mines

jacket and sunglasses with green/yellow neon colorscheme

this outfit looks like the guy from planet of the bass

giant black pyramid

bridge in extremely cloudy weather with a tower in the distance

circular arenas with purple and blue lighting

rectangular platform in the middle of a mossy room

welcome to bass pro shops

alright, after some investigation (ty @chirp.bsky.social):
- Account IDs are now obfuscated in some way we're unsure of, but this obfuscation still lets you correlate players clientside(!)
- we think the network layer has some form of obfuscation on it but we're not quite sure how it works yet

I have absolutely no idea what goes on in the trial but there are many balls

small frog guy with a haircut that looks like broccoli

blue almost-slime-like lalafell with a pink/black jacket and a gun

food in a floating bowl with steam coming off of it

cat that kinda looks exactly like the grimacing face emoji

happy 7.2. here's some fellas

FFXIV-themed desktop background featuring Alphinaud

FFXIV-themed desktop background featuring Alisaie

FFXIV-themed desktop background featuring Y'shtola

FFXIV-themed desktop background featuring Urianger

Patch 7.2 launcher backgrounds (see Imgur link for all images): imgur.com/a/vmzzUod

FRU clear cutscene: streamable.com/550ns9

Screenshot of decompiler output from Binary Ninja

The game client uses the misspelled string "FFIXV_WAKEUP_CNT" in its startup routine

Screenshot of an Excel add-in in the top toolbar

Screenshot of some data in Excel

Screenshot showing how sheets are linked to one another

Items, stats, descriptions, quest dialogue, etc. are all driven by a custom "NEX" database that is edited in Excel. Here's some photos from a developer presentation

A large fish inside of a fish tank in Tuliyollal

In Tuliyollal this fish in this tank takes up 3 separate animations in the map just for its fins moving

FFXIV fun fact thread (Bluesky edition)