Brandon (Optimal Play)

No new Marvel Champions core set on the horizon! I would have lost that bet. #paxunplugged

*trend

Whoa so they're mixing up the structure of Arkham products quite a lot! Just a 3-scenario campaign kicking off chapter 2 after the core set.

I bet this is gonna be unpopular but I kinda dig it. I've been enjoying the shorter campaign tend in gaming lately (slay the spire, arcs, etc). #paxunplugged

Just got to that part! So that's something.

Ok at least Carolyn switches it up, in these new starter decks.

Wow, so none of the Arkham Horror Chapter 2 investigators even change class for their new iteration, huh? Sort of surprising and disappointing. #paxunplugged

One of my all time favorites too!

YouTube video by Optimal Play Cozy Sci-Fi Farming Simulator! - Tend Playthrough

Tend is the heaviest flip-and-write we've ever encountered. Like literally, the box is huge and weighs like 40 pounds.
youtu.be/6oK7W1gA7UM #boardgames

Pretty good list but forbidden island's tin box should be disqualifying

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Probably would have been a double boot if no medivac had happened.

He does jazz piano performances sometimes in LA, I've seen him live!

I was in the audience for this and it got such a huge reaction. Not surprised they cut it but certainly disappointed!

Regicide Legacy out of context

Asked ChatGPT to identify this weird mushroom thing I've noticed growing in my yard and it insisted it was just a discarded piece of bread.

...then it immediately puts them in a game together where only one of the four can survive. And it's more of a drawn out suspense as you watch it play out thinking they'll all find a way out, but no, only one of the four "main" characters really does make it out of the first game alive.

It was more sudden in Derry. Getting more spoilery:

I'm referring to a death games show (along the lines of Squid Game) where it spends the whole first episode establishing a group of friends, showing flashbacks to all their shitty lives, showing us how much they care about one another and regrets.

It's a non-english Netflix show. Just released another season after a couple years' break.

There's another show that did very much the same thing recently (I won't mention what and spoil that show, iykyk I guess) so that dampened it some for me. Still a fun way to start the series though.

YouTube video by Optimal Play Unfathomable Five-Player Playthrough (With From the Abyss Expansion) - Part 1

It's Halloween and the seas are rough. Can the Atlantica make it home safe before the horrors, deep ones, and our own friends tear it to pieces? youtu.be/fna4PqgJvfQ #boardgames

So the inspector and our remodel electrician got into a big argument and the inspector stormed out and left. Is this good?

“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

🔴The Old King's Crown - Newbies clashing for the first time! YouTube video by Optimal Play

We're live tonight, trying out the gorgeous new hotness The Old King's Crown on stream! #boardgames

www.youtube.com/live/wzQMwap...

If your opponent in a tabletop game forgets an important rule, you have an obligation to remind them even if it screws you over.

They made a big organized push from Twitter to bluesky today mostly to troll 🙃

For your blocking convenience.

Incredible.

A screenshot of a completed board from Welcome to the Moon played on board game arena, with a final score of 184.

This Welcome to the Moon board has got to be a world record.

It's October and there are a bunch of commercials with terrible acting and jokes lacking a punchline. I can only assume these are all football players?

So excited to be live with @nightcrewgames.bsky.social trying Cyberpunk legends on their stream! Swing by and see the action!