ok but as you may know i am hyperfixating on a dnd series that none of tumblr cares about. it’s 1 For All DND by Deerstalker Pictures on Youtube and it is so funny and chaotic and well-made. i think i saw in a behind the scenes video that they film with a black magic camera (which i have seen in practice before and it’s. like. very good and expensive) and edit with adobe premiere (my beloved).
anyway series concept is that there are four Guys—Patrick the DM and his three players Eva, Antonio, and Nicole. Eva plays a half-elf fighter called Evandra who is tough and cool and scary and also bisexual. she has a sword and armor. sometimes she’s the common sense and sometimes she is Not. is that not top-notch character design? also her hair gets progressively cooler throughout the series which is very amazing of her.
Antonio plays a human bard named Antrius, who is incredibly full of himself, flirts with everyone (including a villain he successfully seduced, two paladins, evandra, his rival bard, a vampire, a random knight, a dwarven couple whose child evandra murdered, himself, etc), carries a lute but also plays everything from a kazoo to an accordion. he once said, “There’s no I in team. There’s an A, though—which stands for Antrius!” before doing a silly dance.
then there’s Nicole’s character, a tiefling sorcerer named Nixie. she can be a bit on the oblivious side—her intelligence score is zero—but she makes up for it with FIRE. like. literal fire. she’s adorable and pink but also she has one plan ever and it’s FIREBALL. also she likes women. when she was a kid she accidentally burnt her whole family to a crisp, probably due to wild magic and repression. disaster.
then there’s Pat the DM. who just wants a nice campaign. he also plays Every NPC (excluding a few roles later on) regardless of species and gender. he has to put up with the party’s shenanigans, which are exhausting, but he clearly does enjoy what he does, which is nice.
of course, this alone is great potential for a series—but what really brings it in for me are the side characters. aka guest players. over the course of the series, there have been a LOT of those: Vlithryn the triton cleric who’s tired of the party, Annandale the warlock who everybody hates, Dargle-Bark the… eccentric druid, Lorienne the paladin (who eva and antonio flirt with both in and out of character), the catlike Rogue who Nixie flirts with and Evandra hates, Mogdar the pacifist half-orc barbarian artist, Godfreya the incredibly amazing paladin, and my personal favorite—Zephyr the air genasi bard, who a) is Antrius’s ex, b) is Antrius’s rival, c) flirts with Antrius despite all this, d) is a bit (read: a lot) of a prick actually, and e) is crushingly insecure and cries himself to sleep.
that last character appears in a one-shot and one full episode, but that doesn’t stop him from being my blorbo. i have also watched the episode and gone over each shot and frame so many times that yesterday i realized that there’s a mistake towards the end where his flute switches hands in the very last shot of him. because i’m at that point where i have to see every facial expression from every character in that (musical!) episode, including nixie and evandra’s glorious background actions.
there’s also another earlier musical episode, which happens to be the best-rated episode of the series. the party’s been captured, and antrius (mis)uses bardic inspiration to get them out of it—and it’s beautiful. it’s just beautiful. wonderful cinematography, wonderful singing, wonderful lyrics, wonderful acting, wonderful script, just wonderful.
the episodes are short which is great if you have a wildly fluctuating attention span like me. the characters are often terrible people but they’re somehow still likable and hilarious. tw for extreme fantasy violence and sex jokes, but it’s a great series with great humor and the rest of tumblr needs to watch it so i can see fanart and fanfic without having to make it myself. you guys would love annandale
hello and welcome to another episode of me trying to get people to engage in my hyperfixations!
are you into TTRPGs? do you value friendship a lot? are a fan of extreme violence?
if you said “yes” to any of the above, you may be interested in the song “What Friends Are For” by Deerstalker Pictures! it’s available on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services that i don’t know off the top of my head! there’s also a music video on their YouTube channel, which also serves as an introduction to the series the original version of the song originated from due to the power of montage!
(no one is paying me to say this i just have funky brain things and can’t be normal about music or shows)
Thank you my friend @meanreyes. See you next month. Have a blessed and safe flight later. Fly Lang ng fly para sa ekonomiya! Chugug pakak ganern! Ang mga bilin ko pag balik mo Alam mo na! Jowa?! #saudiaairlines #1FA 👩✈️✈️🇵🇭🇸🇦🖤 https://www.instagram.com/p/B1FcdmqA6De30Fw6LO-Cbt0ikN9QHwcNYajeLo0/?igshid=jtcolisxx6zy
What’s the Possibility to Bypass Two Factor Authentication?
Two Factor Authentication security solution, also referred to as 2FA or Two Step Verification, was introduced to resolve the weakness of password-only verification i.e. 1FA (One Factor Authentication) and provide a higher security level to the online accounts and data. Logging in to an account using just a single layer of protection, i.e. the secret password, remains no longer enough from the security perspectives. It is because the passwords can be easily compromised or hacked, the hackers have already made this statement true by hacking a plenty of accounts and sensitive data of the users.
With the evolution of technology, the hackers or attackers have also started adopting the latest techniques and finding ways to compromise 2FA-enabled online accounts. Two Factor Authentication security solution, as the name suggests, uses any two out of the possible three different authentication factors; ‘something you know’, ‘something you have’ or ‘something you are’. As this method requires a unique verification code along with the secret password to verify identity of the user, so there is no or a very little possibility to bypass 2FA. The unique verification code or One Time Password is sent to the registered mobile device of the user, and is valid only for a few seconds.
Guessing the secret passwords of end users is a quite easy task for attackers as compared to gaining access to the mobile phone of the users. It reflects that Two Factor Authentication security solution can’t be bypassed.
Authentication factors
Something you know (knowledge factors) – username, password, PIN.
Something you have (possession factors) – credit & debit card, mobile phone.
Something you are (inherence factors) – biometric characteristics of the user like iris, retina, face scan, voice recognition, fingerprint.
Hacker’s access to your phone, makes 2FA bypass possible
One and only situation that makes it possible to bypass Two Factor Authentication security solution is when an attacker not only knows your secret login credentials; username and password combination, but also has your mobile phone in possession for receiving unique verification code or OTP. Your mobile device acts as the strongest link for you, but becomes weak for the attackers to remove 2FA from your account, or receive verification code via SMS or voice calls. Before you realize that something is wrong, the attackers can have access to your online account and sensitive data.
Protecting mobile device is equally important as your secret password, especially for accounts that are 2FA-enabled. It is because if your secret password gets compromised, then unique verification code sent to your mobile acts as a second layer of security. But, if unfortunately, your mobile device also comes in the wrong hands along with the secret password, then Two Factor Authentication security method remains no longer secure for protecting your digital assets.
