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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026
i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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escente @escente.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
estinien #FFXIV
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미래고양이MIGO @migo45.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
#FFXIV ☕
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go away 🦫 @snakeroot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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whitydragon @whitydragon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#ff14
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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Microsoft this week: We're laying off half the industry. Sony: We're ending physical games. Nintendo: have u seen this splatoon weapon we call it the bloblobber
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Tom O @vgtomo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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yan liker @keef.au-ra.top · 31/05/2026
funny post from xivdiscussion :)
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.
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Rori 🦇 @sweetrori.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40. Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
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tali (sumire hanamitsu 7.5) @demoniofleurs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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 www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comm...
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 itBut 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
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I have come to terms with the Thing I Hate not being made for me, and have moved on to two splendid pastimes: enjoying Other Things with my time, and being happy that other people enjoy Their Thing.
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Nipah @nipahdubs.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
FFXIV is a great game when you don't have the most miserable people telling you it's not.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/06/2025
This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets
Universal did not permit, authorize, or license Midjourney to copy or use any of Universal's copyrighted works in connection with any version of its Image Service or to otherwise exploit Universal's works at any time. You acknowledged as much in a September 16, 2022 Forbes interview in which you confirmed that Midjourney never sought any copyright holders' consent to use or exploit their works:
Did you seek consent from living artists or work still under copyright?
No. There isn't really a way to get a hundred million images and know where they're coming from. It would be cool if images had metadata embedded in them about the copyright owner or something. But that's not a thing; there's not a registry. There's no way to find a picture on the Internet, and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it.
See Rob Salkowitz. Midiourney Founder David Holz
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
this is good.
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Kuna @wryote.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Me opening the news every fucking morning
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/01/2025
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
sitting in a waiting room this morning while my partner had a 6 hour long cancer removal surgery when I saw the news that the insurance CEO was shot. Im paying out of pocket because the best alternative for us is partial coverage @ 1000 a month with a 15000 deductible. Anyway heres a unrelated comic
Sick guy: I THINK I MIGHT NEED TO GO TO THE DOCTOR.. LEMME CONSULT THE FLOWCHART...
Flowchart: "SHOULD I GO TO THE DOCTOR (OR DENTIST)
*A single arrow points to another card*
"IT IS TOO LATE FOR YOU
 USE YOUR FINAL DAYS TO TERRORIZE AND ELIMINATE HEALTH EXECUTIVES TO ENACT REAL CHANGE"
*sick guy, dressed like Rambo*: cough cough
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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
💫 Sophie and Calcifer 💫
Digital painting of Sophie and Calcifer from Howl’s Moving Castle. Calcifer is floating above Sophie’s hands and shooting stars dance around them.
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Untamed FFXIV Creature Zine @PRODUCTION @ff14untamedzine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
✧GIVEAWAY✧ Hello #ffxiv gleaners and creature enthusiasts! To celebrate our new community, we are holding an exclusive giveaway here on Bluesky! If this gets more than 400 reposts, we'll give away two EX bundles! Rules: 🐣 Repost 🐥 Follow ⏰ Ends Dec 2nd at 11:59pm PST #untamedzine #ff14 #ffxivart
Giveaway
RULES: REPOST AND FOLLOW TO ENTER
Quotes reposts do not count. One random entry will win an EX bundle. If this giveaway gets over 400 reposts, we will give away an addition EX bundle to another winner. Winners have 24 hours to claim their prize. Winners may request and partial refund if they made an order between Nov 22 and Dec 2. Giveaway ends on DEC 2nd at 11:59pm PST
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PMS Jordan 🏳️‍⚧️ @pms-jordan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Have you heard of the critical acclaimed MMORPG: ______________ |\ \ \|\ \//////// \|\ \_____ \|\ \ inal Fantasy XIV \|\ \//// \|\ \ \|\ \ \|\___\ \////
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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Screenshot of a tweet with a still from The Simpsons with Homer saying to Bart, “the worst cabinet pick SO FAR”
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 14/11/2024
CAN ANYONE SEE THIS
Hide the Pain Harold sitting in front of a laptop with a mug
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すびかか @suyasuyabi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
fanart
星のカービィ30周年のファンアート星のカービィ31周年のファンアート星のカービィ32周年のファンアート
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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 10/11/2024
It's 2024. You can't expect me to buy something that connects with micro USB. Be so for real. Especially if it includes a micro USB to USB-C cable. You *know* it should have been USB-C when you designed it. Sorry for this random tech quibble, but seriously.
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Jazz The JRPG Queen 👑❤️🎮 @jazzlikestogame.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
It’s so nice on here to post about games you love and not have someone calling it shit, mid, woke or slop in the replies on the daily isn’t it?
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dove! @dovalore.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
bringing this back #ffxiv
a group of moogles, all with slightly different shapes, none of them are interacting with each other. one of them is brandishing a knife the size of their own body, another is holding a small white envelope with a heart on it and another is sticking its tongue out to drink from a bowl of milk... or mayonnaise
the text at the top reads, "close twitter for the love of good king moggle mog xii, may his magnificent virtue serve as an example to us all"
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Mhuyo @mhuyo.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Personal message to my dear friends who I love very much
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Camila 🌷 @nekomori-art.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Why be mean to someone who's trying their best 😭 [ #art ]
Illustration depicting a bunny looking at themselves angrily in the mirror, but their reflection is stressed out and crying. The text under the image says: "Don't bully yourself please :("
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lily hoang-zhu 🍊 @ little craft fest @liliuhms.com · 21/10/2024
my love, mine all mine 🌙 (1/2) #comics
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Jennie🌷 @maobabie.com · 28/10/2024
an old love letter to #ffxiv #art
fanart of FFXIV. illustration shows many characters from the game including the scions of the seventh dawn, heads of the city states, and beloved characters like Haurchefant, Ysayle, Moonbryda and more surrounding Hydaelyn, the mother crystal.
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TK🌊 @tksnim.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
❤️🔷 #クラジル #clijill
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hiyo♡vartist @hiyokayart.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
me every halloween 🎃👻
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temmie @tuyoki.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
alexander (ff9)
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
I think the idea of self-care has become really warped, so I'm switching to making "maintenance and morale" bigger priorities in my life. Maintenance is eating right, sleep, hygiene, cleaning my apartment, doing all of my laundry. Morale is seeing friends, fun adventures, hobbies and takeout orders
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Mhuyo @mhuyo.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
don't judge me...
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IL @il-dot.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
絶竜詩戦争 202204 #FF14
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Ishmi @itsmeishmi.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Bahamut Pixel Practice!
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九十九 @tukumo99.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
15年前に描いた大神のイラスト。
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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 🔜 NFC @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Bonjour Bluesky 💙
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floogie.bsky.social @floogie.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,418,647!
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🌸MurmurLilies🌸 @murmurlilies.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
I just don't have strong negative opinions about media I guess LOL everyone is always like "that movie/show/game was fucking DOGSHIT DONKEY ASS" meanwhile the most dramatic I get when I don't like something is "idk I guess it's just not for me" 😂
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JoCat is slow at making videos @jocat.net · 02/09/2024
for all the new users: remember that bluesky will not keep your attention or engagement for hours on end And that's okay, it's not supposed ot check what's going on, like/share/comment some stuff, catch up with what friends are up to, then go back to your day as social media SHOULD be
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