Strix
@strixexmachina.bsky.social
She/Her. Fandom Old. Beer Industry Pro. Unholy Amalgam of JSTOR and the Kool-Aid Man. Indie Perfume Enjoyer. Several video games in a trench coat.
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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I think all games should have a photo-sensitivity accessibility mode
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I think all games should have a photo-sensitivity accessibility mode
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It's Mogtomes season soon, which means another non definitive guide to things you can grab from the event!
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It's Mogtomes season soon, which means another non definitive guide to things you can grab from the event!
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the garlemald soldiers thinking both fordola and yotsuyu used sexual favors to gain their position under zenos is so funny like no they won his favor by being genuinely hateful freaks
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
the garlemald soldiers thinking both fordola and yotsuyu used sexual favors to gain their position under zenos is so funny like no they won his favor by being genuinely hateful freaks
I’m imagining Calyx delivering his uncomfortably long pre-trial shonen villain monologue while Strix, who landed on “there’s a primal here” roughly two seconds after encountering electrope, applies all of her self-control to not having a Shantoto-style hysterical crack up.
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’m imagining Calyx delivering his uncomfortably long pre-trial shonen villain monologue while Strix, who landed on “there’s a primal here” roughly two seconds after encountering electrope, applies all of her self-control to not having a Shantoto-style hysterical crack up.
Okay but one thing about 7.3: In mainline DT, Zoraal Ja struck me as off in a way that couldn't totally be explained by eldest son in a traditional family legacy pressure, more like 'dude is real heckin' tempered.'
WELL.
WELL.
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Okay but one thing about 7.3: In mainline DT, Zoraal Ja struck me as off in a way that couldn't totally be explained by eldest son in a traditional family legacy pressure, more like 'dude is real heckin' tempered.'
WELL.
WELL.
Re: FFXIV's habit of completely dumping established character conflict in service of pacing, hey remember the Werlyt unlock, where *Raubahn* talked WoL out of aggressing on Gaius?
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Re: FFXIV's habit of completely dumping established character conflict in service of pacing, hey remember the Werlyt unlock, where *Raubahn* talked WoL out of aggressing on Gaius?
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Every meaningful opportunity for personal conflict turns into one of:
- Let's agree to be friends
- The only way to resolve the problem is This One Villain Dies And Everyone Moves On
- Fordola
- Let's agree to be friends
- The only way to resolve the problem is This One Villain Dies And Everyone Moves On
- Fordola
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Every meaningful opportunity for personal conflict turns into one of:
- Let's agree to be friends
- The only way to resolve the problem is This One Villain Dies And Everyone Moves On
- Fordola
- Let's agree to be friends
- The only way to resolve the problem is This One Villain Dies And Everyone Moves On
- Fordola
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XIV as a story loves discarding friction the moment doing so serves the pacing (see Y'shtola suddenly being okay with the Exarch after three years despite having JUST FOUND OUT HIS PLAN IS TURNING YOU INTO A LIGHTWARDEN) so the fact that she stays in that real and messy grey area is astonishing
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
XIV as a story loves discarding friction the moment doing so serves the pacing (see Y'shtola suddenly being okay with the Exarch after three years despite having JUST FOUND OUT HIS PLAN IS TURNING YOU INTO A LIGHTWARDEN) so the fact that she stays in that real and messy grey area is astonishing
SE out here asking the earth-shakingly brave questions like "Wouldnt it be cool if King Arthur was a creepy cyberspace yamato nadeshiko" 🙄
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
SE out here asking the earth-shakingly brave questions like "Wouldnt it be cool if King Arthur was a creepy cyberspace yamato nadeshiko" 🙄
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Finally getting around to starting 7.3 MSQ and damn, this is extra noticeable with the color scheme and lighting in S9, but I really am the only person darker than Wonderbread who's allowed to exist, huh?
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Finally getting around to starting 7.3 MSQ and damn, this is extra noticeable with the color scheme and lighting in S9, but I really am the only person darker than Wonderbread who's allowed to exist, huh?
Trying a couple of minor scaling tweaks to see if I can look a little less like a beanie baby, and balancing that against clipping through all my gear or looking too weird in cutscenes.
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Trying a couple of minor scaling tweaks to see if I can look a little less like a beanie baby, and balancing that against clipping through all my gear or looking too weird in cutscenes.
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Reposting these as they are meant to be seen. Stormblood propaganda posters featuring Lyse, Fordola, Yugiri, and Yotsuyu. Everyone has their own sense of freedom.
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Reposting these as they are meant to be seen. Stormblood propaganda posters featuring Lyse, Fordola, Yugiri, and Yotsuyu. Everyone has their own sense of freedom.
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Better (as in, any at all) accessibility features for photosensitive players
#wolqotd #wolquestion
You have been granted one (1) minor boon from Yoshi-P: you can add, subtract, or change something about FFXIV in a *minor* way, no restructuring entire systems or expac stories, nothing that changes the course of the narrative. What do you choose?
You have been granted one (1) minor boon from Yoshi-P: you can add, subtract, or change something about FFXIV in a *minor* way, no restructuring entire systems or expac stories, nothing that changes the course of the narrative. What do you choose?
November 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Better (as in, any at all) accessibility features for photosensitive players
Preparing for (dry) cold is a normal part of Strix’s Sagolii-native cultural repertoire. It’s not comfortable, but very doable in the short term with appropriate clothing, warm food and drink, advance monitoring the weather forecast and shelter options etc.
*Wet cold,* otoh, is abjectly miserable.
*Wet cold,* otoh, is abjectly miserable.
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Preparing for (dry) cold is a normal part of Strix’s Sagolii-native cultural repertoire. It’s not comfortable, but very doable in the short term with appropriate clothing, warm food and drink, advance monitoring the weather forecast and shelter options etc.
*Wet cold,* otoh, is abjectly miserable.
*Wet cold,* otoh, is abjectly miserable.
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There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
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Looks like another day for this...
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Looks like another day for this...
I started playing in the summer of 2020, a handful of days before 5.3 dropped. I finished MSQ-to-date just in time for 5.4 in December.
#wolqotd As a player, what was the first patch you were caught up for?
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I started playing in the summer of 2020, a handful of days before 5.3 dropped. I finished MSQ-to-date just in time for 5.4 in December.
"Yeah, I know I could do it on my own, but I want that full-moon black magic and it takes two."
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"Yeah, I know I could do it on my own, but I want that full-moon black magic and it takes two."
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seems like a necessary post
November 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
seems like a necessary post
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a new prompt — build a playlist for your character around emotions, regardless how fleeting or fragile. take it, use it, abuse it.
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
a new prompt — build a playlist for your character around emotions, regardless how fleeting or fragile. take it, use it, abuse it.
LRP Jenlyns may not have had sex, but Curious Gorge doesn't even know what that is.
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
LRP Jenlyns may not have had sex, but Curious Gorge doesn't even know what that is.
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Hold on, did we play the same WAR job quests? Y'know, the one about playing wingman to get our dude laid because he had no sauce?
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hold on, did we play the same WAR job quests? Y'know, the one about playing wingman to get our dude laid because he had no sauce?