The Unlimited Taco Stand - miscellany-world-building-week

OK HOW THE HELL DOES INFINITE LA WORK

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12:12

questions for discussion:

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1. how different are the different Las? is physics different, or just history? 2. how do you move from LA to LA? 3. do people have doppelgangers in other LAs? does my "alternate universe self" exist?

2. I like the idea of veterans being able to just wibble between LAi while tourists typically need to take transit

1. There's like.... still rules and stuff that connects them. Also, as someone once said, infinite LAs doesn't mean every LAs so there's no like.... multiversal doomvoid LA destroying other LAs

3. if you ask me, absolutely

your alternate universe self exists and will beat you up

Would there only be one of each blaseball player though so they don’t end up at the ballpark together, since it’s the meeting point of all the LAs?

your alternate universe self exists and you will beat them up

I started thinking about this a little bit for secret Santa and it made my brain absolutely collapse

Otherwise you’d have hundreds of Ashtons coming to pitch

12:28

An Ash-ton of them :v

no cuz like

12:28

LA is infinite vertically

12:29

in atlantis it would happen because it's infinite horizontally

I do really like that LAi’s infinities are distinct from Atlantis infinities. I think there are probably alt-universe selves but they sort of opposite-side-of-the-magnet repel each other. You’ve really got to push against the laws of nature to actually meet

yea, yummy does magnet crimes to hang out with herself

ComicalFont

Would there only be one of each blaseball player though so they don’t end up at the ballpark together, since it’s the meeting point of all the LAs?

This is a complicated thought for me, gonna have to get out of bed for this

yummy’s the new generation, they’ve got all the magnet hacks

see in LAi, if you look at Sexton, turn around, then look back, Sexton won't change cuz you're both still in the same LAi, in Atlantis if.... Atlantisman Georgia was in front of you and you 360'd, a different Atlantisman Georgia would be there

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Do we have a list of LAs that we know of?

an infinite list

Like there's knife angeles

gun angeles

12:33

infinite baja blastgeles

less angeles

more angeles

Off the top of my head the only ones I've seen mentioned are LA prime, knife angeles, Sexton's Horse Dimension, and Vito's Moneyverse

We used to have a big ol google doc where anyone could add an idea for an LA, but I think that link's lost to the sands of time

It is not

12:34

It's in the taco mod drive

lost forever

THAT WE CONSISTENTLY DONT USE

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oh yea another thing, whatever universe you're from, if you leave any LA, you go back to your own universe because your universe isn't on infinite floors like LAi

12:35

You're in a skyscraper right? You wanna leave the skyscraper right? What floor do you get out of the skyscraper???

12:35

you can’t soft-lock yourself into an alternate universe?

no because that would be a mess for away teams

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mod drive: stop telling everyone im dead! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eHiRG2L5S4-kUP_DD8n1EAveCW458n0Ug4zhalDgdqA/edit?usp=sharing

Los Angeli Interdimensional Phonebook

YLELLOWPAGES Of Los Angeli TABLE OF CONTENTS: Reference information/instructions: Editing rules Template page KNOWN LOS ANGELI: LA-Prime (Canon blaseball LA) LA-17 LA-69 LA-143 LA-404 LA-413 LA-505 LA-612 LA-666 LA-682 LA-704 LA-812 LA-999 LA-1011 LA-3243 LA-3355 LA-4213 LA-5413 LA-6712 LA-...

Sometimes I can still hear mod drive,,,,,

is it even old enough to drive?

rude

12:41

omg someone added a homestuck la

delete

someone went off on the lore of some of these woah

12:43

i have not looked at this in over a year lol

12:43

live reacts with hen, a fan favorite pass time

hen angeles

I would like to call LA-420, the Peanut Bong LA where he lead us to our first Championship win in season 11, ran and won mayorship, and now the Tacos have a 13 season winning streak

unrealistic

la 420 is the la where peanut bong was on our team the entire time

yeah

12 season win streak at the most

also fig is a 10 star batter

peanut bong is the most popular pitcher around

cause.. ya know...

FIG HIT BIG

heh hit

yeah and with PBongs power, we never lost a championship after we won our first

12:47

heh hit

I'm technically at work so I'm just gonna drop my big headcanon doc and run https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bKIe8LIMoflhWcipRE__d8CSvdMDKo51Wepanr_2Vb4/edit?usp=sharing

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ComicalFont

Would there only be one of each blaseball player though so they don’t end up at the ballpark together, since it’s the meeting point of all the LAs?

OK. So. Infinitely many versions of the same city means infinitely many versions of the people who reside within that city, I think? Howeeeever, I think that just because an alternate version of someone exists doesn't mean that the alternate someone is playing Blaseball? Like there could be a million bazillion Rats Mason but only a handful of them are playing (actually Rat might have been a bad example because they're sometimes like a collection of rats from various cities acting as one in a surprisingly skillful swarm of rats, but you get the idea). I also imagine that the only LAs with "Blaseball Rules" being applied are the ones that are being actively... watched? tuned into? like we've established that the stadium is the focal point because that's where the unslam happened, so every LA that is connected to LA Prime has the stadium at that exact location, and the moment they step foot in it there are like 30 suns and a black hole and it's knee deep in space juice. But it's fine outside. ...Or, that was the case, I think? Now there's just an empty void because LA Prime got sucked into a black hole. It'll get better though.

12:55

I think I'm rambling

Given the nature of what you're talking about, it kinda fits, lol

This gives me ideas

13:05

So LA Prime was lost to the black hole(black hole) But as a fixed point across the LAi, the stadium can't be lost It's just physically not allowed So then all the other LAi's old stadiums, which used to just be background noise effectively, are now being pulled into the forefront and competing to be the new prime, but this is very unstable without the true LA Prime's stadium. Short circuits have been tuning the space to stabilize one stadium at a time to make it the temporary prime so to speak

I have no idea how this works logistically but I like the idea that if the stadium/unslam is the central point both spatially and temporally, the further out you go the more different the universes are. So 20 years BGU (before grand unslam) history is completely different, but 5 years BGU a blaseball team was formed, and everything sort of spirals until the unslam happens simultaneously across a bunch of universes

13:18

and then things start to divert hard again (edited)

13:20

similarly if you’re in/around the stadium things look pretty familiar across the universes but the further away you go the stranger things get. it’s really easy to accidentally slip into the wrong city when you’re leaving a game and not realise until your hotel is suddenly full of sharks

💚🌮jellorain🌮💚

Off the top of my head the only ones I've seen mentioned are LA prime, knife angeles, Sexton's Horse Dimension, and Vito's Moneyverse

vito's moneyverse MAY be the tacos limited dimension mentioned on the tough love (lovers) page on the wiki

maybe!

also, my thought about LA when it comes to the uhhh Don't Look Too Close of it all is that it's metaphysically a sphere. there's a center of LA, right, the city has a (metaphorically) beating heart. (see attachments.) but the "center" of the city is not the geographical center, the city is metaphysically a sphere or hemisphere with all the regular city stuff, the vast majority of versions of the regular city stuff, on the outside. so like the edge of the city and the geographical center are both equally close to The Center. (but it's not below the city either.) to the best of anyone's knowledge, no one has gotten all the way to the true center of LAi and returned. it is theoretically accessible through very specific rifts, but even trying to get there is likely to put you in a lot of danger.

Just politely ask LAi to let you in the center

the true center... where do you think that would be? i feel like it has to be centered around the stadium somehow since that's where the reality-altering event occurred... but maybe i'm not looking deep enough

13:39

hm. i guess the "where do you think that would be" question is the one that gets people killed or shelled or whatever isn't it

LACMA

i mean, probably, yeah; i do not know enough about LAi geography to have any further thoughts. i also figure that it probably looks much more... abstract? than like, the "surface" city stuff and yeah, trying to concretely answer that question is probably A Bad Idea ™️

imo it would be funny if it really was just Some Place

13:42

Like some vintage 70s era taqueria or some grocery store

What if the reason nobody can find it is because it's... really high up in the sky

The heart of LA is the heart of LA

This whole issue was caused by a grand slam, right?

It's not a physical location but a vibe

yea a metaphysical location or something

13:43

wait no yeah a vibe

13:43

i missed your poimt

13:43

poimt

Hence why those who vibe with LA are able to traverse it with ease while those who try to figure it outand kill the vibe get.... well... killed (edited)

💚🌮jellorain🌮💚

the true center... where do you think that would be? i feel like it has to be centered around the stadium somehow since that's where the reality-altering event occurred... but maybe i'm not looking deep enough

~~It's not the stadium specifically, it's where the ball hit the Skybox~~

💚🌮jellorain🌮💚

What if the reason nobody can find it is because it's... really high up in the sky

LA, and along with cities in the Pacific Ring of Fire (maybe Tokyo if they want), can travel by magma via underground tunnels.

Getting lost in LA is an informal initiation to new residents. When they successfully find their way, a palm tree spontaneously bursts into flames somewhere in the city.

Nearly forgot about this- wrote up a sort of in-universe crash course pamphlet thing a while back, never got around to posting it https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LbgQJQQv470ciDkuvhFL4XvbH8WO_RxagHrG17Gnxuk/edit?usp=drivesdk

Welcome to Los Angeli!

Hey there! Welcome to Los Angeli! Whether you’re finding your new home here or just stopping by for a visit, the Infinite Cities are happy to have you! We here at the Infinite Cities Ubiquitous Panel understand that this can be a confusing place if you’re new, so we’re here to clear up some of th...

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Would you like me

to actually make this into a pamphlet

08:56

Would you like a hen special canva creation

sure!

I feel like there could be so many LAi pamphlets. "Alleys and Portals: how to (mostly) not get (too) lost in LA" "Don't Eat That: a guide to the LAi food scene" "Slauson is for Lovers: the best makeout spots in the Shadows"

i can not make this into a pamphlet lol its too big

thats gotta be at least 3 pamphlets

"So, You Looked Too Close: A Beginners Guide to Dealing with Divine Retribution"

19:14

"Seeing Double: Proper Etiquette for Interacting with your Alternate from Another Reality"

"No left turns: a guide to avoiding the traffic jam"

20:32

"go ahead, look a little closer: how I got rich and you can too!!"

All the charted Los Angeli are numbered, but most choose a moniker for their universe as well, due to the numbers being infinite strings in most cases, due to the need for uniqueness. The subset of Los Angeleyes that have a Taco Stadium in them refer to themselves as the Taco Universes, and since they are not in touch with each other due to universally respected splorts betting regulations, Their populations have all digressed into thinking they are the only Taco Universe.

What's the government in the Infinite Cities like? The Unslam and sudden ride of Anticapitalism would have, at rhe very least, severely destabilized each city's existing government, if not outright destroyed it. What ended up taking its place?

The Cube Rule

is nithya canon in blaseball

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Yes

I had an idea a while back of a Council of Mayors- a governing body that appeared out of the immediate post-unslam chaos. Each Los Angeli has a Mayor on the Council, but rather than being elected, these Mayors are the personification of the wills amd desires of their city's residents. The actual governing is largely done behind closed doors- tabulating infinite votes would destroy a mortal clerk's mind.

a variety of players have had some impact from the grand unslam and subsequent Stuff, both looking too close related and otherwise. -nicholas vincent: Looked Too Close. great. got a sun 2 deal out of the bargain and then died. -son jensen: Looked Too Close(?). got displaced from time. -morrow doyle: got atomized in the grand unslam. and then died. -dove: A Lot Of Stuff Happened. effects vary by IRM. -alejandro leaf: "went from just kind of normal looking to kind of hard to look at". possibly went from humanoid plant to more of a large tangle of vines; possibly went from actual human to plant. -kline greenlemon: experienced a colour change that made it unable to use green screens. -yummy elliott: It's Free Shapeshifting

00:39

there are probably more?

00:40

also: all the stuff fitzgerald wanderlust has going on seem to be independent of all that stuff but he did help out a bunch in the aftermath

00:40

ALSO ALSO. we should have some sort of name for "the thing where los angeles became infinite"? it got completely overshadowed by oops all wyatts and so i'm not sure if anyone ever named the event itself

Oh huh, that's a good point (edited)

i wonder if morrow doyle being incinerated was an act of mercy? being 'atomized' sounds agonizing

here's what the wiki has to say about it

i see... so much for that, then

00:45

morbid

and the part about the long-term effects and their incineration

spinning, levitating fans

00:47

i knew lai was full of peanuts

Aqueyatt Maslon (she/her)

ALSO ALSO. we should have some sort of name for "the thing where los angeles became infinite"? it got completely overshadowed by oops all wyatts and so i'm not sure if anyone ever named the event itself

im not sure if its quite what youre looking for, but i call it "the breaking of the bridge"

oh yeah that works!

i think the only canon reference to that event is "The infinite cit(ies) shine" or something along those lines... are we allowed to call it The Shining

00:54

forgive me if that's a bad joke

here's what it said in the decree description

proud of myself for remembering where the parentheses go

I've kind of mentally referred to it as The Shattering

That was the first thing that popped into my mind when Aquelon brought it up, too. Idk why, it just kinda works?

A lot of depictions have a sort of broken glass effect to the sky, that mught be it

A high speed rail has been built to connect different LA's and surrounding cities in California High speed skateboard rail.

From the blaseball wiki

Even before the Grand Unslam, and it became more apparent after the event there's been a "Refractioning" in LAi's where perception of things often changes, splits, shatters, blends and blurs. Like someone could be perceiving Rat Mason but they're seeing a rat king horde, and a gal and her rat friend at the same time? (edited)

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ooh ooh i like that a lot

yes yes yes

15:27

like, I don’t think the infinite cities are very, uh, stable. I think they sort of leak into each other all the time and you just get better at ignoring it and/or manipulating it

15:28

i very much like the refraction metaphor

Love this idea

I thought that was atlantis' thing

16:49

Y'know horizontally infinite

It's our thing if we had it first lmao

As long as our thing is NEVER ooze

Never ever

Except ours is canon

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we can share infinite. theres more than enough to go around

What if the infinite is finite

an Infinite is now an Outfinite

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isnt charleston also infinite or something

no theres just a lot of them

17:00

for uhh legal reasons i think

17:01

id look it up to be sure but im 99% certain all the wiki pages for em say "what are you, a cop?" and nothing else

hgjkhjskfg i see. perhaps this is why i know nothing about it

fwiw thats their default answer to everything i think

Lmao legally distinct Charleston's

They're actually from Charleston Shoe Company

theyre all charlestons in various places. like, sunken charleston

https://www.blaseball.wiki/w/Charleston yeah the charleston page looks like this (do feel free to click on some of those links to see the full Bit)

Charleston

Charleston, South Australia Charleston, NSW Charleston, Newfoundland and Labrador Charleston, Nova Scotia Charleston, New Zealand Charleston, Angus Charleston, Paisley Charleston, Arizona Charleston, Arkansas Charleston, California Charleston, Illinois Charleston, Iowa Charleston, Kansas Charleston, Kentucky Charleston, Maine Charleston, Massach...