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Alexander the 🔜 PAXU
@alexrineh.art
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I like dinosaurs a normal amount.

Radio plays, crosswords, RPGs, I do it all.

Cyberrats, Gratitude, and more. https://alrine.carrd.co/
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Plus I have the one-of-a-kind special edition of Heart that's bound in Lip skin.
A special edition of Heart labeled "100% Genuine Lipskin"
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Lastly 13th Age by @pelgranepress.bsky.social, which is getting a 2nd edition any minute now.
13th Age 13th Age is my favorite D&D clone. My biggest gripe with it is that that’s all it’s aspiring to be. If it had the kind of crazy classes that Heart had, this game would be an absolute gem. So as much as I frown when I see “Fighter, Ranger, Wizard Rogue”, I have to smile at the sheer brilliance of the implementations. Why I love it People call Pathfinder 1e D&D version 3.75. They’re wrong. Pathfinder is 3.5.1. You can fit the changes from 3.5 to Pathfinder 1 on a single notecard. It doesn’t take lessons from D&D, it pretends it doesn’t exist. 13th Age is 3.75. It takes the roleplaying focus of the 3rd edition of the game and combines it with the tactics of the 4th. Gone are the massive lists of skills, replaced with an elegant background system (I have a 3 in Sailor, and that makes me pretty good at keeping my balance in rough water, surely that applies here!). Not everything lands. One Unique Thing is a little kitchy for my taste, and I never really cared for how involved the (13) gods (“Icons”) are in play. But the things that land land hard. Each enemy has goals and objectives, and every level up matters. It’s a theatre-of-the-mind game with teeth, where powers hit 5 enemies clustered together, and most spells give you a choice: cast it big and weak, small and focused.
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Broken Rooms. Admittedly, this is the hardest one for you to be playing *right now*, as it's miraculously out of print, but I think it's up on Drivethru
The year is 2007. The world has split into 12 realities, all of them doomed. You, like a very small percent of people, have a gene that allows you to travel between them. Oh, you also have experienced severe trauma, which gave you super powers, and the world-traveling can only happen at places of high emotion. Why I love it Broken Rooms has a d12 dice mechanic that matches its lore (13s are crits, and appear everywhere in the world). The setting is miserable and familiar, the quests short in nature and mirroring the heroe’s journey (easy to go down, hard to climb back “up” to the more stable worlds), and over the source of a campaign you grow more powerful and also less able to relate to those around you. You are constantly seeing suffering and losing your ability to connect as a result of it. I’m a sucker for a game with an ending, and this is a game about getting too powerful and retiring to heaven (literally — once you attune to all 13 worlds, you’re done). Each world gives a different power, and you sort of end up filling out a heist squad as you play. Someone can open up a rift? Someone else can kill the lights? Let’s roll.
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Heart by @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social
Heart is dungeon crawling designed through a narrative lense. Its sister game, Spire: The City Must Fall has you playing as opressed dark elves turned terrorists trying to overthrow society with doomed plots that not only won’t work, but will also turn your loved ones against you. Bad news! Here, you go below the city, where everyone is evil and the brains run on time. Sorry, the trains run on brain. Sorry, the brain train run. Sorry. Why I love it I could tell you that Heart has a clever fallout system that makes your characters’ lives into a slowly building ball of tension that explodes, bit by bit to give them accumulating bits of unnerving, unsettling, and unwelcome tics. That they are morphing the hell around then just as must as the hell around them is morphing them. That wouldn’t be a lie, but it wouldn’t be true, either. The reason I love Heart is because it has the best damn classes of any game ever. Spire famously has Man With A Gun, a power where your noir journalist summons a man with a gun and no particular allegiance into the scene. Heart has a man who wears armor that is also a train. Heart has a witch made out of bees. Heart has — did you hear the train one? You can have TRAIN ARMOR!
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Masks: A New Generation by @magpiegames.bsky.social
You are teenagers who happen to be superheroes. I said earlier that Sentinels was my favorite supers game. That’s true! Masks isn’t a superhero games. It’s a teenage soap opera about people who are also superheroes, incidentally. Why I love it In some superhero games, the answer to “How long does it take me to run home from Chicago” is “let’s consult this chart to see your speed score and Chicago’s distance score…” In Masks, the answer is “Just long enough that you missed picking up your sister from soccer practice, and your parents are PISSED” Some of my favorite memories of playing RPGs are sitting around and telling a Legacy character (one whose whole shtick is living up to the legacy of a parent, in this case her dad) that maybe her brother should have been the superhero instead.
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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A Complicated Profession by @alwayscheckers.bsky.social
What a delightful game, I’m smiling just reading the title. You are a cartoony little space animal and also a retired bounty hunter. These days, you work on a cruise ship, and you’ve got to keep your guests happy. Why I love it First, for the sheer genius that your character sheet is two halves: one half is the life you left behind, and the other is the life you embrace. Over the course of the game, you lose your old skills and sharpen up new ones. This game is fast, cozy, simple, and fun. You’ve got to use your tough, gruff bounty hunter skills to make sure the old ladies are having a good time at bingo night. I dare you not to giggle while playing this one. You can’t!
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Fiasco by @jmstar.bsky.social
You are dumb criminals with big ideas. and you’re playing dumb criminals — no, no, hold your laughter. Fiasco is elegant in its simplicity. If you’ve never played a game like this, it’s like experiencing your first euro game. There is no randomness, at least not in the ways that matter. It’s more like a LARP or a collaborative murder mystery than your traditional TTRPG. And it works. Why I love it Fiasco promises that you can deliver a Coen Brothers movie in about the time it takes to watch on. And it delivers on that promise. In just a couple hours, you can build a complex web of relationships, locations, items, and desires, prop them up, and then watch as everything tumbles apart. If you’re lucky, you might come out alive and no worse off than you started.
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Sentinel Comics by @rustysellsword.com
Sentinels of the Multiverse is a card game based off a series of comics that don’t exist. There’s a lot of lore there (some of it I have beef with), but it’s a lived-in world with established heroes and villains. Like any good1 supers game, you can also create your own. Why I love it The character creation in this system rules. You roll a couple dice, and combine them in various ways to pick abilities, origins, motivations, and flaws off of tables, and then get to pick your powers based on the above. It’s fun, it’s fast, and it’s way cooler than I’m making it sound. There’s a ton of flexibility in this game, without it turning into a fight to be optimal or a buffet of power points like
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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HEDGE by @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social
You are Wardens, creatures of nature stuffed full of divine power you can almost contain and barely control. Faerie forces are clamoring at the titular (heh) Hedge trying to get in. Don’t let them! Why I love it HEDGE is a tactical dream that demands you scream its name when you speak of it. The game is a breeze to teach, you can get started in minutes, and the rules are as abstract as this very simile — but way more satisfying. Each playbook plays differently, and the enemies are varied as they come pouring through, desperate to get past you. Unleash awesome synergies, and immediately imbue yourself with more power. This isn’t a zero-to-hero adventure, it’s a hero-to-bigger-hero-to-oops-I-burned-too-brightly-please-remember-me-but-more-importantly-stop-the-incursion-thanks story. PLUS, the flavor text is just delightful. Bonus: the creators are nice.
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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One year ago today I met these two goofballs
Benzo, a golden retriever / great Pyrenesse mix Maeve, an okay Pyrenesse.
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I love this poem because Oliver leads you where she's going, one step behind you, and there's that funny little twist just before she tells you
The first six stanzas of Mary Oliver's October 1 There’s this shape, black as the entrance to a cave. A longing wells up in its throat like a blossom as it breathes slowly. What does the world mean to you if you can’t trust it to go on shining when you’re not there? and there’s a tree, long-fallen; once the bees flew to it, like a procession of messengers, and filled it with honey. 2 I said to the chickadee, singing his heart out in the green pine tree: little dazzler little song, little mouthful. 3 The shape climbs up out of the curled grass. It grunts into view. There is no measure for the confidence at the bottom of its eyes— there is no telling the suppleness of its shoulders as it turns and yawns. Near the fallen tree something—a leaf snapped loose from the branch and fluttering down—tries to pull me into its trap of attention. 4 It pulls me into its trap of attention. And when I turn again, the bear is gone. 5 Look, hasn’t my body already felt like the body of a flower? 6 Look, I want to love this world as thought it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get to be alive and know it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Phone history showing 10 calls to unsaved numbers over an 11 hour period
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Like come on this is deeply funny.

Despite these copy/pasted responses, I am 100% sure I WAS talking to a human just before this.
Screenshot of a chat. Agent shares some messages deflecting me to someone else. I ask why they aren't the person I need to talk to. Agent copy/pastes a message saying that they don't monitor the channel.
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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i'm rich
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November 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Everything about this poster makes me think it's called "Sonic 3: the hedgehog".

Even the movie intro adds "The hedgehog" after the rest of the title, like a subtitle. It's very odd!
Poster for sonic the hedgehog 3.
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Benzo is home safe! ❤️ Thanks all for the kind wishes
Ben smiling at home Ben at home
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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I refuse to believe that Stalker (1979) is one of the hundred best movies of all time.
Stalker dares to ask is it possible for a movie to be too ponderous, too introspective. It has big ideas but wants me to fill in the gaps. The world is constantly changing. No, you're just gazing off screen. These are alien ruins. No, that's Estonia. This is a thoughtful, tense scene. No, the shots are 80 seconds long and presented in a random color grade. The two monologues near the end of the film are great, but neither make up for the other 2 hours.
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I think he's a favored patient, they were all fawning over him.
Ben smiling in his kennel Ben smiling, released
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Vet says ben is doing great
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Thank you. They're still doing tests right now, but it seems like other dog will come home with us. Still trying to figure out how bad this guy is. Big dummy.
Ben on floor
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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After a mission in Cyberrats you can nominate an MVP who gets access to pilot perks, like this one that lets you turn your mech into a nuclear escape hatch.
Acolyte of the Grand Nuclear Order: While you are linked to exactly one other mech, you may both simultaneously twist two keys. Sacrifice both mechs, riding a radioactive wave 15 range bands in a random direction. Both pilots test Sly. On a 3+ you look cool as hell. On a 5+ you also survive.
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Forgot to shave the Du Bois beard so now I look like a random quest giver in Red Dead Redemption
Alex with a scruffy split beard
November 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Succes! It was remember the milk!
Screenshot of remeber the milk task for make h'ors douerves artichoke phyllo cups japanese rolls pumpkin pinwheels shrimp corn cakes with soy mayo
November 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Not enough to go on! Two named dishes, one recipe and a reference to a list.

Where could this list be?
Well, first I searched all my other open computer tabs.
Nothing.

Then I try my phone.
Also nothing, but I found this terrible list of profane limericks by state capitol for some reason???

2/3
There once was a lad from Montgomery Who had an inflatable tummy He pumped it so big It was burst by a twig And now he finds lumber so yummy There once was a lass from Juneau Who never would lose at limbo She slipped under bars But bent over too far And now her head's always too low There once was a man from Phoenix Who used as a paintbrush his penis He tried to paint models But got hard and wobbled So now he only paints scenics There once was a man from li'l rock Whose hands would expand like a cock They shrunk in the shower He was stranded for hours His fingers too flaccid to knock There once was a man from des Moines Who bragged of the size of his groin He slipped on a rock Landed right on his cock And now it's the size of a coin There once was a man from Columbus Who got so tired of his dumbness He went off to class Worked off his ass And now he's a first rate alumnus There once was a man from Olympia Who said to his wife, 'I'ma pimp ya" He dressed her in tights Hung up a red light And fucked her himself i
November 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Bear with me...

Months ago an argument with a friend over the Definitive Tier List of hors Douerves led to me making a list of h'ros douerves that I wanted to make.

Today, I decided to sit down and make one.

I look at my todo list and see this:

(1/3)
VOTE Pierogi hors douerves - https://www.recip Make hors douerves from list Make Japanese milk rolls
November 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM