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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Heh heh... you know 😉 under that suit 😏😏😏 Samus... ...........is a featureless humanoid fleshdoll

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Carlos Cisco @carloscisco.bsky.social · 3d

Make sure this goal is funded so I can say I wrote on the same game as the incredible @helloalexroberts.bsky.social!

Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 3d

The KS for the SHIFT RPG is going so strong it was funded before I realized it was happening??

BUT they still haven't unlocked my romance-themed setting... and you're gonna want that imo

www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

SHIFT RPG - All-Ages Collaborative Roleplaying Game

A new tabletop roleplaying game that lets you collaboratively build, create & play in any world you can imagine. Your World, Your Rules

www.kickstarter.com

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Me decoupling what makes Regency Romance hot from the material conditions that made the regency era possible

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 3d

The KS for the SHIFT RPG is going so strong it was funded before I realized it was happening??

BUT they still haven't unlocked my romance-themed setting... and you're gonna want that imo

www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

SHIFT RPG - All-Ages Collaborative Roleplaying Game

A new tabletop roleplaying game that lets you collaboratively build, create & play in any world you can imagine. Your World, Your Rules

www.kickstarter.com

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 4d

Those are such interesting games in their own right

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 4d

I knew that guy would only seek greater power.

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 4d

This was lovely to read. And what a great pairing. Dating show contestant and the host!!

Joonas Laakso @jlaakso.bsky.social · 5d

I played Star Crossed and wrote about it: www.roleplayletters.com/2025/10/08/s... Great game that really delivers on its powerful premise! #ttrpg @helloalexroberts.bsky.social

Star Crossed – Roleplay Letters

www.roleplayletters.com

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Halloween everybody

Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 4d

In Super Smash Bros., the skeletons visible when characters are hurt by electric attacks are not tied to specific animations, and instead are a form that can be toggled on and off at any time, including in cutscenes. Below are excerpts of the game's intro, with skeletons.

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 8d

Living wage? What of the laughing wage. How much is the loving wage. Tell me that

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 9d

This is a story more compelling than all the prequels put together

Spence @spencethebence.bsky.social · 10d

Helped my brother buy a new car today and this was the only decoration the salesman had on the desk.

Can of Limited Edition Star Wars Episode 1 Pepsi with Anakin on the can. It is inside a protective glass case.

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

i love to contribute

Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

Also it's not half as horny as you'd expect. I appreciate this lady's work and she has a nice voice. But. There's something just slightly wrong, slightly sad coming off the screen here. Its existence speaks to the fact that loneliness has been a profitable business for a long time

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

It's clearly a port of a CD-ROM multimedia thing intended for home computers. A collection of interviews, photos, music videos etc. Its cutesy UI elements make me miss CD-ROM as its own format/experience. Did that fad fail or did it just finish?

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

I promise (myself) that I won't try to talk about every game, but the very next one on the list, Chisato Moritaka Watarase Bashi and Lala Sunshine, has me kind of compelled.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcEI...

Sega Saturn - Chisato Moritaka - Watarase Bashi & Lala Sunshine (1997)

YouTube video by The VideoGames Museum

www.youtube.com

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

I like to ask myself, when I play these games, how they would have hit me in the mid/late nineties. And damn, this puzzle game and this little cartoon girl could have been my whole world when I was a kid.

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

Surprisingly fun: Chibi Maruko chan no Taisen Puzzledama! It's like puyo puyo but with this girl (from a manga I'd never heard of) and little dancing bunnies. I am realizing on this journey that I am a total sucker for falling object puzzle stuff

screenshot of happy child in front of dancing bunnies

screenshot of gameplay 1 v 1 puzzle action

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 11d

Absolutely acceptable

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 11d

I'm not calling for a Butlerian anything man I just think we should destroy any artificial assistant more complex than the 1984 Tomy Omnibot

Little plastic helper robot with a tray, like a plastic drink tray to literally serve man

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 12d

That shit works unfortunately can we be Finch friends

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 14d

When I see a movie with absolutely nothing to recommend it except the presence of Michelle Yeoh: Dude you GOTTA see this!!!!

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 14d

Definitely worth playing: Chaos Control Remix! A bit Panzer Dragoon-y, without the captivating hints of lore but with first-person swooping full motion video backgrounds. Apparently it is very short which must suck if you're good at shooters

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wYW...

Chaos Control Remix (JP) |4k60fps| Longplay (Sega Saturn)

YouTube video by Vault of console games

www.youtube.com

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 14d

Oh wow! Anjali being a fan of ftq is amazing, especially because... I mean come on. One of the Queen cards could just be a photo of her.

Party of One Podcast @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social · 15d

NEW EPISODE - FOR THE QUEEN WITH ANJALI BHIMANI
@sweeetanj.bsky.social @helloalexroberts.bsky.social

You'll dig this episode if you like: Dark fantasy, court intrigue, finding storytelling magic in the heart of the cards

www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/09/29/4...

This Week on Party of One
FOR THE QUEEN

Feat. Anjali Bhimani
(Borderlands 4, The Twenty Sided Tavern)

The Queen has a difficult journey ahead. She has chosen her most loyal subjects. But can they be trusted?

And at the end of the day... can the Queen?

Now available
PartyOfOnePodcast.com

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 14d

Omg I would looove to have seen that live

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 14d

If anyone ever calls me an award winning game designer please know they are referring to this screenshot. The screenshot is the award

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 14d

Didn't tag you in this years ago, so I don't know if you ever saw it

"Gonna introduce a bunch of unsuspecting people to For the Queen"

It's a bearded guy named Alex looking pensively at a deck of For the Queen cards in a standard Nerd House with Nerd Shit everywhere

A tweet from the now-defunct Roleplay Retcon Twitter, replying to the previous post, that says "Just heard the For the Queen "OOoooOooOO" from the kitchen"

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 14d

Omg Ben that screenshot

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