Brandon (Optimal Play)

I played the first Shadowlands scenario in Marvel Champions and I it's a triumph of a design that does a lot with a little. The heroes and villains moving between rooftop and street positions is flavorful and mechanically interesting, and it's all done with two cards on the table!

Wait, they did? Do they just not announce product releases on the FFG web site anymore?

Ribbit every day IMO. It's so satisfying.

I've got Apocalypse right where I want him in a Marvel Champions game and this art is excellent

Very confused about what sort of game this is. But it looks cool and Halloweeny

Hiking with my corgis and the old man got tired

Thanks @optimalplay.bsky.social for making this look at Hunt for Blackbeard in action! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBZ0...

Tfw your drink matches your hair

Ok this is a little on the nose

Oh snap, they're making an Against the Storm board game. I am skeptical of any crowdfunded video game adaptation board game but I LOVE Against the Storm so might cave on this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjqx...

Saw someone on reddit describe themselves as a "semi-F2P" Hearthstone player and... what? So you mean you just spend *some* money on the game?

Exciting! Wonder if there's going to be any more of a preview at Blizzcon.

Like two-thirds of the street food vendors at my nearby night market use AI food slop on their signs now and it's SO unappetizing

Flip 7 got Uno-ified so fast.

We stared down the shadows in Aberration from @ghostfiregaming.bsky.social in advance of its upcoming reprint/expansion campaign. Really cool wave defense/survival coop game!

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

Always funny when #hearthstone cards just do not even remotely say what they do in the text.

#tbt

I'm just pressing "don't recommend channel" on every YouTube video with an AI slop thumbnail at this point. If you don't wanna learn basic photoshop then just use a random still from your video, at least that shows SOMETHING authentic about what it entails.

Played Greylune yesterday with @neilan.bsky.social and @boardgamebarrage.bsky.social and really enjoyed it! For a worker placement game to land for me it's usually gotta have interesting player interaction, and Greylune nails that with constant, subtle impacts on each other without being attacky.

gets incredible air here

Things seem to be going well over at youtube today

Listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl while manscaping, as one does

Super Auto Pets: Card Battle from @plaidhatgames.bsky.social successfully recreates the autobattler strategy and chaos of the video game! We sent our adorable pets into vicious combat in this playthrough. youtu.be/ARlsWfXSyk0

A constant genre of post on reddit, especially in game-specific subs like for LCGs, is photos of unopened boxes just to announce proudly that they bought them. And they get tons of upvotes! But I downvote them, that'll teach 'em

@optimalplay.bsky.social took the new Ashes Ascendancy: Natural Magic Expansion out for a spin! #Ashes #AshesReborn #ashesascendancy #plaidhatgames www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a5m...

Our Root Homelands rematch game is up on the channel, featuring the new Knaves of the Deepwood faction this time which was a total blast to play. #boardgames #root

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

I missed watching much of #SGDQ live this year but definitely bookmarking this to watch these highlights in the near future. Looks like they had a fantastic show.

Still upset about losing my Duolingo combo because I "incorrectly" answered that a dog is not a doctor.

Hittin' all the biggest animated movie premieres this year somehow

Biohacking is also for your pets! 🙄

At last, we've reached the final mission of Regicide Legacy. It was a great finale and sort of bittersweet because we didn't want it to end. Hell of a game. youtu.be/H-hLGoQVsWA

Lending Captain's Chair to Ben may have been a mistake

This documentary was an absolute delight. My cheeks hurt from grinning just from watching it alone while sorting cards.

well a lot of your fans would like to watch ball without being reminded that people view them as subhuman

This is awesome! I'm a netdecker, who loves expandable card game gameplay but not really spending my time building decks, so this is perfect for me. Even more so for ashes because I've always found it sort of perplexing how to best sort and store those cards 😆

You had me at "human heart miniatures"

There's a Star Trek digital TCG in the steam next fest? 2026 seems like a decade too late for what looks like a tight Hearthstone clone, but I'm glad to see the genre still being attempted at least. Not everything has to be roguelike! store.steampowered.com/app/3874040/...

Dodgers scoreboard as of the 7th inning stretch. Couldn't they have manufactured some drama for pride night?

Oh man, played this one as a kid back in the era of Day of the Tentacle and Indiana Jones. Might have my weekend plans sorted out now.

Marathon servers whyyyy 😭

Absolutely shocking how easy this is.

I’m a bit rusty but please remind me if it’s a good economic indicator that PlutoTV is running ads where a woman is trying to buy food for her children but can’t afford it so an older woman pulls her aside and introduces her to a slot machine app.

First I have to change my Google search for a recipe twice to stop just getting AI recipes and recommendations, than when I finally find an interesting recipe it looks like this. The internet sucks now.

More than anything the release of Flip Voyage made me want to play more Fliptown. So I did! Also I drank weird green drink.

This looks cool, finally exploring more chaos token design space! The reward card us both super cool, stapling one campaign mechanic to other campaigns, and also is SO overpowered. But I guess it helps you see the higher difficulty content, so that might be by design.

The Queen's Dilemma has really increased the number of icons, as any good sequel must