Raikaris || FFXIV 7.4+ and Arcadeon Raid Spoilers!!

Raikaris || FFXIV 7.4+ and Arcadeon Raid Spoilers!!

@raikaris.bsky.social

Hobby Artist, FFXIV Player, Occasional Streamer, Achievement Hunter Sasuke Kun - Exodus (Primal)

52 Followers 253 Following 245 Posts Joined Feb 2024
6 hours ago

If you see this share a #randomshelfie.

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Can You Solo FF14? S4 Finale: The Impossible 300 Hour Trial YouTube video by Rath Games

Premiere begins in 10 minutes, and the video will be live outside of the premiere at 1PM EST. I hope to see you there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhBz...

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4 days ago
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how i cope with not having a switch 2

#ffxiv #haurchefant

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1 week ago

Love being at work and checking notifications and its people complaining about content you are excited for and havent gotten to see yet. lovely.

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1 week ago

“Oh, UWU seems pretty easy so far”, I say, getting to the end of Titan “Surely I must be missing something. This is an Ultimate aren’t I supposed to suffer-“

-Predation hits and I am dragged screaming into the hell pits-

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2 weeks ago

Just 2.5 days left to sell at least 11 framed pieces to have rent & keep the roof over me & the furry ones heads. It’s a lot to ask, in these times, I know.

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2 weeks ago

Feel very proud of this even if it wasn’t a clear with my static. First time beating an FFXIV raid series on content and it feels phenominal. The Raikaris from EW would be so fucking proud of DT Raikaris

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2 weeks ago
Image of several final fantasy player characters posing at the end screen of the M12S fight; broken buildings float behind them and they are emoting sparkles.

I AM FREE OF THE CURSE OF SNEK AS OF LAST NIGHT!!!!! WHOOOOO! m12s spoilers sort of but like hot damn.

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3 weeks ago

I have pleaded with the powers that be and am accruing a group of friends of friends to help me defeat the wurm. I shall know freedom

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3 weeks ago

Either I clear M12S this weekend or I turn into a feral beast; some will argue I already *am* a feral beast but this ain’t about them-

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3 weeks ago

things to do with other players, but because of how the internet has consolidated how it forms communities in certain places and player specificity these facts get overlooked.

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3 weeks ago

until they run out. ex.) raiders only have so much raid content, so once they run out “there’s nothing to do in this game” despite it have 10 years of literal other things to do. Other players also do this with other aspects. There are some tremendous grinds in FFXIV and crafting challenges and

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3 weeks ago

I argue that the game DOES have long grinds, multiplayer content, and build crafting. The issue is players tend to form the communities for these aspects on other platforms (like discord) so the in-game community for them feels less, and players also have a tendency to hyper-focus content types

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3 weeks ago

Raid Group is making it cleaning to the last big mechanic of M12S pt.2 now; feeling good going into raid later tonight! If we can clean up the wormholes we have a solid shot at clearing from all the practice we’ve put in on this thing as a group

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3 weeks ago

Good news is it mostly looks scary and is basically a long-form game of Bop-It; and theres even a good sim available if you wanted to practice it solo!

Bad news is its a scary looking game of Bop-It that lasts like 6 minutes fhsgsggss

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3 weeks ago

Anyway I hope all my fellow raiders are having a good time progging the tier or getting reclears! I will continue to scream like a wounded antelope any time I have to try and understand Idyllic Dream for the foreseeable future lmao

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3 weeks ago

m12s is evil and fucked up but somehow not as evil and fucked up at trying to understand how to do my taxes.

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1 month ago

least it will be a good stop gap for now.

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1 month ago

that said I am going to float this to my friendgroups as an alternative now that were hitting end stage enshitification on discord. if this platform blowsup as a result of a discord exodus it will also end up needing some form of monetization down the line but at

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1 month ago

I mind the ID stuff a lot but I don’t care about having to pay for nitro for image hosting sizes, etc. Discord hit a size where there was simply so much being put onto it asking for completely free hosting of it all just wouldnt be fiscally possible-

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1 month ago

this way lies madness, do not the number Curse of Ra

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1 month ago
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#danheng

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1 month ago

why is the beast of chair so angery

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1 month ago

yes

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2 months ago

oh i had this realization once

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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). 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

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
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FF14 STORMBLOOD

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2 months ago

I would also like to learn when potato is not a shambling retail worker corpse this weekend

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2 months ago
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Job Quest: Video Making Resources and Tips for WoL's Table Of Contents Authors Note Introduction Video Recording Software Nivida Shadowplay (Setup) Medal (Setup) DaVinci Resolve Video Program (FREE) Level 1: Intro to DaVinci and Optimization ...

*Tiredly dragoon falls*
Job Quest it is done. It probably has spelling errors, but behold!

My sleep deprived Basic DaVinci Resolve Video Editing, Brio, Animation Tutorial thing. To make cute and cool videos for your ships and WoL. Please give Estinien pic.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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2 months ago
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