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A seal girl with white hair sits in a classroom staring at the viewer unnervingly with heterochromia green and blue eyes and the words "only Salty" are drawn messily over the floor, walls, and windows.

This is an image I did from my friend twitch.tv/SecretAgentJ... of his mascot girl Salty dressed up as Monika <3 Full image over here ko-fi.com/i/IE1E31T9PXD Slowly getting back into drawing again haha and it's been fun.🥰

#digitalart #dokidokiliteratureclub #fanart #art

An imagine explaining that OpenAI is Trump's largest donor

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

After a server glitch, Final Fantasy 11 is dispatching Game Masters to manually assassinate bugged monsters just so the game knows they're really dead: 'God personally stepping in to correct the world... Sometimes there's only one way to be sure.

Happy to have another excuse to write about Final Fantasy 11, which recently broke in the exact right way to force its Games Masters into doing something extremely funny:

AWWOOOOOOO #wip

Hello. I need some good vibes for a bit. I wish others that need good vibes can also get them too.

Feel free to comment if you need good vibes sent your way.

Anyone sending good vibes I ask you look to see if there's anyone else that needs them and help them too.

Thank you.

I made these two cute alerts for @sarasuzycake.bsky.social

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...

It’s not that I forget Bluesky exists, I just have social media fatigue of having to keep up on which company is burning what platform. I’m too old to remember more than like 1 thing

Lakes media/games done through 2026 thread

Okay, this time I’ll update it and not forget about it

Illustration of a shark by the mountains wearing a cowboy hat with the words "you just gonna scroll by without a yeehaw..." well are you?

howdy pardner 🤠🦈
#art #shark

HADES II, the biggest and most critically acclaimed game we've ever created, is now 20% off on Steam through this weekend!!

May moonlight guide you as you battle beyond the Underworld. 🌒🌕🌘

Twitch Twitch is the world

Live now www.twitch.tv/lake_98 ! Time to show the demons how its done done done!

a group of cartoon girls are standing next to each other with their arms in the air . ALT: a group of cartoon girls are standing next to each other with their arms in the air .

In an hour Ill be live on Twitch with @madamemolasses.bsky.social and @geo605.bsky.social doing some fun things. (the Gif is the hint)

DID A HORSE FRY THIS RICE?

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

The 2025 Cursed Halo Race is THIS WEEKEND!!

JOIN US FOR CHAOS AND CHARITABLE GIVING!

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I think slowly I’m becoming a Jeff main… maybe?

This is Willie. He refuses to eat unless he receives constant words of encouragement. Enjoys the company too. 13/10 (IG: willienelson_seniorpup)
#SeniorPupSaturday

WendyYippie

So, it’s halfway through the summer and I thought I would want to do an #artshare! (SFW only please!)
-Introduce yourself and your favorite art you made!
-Comment on other artists’ work!
-Repost for visibility
-Tag your friends!
-Absolutely NO AI/NFTs
-No harassing/making fun out of others’ art

holy shit lmao

illustration of a bunch of sharks!!! featured are cookie, nurse, thresher, great white, goblin, mako, and whale shark

Happy shark awareness day! 🦈🫧
#sharks #art

Good morning! Every day lately has started very foggy like this.

Here are your 3 minutes of peace & calm.

#OceanDevotion

Drawing of a puppy on a boat with the caption; "I still believe there is good in the world even if I have to search"

Puppy on a boat

Vivian from Paper Mario with the words "Trans Rights" displayed over her

Not that anyone should need a reminder, but

I did the funny Jeff thing (mostly)

for my birthday celebration lmao

Twitch Twitch is the world

LIve in 5! Twitch.tv/lake_98 for some Rivals with friends!!!!! @madamemolasses.bsky.social @nachotengu.bsky.social @geo605.bsky.social

Tonight 👀 I’m gonna go live with my friends for some pre birthday shenanigans in marvel rivals. I finally remember to tweet it out. Hopefully live around 10:30pm cst