@also_a_ghost If you keep it you put it on your shelf and tell people about it for years, exaggerating the athleticism required to catch it.
My only giveaway rule is if I catch the opposing team's home run. Instead of throwing it back I find a kid in that team's jersey to get it.
@also_a_ghost A 4-year-old won't even remember getting the ball. He's at the age where the box a Christmas present comes in is just as exciting as the present.
The adult who caught it looks young himself, like in his 20s. The Internet should leave him alone.
The winner of the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) is Our Simulated Selves by Nikki Null. “[T]his book could legitimately help a lot of people understand themselves.” — SPSFC 4 winner Wick Welker
https://t.co/mL2IjG737y
The runner-up in the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) is ab initio by Jacob Terracina. “This was that book that I was reading on train, waiting at bank, at the cafe, and got annoyed every time I was interrupted.”
https://t.co/FU87vcCyH5
Third place in the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) goes to Generations by @NoamJosephides. A "slow-burn conspiracy theory space opera" on a generation ship 80 percent of the way to a new home.
https://t.co/4bLgXRV3y0
Fourth place in the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) goes to Artificial Selection by Marianne Pickles. A cozy mystery in a hopeful climate apocalypse starring a benevolent AI and the Head of Awkward Questions.
https://t.co/KQw7JRwOQs
Fifth place in the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) goes to FrostByte by N.S. Chaudhury. A Desi cyberpunk novel of illegal resurrection. Judge: "Ngl, I adored this book."
https://t.co/xKjJ0CkRuI
Sixth place in the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) goes to Time Traitors by Eli Donovan. Judges called it a romp with a "cast of scientific and seedy characters all trying to avoid becoming dinner."
https://t.co/VpkQ9wKh1P
@harsod@Archaicmind3000 The rules don't care about whether the player reports the problem during or after the point. If the chair agrees with the player the point doesn't matter anyway.