Every once and a while, someone designs a rare or legendary with very little text that still retains a lot of excitement. IG-88 is one such unit: he has a crazy amount of power, and with Shielded he's usually pretty safe, which lets him be an exciting rare despite being very simple #FFGStaff

During development, there were a lot of cards that let you use Credit tokens in alternative ways. All of these cards once said "defeat a Credit token" to get their effects. Eventually we found that we needed more synergy with other sets, so we changed the cards to let you pay a resource #FFGStaff

I'll eventually complete Parasitism 5 but it'll only be because of luck and relentless persistence because it expects me to traverse way too much of Dire Marsh 💀 There's no way I'll ever be good enough to complete it on my own merits

Keep calling ICE agents pigs and fascists. It works, even if they don't react, they're still human and absorb every word.

The problem is lots of systems are defended from abuse by "surely nobody would take the time and effort to abuse this system for a comparatively tiny reward", but AI (and especially current cut-price AI) is blowing all those calculations out of the water.

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

Hold up, these are big money changes. Love seeing the beginnings of game design level support for spontaneous coop

Ugh it took me over 2 hours to get a single successful exfil tonight, Dire Marsh sucks

Almost every set has a common typal leader that players can draft a deck around, and in this set the trait was Bounty Hunter. So naturally we picked someone who leads a bounty hunter team on a heist! The fact that it let us showcase young Boba Fett was especially fun #FFGStaff

John has a reputation for playing control decks, so of course it makes sense that he'd design a control-oriented leader. Unlike Iden (SOR) who I designed, Aurra is more focused on removal than healing, but I love the puzzle of trying to line up her ability to make the perfect shot #FFGStaff

I love that Marathon is a never-give-up kind of game. Last night saw a team of high-lvl players kill both my teammates at the start, so I had to sneak around VERY carefully for 4 minutes until it was safe to revive them. We finished our quests & got out with profits despite almost getting wiped 🤘

Doki Doki Literature Club is a widely celebrated piece of videogame art, discusses deeply difficult topics in sincere and meaningful ways, and Google Play needs to revert the removal of the game immediately.

God I hate this genre. These kids who protested Gaza got arrested, expelled, beaten up, doxxed, lives ruined by outside agitators and were utterly betrayed by the administrations that should have protected them at any cost. Shut the fuck up.

The Acolyte came out during the set's development, and many of us on the design team quickly fell in love with the show. So we designed a card for The Stranger & snuck him into the set, and the way he turns his opponent's power against them is so perfect for his fighting style in the show #FFGStaff

Holy shit this website is beautiful taucetiiv.com

Who wants to talk about Ashes of the Empire? Livestream starts in 15 minutes... #FFGStaff www.youtube.com/live/zYvgMP2...

I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.

I think in the future we should not launch wars of aggression for no reason with no plan beyond "scare people into doing what we want".

ICE shot a man on the side of I-5 in California this morning. Before we even know if he's alive, ICE has a press release out explaining why he deserved it. There is no death penalty in this country for being accused of a crime. ICE is not judge, jury, or executioner. youtube.com/shorts/pfrVQ...

Is there a map of the interior of Pinwheel? I've now died multiple times because I was unable to navigate my way out after looting and it's frustrating #marathon

We don’t talk enough about how military strikes increased as more damaging details about Trump emerged AOC: “I think we're seeing this pattern — every time he's done that (military strike) it has been consistent with a spike or a revelation in what is happening with the Epstein files”

This game is at its best when it has some whimsy, which is where the musicians come in! The design where they trigger every turn because they're just there in the background was fun, and we really wanted Max Rebo to be the one who felt like he was breaking a core game rule #FFGStaff

Man, after prioritizing Outpost for this long as my preferred map, going back to Perimeter really is a walk in the park #marathon

Once John put The Axe Forgets and the Tree Remembers into the card file, I knew these were the art pieces they should have. Lt Gorn serving the arrogant Imperials was a shot that stuck with me immediately after the episode, and the story of justice against Beehaz fit the concepts perfectly #FFGStaff

the new york times executes its anti-mamdani, anti-progressive agenda (just like its anti-trans agenda) not on the editorial pages but in very clearly biased "news" articles disguised as news stories. liberals fund the times doing this.

“Your movie isn’t even out and you’re already a victim of nothing happening to you, shut the fuck up.” I don't really care about this film, but it must be hellish to be a young actress having to navigate this level of abusive male fandom.

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

The team got out to New Mombasa to headhunt some elites today, but it turns out rifles aren't very useful when you need to collect the skulls afterwards 💀

Usually we balance powerful abilities with a cost, so you have to give something to get something. But occasionally we balance them by giving power to the opponent, to make it easier for them to counteract the advantage you just gained. The puzzle, then, becomes how to break the symmetry #FFGStaff

Still definitely prefer trios to get my action in, but I'll admit that sneaking around as a solo Assassin is a very fun way to run in Marathon. Particularly effective at getting missions completed

It's important that every deck have counterplay to maintain a healthy metagame. Healing can undo an aggro deck's start, and board wipes obliterate midrange. To make sure there was something to beat control decks, we designed a unit that is protected from most removal and made her cost 8 #FFGStaff

My god, nobody told me that the knife was the best weapon in Marathon lol

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

After the excitement and success of Grand Admiral Thrawn (JTL), we immediately started looking for an opportunity to make a similar design. Unfortunately, On Attack abilities are often much stronger than Defeat abilities, so we had to put a cost on the front (though we pushed Enfys's unit) #FFGStaff

I often wonder how much of our public school curriculum is dedicated to producing well-rounded human beings, how much is for producing obedient workers, and how much exists purely to punish kids for the crime of not being their parents.

I'll just note here that CVS/Walgreens/Costco ask if you have an underlying condition, but they do not ask what it is and they sure as hell don't check if you're lying. ...And insurance companies will be motivated by profit to pay for the shot, not the infection.

Been working on this for a while and I'm finally pulling the trigger and starting to actually publish a long series of blog posts: Why AI Sucks and You Shouldn't Use It Wheeeeeeee! secret.works/blog/njfjvrf...

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

With Academy Training in SOR being a 2 cost +2/+2 upgrade, I was convinced that Mastery was supposed to be a 3 cost +3/+3 upgrade. However, Mastery was powerful enough in our Premier testing that the developers started looking for a downside to put on it to preserve future design space #FFGStaff

While upgrades represent a high risk, being vulnerable to unit removal, there are a number of exciting, high-power (and thus high-cost) upgrade designs that we've come up with that we enjoy sprinkling into our sets here and there, to keep games uncertain and tense #FFGStaff

With Jyn Erso and Saw Gerrera both being Rebel leaders whose abilities care about defeating your units, we leaned into the idea that our Partisan units would have When Defeated abilities or abilities that were conditional on having lost a unit this phase, to synergize with both. #FFGStaff

They've arrested a few ICE dudes for assaulting women in their contraction camps so you know there's a zillion more who just haven't been caught, but sure, let's have them do TSA patdowns.

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?

The “goal” of the Iran war is now reportedly to open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war began

ICE agents will steal 100% of the cash and valuables you have with you at airports. I recommend STRONGLY that you travel with faux silver wedding bands vs your gold+ diamond rings, no cash, wear cheap watches, leave jewelry at home, etc. They are rapist Nazi thieves. Expect the worst.

Ta-Nehisi Coates did an incredible job describing Israel’s violent apartheid government as painfully similar to America’s own horrific past/present. Coates’ reward: - No more network coverage - CBS was bought by a more MAGA billionaire - The anchor defending genocide in this clip got a promotion

Genuinely give AuDHD people basic income and housing, give them a bit to settle into their routines and recover from the trauma of survival, and then be ready to see shit pop the fuck off

"Trump is trying to control the media as he marches the US from democracy to something more like autocracy, with billionaires helping him at every turn." @sulliview.bsky.social So it doesn't help when the NY Times sanewashes Trump. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/two-brutal...