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Ryea Starlight
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Gamer, animal lover, and all around nerd
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chronicillness.bsky.social
Source: @rollingblakely on Tumblr
Source: @rollingblakely on Tumblr hey u, friendly reminder that using spoons on a hobby or something that brings you joy is just as important as doing those chores your brain is beating you up over. i double dip pinky promise.
January 14, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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dawngardner.bsky.social
I don't ger people who make one thing their whole personality. There's a woman at this coffee shop who drove up in a car with a huge Steelers window sticker, steelers license plate frame, then walked in wearing a steelers pullover and holding a steelers purse. Crazy.
Anyways have you heard of FFXIV-
January 12, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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voidsentprinces.bsky.social
Yeah sex is great and all but, have you ever
a close up of a statue of a dragon with a lot of sharp wings and sharp teeth .
ALT: a close up of a statue of a dragon with a lot of sharp wings and sharp teeth .
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November 29, 2024 at 2:38 AM
ryeastarlight.bsky.social
I love how everyone was excited by the practical use of strategy boards when they first got accounced - but now we all just meme with them.
kirisali.bsky.social Kirisali @kirisali.bsky.social · 8d
Here is my strategy board, not at all inspired by our group's first run in savage
#ffxiv
A strategy image board in FFXIV of the eyes closed wailing to the sky emoji that says "PLEASE USE MITTS I BEG YOU"
January 10, 2026 at 2:51 PM
ryeastarlight.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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January 9, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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Sigh. Repost as needed I guess.
A Derpkitty comic featuring a cartoon lion. Panel 1: Derpkitty the lion stretching sleepily and saying"YAWN what a nice morning!". Panel 2: Derpkitty with back to viewer, about to open a door saying "Time to see what's going on in the world..." Panel 3: Over the shoulder shot of Derpkitty with a large sweatdrop looking out towards a blazing inferno outside through the door, large text over the fire going "WHAT EVER THE HELL IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW" Panel 4: Derpkitty swiftly turning back inside, shutting door with a smiling but nervous look, saying "Well, back to bed with me!"
January 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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demoniofleurs.bsky.social
I stumbled upon a thread on the FFXIV subreddit that I encourage everyone who is frustrated with the DDoS’ to read, as it goes over why this is a complicated issue with no real easy solution

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Title: Irrational Attackers and you: A (potential) explanation for why you keep getting 90k'd Is this actually a DDOS? Or does SE just have bad servers? There is no reason to believe it is anything other than a ddos attack In the last few weeks FFXIV has been kicking people off NA servers with 90k errors, this is confined to NA, and even if there have been some on EU/OCE/JP, it is orders of magnitude less common. There is no logical reason to assume the server software is different in each region, and since it it possible for both JP and NA to visit OCE, that is vanishingly unlikely. Earlier today, when world first racers were getting 90k's they tried to data center travel to Materia to raid. The 90k errors then stopped on NA, and started on OCE. Once they gave up and returned to NA, so did the 90k's. This is as close to evidence of a ddos attack as anyone who doesnt work for square enix can get. That also means it is provider agnostic, as NTT America does not operate in Australia. So that's the "how", now for the "why" In threat modeling, there are two kinds of attackers, rational, and irrational. Rational attackers are great (well, in terms of prevention), they are easy to understand, and can even be worked with at times, they are typically limited to actual hacking/unauthorized access attacks, but a rational attacker ddos could be "im ddosing you, pay me 3 million in bitcoin and I will stop" This isnt very likely, as typically those demands are public to put pressure on the target company, but it is possible if they just sent SE the ransom directly... but again, unlikely. An irrational attacker is FAR more likely, this doesnt mean somebody who is completely insane and has no reason, but someone who cannot be negotiated with, they just want to break things. If a rational attacker is a burglar breaking into your home, an irrational one is a drunk teenager trying to throw a rock through your attic window. In this case, I think its pretty clear whats going on. It is someone (or a group) that does not care about money, with no public ransom, and enough resources to repeatedly crash isp nodes (often multiple at a time) they are burning money to bring servers down for no gain. They are also willing to risk felony cybercrime charges (which this definitely counts as). Now the big question, how do you stop an irrational attacker? You dont. You hope they get bored or lose interest. There are some over very high profile mmo ddos incidents, with the most recent famous one being the WoW hardcore classic streamer guild "OnlyFangs" Whenever they pulled a raid boss, the wow servers went down, it was 100% predictable, there were no exceptions. This wasnt because their guild was specifically cursed and making the servers crash, there was just.... a guy(s) who wanted their characters dead. This only stopped after the streamers decided to stop playing hardcore, because it was hurting the game for everyone. Possible culprits Literally anyone with money, I suspect based on timing its someone who really wants NA to lose the world race? but it could also just be someone who wants to hurt FFXIV's reputation, and messing up the world race is the easiest way to do it But why is it only ffxiv? It isnt, its just that taking down any game costs a lot of money, so its very rare, even if you are just running a server for a few friends, you could be ddosed, it would just cost them far more to kill the server than it costs you to run it. There are obviously DDOS solutions, but they really only work for website, and the solution for something that needs server connection is an active and ongoing problem, its (part of) why so many competetive games switched to peer-to-peer hosting, if you kill the host it only affects that one game, not the entire server. Some more recent examples of non-ffxiv games taken down by ddos Albion online, basically unplayable for several weeks in early summer last year after a mass ban of rmt accounts World of warcraft earlier this week, im not sure why, but blizzard publicly acknowledged the cause on the launcher League of legends also earlier this week, actually no clue on this one either edit: they forgot to renew client license, they did get hit with one ~3 months ago though that also took down steam None of this is confirmed, I am just a third party with no insights into SE internals, using my experience with devops and cybersecurity to put pieces together
January 7, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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bajamut-blast.bsky.social
well well well if it isn't ddos o clock
January 6, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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January 6, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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roira.bsky.social
born to gpose forced to endure the horrors of being disconnected and entering a player queue
January 6, 2026 at 10:48 PM
ryeastarlight.bsky.social
I love this SO MUCH
lyalestel.bsky.social Lyal Estel @lyalestel.bsky.social · 10d
Only one...?
January 5, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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grymnoire.bsky.social
period debuff
Three different debuffs named Moonlit, Bleeding, and Doom all applied to the same character
January 4, 2026 at 7:57 PM
ryeastarlight.bsky.social
I am DYING laughing. This is already funny but if you know the HSR characters invovled it gets even BETTER! #hsr #honkaistarrail

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Penacony characters in a nutshell #hsr #honkaistarrail #firefly #aventurine #robin #fyp #shorts
YouTube video by seerzo
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January 4, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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pokemongems.bsky.social
Screenshot of Pokémon emerald showing the player character in a Pokémon center talking to a female NPC with dialogue reading “If you’ve come this far, what choice do you have but to keep going?”
January 4, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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berryzawa.bsky.social
Thinking about one of my favorite Shadowbringers cutscenes.
My favorite thing about G’raha in Shb is depending on whether he’s in Exarch mode or being “G’raha”, he addresses the wol differently in Japanese. As the Exarch he calls the wol あなた/anata (a way to say you in Japanese) but when staying to true to himself he calls wol アンタ/anta which is a less formal way to say あなた. As Exarch he’s putting some distance between himself and the wol, I think. But in the cutscene where he fell asleep next to wol and he slips up saying アンタ when he wakes up. For a split second he was G’raha Tia. Obviously he immediately went back into Exarch mode but personally I like to think that’s when Layla realizes that the Exarch was actually Raha all along.
January 4, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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jabby.bsky.social
friend: I like your ocs, can you tell me more about them?

me:
A screenshot from Final Fantasy 14 that notes: Upon proceeding, several cutscenes will play in sequence. It is recommended that you set aside sufficient time to view these scenes in their entirety.
January 2, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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bajamut-blast.bsky.social
they could never make me hate either of you
January 2, 2026 at 2:33 PM
ryeastarlight.bsky.social
I swear I hate the youtube home page. Every video/short I get recently is depressing or something I've watched 1000 times. Anybody got any recomendations for something that's not an hour long, engaging enough for my ADHD brain, and not depressing?
January 2, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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January 2, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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pachineorzea.bsky.social
MMORPG players in Westworld: people torture the NPCs because they're not real and nothing matters Real MMORPG players in real games: for a while there was a rock with textures that didn't load in correctly so people made a pilgrimage to Smooth Rock
January 1, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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purrinink.bsky.social
🐈‍⬛🤍
December 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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sphealposting.bsky.social
Pokemon rumble spheal casting a spell The text says "WOOSH. YOU WILL NOW HAVE A GOOD 2026" happy new year
December 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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alamhigo.bsky.social
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM