Tyler Parrott
@davflamerock.bsky.social
Game designer. He/Him. Poly. I talk Star Wars Unlimited, Magic the Gathering, Halo, and social justice.
*My opinions are strictly my own*
*My opinions are strictly my own*
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So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.
February 14, 2026 at 8:37 PM
So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.
Absolute board wipes like Superlaser Blast and Single Reactor Ignition are important for a metagame, as well as being fun for control players. With new access to multicolor cards, we were especially interested in seeing what extra benefits we could gain at the cost of an addition aspect #FFGStaff
February 13, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Absolute board wipes like Superlaser Blast and Single Reactor Ignition are important for a metagame, as well as being fun for control players. With new access to multicolor cards, we were especially interested in seeing what extra benefits we could gain at the cost of an addition aspect #FFGStaff
Holy shit, they're adding a new class and a ton of new features to DIABLO 2???? I'm losing my mind
February 12, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Holy shit, they're adding a new class and a ton of new features to DIABLO 2???? I'm losing my mind
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like the problem isn't SKYNET, the problem is letting amoral extraction class assholes apply half-cooked automation onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country that's too corrupt to have functioning regulators
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
arstechnica.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:26 PM
like the problem isn't SKYNET, the problem is letting amoral extraction class assholes apply half-cooked automation onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country that's too corrupt to have functioning regulators
When designing a card top-down, different people interpret the thematic accuracy differently. The LAW designers were enamored with the idea of Galen Erso as an "inside man" who is harmful for the person controlling him, which is quite different than my "sabotage one card" design in SEC #FFGStaff
February 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
When designing a card top-down, different people interpret the thematic accuracy differently. The LAW designers were enamored with the idea of Galen Erso as an "inside man" who is harmful for the person controlling him, which is quite different than my "sabotage one card" design in SEC #FFGStaff
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A friend just reminded me that this exists and I lost my mind all over again
February 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
A friend just reminded me that this exists and I lost my mind all over again
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they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole
February 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole
You know Lorwyn Eclipsed is a true spiritual successor to Lorwyn block because the Lorwyn half of the set is stronger than the Shadowmoor half of the set 🙃
This will not deter me from cubing, however! cubecobra.com/cube/list/SH...
This will not deter me from cubing, however! cubecobra.com/cube/list/SH...
Cube Cobra List: Shadowmoor Remastered
cubecobra.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:25 PM
You know Lorwyn Eclipsed is a true spiritual successor to Lorwyn block because the Lorwyn half of the set is stronger than the Shadowmoor half of the set 🙃
This will not deter me from cubing, however! cubecobra.com/cube/list/SH...
This will not deter me from cubing, however! cubecobra.com/cube/list/SH...
No hybrid mana changes in Commander is unfortunate, but expected. I still haven't seen an argument for the current rules that makes sense to me, but given how many people feel it shouldn't change, and the fact that they have inertia behind them, made it foolish to change into the system #mtg
February 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
No hybrid mana changes in Commander is unfortunate, but expected. I still haven't seen an argument for the current rules that makes sense to me, but given how many people feel it shouldn't change, and the fact that they have inertia behind them, made it foolish to change into the system #mtg
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Congratulations to Olympic Champion and Magic player Amber Glenn for an outstanding weekend at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Games! 🥇
#TeamUSA #MTG #OlympicWinterGames
#TeamUSA #MTG #OlympicWinterGames
February 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Congratulations to Olympic Champion and Magic player Amber Glenn for an outstanding weekend at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Games! 🥇
#TeamUSA #MTG #OlympicWinterGames
#TeamUSA #MTG #OlympicWinterGames
How do you communicate that someone is building a superweapon? You give them a ramp ability they can use every turn, and a huge payoff for having a big unit when they deploy! We'd experimented with this concept as early as SOR, but credits made it realistically achievable #FFGStaff
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
How do you communicate that someone is building a superweapon? You give them a ramp ability they can use every turn, and a huge payoff for having a big unit when they deploy! We'd experimented with this concept as early as SOR, but credits made it realistically achievable #FFGStaff
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Yeah the post is about JD Vance, but I'm just looking at this picture with five floating metal rings and a big spiral on the ground thinking "damn that's some serious Find the Lost Ring shit" and reminiscing fondly
I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌
February 6, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Yeah the post is about JD Vance, but I'm just looking at this picture with five floating metal rings and a big spiral on the ground thinking "damn that's some serious Find the Lost Ring shit" and reminiscing fondly
Some of the things we looked for in designing cards for LAW were places where we could bring back effects we liked but in new contexts, especially making event effects appear on units. Obviously you'll recognize Bombing Run (SOR) now appearing on a star destroyer! #FFGStaff
February 6, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Some of the things we looked for in designing cards for LAW were places where we could bring back effects we liked but in new contexts, especially making event effects appear on units. Obviously you'll recognize Bombing Run (SOR) now appearing on a star destroyer! #FFGStaff
At one point, Bodhi Rook's ability could trigger When Played, and when we needed to nerf him I made the case for him to not trigger immediately. I generally find When Played abilities are more valuable on expensive units that need to catch up for being late in the game #FFGStaff
February 4, 2026 at 8:07 PM
At one point, Bodhi Rook's ability could trigger When Played, and when we needed to nerf him I made the case for him to not trigger immediately. I generally find When Played abilities are more valuable on expensive units that need to catch up for being late in the game #FFGStaff
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anyways i need democrats to realize that trump is trying to fuck with the midterms ***specifically because he is afraid that he, donald trump, will be impeached and then end up back in court and then die in prison*** and then i need to them to literally never shut up about impeaching his bitch ass
February 4, 2026 at 8:07 AM
anyways i need democrats to realize that trump is trying to fuck with the midterms ***specifically because he is afraid that he, donald trump, will be impeached and then end up back in court and then die in prison*** and then i need to them to literally never shut up about impeaching his bitch ass
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Watch closely: Donald Trump is plotting to rig the midterms.
In just the past 2 weeks, his AG demanded that Minnesota turn over voter rolls, his DNI raided 2020 election ballots in Georgia, & he called to 'nationalize' our elections.
We must mobilize to protect our democracy.
In just the past 2 weeks, his AG demanded that Minnesota turn over voter rolls, his DNI raided 2020 election ballots in Georgia, & he called to 'nationalize' our elections.
We must mobilize to protect our democracy.
February 4, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Watch closely: Donald Trump is plotting to rig the midterms.
In just the past 2 weeks, his AG demanded that Minnesota turn over voter rolls, his DNI raided 2020 election ballots in Georgia, & he called to 'nationalize' our elections.
We must mobilize to protect our democracy.
In just the past 2 weeks, his AG demanded that Minnesota turn over voter rolls, his DNI raided 2020 election ballots in Georgia, & he called to 'nationalize' our elections.
We must mobilize to protect our democracy.
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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I had to pause for a bit the first time I edited this piece, because Mira's account of what it actually feels like to be on the ground in Minneapolis — as a journalist, a trans person in poverty and part of communities under siege — hit that hard.
Essential reading, and a much-needed reality check.
Essential reading, and a much-needed reality check.
TNN reporter Mira Lazine (@thefreeradical.org) found a community in Minneapolis. Now, that community is under attack by a fascist regime — and fighting back.
Here’s her look of the realities on the ground, where exhaustion and terror exist alongside defiance and hope:
Here’s her look of the realities on the ground, where exhaustion and terror exist alongside defiance and hope:
My City Is Under Occupation: A Trans Reporter’s Dispatch From Minneapolis
TNN reporter Mira Lazine found a community in Minneapolis. Now, that community is under attack — and fighting back. Here’s her look of the realities on the ground.
transnews.network
February 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I had to pause for a bit the first time I edited this piece, because Mira's account of what it actually feels like to be on the ground in Minneapolis — as a journalist, a trans person in poverty and part of communities under siege — hit that hard.
Essential reading, and a much-needed reality check.
Essential reading, and a much-needed reality check.
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Honestly, good. The job should be so miserable they're better off quitting.
Apparently morale at DOJ is so low that line attorneys are asking to be held in contempt so they can get some sleep yikes
February 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Honestly, good. The job should be so miserable they're better off quitting.
When we designed Jyn as a Rebel-matters leader, the goal was to create a new deck archetype for the faction that was very grindy and survivable. We debated a LOT about whether this needed to cost a resource or not, and whether it got to have selection or not as we wanted her to be strong #FFGStaff
February 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM
When we designed Jyn as a Rebel-matters leader, the goal was to create a new deck archetype for the faction that was very grindy and survivable. We debated a LOT about whether this needed to cost a resource or not, and whether it got to have selection or not as we wanted her to be strong #FFGStaff
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NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:26 PM
NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
![Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime).
We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreifucubotcz54scclzmnpxlnv6x5olf2zb6ow5xufzdyqbflhuzcn4@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
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I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
January 31, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep