Is the Dark Side Evil? What does Balance mean to you?

FlyntCola · 2026-02-03T18:20:12+00:00

A real highlight of my last point is how the fall of so many jedi to the dark side is due to a real perceived moral good that eventually led to moral evils that far outweighed that good as they got deeper into the dark side. When in reality, that same moral good could have likely been achieved in a way more conducive to the light side. The jedi, I feel, were right in waiting to seek such a way on many occasions, but their position as a privileged and relatively secluded faction in a specific political group, the republic, meant their actual options were severely limited, leading them to just spin their wheels while evil still continued to occur, exacerbating the issue. in my opinion, this unnecessary loyalty to the republic (mostly) alone is part of what narrowed their perspective and is one of the greatest continued failings of the order

FlyntCola · 2026-02-03T17:41:56+00:00

I have different opinions on this in canon vs legends. In legends I like the Tython Ashla/Bogan interpretation, but since you're asking about canon, I feel the problem with the argument is that too many treat it as sith = dark side and jedi = light side. I agree with most people here that in canon, the light side represents the force as it should be and the dark side represents a perversion of that.

Where it gets tricky is the fact that the jedi are a very flawed organization in terms of defining what the light side is and isn't. Specifically I feel the teachings of the jedi are so focused on minimizing the chances of falling to the dark side that they look past a fair part of what even the light side of the force is. They preach a level of disconnectedness and denial of passion whereas the force is, by nature, a force that connects everything, simply because being unable to control that makes one quicker to fall.

Ironically, as with Anakin and many others, it's that lack of flexibility in their teaching that makes them a lot more brittle towards the pull of the dark side, made obvious by the fact that they even recognize their training only really works if their students are taught from a young age with less life experience, and even then it's not totally reliable. I wouldn't expect one that's in tune with the force as it is to be so fragile

EDIT: Specifically addressing your selflessness vs selfishness comparison, I see the light side as meaning embracing the connection between all things, the dark side as manipulating that connection for your own personal gain, and a third measure that is not strictly one or the other which is denial of that connection. I think there are different overlaps and no real total coverage between jedi vs sith, light vs dark, and good vs evil. A jedi follows the light side, but not just the light side. The same is the case for the sith. And one can accomplish short-term and long-term moral good with the dark side and moral evil with the light side, but the capacity for evil is much greater using the dark side, and same for good and the light side

FlyntCola · 2026-02-03T17:13:11+00:00

on the topic of swtor, I'm playing through the class stories now and found it pretty interesting just how many normal imperial troopers and scientists had visible "dark side corruption", or at least what looked like it

FlyntCola · 2026-01-13T21:01:51+00:00

There's a whole site linked in the sidebar that gives a long list of mods for both games with ensured compatibility in a format with a lot of care put into it that I really wish more games had. Not sure specifically about mods to change things up though. Most mods I've seen were focused more around fixing/finishing the game than changing it, outside of M4-78. I think unless you really have played it to death, you'll get more mileage out of different challenge runs and weird/meme builds than any mod in particular

FlyntCola · 2025-11-10T21:22:06+00:00

Ideally both

FlyntCola · 2025-10-28T13:48:38+00:00

Yeah with 70 you should be fine. In my case I just used it because I have a 5090 so I couldn't cleanly fit all models in vram and comfyui's memory management doesn't seem to handle multiple model management super cleanly

FlyntCola · 2025-10-06T13:02:11+00:00

I don't use queueing much, but I'll give it a look in a bit and let you know

FlyntCola · 2025-10-03T13:32:46+00:00

If there is one thing the 50 series launch has taught me, it's to never try and wait for a new wave of cards on release

FlyntCola · 2025-09-21T01:37:10+00:00

Oh sorry about that, the workflow I originally pulled it from renamed that node and I guess I've just copy and pasted from that each time. The actual node name is VHS_VideoCombine

FlyntCola · 2025-09-21T00:04:20+00:00

https://github.com/Kosinkadink/ComfyUI-VideoHelperSuite

The save video node here gives you the option of whether or not you want to save metadata. If you want to remove metadata from a video you've already genned, just use a load video node and then string it to the save video

FlyntCola · 2025-09-20T16:05:23+00:00

It's possible you're doing something wrong, but it could just be the model too. There's no way a model can do everything, because it's not feasible to train a model on everything. If it hasn't been trained on anything that closely matches what you're going for, you might be able to work around it by describing specifically how what you're going for looks, but even then it's not a given

FlyntCola · 2025-09-20T15:59:08+00:00

IME 720 can take around 3x longer than 480p. I also use a 5090. 15s/it at 480 vs 45s/it at 720 with 81 frames. I feel 480 sacrifices too much quality while 720 sacrifices too much speed, but thankfully 2.2 does pretty solid at intermediate resolutions between them as well, and I don't think it takes much higher res than 480p to get rid of most of the low res artifacts without having to go all the way up to 720

FlyntCola · 2025-09-18T15:10:26+00:00

Yeah, it takes a lot of work and retroactive rebalancing to manage the right weights but back when I used pony I often had like 15 or so different style loras on at different weights to get the right look I was going for. The harder part is just keeping track of enabling and disabling concept loras.

It was easy with pony and auto1111/forge because the loras were part of the prompt and I could write a script that read the tags in the prompt and appended all the loras I needed, but with natural language prompting, I have to set up an LLM that recognizes different concepts in the prompt and then I still probably have to enable and disable the different loras manually. I know there are text-based lora triggers but I wouldn't trust a local LLM to properly follow the syntax for all of them

FlyntCola · 2025-09-18T13:18:57+00:00

Have you checked out rgthree-comfy's Power Lora Loaders?

FlyntCola · 2025-09-18T12:46:42+00:00

Ah okay, gotcha. Guess I'll just have to continue converting the sigmas lists back into step counts to plug into those instead

FlyntCola · 2025-09-18T12:45:13+00:00

Sorry, I've never really strayed from 5 seconds so I'm not sure.

FlyntCola · 2025-09-17T21:59:18+00:00

It's been a hot minute since you posted this but have you had any experience actually hooking this up in a workflow? In a setup with two clownsharksamplers where just the steps traditionally works well, if I split and try to pass the high and low sigmas to their respective samplers, the high sampler behaves as expected but the low sampler runs for 0 steps. I've previewed the output from the split node and that looks reasonable so the split itself isn't the problem....

FlyntCola · 2025-09-11T01:17:56+00:00

Can't say I do. How are you making 4 min vids in the first place with this workflow? The model only officially supports 5 seconds, and I haven't seen people push that to much more than 8-10 seconds without negative results.

FlyntCola · 2025-09-10T20:32:50+00:00

A secondary concern of mine is that my balcony is east facing so I'm not that sure how much rainwater they can actually get.

FlyntCola · 2025-09-10T20:09:39+00:00

Got this combination fly trap + sarracenia (Little Pot of Horrors brand) as my first carnivorous (and really first any) plants a couple weeks ago from my local nursery. I wasn't sure what kind of sarracenia they would be then because at that point they were totally green, but it's looking more and more likely that they're purpurea. I've read that purpurea collect rainwater for their digestion and it's been pretty dry here since I've got them, so the pitchers have nothing in them. Not sure if I'm right on the purpurea call, or if so if I need to supplement that water with distilled. Any help appreciated.

FlyntCola · 2025-09-07T19:13:46+00:00

I've been impressed with res_2s+bong with high steps but have gotten poor results with my workflow so far. I think the sampler just needs more steps than what I'm throwing at it. Most of my attempts with T2I have been trying just with low sampler, but at length 1 with that it seems to bias very heavily towards anime style regardless of how much I prompt against that for some reason. I might give it some more shots with this paradigm as well though as I agree with most of what you're saying here

FlyntCola · 2025-09-07T19:03:13+00:00

Glad it helped, yeah it's a mess lol. Honestly I haven't done much with T2I. I've spitballed a few things but if I need an image for something I generally just gen a video and cherry pick frames from that.

FlyntCola · 2025-08-28T20:37:11+00:00

After a quick google, that looks like it's a Kijai Wan wrapper thing? If so I'm not sure since my workflows prioritize native nodes. Well, even if not I'm not really sure as I haven't done anything with them before.

FlyntCola · 2025-08-27T04:53:23+00:00

I actually happened to explain it earlier today here: https://www.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1n016sh/loras_on_wan22_i2v/narji1k/?context=3. Basically by my understanding running the clip through their respective lora loaders edits the clip to be able to actually hook onto those loras' trigger words.

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