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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 1d

Priorities!

I got my two-fer on Tuesday. Shoulder still sore but fortunately that's been the extent of it for me

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 1d

Still haven't made it even halfway to Olympus though.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 1d

Chronos vanquished very suddenly on night 23. Only my second time reaching him. Bit of a dream build - lots of range and passive damage, including an almost maxed out Lunar Beam.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah - you need aggressive tilt manipulation to get a handle on it. Getting a favorable tilt was our top priority almost every turn. We were able to eventually turn into a headwind so we ended with -2 speed to help us with our landing.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 1d

Any standout scenarios for you? I've only played the first two and they've both been exciting.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 1d

Successfully landed at the red rated Warsaw airport in Sky Team via BGA on our second try

This is a devilish course. Stuck landing gear locks the low speed at 4, but you need to stall twice due to a short approach - with a tailwind adding +3 to your speed! TOUGH!

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Screenshot of a portion of the BGA board. An X on the landing gears shows you can't deploy them. The corresponding blue speed threshold marker is permanently locked between the 4 and 5. meaning you need two dice to total 4 to move zero spaces - something we had to do twice even though wind was adding +3 to our move speed at the start. This required quite a lot of manipulating the plane's tilt to get the wind modifier down enough so we could stall, while still threading the needle to adjust tilt through some narrow movement windows on the track itself.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 2d

Thorgal: The Board Game - a weird but delightful mish-mash of logistics puzzle and adventure gaming. And polyominoes - polyominoes everywhere!

We beat the pirate hunting scenario on the final action of the final turn with just barely enough polyominoes to win.

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Thorgal: The Board Game

Go on adventures in the mystic world of Norse mythology.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 3d

Big Baby kept crashing Party Animal's party. Bad time for Party Animal.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 3d

Played Magical Athlete. Everyone within a couple spaces of winning in the final race.

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The night's winners:

Figures for Huge Baby, Rocket Scientist, Scoocher, and Flip Flop

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 4d

Maslow-heads, rise up!

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe an antibacterial wipe will help?

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 5d

OMG THAN YOU. I just saw this after reinstalling to try to finally complete a 32 run. Been banging my head on speed running and getting nowhere. First try with a slow/ranged strat and I got to the big guy. Feels doable now.

And every build is a ranged build with Crystal Beam / Crystal Clarity

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 6d

Yiayia and Gramps were visiting so we played a 6p game of Magical Athlete

A lot of laughter, peaking with a race where no one could make progress because of Hypnotist and Flip-flop - that is until M.O.U.T.H. ate them both - and everyone else too!

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Magical Athlete

In the zaniest of all races, speed past rivals to claim Champion of the Chaos!

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 8d

Played a family game of Magical Athlete today.

High marks all around. Race #2 elicited the most laughter as Romantic, Party Animal, Baba Yaga, and Heckler triggered powers over and over, including an infinite loop!

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Magical Athlete

A racing game of pure chaos.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 9d

Played a 3p game of Millennium Blades - just two tournaments to keep the time reasonable

It's a beast to set up, a beast to put away, a taxing game to learn, and chaotic to play. And yet it's still worth all that. There's nothing else like it.

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Millennium Blades

Play as players who are playing the greatest CCG ever played.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 9d

Oh I am the site admin and I definitely did

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 9d

Kumail understands that I absolutely want to watch, but also will never ever mark my calendar for anything.

Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 9d

My first stand-up special in over a decade, Night Thoughts, is out on Hulu on December 19th. Mark your calendars. But also I will remind you closer to the date.

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Hulu Unveils Title, Premiere Date For Its Kumail Nanjiani Comedy Special – Update

Kumail Nanjiani new comedy special, now titled 'Night Thoughts,' has locked in a winter premiere date at Hulu.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 9d

I put off booting up Hades II because I didn't want to get sucked in.

This morning I decided to start it up "just to see how it looks." Next thing I know I'm a dozen runs in.

Supergiant Games @supergiantgames.bsky.social · 15d

🌒HADES II v1.0 is OUT NOW!! 🌘

Battle beyond the Underworld in our bewitching sequel to the godlike roguelike. Go Kill Time!

Nintendo Switch 2: supergiant.games/h2switch2
Nintendo Switch: supergiant.games/h2switch
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Epic Games Store: supergiant.games/h2egs

Hades II – Nintendo Switch™ 2 Edition for Nintendo Switch 2 - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Hades II – Nintendo Switch™ 2 Edition and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 9d

Uh huh...

A post on BGG from an obvious bot. Their self introduction post includes "and I really enjoy [name 1-2 games you like]."

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 10d

I took the clues and didn't feel one small bit bad about it

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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 11d

It looks like Osmosis (2025) by Agnès Largeaud is the 1,000th game added to this list on @boardgamegeek.com! 🎉

Thanks to @mcfluffy.bsky.social for that one, and to several others who contributed yesterday, including @bartgamedesign.bsky.social and @sblendito.bsky.social! Keep 'em coming!

Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 12d

I just noticed this list is up to 988 games. Who wants to find the missing 12 that will get us to 1000?
boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/297...

Games by Women & People of Marginalized Genders

There are several other geeklists that limit themselves in some way (one game per designer, noteworthy games). What if we tried to make a list that has all the games we know of that have at least one ...

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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 11d

Well this is only been the second OT game under the new rules so it's 50%.

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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 12d

I just noticed this list is up to 988 games. Who wants to find the missing 12 that will get us to 1000?
boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/297...

Games by Women & People of Marginalized Genders

There are several other geeklists that limit themselves in some way (one game per designer, noteworthy games). What if we tried to make a list that has all the games we know of that have at least one ...

boardgamegeek.com

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