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Brandon (Optimal Play)

@optimalplay.bsky.social

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Brandon (he/him) from the board game youtube channel Optimal Play youtube.com/optimalplay 🏳‍🌈

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@optimalplay.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:50 AM

I've got Apocalypse right where I want him in a Marvel Champions game and this art is excellent

Apocalypse white knuckling the arms of his throne to keep himself from spilling out of it
@optimalplay.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:14 AM

Did the cosmopolitan not have a similar wave? I feel like it was pretty big in media when I was in college (late '00s) but all us students were just playing beer pong or drinking vodka red bull in bars so I wasn't exactly on the cocktail beat then.

@optimalplay.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:39 PM

We are so distant in this thumbnail I gotta adjust that after work 🤦‍♂️

@optimalplay.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:38 PM

It has been a while since my friends have been banging on my door to play more of a game like they currently are with Neon Hope by @nerdmeetsyou.bsky.social . Here's the start of our campaign! youtu.be/MGZrt1cTuQo

@optimalplay.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 3:43 PM

Very confused about what sort of game this is. But it looks cool and Halloweeny

@optimalplay.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:28 AM

When you create the game BGA has the option to hide the scores until the end, best of both worlds?

@optimalplay.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 8:36 PM

Hiking with my corgis and the old man got tired

Corgi with derp face riding in a backpack of a blue-haired man
@volko.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 7:15 PMReposted by @optimalplay.bsky.social

Thanks @optimalplay.bsky.social for making this look at Hunt for Blackbeard in action!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBZ0...

@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 5:00 PM

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

@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 2:12 AM

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.

@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 1:36 AM

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.

@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 12:19 AM

Tfw your drink matches your hair

Me with a Fat Tuesday boozy slushy at Caesars Palace in Vegas, that matches my turquoise hair color
@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 10:06 PM

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

@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 5:57 AM

Why is he streaming from the backrooms

@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 10:04 PM

Ok this is a little on the nose

Hearthstone card Tome Translator, with Battlecry: ??? (Desiphers in 2 turns.)
@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 10:01 PM

Damn that art is great

@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 7:54 PM

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...

@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 3:49 PM

That's amazing, congrats!!

@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 9:18 PM

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?

@optimalplay.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 8:02 PM

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

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