What Do You Hope For?

This is it. This is goodbye to ICB, and hello to Infinite Cities. We're officially dropping the Blaseball, and moving on to our future of "good games, and better friends." It's bittersweet, wrapping up everything we've been doing these past three (almost) years, but that doesn't mean we're going anywhere. In fact, you might not even notice the difference.   in this episode: our next project, explaining blaseball, pretty much only good games, sickos mode, ICBee, super mario battle royale, that's the premise, hole score, welcome to only holes, the unspisciest podcast, one last time   ~shoutouts zone~ Infinite Cities by Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, and Rebecca Snedeker The New Infinite Citites Podcast! Infinite Cities Podcast Discord Server Infinite Cities on Twitter Infinite Cities on cohost! ~~~ Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and cohost! and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆    

Blaseball will not be returning. In a lot of ways, this isn't different than a month ago - we didn't have Blaseball then, and we still don't have Blaseball now. Our last regular season episode was thirty-nine. But in more meaningful ways, the world is a little less cool. Even though we gave up talking about blaseball a while ago, this still sucks. Join us as we figure out if there's anything left to say, and keep watch with us as we look forward to a new beginning. In this episode: the final moments of the great blaseball discord, the physical world is unchanged, we're not going to stop podcasting, miracles, rest in violence, change the world, thank yous. ~shoutouts zone~ The Game Band Is Shutting Down Blaseball - Destructioid Closing Thoughts - Blaseball News Network You have two weeks to get your blaseball cares orders in Shout outs to you, reader of the episode notes. ~~~ Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel. Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

Despite everything that's gotten in the way for the past few weeks, Will, Karp, and Gary have been devoting their time to being the Hero of Hyrule.    in this episode: will has played the least of us, our formative zelda years, rediscovering 3D zelda, those sheikah duds, doing everything in a weird order, going to hyrule castle, ~~link's~~ zelda's house, plunging towards hyrule, engineering, our best friend sidon, being a journalist with penn, temple problems, spirit mech, breath of the wild: sad mode, korok torture, building as puzzles, no more tests of strength, scratching the surface of the depths, lets talk about the plot, the hero of hyrule, zelda eats it, the master sword   ~shoutouts zone~  Tears of the Kingdom Title Drop  Remap Radio   ~~~ Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel. Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️      

Disco Elysium is somehow (still) so much more than we could have anticipated, but we're finally wrapping up our conversation from last week with the endgame! Feather's still doing too many drugs, Gary has thoughts about the hole, Will's complaining about tech, and Karp is still just better than you.  Content warning: this episode contains discussions of hard drugs,  alcohol, violence, suicide, murder, philosophy, and politics in this episode: raphaël ambrosius costeau, where'd we left off last time, bashing political ideologies, dance teens, romance in disco, wompty-dompty dom centre, klaasje, cw: drug use, ruby, the tribunal, sad fm, one last door, dolores dei, we should talk about the world, the hole, philosophy, the deserter, the insulindian phasmid is real, shoutouts to cuno, the pale, thoughts about The World, the kim theory, will's tech corner, clearing out side quests, the hole at the center of everything, the pessimism is baked in, the world isn't doomed, disco elysium is dancing in the face of oblivion ~shoutouts zone~ A Compilation of Articles about Disco Elysium  Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz  People Make Games Disco Elysium coverage -  released after we recorded but before we released (somehow) but the best research into the out of game situation SadFM by @patientno7 on twitter  SadFM by AntonSavinov on DeviantArt  SadFM in game  The Stained Glass Window of Dolores Dei by @cardo_de_comer What Kind of Cop Are You? Kim's Photo of the Phasmid  ~~~ Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel. Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️  

Wow, Disco Elysium is a lot. It feels a bit late to be getting to this game, but we're finally in the dark (metaphorically and physically), dank (same) city of Revachol! Gary found books to read, Feather's trying to solve being sad through chemistry, Will is having a hard time finding his place and Karp is just better than you. This game is so big, this one is just the first half of the game! Content warning: this episode contains discussions of hard drugs, including the use of drugs by a minor,  alcohol, violence, and racism. This episode contains spoilers for the first half of Disco Elysium, beginning vaguely at about 00:30:00, and getting more detailed and spoiler-y as this episode progresses. In this episode: Tears of the Kingdom, what's your build, you will respect feather's authority, fuck Cuno, giving up drugs for feminism, the least comfortable chair in the universe, this game does not like you. ~shoutouts zone~ Some of Gob's incredible Blaseball modifiers rendered as Disco Elysium stat portraits (and more of them) Behold! The Inland Empire Detective, it's Wednesday ~~~ Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel. Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️  

Taco D3 Mayo might be behind us, but it still looms large in our heads - and T4co De Mayo is just around the corner! To settle our minds, friend of the show Deejay burst into our podcast and sat us down for an interview. How did TDM go? Who was it for? And, why in the name of christ did we go to 3pm on Saturday? In this episode: kool-aid man morality, thank you/apologies, the importance of style guides, 24 hours is a long time, BACo: Origins, King of the Castle was awesome, Rat Batson vtubing. ~shoutouts zone~ The VOD is lost to the ether - Twitch changed their VOD policy from 14 days to 7 days a few months ago, and we never noticed. If you're hearing this, sorry! The gofundme is still live! Lolo's style guide for T3M, and also TDM 1 The stream carrd No Effort Allowed ~~~ Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel. Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

This Friday, May 5th (actually Cinco De Mayo this time!) we're kicking off our annual 24-hour charity marathon livestream extravaganza! If you like ICB, or if you hate ICB and enjoy seeing us suffer, tune in from 3:30 pm Pacific, May 5, through 4:00 pm Pacific, May 6th! The stream will be live at https://www.twitch.tv/infinitecitiesblaseball  Stream info is at https://tacod3mayo.carrd.co/  Donate at https://gofund.me/6c6450ee See you there! 🌶️

This week, we're continuing our playthough of One and Ninety-Eight! The Erie Sunfish continue to struggle to find a foothold in the Major Leagues, despite everyone's best efforts to improve themselves.    our characters:  Double-O Forever: Hotshot star batter, very fast, finger guns, slicked back hair. "call me double-o". Guy fieri shirt. Jealous of leather jacket. James bond by way of greaser. He/Him. Whitty Mayday (she/her) - human, tall, mixed complexion, keeps her curly hair up in a tight ponytail, artist, free-spirited, always covered in splatters of paint Sink Goggles: A biomechanical hyperrealistic 3 foot tall rat in green boottlecap steampunk goggles wears a long purple leather trenchcoat and a bowler hat. He is mainly an eephus pitcher, although throws a knuckle ball slurve and 2 seamer. they/them Bumble Couchsurf (he/him) - human in his midtwenties, easygoing,  dressed as a hipster without being one, always carries a harmonica on his person. Dislikes beds   in this episode:  we have mbmbam spoilers, we will never fix it in post, pizza by the square inch,  what good is one hit, it's hard to take care of yourself, bumble's appreciative words, we used to be the best, a big dumb speech, a THE D4, erie sunfish hit it big, but feather redid how pitching works, a big dumb messy fight, bad coaching, sink europe, good coaching, big dumb paddle boats, a weird erie, paddle boats shred, a small sad speech, double on, all in, unplaytested endings, square pizza surpemacy, party time vibes, rollercoasters shred, blaseball out of sync, future pitches, taco d3 mayo   ~shoutouts zone~ taco d3 mayo  infinite cities on twitch    ~~~ Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel. Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️  

Titanfall 2 might not have a lot to say, but we certainly do! From our favorite titans (Scorch is da best, ignore the rest of those losers on this show) to a confused rundown of the plot, we had such a good time talking about a good time that maybe we forgot to explain, say, what an R-201 is. Who cares! Certainly not Titanfall 2. Content warning: extended discussion of guns, Titanfall 2 spoilers, for the entire duration of the episode. In this episode: BT stands for Best FrienTd, there isn't much of a story but we still fail to summarize it, why is everyone shooting my face with delicious strawberry jelly, we go down every mission because they're all so good, effect and cause, I got the arc tool and suplexed a dude and everyone clapped and obama was there, the most OP weapon is in my head for some reason, a game with not much to say. ~shoutouts zone~ Hyper Demon Taco De Mayo is in TWO WEEKS Join us in playing our next video game book club game, Disco Elysium! ~~~ Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel. Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

Another week has come and gone and we are still without blaseball to discuss, so we're playing another ttrpg! Feather has been designing games for a while now, and this is our first time playing the first game she'd published, One and Ninety-Eight!   our characters: Double-O Forever: Hotshot star batter, very fast, finger guns, slicked back hair. "call me double-o". Guy fieri shirt. Jealous of leather jacket. James bond by way of greaser. He/Him. Whitty Mayday (she/her) - human, tall, mixed complexion, keeps her curly hair up in a tight ponytail, artist, free-spirited, always covered in splatters of paint Sink Goggles: A biomechanical hyperrealistic 3 foot tall rat in green boottlecap steampunk goggles wears a long purple leather trenchcoat and a bowler hat. He is mainly an eephus pitcher, although throws a knuckle ball slurve and 2 seamer. they/them Bumble Couchsurf (he/him) - human in his midtwenties, easygoing,  dressed as a hipster without being one, always carries a harmonica on his person. Dislikes beds   in this episode: ascension, hapless animals, erie sunfish, moments, feather likes gmless games, glass dice, erie pennsylvania, san jose, onomancer, creating characters, bee bee king, a james bond greaser, a paint splattered artist, a harmonica playing couchsurfer, and a biomechanical rat pitcher walk into the major leagues, eephus pitching, double-slow, bad day colors, smoke on the water, feather changing the rules while we're playing should make me angry but she wrote it so it's fine i guess, 1-2 is certainly better than 0-51, wiggly field, snakes   ~shoutouts zone~  One and Ninety-Eight: Life In The Major Leagues  Misty Mountain Gaming Glass Dice  Pumpkinseed Sunfish  Dice on the Cob  Erie, Pennsylvania  Onomancer  Eerie, Pennsylvania  StarshinePerigee on Itch.io   ~~~ Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel. Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️