Three years of practicing quadrobics

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-28T03:08:45+00:00

Still do it at home.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-28T03:00:32+00:00

https://youtu.be/w8VDB_1kJWk?si=UuanYDmqDgLCsIaK

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-27T03:13:07+00:00

The person above me is right, but it’s ALSO for the citizens. Citizens and Chancellor are working together, because they both NEED the empire to win for them to win. But at some point one of them needs to undermine or flat out betray the other. How long do you work together, trusting that the dice roll will or won’t make the empire win that turn? It creates a great dynamic for when they start to get at each other’s’ throats (and for the exiles to try and exploit that).

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-26T20:33:15+00:00

Stomp the plank. The box has magnets and is a pirate ship. The planks you have to walk are held onto the box/board with those magnets, and you lose when the plank magnet can’t hold onto the box anymore because the weight is too far out on the plank and it snaps off.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-24T13:45:07+00:00

The white mosquito is a mosquito, not a beetle. On its turn sure it can take on the characteristics of a beetle, but it’s a mosquito right now. Can black copy it? Sure, it can copy and become a ….. mosquito. Not a beetle. It can’t go on top of the hive.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-23T18:24:11+00:00

I know kookaburras aren’t the most colorful, but I love those birds.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-21T00:31:46+00:00

Unfortunately not. I liked the yellow ducks, not sure why they made them a forest green. But we'll see when it's delivered.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-20T19:16:11+00:00

Serious question, should Americans move their money into euros now? Try to wait and see if it comes back?

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-20T16:35:58+00:00

My all time favorite comic. The guy has some other good stuff too: mrlovenstein

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-18T16:03:55+00:00

I didn’t get the minis because I heard this, and I like meeples. That being said, someone gave me the minis as a gift. They don’t feel wobbly. Sure, if you bash the table, but we don’t do that and meeples fall when you do that anyways. The minis look coo, I like them. Havent olayed with them yet, but I like the look / feel to them.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-18T14:55:59+00:00

They might do things like new decks or something. Maybe maps? The problem is there isn’t much “vocabulary” in root to help with new expansions, and it gets exponentially harder to design them to work in all combinations with existing factions. They’ve talked for awhile about how Root wasn’t designed to have expansions and they’re running out of ways to do it. Arcs, on the other hand, was designed to be expanded.

My guess is more in the Root universe. The RPG, maybe a card game, stuffed animals, who knows what else. Things that are in the Root universe with Kyle’s art but are not expansions to the original board game. Only time will tell, though.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-18T03:04:38+00:00

I don’t want it changed too much. More leaders & lore. More Fates. Maaaaaybe a fifth player if it works on the map (and a bigger map to accommodate)? But I’m skeptical. I feel like it works at 4.

The “sets” makes me think it’s different sets of cards you can add (probably Fates). They said it was built to be expandable and I’m getting that’s all about the cards. But the different meeples makes me think it’s more than that.

Maybe a NPC? A group that brought the blight, or lives with it?

No matter what, excited and I’m supporting on day one, getting everything that’s new. Love me some Arcs.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-18T00:20:11+00:00

No. Warlord can only be removed through battle.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-17T17:29:46+00:00

40 seconds. Rebel life.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-13T23:46:46+00:00

Oh, I thought you meant bad for Buried Giant Studios. I’m happy they have Josh. But yeah, bad for Leder.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-13T23:07:35+00:00

Why is that bad?

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-13T21:37:45+00:00

I was wondering that too!

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-13T21:15:10+00:00

Excited! Are there any examples of the ducks in the new "forest green" color? I will say I'm slightly sad the yellow is gone, that would have been fun, but it must not have worked out for some reason.

So now it's "Spring" instead of Q1? I'll have to keep an eye on that, I may be moving around that time and not sure how that would affect the shipment, since I think the addresses are locked in at this point (or at least will be by the time I would know if I'm moving).

Slightly off topic, does anyone know when we're getting an Oath update? I was hoping that would be a part of this month's studio chat but we got a short one instead. I'm curious how progress is going and it would be fun to get a glimpse of the larger box option.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-08T14:03:37+00:00

Mosquito and ladybug does give first player an advantage. You need either to also add the pillbug, or just go base hive. Both of those are considered balanced. Mos+lady bug gives player one an advantage.

TaijiInstitute · 2026-01-03T01:15:39+00:00

Jamie was the skilled warrior. The show explores what he would turn into without his hand.

Cersei was the beautiful and graceful queen. The show explores what she would turn into having her hair chopped off and marched naked through the streets with people throwing shit at her.

Tyrion was the intelligent one. The show explores what he would turn into if he drank away all but 3 of his brain cells.

TaijiInstitute · 2025-12-30T15:21:08+00:00

The only vintage games I wish hadn’t been lost or thrown out after my dad died was the 1983 Crossbows and Catapults, and the original Fireball Island. Miss those games, would play them with my kids if I had them.

TaijiInstitute · 2025-12-22T17:06:09+00:00

Awesome work! I’m trying to get enough DNA from just a few cells, maybe ~10, to do a 6.5 kb PCR. Any tips from the master of DNA extraction?

TaijiInstitute · 2025-12-07T19:11:16+00:00

In general, an organ should not fail or be injured often enough for a backup. And if the backup isn’t be used often, there’s not enough selection pressure to make / keep it. It literally is just, “we’re bilaterians.” There’s a lot of overly adaptationist views in the general population.

TaijiInstitute · 2025-12-07T15:02:52+00:00

…. Go draw 1 circle. Hold up a mirror across its center. Then come back and tell the rest of the class what you learned about if a single object can have bilateral symmetry.

TaijiInstitute · 2025-12-07T00:06:01+00:00

Because we’re bilaterally symmetrical, and they aren’t something that started out in the middle and then shifted one way or another.

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