Capricorn_Geriatric

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[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The basic shape of pentagons and hexagons is almost always the same, but the black-white color combo is pretty rare - the balls are usually white with colorful designs and use paited shapes other than the 'basic' petagons and hexagons.

For example, take the soccer wikipedia page The image on the side shows a ball with a design that looks like the emoji well enough at a glance, but you'll see it's quite different. If you go on the wikipedia list page for FIFA World Cup balls you'll see that the 'Tango' style lasted for 6 competitions while the 'Telstar' (the one in the emoji) lasted only 2. After 2000 the designs got really wild and nothing like the Telstar. And that's just looking at FIFA World Cups, ignoring all other competitions and events, as well as balls you could buy at a store

If you were to go look at the balls in a sports shop with some 5-6 models of soccer balls, sure, you'll most likely find a ball that matches the Telstar aesthethic more or less closely, but there will be a lot of variation in the designs that are nothing like the Telstar, as opposed to balls for other sports which are much more standardized.

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mind giving a rundown of how you do it? I tried it many, many times and never accomplished much

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Imagine Nestle executives finding a time machine and going to all of history's most famous persons' mothers and telling them how they can't breastfeed their kids.

Someone should definitely write a book about that

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also a New Zeland, so that's nice