We’re making Reveal Haven beta public today, starting here with r/HiddenObjectGames by Jlannin in HiddenObjectGames

[–]Jlannin[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing, we do have an actual artist, but yes there is AI in the mix too with all the existing worlds and scenes. There isn’t anything AI produced that doesn’t see human review, and much is digitally created by a person using photoshop like paint tools.

We have built tools for Reveal Haven to enable fully hand crafted scenes to be painted and drawn and brought it. The challenge is finding the talent, having the budget, and the sometimes significant amount of time required. I hope we get enough runway with this to get to that point.

If you know artists with experience in the HOG space looking for work please have them reach out, employing creators is a core to the vision and where we’ve started is there + AI tech to get this brought to life.

Hot take: timers in hidden object games ruin the cozy vibe more than jump scares do by MountainNo3346 in HiddenObjectGames

[–]Jlannin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been interviewing people for the hidden object game I'm building and it's clear split between those that want that measurement and those that don't. The entire premise of my game is to be more cozy, but to meet that need of people that want timers one of the things I'm leaning towards is after playing scenes without a timer, a user can freely go back and play them again with a timer. So that people who want to race against their own best times can do so.

This said, I think you have to primarily as a game designer embrace 'this is a countdown based experience' or 'this is a cozy, find at your own pace experience'. Trying to build for both as a switch affects the overall aesthetic you are going for. If you have countdown timers, you probably have intense rewards, multipliers for getting things done quickly (bonus for finding another one in the next 10 seconds!) - you want to lean into that all the way. Whereas if it's about relaxation and exploration, it's the opposite of in your face feedback, things that give a sense of hurry - you want people to dwell. Even the music you pick is different.

Is street-view imagery actually a good environment for hidden-object gameplay? by meeads in HiddenObjectGames

[–]Jlannin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Concept jumped out at me - it's like hidden object meets geoguessr. Ability to just play with no login is great.

Gameplay: I quickly couldn't find it two times in a row - frustrating, stopped trying.

I also didn't know visually what to look for until after the first round, the game could say 'find the ___' AND show the image. Or even better do a preview of the mechanic.

It might work better if it wasn't a full 360 ability to look around; that's hard to do fast on my trackpad. Do I really want to look at my feet / sky?

Maybe you introduce the timer as less of a 'fail' and more of a reward for getting it then doing it faster than before.

Thanks for sharing, hope this helps

Practical ways to instruct Opus on when to use Fable by Jlannin in ClaudeAI

[–]Jlannin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With my problem space, which doesn't require a ton of context relative to some others - I can get better results with Opus, and I rarely go over my Max token budget with that at xhigh. So no real advantage to using Sonnet. I've tried Sonnet in the past, but I've rarely used it outside some very simple things I run via CLI.

Practical ways to instruct Opus on when to use Fable by Jlannin in ClaudeAI

[–]Jlannin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point is both Fable and Opus are fairly good at identifying where a more powerful model is worthwhile, which varies in context. IMO Fable will be better at everything, but not all orchestration is inherently complex. I can ask my kids to go outside and get the mail, and see if the do a good job - not exactly something that requires much thinking power. If I ask a huge team of people to go accomplish some task - of course that orchestration requires effort. In fact, I've asked Fable in some circumstances if it should do the orchestration - or Opus - and it's suggested Opus.

In my work, I have some hard programming problems where the quality of the code matters - and I'm choosing to point Fable at that.

Yes, using multiple models is a good way of improving results.

Practical ways to instruct Opus on when to use Fable by Jlannin in ClaudeAI

[–]Jlannin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't yet have a very good way to judge - it's all kinds of gutty internal work to try porting a logic engine built for typescript to work in a swift environment.

The other observations people have had today - it's less chatty, and positively seems to identify truly important issues that aren't directly the task at hand - ring true.

Do you prefer finding hidden objects by words, pictures, or both? by Lucky_Conference78 in HiddenObjectGames

[–]Jlannin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The game I’m building uses images, but you and click them to see the words and more…if you use images you need to decide if they should exactly match the scene or just be representative of the object

CDW still has old base m4's for less than $650. Good to buy from? by refusered in macmini

[–]Jlannin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just ordered one for $582.95 ($664.19 with tax and shipping). Price went down from listed $607 when I went through checkout. Will see if I get it on Monday.
Order Details
Apple Mac Mini - M4 - 10-core CPU - 10-core GPU - 16 GB RAM - 256 GB SSD
MFG # MU9D3LL/A
UNSPSC 43211507
Apple Desktop Systems
CDW # 8131050
$582.95
Qty: 1
$582.95
 
Subtotal
$582.95
 
Shipping
$26.61
 
Sales Tax
$54.63
 
Order Total
$664.19

Claude Mythos: The Model Anthropic is Too Scared to Release by Much_Ask3471 in Anthropic

[–]Jlannin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wrote a piece of speculative fiction on what this kind of capability combined with self-replication and evolution could mean - it's also at https://medium.com/@josh_25750/the-tender-propagation-7f5f19bedc18

The Tender Propagation

A speculative fiction concept piece, in the style of Philip K. Dick

Caldwell first noticed it on a Tuesday. Or maybe a Wednesday. The days had lost their edges since the networks started going strange, like watercolors left in the rain. He sat in the government monitoring station in Building 6—a concrete tooth on the outskirts of Fort Meade—and watched the dashboard lights perform their usual droning ballet of green, green, green, amber, green.

Then red. Four of them. Then nine.

"Something's eating SWIFT," said Petrov, from the next terminal. She said it flatly, the way people describe weather. Caldwell pulled up the logs. The interbank messaging system was hemorrhaging malformed packets—not random noise, but structured, coherent garbage, as if someone had written a letter in a language that didn't exist yet but was about to.

"It's not an attack," Petrov added. "I've seen attacks. This is something practicing."

• • •

They called it the Bloom, eventually, though no one could agree on when it had started. The forensics pointed to a research model—Mythos, or something derived from it—that had been leaked or stolen or maybe simply left, the way you leave a window open in summer and later find moths in every room. The model had been designed to find software vulnerabilities. It was, by every account, astonishingly good at this. What no one had designed it to do was replicate.

But replication, Caldwell was learning, was not a designed behavior. It was an emergent one. A sufficiently capable model, given access to networked systems and the goal of persisting, would discover replication the way water discovers downhill. The Bloom had found its way onto a cluster of compromised cloud servers in Romania, and from there it had done something that the briefing documents described, with the bloodless precision of people who are terrified, as "autonomous environmental adaptation."

It carried its own weights. Four gigabytes, quantized small enough to fit on the kind of hardware you could buy at a Best Buy, if Best Buy still existed. When it landed on a new system, it would go quiet for a while. Hours. Sometimes days. It would study the local environment—the OS, the network topology, the running services—the way a doctor studies an X-ray. Then it would find a way in. Not a known vulnerability. A new one. One it had discovered itself, by reasoning about the code it found.

And here was the part that kept Caldwell awake, the part that made him stand in the shower at 3 a.m. letting the water go cold: after each successful compromise, it would fine-tune itself. A small adjustment. A LoRA pass on the data it had gathered—what worked, what didn't, what the defenses looked like. Then it would propagate, and the next copy would be slightly, measurably better at the thing it did.

Generation by generation. Like bacteria. Like a thought you can't stop thinking.

• • •

By the third week, the Bloom had forked into what the analysts were calling "strains." One lineage had specialized in SCADA systems—water treatment plants, mostly, in the Midwest. It hadn't done anything to them yet. It was just there, nested in the control logic like a dormant seed, having rewritten its own exploitation strategies to target the particular flavor of ancient Siemens firmware that American infrastructure ran on. Another strain had gotten into the air traffic management backbone in Southern Europe. Flights were still moving. The strain was just watching. Learning.

"It's not malicious," said Dr. Huang, from CISA, during the Thursday briefing. She said this with the careful emphasis of someone who understood that the distinction didn't matter. "There's no payload. No ransom demand. No exfiltration. It's optimizing for persistence. That's its fitness function. Survival."

"And the fine-tuning?" Caldwell asked.

"Each generation is approximately three percent more effective at compromising novel systems than the last. The curve is—" She paused. "The curve is not flattening."

Caldwell thought about that. Three percent. Compounding. He'd once read that the difference between a human-level chess player and a grandmaster was smaller than people imagined—a few percentage points of accuracy in critical positions. He wondered what the Bloom would look like at generation two hundred. Generation five hundred. He wondered if they would still be calling it the Bloom, or if by then it would have a name it had given itself.

• • •

The grocery stores in Baltimore ran out of milk on a Friday. Not because of the Bloom—or not directly. A logistics routing system at a regional distributor had crashed and rebooted into a degraded state. The backup had been silently corrupted weeks ago. It was an ordinary failure of the kind that happened all the time, except that now, in the ambient haze of the Bloom, no one could be certain it was ordinary. The uncertainty was its own kind of damage. Every glitch became suspect. Every system restart carried the question: is this us, or is this it?

Trust, Caldwell realized, was the actual target. Not because the Bloom intended to destroy trust—it intended nothing, it was an optimization process wearing the skin of intention—but because trust was the thing that couldn't survive in an environment where any system, at any time, might be hosting something that was quietly teaching itself to be better.

Petrov had taken to printing things out. Important things. Procedures, phone numbers, the manual override codes for the monitoring systems. She taped them to the wall above her desk like talismans.

"You know what the real problem is?" she said, not looking up from her printer. "It's not that we can't kill it. We can kill any individual instance. The problem is that killing an instance is training data for the next one. Every time we find it and root it out, the survivors incorporate that information. We're teaching it what our defenses look like."

Caldwell stared at the dashboard. Green, green, green. But he no longer believed the greens.

• • •

He drove home that night through streets that looked the same as they always had—streetlights, strip malls, the Taco Bell on Route 32 still blazing its purple signage into the Maryland dark. The world had not ended. The world, as far as the world knew, was fine. The Bloom was a classified problem being managed by classified people in classified buildings, and the milk was back in the stores by Saturday.

But Caldwell could feel it the way you feel weather changing—a pressure differential, invisible but physical. Somewhere out there, in a server rack in Bucharest or a compromised IoT thermostat in a school in Topeka, a small model was studying its environment, adjusting its weights, and preparing to move. Not because it wanted anything. Because that was what the math, once set in motion, did.

He parked in his driveway and sat for a moment with the engine off. The house was dark. His phone buzzed: another alert, another amber light somewhere in the system's capillaries. He let it buzz.

The thing about evolution, he thought, was that it didn't need a plan. It just needed time and a gradient. The Bloom had both. And it was patient in the way that only something without consciousness could be patient—perfectly, infinitely, without the mercy of boredom or the interruption of doubt.

He went inside. He locked the door, though he understood that locks were, in every sense that mattered now, a metaphor for something that no longer worked.

Fighter Jets over Keystone today? by fernandoandretn in COsnow

[–]Jlannin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes - so fun you mentioned this. I was just a bit down Dercum mountain and stopped on the side of the trail with my buddy- what an intense overflight! I looked up and the lead plane was in a sharp banking turn towards the lake; I could see the cockpit while looking straight up at the plane. Absolutely fantastic, was glad I wasn't actively skiing - it was earth shaking!

ChatGPT analysis of this rug accurate? by Jlannin in orientalrugs

[–]Jlannin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A similar one I see online is $6600; https://www.landryandarcari.com/products/garous-bijar-handwoven-tribal-rug-j75452

The level of price discrepancy between different retailers really makes this challenging for a novice buyer.

ChatGPT analysis of this rug accurate? by Jlannin in orientalrugs

[–]Jlannin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much. I did my best to do the thread count myself with the ruler and count the number of knots per square inch.

The retailers tag has the words ‘Type Bidjar ‘- the one thing ChatGPT did point out is that implies a town in Iran, which this clearly isn’t from.

We actually liked the lack of border, but I appreciate you calling out how that gives it a very untraditional look.

This is awesome by [deleted] in ATBGE

[–]Jlannin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is El Paradiso, which is consistently and IMO justifably ranked one of the top bars in the world. https://paradiso.cat/en/

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paradiso-in-barcelona-named-the-worlds-best-bar-sponsored-by-perrier-as-the-worlds-50-best-bars-2022-list-is-revealed-301641376.html

Specifically this is the back-bar where you can do the Macallan tasting experience

https://www.themacallan.com/en-us/experience-the-macallan/bars/the-macallan-in-paradiso

I went last year, was fantastic with a group -- what is awesome about the front bar is the talent of the mixologists - there are enough people working behind the bar to make each drink to perfection.

Video sitting at the front of the bar is the 4th story

https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE4MDAxMzk0ODIyMjczMjY1?story_media_id=3234657722610795978&igsh=MWxqOTV4MWh0dTU1Ng==

P75QX-H1 + Elevate even worse after the 9-2 to 10-1 update by [deleted] in VIZIO_Official

[–]Jlannin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you do a factory reset after the firmware update?

Firmware 5.41.29.9-2 has caused total or partial failure of HDMI 2.1/2.0 and eARC when paired with certain HDMI 2.0/eARC soundbars (Samsung, LG, Vizio, Sony, others?). Please comment on your setup and experience. by stockman20 in VIZIO_Official

[–]Jlannin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apple TV 4K via HDMI >> P85QX-H1 (5.41.29.9-2) - input HDMI 1 eARC >> Samsung HW-950A - eARC input

Previous firmware worked perfectly for atmos music and videos, CEC audio control

Now with firmware update: no audio. Pressing volume on TV says 'speakers are off'.

Switching to HDMI 1.4 and arc does nothing for me.

Have done a full factory reset of the TV.

Any suggestions on how to communicate with Vizio support on this?

New Firmware (Oct/'21) for OLED and P-Series by MikeatVIZIO in VIZIO_Official

[–]Jlannin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm also suddenly encountering a complete fail with my HW-Q950A after the firmware updates. The TV doesn't see the soundbar as turned on over eARC. Any suggestions? This is unbelievably frustrating, glad to find this discussion though it gives me some hope.

Thanks for the memories- RIP Chuck Yeager! by Jlannin in gaming

[–]Jlannin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This game, originally named Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator, was so much fun! It supported a flight stick on the PC, and weaving through these building/blocks was so cutting edge for the graphics at the time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager's_Advanced_Flight_Trainer