but here's a link to it if youre interested in that.

as a tldr, here's some of the really funny things that happened to the ohio worms contributed to my conviction that the sim hated us in particular:

we had a team mod that gave the team a small stat boost whenever we ended the season as last in our division. it was only proc'ed 3 times because we weren't good enough at being bad. it WOULD have activated a 4th time in season 19, except the turntables rule made every win negative so we were at the top instead of the bottom. so we got NOTHING

we had the lowest average percent chance of passed wills in elections out of every team. so the sim kept picking the things that very few worms fans actually voted for which often ended in REALLY unfortunate situations, like boosting a player that got traded away in the same election, or moving a player to a spot they were already at, or boosting defense. we kept infusing defense on pitchers (which is entirely useless since pitchers didnt even contribute to defense) it was a real problem. we also kept getting things in the elections that were either completely useless or actively detrimental

speaking of defense, one thing that the worms was REALLY good at was defense! we had one of the strongest defenses in the league, which in theory is great. except that defense wasn't actually all that useful in a meta where the best players just hit home runs all the time

one of our only good pitchers at the time, rivers rosa, got bit by sharks so many times that we had to pull her off the roster into the shadows. it was devastating.

because of the configuration we chose for our stadium, we didn't get an option to clean our stadium for a reallllyyyy long time. this was a problem because filth added to eDensity, something we already had problems with considering we had extra championship wins adding to our weight (none of which were actually won in normal gameplay btw, it's just that all of the breach teams started out with at least 3 championship titles because the conceit is that they were already ascended). we were extremely heavy which was part of why our players kept getting attacked by consumers so often. well it WAS going to work in our benefit after a while, because we eventually had enough items on our players to prevent attacks (shout out to xandra pancakes and her steel chairs) and scratch deleuze got the cluttered mod, making her UNSTOPPABLE while on our home field. but then we finally got the option to clean our stadium in the renovations and all of our filth........ GONE..........

we actually once sunk ourselves on semi-purpose. we had this whole campaign to get 4 gifts from the gift shop from other teams because people had started dumping coins into us receiving a chorby soul replica with a chorby's soul item, presumably as a joke initially because chorby's soul is a one way ticket to having your entire team eaten alive by sharks. but we thought that if we could use a different gift to give our players items to protect themselves then we could actually progress the plot a bit in the process (we had a mod that made items contribute more to our eDensity, so we were the only team who could actually use the chorby's soul item to break the gates to blaseball2 (long story)). the other two gifts were because our 3rd place option was for one of the dynamic duo, and we wanted to have BOTH liquid friend and uncle plasma replicas because we knew that Something Would Happen if a team had both on the team and we wanted to find out what it was. Well it turns out that having both of the dynamic duo meant that they would punch the shit out of any consumers so we were effectively immune while also FINALLY breaking the blaseball2 gate. and this would be the end of it except one of the players from the boston flowers stole our chorby's soul and THEY got eaten alive by sharks because they did not in fact get both liquid friend and uncle plasma replicas. whoops!

we fought tooth and claw to improve our team. it was a real struggle, but we very slowly and very surely managed to get our players and lineup good enough that we were FINALLY able to make it to the championship in season 23. we didn't win, but surely we'd be able to get it next time! except we didn't get to, because during the next season the sun collapsed into a black hole and ate the league. and when the main seasons started again at season 1 all the players were reset and reshuffled into the teams so the worms were back to sucking again

during one of the short circuts, the worms won a blessing in the election that transformed the team into THE OHIO PEANUTS. the fans (myself included) were EXTREMELY hype about this because we got honey roasted as a team mod, which was exciting! um. nothing came from this and we got kicked out of the postseason by the spies (as always).

speaking of that the houston spies were like... the ultimate enemy of the ohio worms in that i think they knocked us out of the post season over half of the times that we qualified

he looks like hes in pain .