they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

Every artist, get more self indulgent NOW! Draw your ships kissing, draw your blorbos, draw that idea you’ve been putting off (you’re good enough to do it!!!), redraw that old art, draw yourself wearing a cool outfit, draw a better world- just draw!!!

7.4 rules btw

if you forgot how to do piracy you should unforget that for the back half of the decade prolly

do i need to gpose shtolaiha more. always yes

| #wolshtola2025 day 2 - fell first / fell harder l'aiha fell first. it was obvious by the way she only brightened throughout stb in y'shtola's presence. as for y'shtola... she realized nearly from the moment she awoke on the first, and had quite some time to ruminate on it.

| #miqomarch 4 - family my wolship met a keeper girl in endwalker and both have realized they want to adopt her in dawntrail. :') soon to be famiwy......

| #wolshtola2025 day 1 - greetings – "hi there." – "hello... do you remember me?" – "of course i do, shtola. how long have i been asleep?" – "too long, aiha. much too long."

"if you were easy to kill, i would've done it already"

forgiven impiety | philautia #tfwocs

she would like your finest puppy cup please #tfwocs

If we’re going to get really no quarter about genAI usage, I’m going to need people to learn the difference between AI and genAI real fast.

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easy to feel demoralised seeing all these game company CEOs talking about genAI but remember a bunch of rich people will lose a lot if we don’t suddenly develop an unquenchable appetite for slop so they’re actually the ones on the back foot and have every incentive to lie about everything

#feraldreamerwip Aw yeah... im gunna blow up

らくがきシュトラ #FF14 #kurupic

i do love ppl whining "it was in the trailer its not a spoiler" as if it's not a perfectly common thing to avoid trailers for games ur already anticipating playing specifically bc u want to avoid spoilers. bc spoilers are a subjective concept and therefore its polite to tag things tied to storylines

actually i was thinking about how hard it is for me to recall the spellings of words and combinations of numbers or do math in my head and i'm thinking it's also dramatically impacted by my aphantasia, which if you don't know, is one end of a spectrum of mental "visualization" that increasingly

lrs LOTS of really good comment discussion in elunva's post (sorry if i already forgot how to spell the name my dyslexia is atrocious) about how this stuff works if ppl are interested!! i've been learning more about it myself since last night as a combination of fed upness and also nerd curiosity

Kentik are also partnered with Cloudflare, so Cloudflare's mitigation suite already activates as soon as Kentik detect a DDoS. Remember Cloudflare itself has been taken down recently should really indicate that attacks are reaching crit volume and all the mitigation in the world ain't gonna cut it

"Square Enix should fix the DDoS issue!" Friends learn how DDoS attacks work. c': Squeen already use onsite protection protocols like WAF and Kentik. There is very little they can do about layer 7 attacks beyond this. If they went ham IP blacklisting they could catch players in the net.

The TL;DR of it is, these are always happening. Whether it's due to probing for weaknesses on networks, or just testing out botnet strength, DDoS are just a fact of running large services on the internet. You're saving grace is being able to route traffic quickly while also cutting fake traffic.

secure.runescape.com/m=news/spudw... The osrs team did a great write-up on the problem and their mitigations, which may lend some idea as to why they're less affected despite being attacked in the same way as XIV

the qrt i think is necessary for education but these ddos attacks are industry wide between the MMOs right now. have been for a couple months now. it's something genuinely every MMO is experiencing; or at least most of the heavy hitters. The datacenters also gotta be held accountable

also my football team is officially going to the playoffs :) we got a good grade in sports

tomowwow. msq.

our savior lv1 .

#ffxiv | a fun little flat style experiment w orn khai

crazy weekend. lots of good heavyish conversations. reopened my incision by accident again. fc got robbed. had an anger management breakthrough. made peanutbutter cookies. have a headache.

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WHAT????

the trans panic, legislation of transmisogyny, etc. is not "distracting from the epstein files", it entrenches the sexual abuse. transphobia towards trans kids always entails sexual abuse, by families & states. one of epstein's first victims was a trans girl, ava cordero, who was not believed

if one day after you’ve been taking your meds for a while you start thinking “oh yeah i don’t even need these anymore i’m normal now” that’s the devil talking to you

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Incidentally this is also why your boss and middle management tell you that discussing your salary is gauche and unprofessional, because if most of you learned about your salary gaps you might get mad as fuck at them. The only ones that benefit from decorum and professionalism are power brokers.

personally think any ai use at any stage in the creation process should be criticized so companies don't get comfortable with even the smallest amount of it in their works

Okay real talk, the only sense in which GenAI is "here to stay" is that even after the bubble pops, AI is digital asbestos that is poisoning everything and we'll probably be picking the detritus out of everywhere it's ended up for years, assuming there's a will to remove it en masse that is.

lrs its me im trans people and i should have dr pepper

Never forget you’re my pride and joy. #erenville #dawntrail #dawntrailspoilers #ffxivart #fanart #fanart

[ …But tonight she is alive and in the western field. It is a perfect winter evening: the comet passing over the Holy See, the wind in her ears. And as she stares into the sky, remember, that she had once lived. ] [ #art ]

I met Lv 1 now and have converted to my new religion #ffxiv #ffxivart

BEARS 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

insane play by both 18 and 20 to pull this off. just ridiculous

bears have plot armor

Reminder it was 16-6 right before the 2 minute warning