Tyler Parrott

video from iceout.org earlier today at the whipple outside minneapolis shows a hennepin county sheriff’s deputy shoving the head of a protestor who was already tackled into the ground

we need someone to challenge dawanna witt for sheriff. this brutality happening under her watch is unacceptable

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

I criticize Schumer and Democratic leadership all the time. They suck. But a party that has Zohran Mamdani, Ihan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, among others, is not worthless by any means. I will not be self-righteously sitting out the midterms. I’ll be voting for Democrats like a motherfucker.

With lots of credits in Lawless Time, we wanted to make sure there were also tools to beat credit-heavy decks if the strategy became dominant. Putting those abilities on characters famous for stealing a bunch of money from the Empire felt especially appropriate #FFGStaff

Correct! (It's very exciting/terrifying) #FFGStaff

So many 😭

Behind Unlimited: On Making Difficult Sacrifices Tyler Parrott Provides Insights on Knowing What to Keep and What to Cut

It's easy to talk about the design process as a road map of changes: "how did we get there from here?" But what about the people that make those changes? What's their experience like?

What does it feel like when you have to kill your darlings? #FFGStaff starwarsunlimited.com/articles/beh...

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Obviously Han was designed to work with Credits, but we wanted to give him reasons to play with cards from other sets as well—and yellow cards also make Shield tokens fairly often. The interaction with the Force token was an unintended side effect we found too funny to remove #FFGStaff

We don't design Action [exhaust] abilities that often, as exhausting units for an ability means they're not attacking and advancing towards the end of the game. But for a support unit whose job is to create a Credit token every round, it let us make Lady Proxima very cheap to play #FFGStaff

I am so done with it being cold 💀

Got to play a very fun 3 player game of Flashpoint this week (last minute pivot since most people bailed on game day for the snowfall) but check out this amazing New Alexandria map that Josh printed!!!!!!!!

Early drafts of LAW featured mechanics that were related to players' resources, but they didn't end up fitting this set. A handful of abilities remain that interact with a player's resources, including this very exciting way to punish your opponent for resourcing their bombs! #FFGStaff

We've slowly been expanding our scope of what kind of instant wins we're comfortable supporting. Personally, I like them when they're telegraphed and the opponent can strategically play around them, which the unit side of a leader does well. Vader with Aggressive Negotiations is scary! #FFGStaff

The idea of "throwing a rock" at someone for 1 point of damage (by discarding it) was extremely funny, while also providing synergy with multiple leaders in the set. There was much debate as to whether the ability needed an aspect check like Rey (LOF), but this felt conditional enough #FFGStaff

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

We identified a handful of "teams" that we wanted to give matching color sets, then when that wasn't enough we picked about ~10 units (mostly Underworld) that we thought were cool and included them with a white/colorless treatment. #FFGStaff

Absolute board wipes like Superlaser Blast and Single Reactor Ignition are important for a metagame, as well as being fun for control players. With new access to multicolor cards, we were especially interested in seeing what extra benefits we could gain at the cost of an addition aspect #FFGStaff

Holy shit, they're adding a new class and a ton of new features to DIABLO 2???? I'm losing my mind

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

like the problem isn't SKYNET, the problem is letting amoral extraction class assholes apply half-cooked automation onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country that's too corrupt to have functioning regulators

When designing a card top-down, different people interpret the thematic accuracy differently. The LAW designers were enamored with the idea of Galen Erso as an "inside man" who is harmful for the person controlling him, which is quite different than my "sabotage one card" design in SEC #FFGStaff

A friend just reminded me that this exists and I lost my mind all over again

Cube Cobra List: Shadowmoor Remastered

You know Lorwyn Eclipsed is a true spiritual successor to Lorwyn block because the Lorwyn half of the set is stronger than the Shadowmoor half of the set 🙃

This will not deter me from cubing, however! cubecobra.com/cube/list/SH...

No hybrid mana changes in Commander is unfortunate, but expected. I still haven't seen an argument for the current rules that makes sense to me, but given how many people feel it shouldn't change, and the fact that they have inertia behind them, made it foolish to change into the system #mtg

Congratulations to Olympic Champion and Magic player Amber Glenn for an outstanding weekend at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Games! 🥇

#TeamUSA #MTG #OlympicWinterGames