Donald X. Vaccarino

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Donald X. Vaccarino (also known as Donald X. or DXV) is a board game designer who created Dominion and its expansions. He also created the games Kingdom Builder and Nefarious. Donald frequents the Dominion Strategy Forum as well as the BGG Forums, offering rules clarifications as well as input on many other Dominion related questions. He is well known for his unique language as well as his use of interesting analogies.

Quotes

  • Blue Dogs - Donald referenced blue dogs in an attempt to explain the interaction between Ironworks and Trader. References to blue dogs became a running joke on the forums after this.
If I say, "feed the blue dog, then take it for a walk," "it" refers to the blue dog, including its blueness, but "it" does not mean "the dog you fed." We are talking about a blue dog, and I am giving you two commands concerning it. Feed it, walk it.
—Donald X., Ironworks and Trader
  • Insults - Donald used some curious insults in a post expressing his entertaining views on swearing on the Internet.
Swearing is bacon at midnight, and anyone who objects to it is a mustard-encrusted rat fancier.
  • Free Pizza - Donald often referenced free pizza in responses to various complaints about Isotropic or Goko.
If you give people free pizza for a while, they start to feel like they're owed it, and then when you say "now we are selling pizza only we don't have olives yet," they want to punish you.


The lesson of course is never to give people free pizza. Make them pay from day one, and they'll gladly buy straight pepperoni, because hey, it's pizza! What were we thinking! The best move obv. would be to take isotropic down now, give people time to miss it.


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