Chris (they/them)
@literarywizard.bsky.social
Storytelling Enthusiast. They/them.
'I have no idea what they do here, but they're great in conversation.'
- A Coworker
https://broken-words.com
'I have no idea what they do here, but they're great in conversation.'
- A Coworker
https://broken-words.com
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Fuck normalizing hateful politics and fuck playing nice for access.
This isn’t a game!
This isn’t a game!
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Fuck normalizing hateful politics and fuck playing nice for access.
This isn’t a game!
This isn’t a game!
I really wanted to get tickets to FF14's Fan Fest convention next Spring, but I couldn't. I also didn't realize how much I wanted to go until I couldn't. I've never been one for conventions, even before Covid, but I can't spend a year on FF14 and not want to go.
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Familiar Disappointments Still Sting – Broken Words
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November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I really wanted to get tickets to FF14's Fan Fest convention next Spring, but I couldn't. I also didn't realize how much I wanted to go until I couldn't. I've never been one for conventions, even before Covid, but I can't spend a year on FF14 and not want to go.
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also, he had a nazi tattoo on his chest for twenty fucking years.
The disconnect between Platner’s actual class background (upper-middle class) and the way he’s often spoken of (tribune of the working class) has long bugged me. John deftly unpacks that discrepancy here.
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
also, he had a nazi tattoo on his chest for twenty fucking years.
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later.
Remembering us is not enough.
Remembering us is not enough.
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later.
Remembering us is not enough.
Remembering us is not enough.
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Your regularly scheduled reminder to stop using X/Twitter entirely.
No, I don’t care what you’re using it for.
You should stop.
No, I don’t care what you’re using it for.
You should stop.
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Your regularly scheduled reminder to stop using X/Twitter entirely.
No, I don’t care what you’re using it for.
You should stop.
No, I don’t care what you’re using it for.
You should stop.
It's been a weird time in the discord for the people I play Final Fantasy 14 with. Some of them I'm growing steadily closer with, bonding over bad luck and shared experiences. Others... Well, they keep telling me how I feel about things and that's super frustrating.
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Teamwork, Bonding, And Growing Frustration – Broken Words
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November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's been a weird time in the discord for the people I play Final Fantasy 14 with. Some of them I'm growing steadily closer with, bonding over bad luck and shared experiences. Others... Well, they keep telling me how I feel about things and that's super frustrating.
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I am preparing for holiday travel week, physically and mentally, by getting an oil changed, cleaning my apartment, and managing my expectations about how different the holidays might feel different this year after enjoying my birthday for maybe the first time ever.
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Holiday Travel Preparations: Changed Oil And Managed Expectations – Broken Words
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November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I am preparing for holiday travel week, physically and mentally, by getting an oil changed, cleaning my apartment, and managing my expectations about how different the holidays might feel different this year after enjoying my birthday for maybe the first time ever.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Being self-motivated makes me pretty resistant to external influences, but not fully immune. If people are negative enough, it can kill my drive to do things and I've been struggling against one such case of this recently, with my guild in Final Fantasy 14.
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Intrinsic Motivation Doesn’t Make Me Immune To External Discouragement – Broken Words
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November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Being self-motivated makes me pretty resistant to external influences, but not fully immune. If people are negative enough, it can kill my drive to do things and I've been struggling against one such case of this recently, with my guild in Final Fantasy 14.
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I wrote this a week ago and while there's been a lot of big news since then, it really hasn't... accomplished anything yet. Nothing has changed and while it still might, I don't really expect the Senate Democrats to be the one driving it. They'd miss their holidays.
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The Story Of Senate Democrats: Turns Out It Was All For Nothing – Broken Words
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November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I wrote this a week ago and while there's been a lot of big news since then, it really hasn't... accomplished anything yet. Nothing has changed and while it still might, I don't really expect the Senate Democrats to be the one driving it. They'd miss their holidays.
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I am waiting "in line" for the opening of the queue to purchase Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest tickets and I haven't felt this immediately anxious in a long time. I keep nervously sipping my coffee, regretting that choice, and then forgetting not to do that in less than five seconds.
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I am waiting "in line" for the opening of the queue to purchase Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest tickets and I haven't felt this immediately anxious in a long time. I keep nervously sipping my coffee, regretting that choice, and then forgetting not to do that in less than five seconds.
I do not enjoy feeling like a font of endless negativity or complaining, but I'm also struggling to find a positive outlook these days. I mean, I wrote this a week ago and I'm already so much more exhausted and worn out than when I wrote it. It never lets up...
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I’ve Even Stopped Wishing I Could Put An Optimistic Spin On These Posts – Broken Words
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November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I do not enjoy feeling like a font of endless negativity or complaining, but I'm also struggling to find a positive outlook these days. I mean, I wrote this a week ago and I'm already so much more exhausted and worn out than when I wrote it. It never lets up...
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I'm definitely not struggling to enjoy things as much as I did just a week ago. I'm also definitely not feeling my soul crumble as even my escapes fall vicitim to the "AI" bullshit cycle.
Maybe computers were a bad idea... Making anything "smart" sure was.
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Maybe computers were a bad idea... Making anything "smart" sure was.
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The Rot That Is “AI” Keeps Spreading Into Things I Love – Broken Words
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November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'm definitely not struggling to enjoy things as much as I did just a week ago. I'm also definitely not feeling my soul crumble as even my escapes fall vicitim to the "AI" bullshit cycle.
Maybe computers were a bad idea... Making anything "smart" sure was.
broken-words.com/2025/11/13/t...
Maybe computers were a bad idea... Making anything "smart" sure was.
broken-words.com/2025/11/13/t...
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
In attempt to diversify my game time and to overcome my desire to backseat-drive a Let's Play I'm watching because inventory management is my passion, I've started playing Outward with a friend of mine and I'm really enjoying the inventory/backpack system.
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Figuring Things Out In Outward – Broken Words
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November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In attempt to diversify my game time and to overcome my desire to backseat-drive a Let's Play I'm watching because inventory management is my passion, I've started playing Outward with a friend of mine and I'm really enjoying the inventory/backpack system.
broken-words.com/2025/11/12/f...
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Yes, it should be. Call this behavior out and don’t support it. I was all in on this one until I learned this and now I won’t buy it.
Should An ‘ARC Raiders’ Review Score Be Tanked Because The Game Uses AI?
ARC Raiders had its Metascore knocked down by a new review that gave it an extremely low score due to its use of AI. Is that fair?
www.forbes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Yes, it should be. Call this behavior out and don’t support it. I was all in on this one until I learned this and now I won’t buy it.
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I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.
After a couple weeks of hard work, all that's left on my latest Giant Project in Final Fantasy 14 is the finishing touches, which means I'm turning my attention toward the next major patch in a month and preparing to start crafting as soon as it drops.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
After a couple weeks of hard work, all that's left on my latest Giant Project in Final Fantasy 14 is the finishing touches, which means I'm turning my attention toward the next major patch in a month and preparing to start crafting as soon as it drops.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
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He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
History repeats itself on grand and minute scales. The Democrats fold for zero gains, I survive a day on no sleep, and I find myself breaking just a little bit more every time I find myself feeling gratitude for how my past as built me to survive the present.
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Surviving The Day After A Sleepless Night – Broken Words
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November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
History repeats itself on grand and minute scales. The Democrats fold for zero gains, I survive a day on no sleep, and I find myself breaking just a little bit more every time I find myself feeling gratitude for how my past as built me to survive the present.
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Extremely disappointing that @kotakudotcom.bsky.social would put out a MASSIVE, glowing review of Arc Raiders and not include a single mention of the game's use of AI voices for in-game callouts and emotes instead of actual human actors
ESPECIALLY given how Anti-AI they present themselves as
ESPECIALLY given how Anti-AI they present themselves as
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Extremely disappointing that @kotakudotcom.bsky.social would put out a MASSIVE, glowing review of Arc Raiders and not include a single mention of the game's use of AI voices for in-game callouts and emotes instead of actual human actors
ESPECIALLY given how Anti-AI they present themselves as
ESPECIALLY given how Anti-AI they present themselves as
I've been struggling with everything going on lately so I took some time off last week and spent a morning laboriously preparing a nice meal that I then proceeded to eat all weekend. It was nice. I wish I could do this every week.
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The Power Of A Laboriously Prepared Meal – Broken Words
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November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I've been struggling with everything going on lately so I took some time off last week and spent a morning laboriously preparing a nice meal that I then proceeded to eat all weekend. It was nice. I wish I could do this every week.
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For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting
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This story is infinitely more important than GTA getting delayed. Don't let me catch you moaning about waiting longer for a video game if you're not mad about why it happened.
"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.
'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting
"They can get used to seeing us on their doorstep."
www.pcgamer.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This story is infinitely more important than GTA getting delayed. Don't let me catch you moaning about waiting longer for a video game if you're not mad about why it happened.
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sorry guys i accidentally deleted the spreadsheet with the first drafts of homophobic potato chip brands and it turns out it was somehow load bearing to the entire driving system and the only guy who knows how to fix it got fired in the union busting so
BREAKING: Rockstar has delayed Grand Theft Auto VI again, pushing the highly anticipated game from May to November 19, 2026. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026
The release date for the game had previously slipped to May 2026 from fall 2025
www.bloomberg.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
sorry guys i accidentally deleted the spreadsheet with the first drafts of homophobic potato chip brands and it turns out it was somehow load bearing to the entire driving system and the only guy who knows how to fix it got fired in the union busting so