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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Lol is this because of all the fallout around his doing military propaganda streams?

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, I did not get the impression it was written to be deliberately disorienting to the reader. More likely a "whoops, this is too much to reasonably grok" realization after it was written.

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah I heard that's in a foreword or something? It wasn't in the audiobook. But that book was my least favorite so far (I'm on book 6). Iron Tangle is a super cool idea but it's so confusing and train hijinks get old before it's done. Would've been a better half-book floor.

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I periodically sell some board game stuff on there and the home page is always covered in that cringe now

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why is he streaming from the backrooms

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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...

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Against the Storm⛈️ - Our very first co-op heavy Euro based on the acclaimed video game

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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?

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It was pretty over the top. Highlighted scare quote "angry DMs... And then a threat" and the "threat" was to give fellow artists a heads up so they could opt not to patronize her store? Oooo how unwarranted and mean

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have never understood humidity percentages 🤷🏼‍♂️

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Haha cool, anything else you've been enjoying not reading lately?

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That looks amazing. The chunks of gum on the fancy cocktail pick is a perfect touch 😆

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've still gotta unbox and try the expansion. Wouldn't dare do it with 5 players though 😬

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ahh the Hurriquake, I live near the BB house and remember it well. Rain this time of year is really rare and I can confirm it's ruining pool party plans all over the city. 😩

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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!

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Aberration Playthrough - Can you outrun the Great Beast?

Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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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

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Definitely some Running Man DNA to it, yeah.

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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

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Battlecry: Plot a custom sham trial! Then choose the trial's length.
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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The video tabs of game pages on BGG are filling up with that same AI thumbnail on every video that does a shitty approximation of the game's box art and/or the players themselves, I hate it so much

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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.

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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.

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Greylune

Gather your companions and shape your story in this unique worker placement game.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

gets incredible air here

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I assumed he was a voice in paw patrol and was there for the promo 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Things seem to be going well over at youtube today

Which of the following have you experienced on your YouTube homepage today?
• 'Don't recommend channel' menu option doesn't work
• Videos don't change when I refresh the page
• 'Not interested' menu option doesn't work
• I can't customize my feed well
• Other problem

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl while manscaping, as one does

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

After the recent update put the console on power down instead of sleep I immediately switched it back to sleep because of that sound.

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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

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Super Auto Pets Card Battle Classic Pack Playthrough!

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Wait did they even go to one of those for the last HOH? I thought it was the 1990s

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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

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Root: The Homeland Expansion - Three Player Rematch featuring the Knaves!

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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Is there any chance they can secretly opt for the punishment even if they won a power, to camouflage it? I guess that would fall apart as more people have that opportunity in future weeks

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

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.

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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.

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Maybe it's the audiobook vs print of it but your reception of that moment is so different from mine. Or maybe it's because I'm two books past it and that moment is not forgotten as Carl's character develops.

Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I'm nearly through the second one on audio book. Really enjoying it actually. And I expect it's broadening mainstream interest in RPGs and such because it's a book about players in a game-ass game to a nerdy degree that even Ready Player One was not.

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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

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Brandon (Optimal Play) @optimalplay.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hittin' all the biggest animated movie premieres this year somehow

A wide photo from my seat at the Minions and Monsters premiere in the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.