okay 17776 is really fucking delightful? it’s got exactly the thing i love, like, the attitude, the quality, the perspective? which is, humans are put in a completely insane situation that calls into question the very nature of humanity itself… and then the humans just act like total maniacs for fun, anyway. like when faced with immortality, they just keep playing football. they play football for thousands of years. one single football game lasts 800 years and winds up with 22 players stuck at the bottom of a canyon, still playing a football game that is now explicitly impossible for anyone to win. later, some other guys with a podcast joyfully make fun of them for it.
i really like stories that have this much affection for what enormous goddamn dinguses humans are.
you know there’s gotta be football on the moon. you know for a fact people are up there with two craters as the end zones, tackling each other in low gravity. and you know know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that the fucking football has a speaker inside that is constantly blasting the Super Mario Bros 2 overworld theme. maybe they’ve terraformed the place enough that its atmosphere can support sound waves. maybe they haven’t, and the speaker is useless, and no one can hear each other. that’s not going to stop people from ineffectually shouting “JOHN MADDEN” every time they take possession. if a meme ball’s on the moon and no one hears it, it still makes a sound.
just moving along like everyone else 