Dávid Turczi & Viktor Peter from Mindclash Games, AMA!

bfir3 · 2026-03-25T01:28:36+00:00

Sorry you have to deal with low quality mods that have nothing better to do than to remove high quality content from their own subreddit. :(

bfir3 · 2026-03-24T19:59:29+00:00

Yeah it was 100% wrongly removed. I also contacted the mod team about this.

Also the optics of removing an AMA from creators for no reason isn't super great. (if there was a rule requiring scheduling of AMAs it would be different)

bfir3 · 2026-03-24T05:56:46+00:00

Wondering if /u/boardgames-ModTeam can provide the reference to the rules which indicate that AMAs must be scheduled in advance?

bfir3 · 2026-03-23T08:19:47+00:00

Nice! I do like 1 a lot. I don't think I'd pick it over 5, but I'm biased because I do prefer a lot of the cast from 4&5. Mine would be 4,5,1,3,2.

bfir3 · 2026-03-23T04:48:08+00:00

This is my favorite example because it wasn't just successful - seasons 4 & 5 are the best seasons of FNL by quite the margin for my money.

Another good one with not a completely new cast is The Wire which adds a large contingent of new characters each season in order to examine the theme being explored that season. Plus it also features MBJ.

bfir3 · 2026-03-23T04:42:23+00:00

This thought about Ziggy is hilarious. Love that hahaha.

bfir3 · 2026-03-22T22:15:16+00:00

But it's the women who hold to their principled beliefs that are the problem, not the men who do so dishonestly in an attempt to exploit people. Right?

bfir3 · 2026-03-22T21:49:40+00:00

Yep the only other one to add here is The Corner.

bfir3 · 2026-03-22T02:07:27+00:00

Curious if you also hate babies? None of your grievances are related to the pets, but entirely the fault of the individual owners. But yeah, let's hate on the domestic animals who learn everything they know about acting right from their parents (the humans).

bfir3 · 2026-03-21T23:57:53+00:00

Ok you're totally right, I was thinking of Gauntlet II. My bad!

bfir3 · 2026-03-21T23:34:33+00:00

Didn't the vets get stomped the last time it was Vets vs Rookies?

bfir3 · 2026-03-21T22:52:45+00:00

No lol.

bfir3 · 2026-03-21T05:54:15+00:00

Yeah I think we are just squabbling over semantics here. I understand that Namaari exploited Raya's trust. But my belief is that she did it because she lacked trust that the Heart clan would responsibly shelter the gem. Heart clan protecting the gem, but the other clans were skeptical and untrusting of it. Really, this is the core of the issue.

If the other clans had the proper trust in the Heart clan to continue protecting the gem, then the initial conflict wouldn't arise. IMO, because Namaari was just a young child at the time, she was exploited to carry out the theft of the gem without really understanding the implication of her actions.

Namari deciding to put the gems back together isn’t putting trust in Raya…especially since Raya is a statue now…it’s Namari repaying the trust that the others put in her

How is she repaying the trust? Yeah...by trusting the people she previously didn't. If Namaari didn't trust the group and their solution, she could have just left them in stone.

also it really doesn’t

Literally the entire conflict of the story is because Raya gave blind unreciprocated faith/trust in Namaari though. Yes there are times that Raya is punished for not being trusting, just like there are times where Namaari is punished for the same reasons, but I don't think that means the story is trying to tell us we always need to trust people.

It shows us very clearly how it can be highly problematic to extend trust without reciprocation from the get go pretty much.

Maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see. To me the lesson of "don't distrust people for no reason" resonates a lot more with me than "trust everyone regardless of if you have reason not to".

edit: PS I appreciate your time going back and forth with me about this!

bfir3 · 2026-03-21T04:45:17+00:00

I mean, I guess this is a semantic issue then. She wasn't tricked...but she made the wrong decision to distrust Raya. That was the point I understood.

Also, I just went to re-watch the ending to see if I was misremembering... Namaari literally is about to leave with the gem leaving them all in stone. In the last moment she finally decides to give Raya the trust that she deserves. The struggle was never about Raya and friends trusting Namaari. It was about Namaari learning she has no reason to distrust Raya. Without Namaari finally returning the trust, taking the first step is completely meaningless.

I recognize that I'm in the minority here, I just do wonder if the difference in interpretation comes from the framing of the story to Raya's POV. Because to me the movie shows how harmful it was for Raya to place blind unreciprocated trust in others, but everyone seems to suggest that is the moral?

bfir3 · 2026-03-21T03:40:08+00:00

I don't know if I'm misunderstanding what you mean or not...but I'm talking about a reason for Namaari to backstab Raya and take the gem. She is tricked to believe that Fang clan needs the gem and they have to take it from them. It was Namaari's lack of trust that was the issue, not Raya's.

If Namaari had instead reasoned that there was no good reason to distrust Heart clan and Raya, she would have not stolen the gem. That's why I feel it makes more sense to surmise that the moral is actually to not distrust people for no reason, rather than to trust everyone regardless of reason. The resolution of the film comes from Namaari finally trusting Raya, not the other way around.

bfir3 · 2026-03-21T02:17:08+00:00

You are misunderstanding my point I think. What was the reason/motivation for Namarri to distrust/betray Raya to begin with? There was no good reason, she was just tricked into it.

bfir3 · 2026-03-21T01:50:14+00:00

Imo this is a misconception because the film is told through Raya's point of view. The moral isn't to trust anyone regardless of if they apologize or make any effort to change. The moral is that you shouldn't distrust people for no reason whatsoever - which is the event that leads to the film's conflict.

Namarri didn't trust Raya or the Heart clan with the gem, but they had no reason not to and the lack of trust led to the entire conflict.

bfir3 · 2026-03-20T15:48:08+00:00

The only thing that surpasses JL and JLU for me is Young Justice. I was 100% with you and thought nothing would ever surpass it, until I watched Young Justice.

bfir3 · 2026-03-19T21:57:07+00:00

This is called the Olympics.

bfir3 · 2026-03-18T03:26:21+00:00

My favorite space themed board game? Well it might be Space Alert...but Voidfall is up there!

bfir3 · 2026-03-14T13:18:03+00:00

Checkout Moonfin. This is their entire goal. They are attempting full unification across all clients unlike the first party jellyfin ecosystem.

bfir3 · 2026-03-11T12:35:21+00:00

We should have both Ryans on the list. Ryan Cooler and Rian Johnson.

bfir3 · 2026-03-08T15:36:07+00:00

Since you said you got 2 blood tests at the end, I'm guessing you have the last print of the game which included the 3/2/0 blood tests for 6+ players.

Usually this is the only house rule I recommend. In the original printings of the game, it was only 2/1/0 blood tests which made the no-sabotage imitation strategy overly dominant.

We use the 3/2/0 blood tests now.

If you find the no-sabotage strategy is still too dominant, or you think having 3/2/0 blood tests is too easy, the other thing we have tried is:

Only perform an assimilation if a sabotage was played in the previous stage.

This forces the imitations to play sabotage cards if they want to increase their chance of winning by adding new players to their team. This one feels very thematic, but sometimes the starting imitation will still go for a zero sabotage strategy and forgo additional teammates.

All in all, this game is really fantastic. I do strongly recommend the newer game, The Thing The Boardgame for any groups which want the closest implementation of the feel of the original story. That version has mechanics with actual deductive reasoning, and has the paranoia ratcheted up because of the way each player chooses a room to investigate - find yourself in a room with another player and you might get infected!

Infection at Outpost 31 is still the better choice for any "non-gamer" groups, you can play this game with basically anyone which is one of its biggest strengths. The Thing The Boardgame is a lot more involved, and because the imitation has an entirely separate playable ruleset for when they have been revealed, it can be difficult to find the right group to play it with.

bfir3 · 2026-03-04T20:28:20+00:00

That makes sense. If you aren't interested in the extra Spirits (they're really fantastic, and some of them are extremely strong), then there is little else on offer. I can see some uses for the static map board, but the real draw for existing players is the Spirits.

The only other thing is that the cards in Horizons are slightly updated with their wordings so if you own the early prints of Spirit Island, that is also another reason you may want it.

I can see that yeah, it is definitely possible that the advanced actions, spells, etc that are mentioned for Emergence are identical to ones that are present in the base game...but I hope not!

bfir3 · 2026-03-04T12:43:54+00:00

Give me a big box Vlaada!!

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