Entropy Increasing

IC Blog | Sae (Tahni'sae Farreihm) on FFXIV. Balmung Server. Other character stuff in the archives

[darkestaftermidnight]

Regarding concerns over housing bugs

Hi everyone! I’ve been looking into the spike in reports of housing being demolished unfairly. Right now, a bunch of people are pooling information in this housing discord (Balmung centric): https://discord.gg/mRuMsqR If there’s another place where people are getting together to investigate, please let me know ASAP so we can collaborate. My discord is Lucerna#2506

Right now, there is a lot of unconfirmed information going around, so I wanted to post what we’ve uncovered so far so it can be spread and hopefully calm down people caught in the initial panic.

1. The proportion of players who have checked in fine compared to the reports of housing being wrongly demolished is very large. Players with houses should have nothing to fear. However, it would not hurt to check estate timers (not just the default timer menu) and go into your house and interact with an item every day.

2. The only thing that we can prove at this point is that the amount of (right now still unproven) reports of people unfairly losing housing went up. This is not conclusive, but it is worth investigating. Note again, there is no proof at the moment that any report of an unfair demolish happened. The only thing that DID happen to tip off an investigation is that the amount of reports went up.

3. As people are pooling their resources to investigate, any information that can be offered to the community at large will be helpful. Please screenshot and document the information as thoroughly as possible.

I will be asking everyone interested in this issue to spread the previous three points of information as much as possible, especially if they see misinformation.

Also, this is in no way against the lovely @aethersmoke-and-ash who made the initial post at my request to share the information we had at the time. However, as the investigation has uncovered new information, an updated post was needed. 

[balmungrpcalendar]

Due to certain legal stupidity...

Due to certain legal stupidity that’s been recently voted into law on both sides of the pond.  We will be unable to host/refer content certain content that is clearly marketed towards adults only.  

What this means is your event promotes OOC illegal activities as defined by the general US or EU and/or otherwise illicit actions, it will be delisted for the sake of the calendar as a whole.

Please keep your adverts real world drug and free of mention of that oldest profession.  What you do in your events is your own business.  What the calendar hosts, I have to deal with.

For clarity’s sake.  The burlesque shows are fine.  Brothels and opium pits are not.  

I miss safe harbor provisions already… 

PS. If you’re going to use some sort of mind altering substance in game, just choose one of the perfectly wonderful made up ones that already exist in your FFXIV universe.  It’s safer.

[breaking-sae]

To those expressing confusion, this is because of things like the fosta-sesta laws that have been passed IRL. The gist is that if a website has any content on it that promotes/advertises services or sales of drugs or prostitution, the domain owner (in this case tumblr) will be fined and penalized by the government. This is whether or not the domain owner put up this content or even knows it’s there at all.  Because of this, policies have had to become incredibly, incredibly strict so that the domain owners are able to protect themselves from the recourse, meaing all allusions to this sort of content are no longer allowed....pretty much anywhere. That’s the removal of the safe harbor provisions.  The RP calendar has to take out these items in the calendar because even though it’s in a gaaaame and it’s not real, it’s fuzzy enough that it’ll probably count either to the government or to the policy that says that contents not okay. RP calendar has to be super super strict to protect themselves from being booted off tumblr.  Anyway. I would take this chance to educate yourself of what sever of our bloody governments are doing to fuck up our free internet. >( Cause it’s already starting to make our basic freedoms and communication a hell of a lot harder.

[y0lte-deactivated20250619]

ODDS N’ ENDS - Aether Datacenter

Do you like farming mounts? Are you an avid TT collector? Are you an achievement hunter? Are you having trouble getting groups together for these things? Worry no longer.

Odds n’ Ends is a collector discord where you can find like-minded individuals and find help for farms and achievements. Veterans and newcomers are both welcome as everyone needs a spot of help occasionally.

This server is for everyone from the Aether Datacenter who is interested in things such as mount farming, achievement hunting and minion gathering. Roles are available for sign-ups so that you can be notified whenever there’s a farm for content you’re interested in doing going on! Join us at https://discord.gg/SNXJszU

If you have any questions, contact me ( @poetryforwolves ) or annie ( @anloix-etiegeant )

[1stofficerspock]

RP is a Partnership

[craftchaos]

Note to my RP partners:

Please do not be afraid of moving the story along. What I mean by that is it’s OK for you to get an idea from what I’ve written and take the plot into a new direction or to enhance the old. If you’re nervous, or afraid, that you’ll upset me, you can always send me a message to check if it’s OK to do the thing.

I play with you, because I want to, and I trust your creative instincts. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be doing threads with you, plotting with you in asks and on Skype. If we’re playing, I want us to be equals, and I don’t want you to take a backseat to me.

I need you to share the story with me. Think about it like Pacific Rim.

RP is a partnership. If you don’t work with your partner, you can’t move the big damn robot. You can’t save the world from the giant monsters, and you cannot tell a story. If only one half of the partnership is moving, the robot will walk in circles, get tired and break down. You’ll lose the partnership, and the story will die.

Don’t let this happen. Be a partner. Tell the story together.

[sadmoonrising-deactivated201812]

I fucking love the character that’s like. not really the villain. but definitely not a good guy I mean he’s on our side. but he’s definitely not morally upstanding.

[luzhikari]

Another commission, this time of a very pretty tank!

[miamari-art]

i wanted to draw a thing that had smth orchid-like in it, also somehting red

[onyaponko]

AuRa*illustration

[liasahrgo-deactivated20191009]

It’s been a long time coming.

TL;DR: this is a call-out post. If you’re here for being aware of it, good. If you’re here in dissent of it, good. If you’re here for this tea, 

Keep reading

[pink-temptations]

I’m really sorry to do this, and I’m really sorry to reblog a post like this. I’m not one to signal boost callout posts or any posts that spread negativity, but this is one that I have to reblog.

I’d like to add that when he got banned ,(I think it was back in February, or late January when he got kicked.) in a Discord server I was a mod in. I proceeded to blacklist him to avoid any further drama. He continued to try to contact me beyond the blacklist, (following me on tumblr, whispering me on alts, literally going to my fucking friends to try to get to me, standing RIGHT next to me in game. After awhile you would think he’d get the picture that he was blacklisted. He didn’t..) I had to straight up un-blacklist him to tell him to leave me alone then re-blacklist.

He ended up messaging me on some alt of his even after that which I blacklisted, and he hasn’t tried to contact me. However, there was one of the Lucky Sparrow events where I was sitting alone and he and his friend moved from where they were sitting to come right on next to me.

I don’t know if that was intentional, but the fact I told him to leave me alone so long ago just really irked me. He is the only person that sends me into immediate anxiety and discomfort upon seeing.

It would be for the best for people to avoid interacting with him. He is toxic. I don’t like using that word, just as much as I hate drama and spreading shit like this. But he is toxic.

[thewestfold]

Oh, gosh. Never RPed with him but had the misfortune of being in the same 24 man instance with him a few times a while back. One of the biggest assholes I’ve ever seen, the type who thinks claiming to be an asshole gets them a free pass to, uh, be an asshole without consequence. I thought it might just be high blood pressure and immaturity but apparently he’s a real piece of work and actually harmful. I’m sorry others had to put up with his harassment like this.

[breaking-sae]

Okay I already reblogged this but I hadn’t seem whato thers we saying so let me just say something that REALLY needs to be said. I spent a rather long time in the FC that Azrat was in up until recently, with a lot of hours logged in VC with him (and many others) and listening to him talk. This is important too, because people are seeing his actions and his nonsense and thinking there is some ignorance and stupidity going on here, but THERE IS NOT.

I heard him in voice chat, recognizing that some people had black listed him but stating proudly that he would stand by them anyway “just to fuck with them.” I heard him complaining, constantly, that how dare people choose NOT to sleep with him, how dare they exercise that choice not to submit to his sexual wants. I heard him bragging about how he was on an alt following people who had blacklisted his main for HOURS.  I heard him. Other people in our FC heard him. Leaders heard him. And I attempted to call him out on this bullshit several times, tell him it was disgusting and useless and wrong and just leave them along they don’t owe him anything. But all I ever managed to do was get him to shut up about it for the next few hours. And likely, never got him to actually stop at all. Just be quiet.  So I suppose the points I want to make here? Is that....  1) Yes, HE IS TOXIC. Azrat is actively predatory, intentionally harms people, and goes into legitimate rages when he is not allowed to do what he wants. These rages are usually followed by him doubling down on the hurting people until he’s managed to feel like he ‘won’ in some way. And that takes something huge.  2) This callout? This particular callout is important. There’s a difference between “he was a jerk to me” and “he is absusive and the behavior needs to be stopped”. Especially since it’s only by making such abuses public that we get any actions taken against the people doing harm. Azrat’s FC leaders knew about the constant BS he was pulling for at LEAST a year, and they waited until this happened to kick him out.   So yeah. Keep spreading it around, loves. And protect yourselves. And protect each other. People like this guy do real harm, and none of us need that shit.

[bunbundango]

Finished Simple-style commission for Farah Seer and J’luhq Lufhyr (along with Sunshine the chocobo and Cosmo the cat) of FFXIV’s Siren server!

[astrabluestar]

Twelve Prayers. #2 Nald’thal, The Trader

The shrine was a quiet, solemn place. Not the large church in the heart of Ul’dah. It was a cave off the side of the road near Highbridge. Aside from the old priest in the house outside Astra hadn’t seen a single person. Her boot steps echoed in the high roofed chamber. Gazing around she noted the small lanterns and oil lights spread around the pool of water bordering the chamber. Finally she found herself before the statue of Thal. Her eyes travel the height of the statue before settling on his hooded face. She dropped to a knee and looked at the ground then. At first the words wouldn’t come. Slowly though she began to whisper.

“Nald’thal…the twins that look over us in life and death. I thank you for the opportunities that have crossed my path. I thank you for the wealth I have attained both in this world and for the next. May my deeds in life bring me to the table with those of my blood that have gone before. Please wa…” She stopped to reach up and rub her eyes and take a deep breath. “Please watch over those that I love that have passed before me. Tell them not to worry. When it is my time I will have many stories to share with them.”

[astrabluestar]

Twelve Prayers. #1 Halone, The Fury

Astra’s gaze traveled around the cold, frozen cave. All around here crystal and ice caught the light of the sun so far behind her at the entrance to the cave. It reflected off every facet and divot in the walls, from the tips of the spikes hanging from the ceiling and growing up towards the roof. Eventually her eyes stopped roaming and fixed on the stone at the center. The three spear symbol of Halone carved into the rock.

A tap on the hilt of her sword and she closed her eyes. Her words are spoken softly as befits this quiet place. “Halone, Lady of battles and war. I thank you for the strength in my arms and the courage in my heart. I thank you for your favor in my battles thus far. My heart will sing your song as I protect those nearest to me. I will honor you in song and deed with each battle. And if I should fall…let me come to rest amongst those honored and revered souls that dwell in your halls forever more.”

((Just the first bit of a writing challenge I’ve set for myself. A prayer a day until I have gotten through all twelve gods))

[shofie-ffxiv]

Construct 7 (a.k.a. The “Math Boss” in the new raid

I just want to suggest maybe….please, be kind if people can’t do what you feel is simple math. Not everyone can do simple math, and it doesn’t mean they’re stupid.

I have a learning disability called Dyscalculia. It’s like Dyslexia, but it’s centered around numbers, and math, and a person’s difficulty or inability to parse these things easily (or at all). It also effects our ability to discern directions, or time.

My brain does not handle numbers, like, at all. I have extreme difficulty counting even little things, or doing very simple math because my brain just locks up or misunderstands, and I get the wrong answer even if I understand how to do the problem.

In a high-pressure situation where we have to quickly do math to avoid getting a debuff, it’s almost impossible. I’ve been slogging through this fight all day, and the amount of insults about my intelligence is just frankly awful. Being put on the spot causes a pretty intense anxiety reaction. 

So yes, while “make a prime number” or “divisible by 4″ is super easy for a lot of you, it’s not the case for everyone. Please don’t be nasty about this. I mean, you shouldn’t be nasty about this anyway, real talk. But like, just because you think something is easy doesn’t mean it’s the same for everyone.

I understand it’s frustrating, but try to imagine how it feels when you’re trying your hardest and you still can’t do it, and it’s not because you’re stupid. It’s not exactly inspiring.

[liminal-storage]

This whole fight sounds like a nightmare for me because I’m absolutely awful at math like this. I haven’t done it yet due to lag but I’m dreading it. 

Please don’t be jerks. Stuff’s hard. 

[scrollsfromarebornrealm]

This is me. I suffer from Dyscalculia as well.

[celestial-opposition]

I can’t do math with high pressure and my anxiety doesn’t help, I’m terrible with directions and time. I still didn’t run the raid cause I’m waiting to be able to do with some friends this weekend. But when I heard about Constructor and their mechanics I already felt that I will only be able to do with more 23 people that I kind trust, cause they were relax to run Rabanastre with so I feel that Ridorana will be relax to run with them.

[actualkomodo]

Been seeing this going around and threw this chart together in the hopes it might help someone! A few tips as well:

C7 starts this mechanic by casting “Computation (Phase?)” so you’ll know it’s coming. “Subtract” is the cast that lowers your HP to single or double digit numbers (I THINK 12 is the highest you can have. I’ll edit the Google sheet if it’s not). That is when you can check for your HP in the first column below, then check C7′s next cast to figure out which circle you need to stand under.

As far as I’m aware, you can’t have HP higher than 12… but correct me if I’m wrong. Here’s a link to the Google Sheets version of this in case you want to make your own edit without retyping everything.

[katarh-mest]

I also have dyscalculia, so here’s a tip for my fellow sufferers - SAY THE EQUATION OUT LOUD.  Looking at what the robot is asking for, trying to do the math in my head, and trying to run at the same time is a nightmare, so I augment the flailing around bits of my brain that struggle with basic number shit with the parts of my brain that DO work - namely, the auditory skills!  Adding the sound component greatly improves my speed and accuracy.

Phonics ain’t just for the dyslexics, folks!  Something about adding the math into sound format makes it click in ways that just looking at it doesn’t.

On that note, the chart above is a nice effort but it’s WAY TOO NUMBER BUSY and it’s just… like…. swimming around on the page.  No good.  Hopefully it helps some people, but it won’t help me :(

[auroryn-dawnsworn]

RP partners aren’t just romantic! They can be best friends, relatives, enemies. It’s people you just enjoy writing with, that you like having in your story and enjoy having you in theirs.

[darkaeth]

I can’t stress this enough.

[breaking-sae]

Haven’t posted anything on tumblr in a looooong time. But hey, I just recently got free of a really bad situation and updated Hana’s look. She’s going down a new path! And I have 0 RP contacts to do it with! Aha!

[weeping-saints]

[moonlifter-archive]