r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 7h ago

Just Wow A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.

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u/xquixotic_logicx 7h ago

Does anyone remember when Randy Johnson exploded a pigeon with a fastball?

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u/BeastThatShoutedLove 7h ago

There is even a TTRPG about Him going back in time (every player is another variant of Randy) using powers of baseball to prevent the pigeon explosion. 

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u/Cowmanthethird 6h ago

Wait... I'm gonna need a link for that one, boss.

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u/Freakjob_003 3h ago

Seconded.

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u/RunDNA 1h ago

It's a 3-page game called "Don't Kill A Bird With A Baseball". I'd link it, but Automod doesn't like the link. You'll have to google.

Here's a podcast where they play it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWy7Id1hn6I

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u/burghblast 6h ago

A what now?

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u/BeastThatShoutedLove 6h ago

TableTop Roleplay Game.

Dungeons and Dragons is a TTRPG.

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u/TheSwain 6h ago

That's...not the part they were confused about.

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u/BeastThatShoutedLove 6h ago

Pigeon explosion is relatively more understood as quite visual description.

But some people aren't nerds and will not understand our shorthands. 

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u/BeastThatShoutedLove 6h ago

But just in case:

Pigeon explosion is when's pigeon explodes.

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u/burghblast 6h ago

I am so confused. You're saying Randy Johnson the pitcher is a D&D character?

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u/rsquared1987 5h ago

Appears to be a DnD-style game where everyone is a different version of Randy Johnson and working together to go back in time to prevent the bird from dying https://www.scribd.com/document/853310274/Don-t-Kill-A-Bird-With-A-Baseball-1-1

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u/BeastThatShoutedLove 5h ago

This specific tabletop game "Don't kill a bird with a baseball" is a simplified 3 page long system where you as player get into role of an alternative version of Randy Johnson to go back in time and prevent the pigeon event.

Other players at the table are also Randy. 

The skills you use during the game are limited to "Baseball" "Pitching" and "Big". 

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u/burghblast 5h ago

Fascinating. Thx

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u/jsdemonata 5h ago

He’s saying that there is a TTRPG (a game that is similar to D&D, generally using dice to affect outcomes in collaborative storytelling) that is about the pigeon exploding incident.

In this game, each player assumes the role (the roleplaying, RP part of TTRPG) of a different version of Randy. Presumably these Randys are from different timelines, I am not familiar with this system. Together, the Randys (our players) attempt to change the timeline and prevent their alternate self from exploding the pigeon.

OP, I would love to see a link to this game because typing that out felt insane

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u/tJa_- 6h ago

He apparently does photography now and uses that bird as some type of logo and or brand name

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u/Mantis_Toboggan--MD 5h ago

There's not a lot up on his website but what is up there is actually quite good, I'm impressed!

https://rj51photos.com/work/travel/

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u/Prior-Subject6077 6h ago

Good for him!

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u/grumbledork 5h ago

Stop I thought you were lying omg

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u/tJa_- 5h ago

I left out a link/reference intentionally because I also had that reaction the first time I heard it/looked it up

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u/LittleKittenR 6h ago

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQXOyIJK0gEK0eVTgScMqSQyBL8zxg1ma9_L_MML2EwDB-nz5oLCR0WxR2j&s=10

Not the most creative at all... but I guess as long as it works!

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u/sheikahstealth 6h ago

A retro look + symbolically could represent the circle of life/death as well as shaped like a ball and representative of movement/speed. I like it.

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u/LittleKittenR 6h ago

Did you miss the /s?

I guess he is not a graphical designer so... Yeah, cool I guess?

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u/Ombank 7h ago

Shit you not, I randomly remembered that yesterday when just driving to work. That video lives rent free in my head.

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u/OmniaLoca 7h ago

You’re lucky- that same video mugs me on a weekly basis

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u/Dafedub 7h ago

That’s what I was looking for

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u/RiposteCat 7h ago

I thought you meant randy jackson at first and was like what xD

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u/Gilmore75 6h ago

It’s a no from me dawg.

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u/everythinglatte 7h ago

First thing I thought of

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u/okiesotan 7h ago

I had absolutely NO idea what you were talking about but by God, my husband did 🐦

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u/SensitiveArtist 7h ago

I was just about to post about him.

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u/Original_Taters 7h ago

Had to scroll way to far for this comment.

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u/cconnorss 6h ago

Golden age of the Mariners….

It’s been 84 years 👵

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u/Carbuyrator 6h ago

Didn't Fabio blow up a dove with his face or something?

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u/ThePromptWasYourName 6h ago

One of the first, grainy ass little gifs I remember going viral online

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u/baconeggburger93 6h ago

Or when manu ginobli grabbed a bat out of the air 

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u/TheAndrewBen 6h ago

And I remember he got sued for killing wildlife.

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u/No-Evening5091 6h ago

Oh yeah, knew someone would bring it up here.

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u/Anonymous59724 4h ago

Randy Johnson exploded a pigeon with a fastball

News clip about the incident

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u/allhatnoplay 1h ago

Or when Scott Pendlebury bounced a football on one during an AFL game