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S'astra Mahan
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aka CS19/theCS19 most places
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S'astra Mahan @thecs19.bsky.social · Sep 15
I spent the last few evenings writing up my thoughts on the Trails series so far, avoiding spoilers while giving some insight for anyone who might be interested, please check it out if you have the time and inclination, and constructive feedback is appreciated! #trails #kiseki
My Thoughts on Trails
My Thoughts on Trails By S’astra Mahan (theCS19) Hello, everyone, thank you for taking the time to read this. I've been playing through the Trails series for 4-5 years now, bit by bit, and this is my...
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fukimeisamsara.bsky.social
* ✧･ﾟWe dance around just like constellations and I'm the star that won't stop circling her. * ✧･ﾟ #崩壊3rd #hi3rd #HonkaiImpact3rd #Coralie #Helia #Corelia #SFW
Coralie and Helia dance among the stars in their Night Blooming Elegance dresses the moon glowing in back with three red stars flowers framing them from the bottom.
January 10, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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omghiji.bsky.social
Queen Dizzy
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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January 9, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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estelle
January 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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lillypadarts.bsky.social
Day 11 of the Lillypad Better with Friends Zine! Todays artist is Ihsnet with their oc Linghun 🍏
January 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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fenrishion.bsky.social
brooooOOooo....

#ffxiv #ff14
January 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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hibiscusdrop.bsky.social
Spring's breeze 🌸

#HonkaiImpact3rd #崩壊3rd #elyeden
March 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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rene0elric.bsky.social
A home I could have loved, the "me" I could have been

#ffxiv #ff14
An illustration with 2 parts: Krile looking uncertain while walking through Treno at the top and Miayli holding Krile hand with tears in their eyes at the bottom
January 9, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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SakuKallen with double Yae from 2021
October 18, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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2bepsi.bsky.social
Aigis

#アイギス #ペルソナ3 #persona3 #aigis
January 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
thecs19.bsky.social
Back with Phoenix Wright Justice For All with @grumpymagician.bsky.social! Adriaaaaaaaaaan!
#pngtuber #pwaa www.twitch.tv/thecs19
January 8, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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glassesjournal.bsky.social
who’s in the cage? 🤔
#rnjrART | #chibmin
January 7, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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kagefumi.co.uk
I miss drawing kiana
kiana kaslana slaying
January 2, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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scottie0073.bsky.social
『月は再び昇る』
January 8, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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mogu1000.bsky.social
ドラゴンメイド・ティルル
January 8, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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sethkiel.bsky.social
Aerith as Hamuko/Kotone Shiomi
January 8, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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1hpstudio.bsky.social
The official INARI demo trailer is now live.
#gamedev #pixelart #INARI
January 8, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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🟥
October 18, 2024 at 3:29 PM
thecs19.bsky.social
Live with more Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver Remastered! Now we can climb things. #pngtuber #legacyofkain #soulreaver
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Twitch is the world
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January 7, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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Ellen Joe
January 7, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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meziosaur.bsky.social
Laura S. Arseid - Trails of Cold Steel
#commission
January 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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micomibite.bsky.social
Seele teasing Seele
#HonkaiImpact3rd #崩壊3rd
Fanart of Seele Vollerei and dark Seele from Honkai Impact 3rd. Light Seele is blushing, embarrassed and looking away as dark Seele hugs her from behind and leans over her shoulder to teasingly say something to her with a mischievous grin.
January 7, 2026 at 4:45 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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imdrunkontea.bsky.social
Cipher!
January 7, 2026 at 6:48 PM