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Alex Fraioli

@pitohui.org

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I do voice-over for Japanese companies (Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nikkei, etc.) 🎙️ Podcasts: Draw Game, No More Whoppers 🏳️‍🌈 Video essays (youtube.com/@AlexFraioli) 👾 Ran video game bar CRITICAL＊HIT for 10 years ✌🏼 he/they

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · Oct 19

Hello new followers!
Thank you for trying Alex Fraioli in your home or office.
About me:
- I've been running a retro video game bar in Japan called CRITICAL＊HIT for a decade
- I do a fun podcast with @rdbaaa.space called No More Whoppers
- I make video essays about RPGs, retro games, and/or sobriety

Thumbnail for the YouTube video essay "Blanding on the Shoulders of Giants," depicting me next to art for Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes, along with big pink text that reads "LOVE LETTER!"

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 10h

I didn't get the job!!! they said I was "too wet"!!!!!

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 14h

a car drove through a puddle and splashed water all over my denim pants!! just like in the movies!!!

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 18h

hey thanks!

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Sid Menon @beamsplashx.wethoughtaboutgames.com · 21h

finally got around to watching this, and as someone who doesn't play either game, alex does a great job of contrasting the games and the contexts of who we are when we play them

Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · Sep 4

“Relics & Rock Stars: Appreciating Final Fantasy XI & XIV” is now available for all on YouTube!
#FFXI sickos and #FFXIV weirdos are two sides of the same gil, yet some of us make up the whole-ass coin. This video essay reconciles the living fossil with the successor that yet hurtles into the future.

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 2d

a man in a white suit is standing in a room with the words spanakopita

ALT: a man in a white suit is standing in a room with the words spanakopita

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 3d

nah it's just a national holiday called sports day when we all worship sporticus

Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 3d

I thought for sure the library would be empty on SPORTS DAY but my attempts to get any work done there were THWARTED because it was packed with people (no doubt reading about SPORTS)

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 3d

Zoomers Are LASO -- Here's What It Means

Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 3d

asking my aussie friends if I should see tron ares

Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 4d

i can spell weasel

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 4d

That's a wrap on かまいたちの夜!
You better believe during the credits I was singing Stan Bush's The Tach'

(YOU GOT THE TACH')
(YOU GOT THE WEEEASAAAL)

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 7d

uhhh they did one where the theme ingredient was pacific bluefin tuna

esoteric cyberdoll @dyadicsapphic.meangirls.online · 7d

how did your favorite show in the early 2000s deal with 9/11 happening?

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 7d

bosses love shouting for their friend Neil

Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 7d

yeah! I actually ended up watching it twice

Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 7d

holy shit I just watched MDwA yesterday

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 8d

thicc-ass pie put me in an oxford coma

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 9d

Forget about what the author may or may not have tweeted in 2022. If your book about the history of SNES JRPGS *literally excludes Japanese RPGS*’ oh my God what are we doing here

わたしがExceed Gunblaze Vengeanceわけないじゃん、ムリムリ！（※ムリじゃなかった!?） @takamomchi.bsky.social · 13d

alright gonna put myself out there a little bit

oh my lord I do believe I regret purchasing a book. i am not done and I intend to read far more of it to finish judging it but I'm already pretty upset.

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 9d

"And aug is 8, like Launch Augopuld!!"
"Da."
"だ?!"

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 9d

With a decade of experience behind the bar, I feel I've cultivated a knack for assessing the needs and wants of people who have no idea what they need or want. Ben and I put it to the test!

Benjamin Yoder @oculin.bsky.social · 10d

Final Fantasy XIV rubs me the wrong way in a way I've never been able to understand. Which is odd, since I'm a big Final Fantasy and online RPG fan.

@pitohui.org joins me in a (hopefully) series of podcasts to find some closure after over a decade of frustration.

Links below

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 9d

Ben resurfaced my driveway

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Benjamin Yoder @oculin.bsky.social · 10d

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 10d

Diving into かまいたちの夜 and came across this phrase, would love to know the story behind "3s & 5s" becoming "groups of 2 or 3"

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Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 10d

omfg

Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 10d

yeah, we actually live in the city because we can't afford a car/parking/gas/insurance/inspection fees that we'd need to pay if we lived anywhere else

Alex Fraioli @pitohui.org · 10d

this is a kirby level