Elwood V. (@elwoodv) — Bluesky Profile

5 days ago

March commissions open!
Rent is due soon and the extra cash would be very helpful
DM me if you have any questions / want one ✨
#Commissions

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1 month ago

Madqueenmomo’s commissions
Full body
Starting achibi 80$
Non chibi 150$

Full artpage from 175 to 200 usd
Can do furry monsters and try mech
Wont do nsfw of underaged or childish characters

Portrait art
Sketch 60
Refinned
80

Want to help a full time artist pay her bills and live?
check out my #vgen
vgen.co/Madqueenmomo
#monart

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1 week ago

RT if $3000 would literally change your life

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1 week ago

Vyper's vibes
#Deadlock

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2 weeks ago

ff6

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4 months ago

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

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1 week ago

im slowly trying to get back from my burnout from... drawing
trying to find joy in art again
#oc #ocsky

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2 weeks ago

Still open btw and there no one in queue

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2 weeks ago

Infographic with a collection of my artwork to promote the information for my commissions.

𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝕆ℙ𝔼ℕ ✨

Slots in the queue are open for March!! Gosh the year is flying already. Please get in touch to secure a spot~

Any shares/reposts are greatly appreciated 💖
Info : healie.carrd.co / vgen.co/healie__ #VgenComms
Adoptables: vgen.co/healie__/shop

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2 weeks ago

Big Yes

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3 weeks ago

[Small] Brume Street

Address: Crystal | Malboro | Empyreum | Ward 14 | Apt.36

Comm for @ilikemen.heliosphe.re, a small enclosed street in the brume. It has a small tailor shop and and a staircase leading up to an apartment building

#FFXIV #FFXIVHousing #FF14Housing #LeosHousing (1/3)

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1 month ago

Olivia from Fire Emblem Awakening !

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1 month ago

Varia
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#samus #metroid #raisedbybirds

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1 month ago

Reese's puff colored

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1 month ago

I commissioned @iseenudepeople.com to necofy Noire from Fire Emblem #FireEmblem

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1 month ago

Just came back from my vacation in Tural and my house is gone. It's just gone. How do you even steal the foundation where did it go???

And now the officials are telling me I need to buy a lottery ticket to get the plot back??? I was only gone for a month you can't have shit in Ishgard anymore

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1 month ago

I'm reopening skebs for February, taking 5 slots this time (first come first serve). Skebs will be completed by March 1st, please dm me if you are interested!

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1 month ago

The Marvelous Rivalry of Goon Shenanigans YouTube video by TopSpinTheFuzzy

Alright we're back in business

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP5W...

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1 month ago

JJK meme recreation where a character beats the shit out of another while running a hand through their hair feeling handsome, this time with Tifa limit breaking Safer Sephiroth

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1 month ago

Illustration: A reflection in the Soul Dew, a round gem, of Latias and Latios flying over Alto Mare, a city with canals traversed by boat.

Happy #DragonAppreciationDay / #AppreciateADragonDay ❤️💙

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1 month ago

i LOVE being a healer...

my scene for Marvel Rivals Shenanigans! go pls watch it make me and the other guy happy if u do

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1 month ago

I made an animation for the video.
Along with @gvgguy.bsky.social making a banger arrangement!

I made another animation but you'll have to watch the video to find it :x

#DoovadAnimations

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1 month ago

MR - Marvel Rivals Shenanigans YouTube video by Lythero

MARVEL RIVALS VIDEO IS HERE: youtu.be/ZdXTPqQu6GM

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2 months ago

Samus - Metroid

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2 months ago

Sketch commissions for January are now OPEN. Comment below with your characters of choice during the next 24 hours, out of which I will pick Six. As mentioned before, these are going to be $60 a pop, looking forward to seeing your entries!

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2 months ago

This is what my display name is from btw

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2 months ago

Commissioners and artists, be aware of this if you use the PayPal

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2 months ago

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).

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

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...

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2 months ago

Congrats!

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