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Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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I like dinosaurs a normal amount.

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

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Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

@alexrineh.art

Just finished a game of the Zone where we got to paint little pictures at the start that became plot points later on. Luck of the draw meant the day was (almost, briefly) saved by a canonically sexy T-Rex

November 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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Imagine this mechanical horror trundling towards you as you're trying to buy oatmeal

November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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I had to duck to fit in the mirror AND tilt my phone to the least flattering angle.

The things I do to be recognized...

November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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Famous Tumblr post about a hospital having red streaks of paint that look like blood and designers defending that red is a happy color while missing that it looks like blood in this context

November 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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Also what an insane drop in quality from the comic itself to the way it's advertised.

I liked this issue a lot! This would not have made me seek it out.

Absolute wonder woman #8 cover with the text

Her mother trained her for battle... But nothing could prepare her for THIS

Diana enters the labrynth as a new arc begins

November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

@alexrineh.art

Used too much rouge the last time I worse my Harrier Du Bois costume and now the noseguards on my glasses are permanently hued red.

Glasses with light red, almost pink noseguards.

November 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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My wife and I make an updated list every 3 years or so (this year we're breaking it down by category). Here's the one from 2022

Top ten board game of 2022 list.
Left is board game geek (gloomhaven, brass Birmingham, pandemic legacy 1, gloomhaven Jaws of the lion, teraforming Mars, twilight inperium, ark nova, star wars rebellion, Gaia project, spirit island)

Middle is Alex (clank legacy, pandemic legacy 1, scythe, lords of waterdeep, bruxelles 1897, Shadowrun crossfire, decrypto, teraforming Mars, rising run, star wars rebellion)

Rifgt is my wife (clank legacy, pandemic legacy season 1, dead of winter, marvel legendary, scythe, quacks of quedlingburg, Battlestar Galactica, teraforming Mars, Lords of wafer deep, decrypto)

November 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

@alexrineh.art

We aren't talking enough about the truckle.

Ford released a buckle with a big slot so you can put your key fob in it. It costs $200 and I love it.

An ornate belt buckle with a slot for a key fob.

November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

@alexrineh.art

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

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

@alexrineh.art

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

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

@alexrineh.art

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

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

@alexrineh.art

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

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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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

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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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

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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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

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

@alexrineh.art

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

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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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

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

@alexrineh.art

One year ago today I met these two goofballs

Benzo, a golden retriever / great Pyrenesse mix

November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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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

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

@alexrineh.art

Phone history showing 10 calls to unsaved numbers over an 11 hour period

November 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

@alexrineh.art

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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November 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM

Alexander the 🔜 PAXU

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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!