Brandon (Optimal Play)
@optimalplay.bsky.social
Brandon (he/him) from the board game youtube channel Optimal Play youtube.com/optimalplay 🏳🌈
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!
Aberration Playthrough - Can you outrun the Great Beast?
YouTube video by Optimal Play
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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
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.
Greylune
Gather your companions and shape your story in this unique worker placement game.
boardgamegeek.com
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
Super Auto Pets Card Battle Classic Pack Playthrough!
YouTube video by Optimal Play
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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
Georgios@georgiosp.bsky.social · last mo.I'm in a handful of boardgame-related discords, and a majority of them has a channel dedicated to people showing off their newly purchased games. It's hard to argue that boardgaming doesn't have a consumption fetish.
@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...
Ashes Ascendancy Natural Magic Expansion - Maive vs Indiri Aldair!
YouTube video by Optimal Play
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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
Root: The Homeland Expansion - Three Player Rematch featuring the Knaves!
YouTube video by Optimal Play
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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.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2mo agoIt's the perfect time to watch GDQ aftermath.site/sgdq-2026-spee...
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
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
Regicide Legacy Campaign Playthrough - Final Mission!
YouTube video by Optimal Play
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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.
Chris Bratt@chrisbratt.bsky.social · 3mo agoPeople Make Games traveled to Michigan to meet Jerry Gretzinger, an 84-year-old man, who's spent most of his life working away on a single, giant map to an imaginary world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N...
well a lot of your fans would like to watch ball without being reminded that people view them as subhuman
Giants on NBC Sports Bay Area@nbcsgiants.bsky.social · 3mo ago“Just play ball, that’s all I want to do.” JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker broke their silence after the controversy behind their Giants’ “Pride Night” hat protests
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 😆
Plaid Hat Games@plaidhatgames.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Ashes community is a font of brilliant ideas. Here's one of the best: One Collection Battlebox Decks! Fixed, pre-constructed deck for each Phoenixborn through Red Rains. It requires only the cards available in a single collection! Check it out! wiki.ashes.live/books/deckbu...
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/...
Star Trek: Warp on Steam
Command the lanes. Control the outcome. Unlock iconic characters, starships, and locations as you play to complete objectives and earn legendary cards worthy of any captain's deck.
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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.
Thinky Games@thinkygames.com · 3mo agoThe remake of the iconic mystery adventure game 7th Guest by Vertigo Games and Exkee is finally out! Explore an eerie mansion and uncover the dark secrets of a devious toymaker!
Absolutely shocking how easy this is.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3mo agoHere is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.