2026-05-10 10:08 UTC
@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place I was trying to follow this. Initially I thought "oh, if you're competing against another person/team at the same time, that's soccer" but then baseball destroyed that theory
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@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-10 10:11
@jsbarretto@social.coop Soccer = move ball to place to get point. Track/field = make human do thing to get point. In baseball you score runs by making the human cross home plate. This can be done without ever putting the ball into play; you can score runs entirely by getting walked. Conversely, if you hit a home run but forget to touch home plate, you don’t score a run. Despite being a sport that uses a ball, the ball is totally irrelevant to scoring points; only the human can score a point.