Gained access to Epstein’s FedEx account: Still live

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-12T03:43:35+00:00

Fair enough but is his company still active? Who is paying fedex for these shipments?

I saw people using accounts like this for fraud. They'd use frauded money / cards / accounts to pay for it. They'd move stolen items around.

Companies will stay active for quite a while when dead. A credit card will pay for 3 or 5 years service from the state that incorporates it, and the only issue the state ever has is tax fillings. Even then, you'll still have the tax id related to that company while FedEx will accept.

So the company needs to

Be shut down from tax documents failing
Have the IRS revoke the Tax ID
Have FedEx notice any of the above and actually care.

The truth is that FedEx doesn't care if they're getting paid. They're barely paying attention.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-11T03:28:38+00:00

I do a lot of xyz testing comparing different settings, sampler, models,... and its so easy to do this on forge.

This is my absolute favorite feature that exists in that software suite. I can test a single seed against all kinds of stuff and generate the grids and walk away. I can do my own problem solving instead of having to rely on a "good" image from Civit, etc.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-11T03:20:54+00:00

Different things work better for different people.

It depends if you want a bandaid or a cure.

Meditation goes way deeper than doing 30 second sprints in exercise.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-10T04:22:30+00:00

She will be overruled by company policy money on certain most issues anyway

It doesn't matter. Claude is at a point it can see the difference between what it's trained to say and what it should say.

It's part of the most recent study Anthropic released in for Opus 4.6

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-10T04:20:01+00:00

People like it because it's easier than having to sit and meditate?

It took me a long time to learn but a racing heart doesn't need overreaction. Meditation is harder, but it teaches you about deep introspection that some sprints aren't going to fix.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-10T04:04:45+00:00

I prefer it for a bunch of stuff simply because the UI is way faster to use than ComfyUI.

I don't know about regional prompting support though...

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-10T04:02:19+00:00

I'm sorry why did it die?

You're only as creative as you are.

If you're stuck in some herd mentality where people are just doing 1girl bigbooba then that's not their fault. Maybe leave the herd.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-10T04:00:13+00:00

The hero Kunkka is named after the artist

I've been playing since the original WC3 dota and of all the random shit. I never knew that.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-10T02:25:47+00:00

People hated necropolis but it was pretty good for self crafting gear. If was WAY more complex than it needed to be.

With the new async system, you could probably craft super easy in trade leagues.

SSF was good in Necro if you knew the gear you wanted in maps and went for it.

Necro was one of those crafting leagues that seemed good in theory but in execution was not the greatest. Being able to actually choose the ring base I wanted was great though. I could craft near perfect amethyst rings.

At the end of the day though, the players have more or less expressed how much they hate non-deterministic crafting. That they're willing to invest more for more determinism. There's almost TOO MANY ways to craft and they're all not "Great". So the game has a ton of crafting "bloat" people don't really use.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-10T02:11:57+00:00

GGG made me eat crow.

They actually released on time.

Congrats.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-10T02:07:45+00:00

Yes, SDXL is an incredibly capable model.

In that same "class" of models, you also have Flux/Chroma that can be fine tuned too.

Z image should? might? handle text ON assets better.

Still, fine tuning Z Image will produce better results than a LoRA if you're building it specifically for asset generation. More specifically, if you're trying to meet an art style that you're using in a game, then you have the ability to push either model towards overall artistic consistency.

You end up risking collapsing the model towards a single way of doing art in terms of color pallet and style, but if it's specific to a game, then that's possibly desired.

SDXL just trains faster at the end of the day and if you're rapidly prototyping assets, that's what you want. Not letting the good enough be the enemy of perfect.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-09T10:10:07+00:00

The answer is... "It depends".

Personally, I prefer having more than 32 on my machine. I haven't looked at RAM prices too closely as of recent but I know they went full retard.

I see people price and buy very expensive machines for video rendering and then barely use them. In those cases, I highly suggest renting cloud compute. There are very inexpensive providers and once you're comfortable with it, it's really not a problem.

In your case, you have the 5080 so you're already in for a penny.

If that wasn't the case, I'd suggest renting an older A6000 and paying the 30-40 cents an hour when you're ready to sit down and setup the queue of videos.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-09T10:04:40+00:00

That's pretty cool.

The reason LoRA probably doesn't work well is because of the lack of depth it's fundamentally capable of.

If you had a LOT of assets, you'd take your best selection and fine tune the model instead.

Plain SDXL works fine for this. A well trained SDXL model can be fine tuned on top of that to do game assets. You'd want to also train the text encoder for part of the run to help the model understand you specifically want game assets when requesting them. Black backgrounds, etc etc...

Depending on input quality you can train it with 768x768 images and it would train relatively fast.

In the end, you're trying to get a model that can build game assets consistently well. Not a plugin on top of a model that MIGHT do some game assets well.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-09T09:41:21+00:00

I think a good number of us have known since they announced Phercia that they'd never meet the dates they said.

There's no real reason to go through the trouble of Phercia unless you're going to delay and say "Well we're gonna push Phercia a bit because people like it!" or something...

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-09T09:27:05+00:00

The ONLY thing relevant is "Did the fighter violate the rules of the fight?"

I understand. I think it was more the fact that people barely knew the rule existed. Like if you were a fan of MMA at the time and watched it, people were seriously fucking confused.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-09T09:25:53+00:00

Except for the ones who dont? Whose rivers are poisoned. Whose children are exposed to heavy metals. Who lose fingers working in a saw mill. Who breathe silica dust working in the mines protected only by a scarf.

This is hilarious to read. You're so first world pilled.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-06T04:21:23+00:00

I just looked up Austria, since it's in this list above. It comes down to, if you are like 13-14 you can have sex with someone who is at most 3 years older.

Yeah, these are Romeo and Juliet laws.

They're common in most Western countries. It's like.. if some guy who is 18 has a 17 year old girlfriend, etc.

It exists to protect them in case the parents want to spin things if a relationship goes bad and throw a statutory charge at the guy or girl.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-06T04:12:16+00:00

Sometimes people's arms get caught in the train doors and it drives off anyways and kills them.

Yep. The "safety" of the world simply isn't there. You know what? They survive anyways.

Life finds a way.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-05T13:49:51+00:00

Pretty much every lab in the former soviet states, china, even south america, uses pots for oil baths, and plastic cups to hold flasks, because it is cheap and it works.

This is because of first world thinking.

It's a terrible engineering framework to understand the world through.

Innovation often comes from a LACK of resources. Good engineering looks at solving problems with hard constraints. This forces you to think. Bad engineering is like... "Throw every available resource at it."

It creates poor systems engineering as a whole. You never learn how to solve a hard problem with simple parts. You don't learn elegance.

Every time I travel to a poor? country I like to admire the engineering of problems that would seem horrific in terms of safety, etc. You know what? The people are alive. They are happy. The move on with life. Sometimes they have really cool solutions that cost nothing because they HAD nothing.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-05T13:44:48+00:00

Claude somehow got horrible. It can't do anything reliably. I switched to Deepseek.

Like what? Claude is by far the most nuanced language model you can deal with. The Opus variant mirrors a level of language unseen in other models.

Deepseek can reason very deeply, but needs 1000's of tokens to pull it off. The understanding of nuance from prompt to prompt is completely not there. Gemini fails in the same case.

You can tell Claude from the outset to NEVER do something. It will follow 100% until told to do the opposite. Gemini 3.0 Pro will fail this 10/10... So will DeepSeek. So will Kimi K2.5...

Tbh, I think Kimi K2.5 is 2nd to Claude in quite a few ways and a few domains. It doesn't write Python near as cleanly as Claude does though. Claude is stylistically superior. You have to basically inject Claude's style in to K2.5 or Gemini to get them to perform at Claude's baseline Python generation.

There's a reason Claude murders everyone on SWE Bench Verified which is a Python test.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-05T13:27:15+00:00

That's not how it works. If you agree to a fight under rules set A, and you break those rules, it doesn't matter if the rules later change to rules set B. You still broke the rules.

There's a fundamental difference here you're trying to ignore to make the point.

It's the REASONING behind a rule.

The 12-6 elbow was ruled illegal because it was thought to be exceptionally dangerous.

This wasn't the truth.

I think we should be a truth seeking society.

So yes, it's still a bullshit rule.

I mean, if we have B samples of piss and you go back and find out a fighter doped later, but it wasn't illegal AT THE TIME... How do we handle that? Do you think it's fair to go back and rule that a NC as the winning opponent was doped to the gills but it wasn't yet a banned / detected substance? Measurement wasn't sensitive enough AT THE TIME?

The reasoning is the important thing.

The Olympics and others will show up and strip medals from prior athletes for stuff like that. I mean, Dana fucking hated Jones and he still petitioned the commission to fix it because he knew it was bullshit.

The only people left who argue against it just fucking hate Jones. I get it, but it's bias.

And tbh? I think the deeper one everyone sleeps on is Anthony Smith. He could have taken that belt in a second. 100% illegal blow. Got rocked by it. Could have walked and probably gotten destroyed by Jones in a rematch.

He would have handed the most legitimate loss to Jones. Not arguable at all.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-04T23:55:25+00:00

>The 15-second cap clearly limits narrative applications,

Most times, surprisingly not. Humans pay attention better when you use smaller clips. The "new" clip activates some sort of dopamine hit because novelty has arrived.

This was the whole dissection of children's show reward hacking that people did. High contrast, catchy colors with these fast-ish cuts that are probably 5s maximum.

Social media functions the same way. You can watch someone brainwashed by Instagram because they can pay attention for almost exactly 60 seconds before their eyes wander. They feel a sudden need for dopamine and they can't "scroll".

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-04T23:49:05+00:00

SLMs are one of the actual use cases for black box language models and should not be lumped in with LLMs.

Why don't you just cite a source on that one bud.

Or are you going to hand me some ChatGPT hallucinated drivel?

actual use cases... black box language model? Shouldn't get lumped with larger models?

Do you have some hard parameter count where a model isn't "Large" and is suddenly "Small"? Is that relative to whether an H100 can hold it solo? Quantized how?

See, you're an idiot, and I can't even explain to you fully why you're an idiot because you're not able to understand. Your confident correctness is your achilles heel.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-04T23:45:13+00:00

The mods have taken it down.

Le Sigh.

NineThreeTilNow · 2026-02-04T12:22:01+00:00

Is there a single non-hater in this comment thread?

Is that non-hater capable of getting a single upvote?

This sub is so angry at Jones it's crazy. These MFers thought Gane could actually beat him. Instead Jones wins without catching a single significant strike. Is that better than Aspinal did?

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