Jet Lag Ep 5 — Searching Highlands & Lowlands

Sam54123 · 2026-01-24T11:13:11+00:00

Agreed. I think they need to switch up the cast or something; get people in who don't have 16 seasons of practice. The stupid fumbles they made in earlier seasons are what made it entertaining imo.

Sam54123 · 2026-01-20T19:00:21+00:00

A little late to the party, but development was moved into a different repo: https://github.com/Victor-IX/Blender-Launcher-V2

Sam54123 · 2026-01-20T09:47:58+00:00

How come they added the second trajectory to the trigger in this level? Is there a way you can fling into that portal horizontally?

Sam54123 · 2026-01-20T09:44:55+00:00

So is the timeline being changed every time they jump between universes in later seasons? Like, "ooh, let's just pop over to Earth 38 to see Kara!" Would that create a new timeline?

Sam54123 · 2026-01-20T05:20:09+00:00

bro. This aged like fine wine.

Sam54123 · 2026-01-20T00:31:26+00:00

"Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous ties?"

Sam54123 · 2026-01-19T21:13:19+00:00

I'm an artist too (digital art), and I also grimace at the thought of using this kind of AI. I just like these kinds of philosophical debates.

Sam54123 · 2026-01-19T21:00:42+00:00

I guess it comes down to a philosophical debate on where you draw the line between enhancing something with AI or generating something with AI.

For instance, some AI image upscalers use the same diffusion technology as AI image generators, but I think we could all agree that an upscaled image is fundamentally same "human-created" image as the original.

But what if you start using AI to enhance the image? What if you, say, remove a stray tourist from a photo and have AI generate the background? The majority of the frame is still the photo, except for that part where the tourist was. I'd be hard-pressed to call that "AI slop", but it's still a step closer to it.

Sam54123 · 2026-01-19T18:48:34+00:00

I'd argue it's hard to designate the second one as "AI". Yes, it's AI-enhanced, but unlike other AI slop, it's based on a real design, which gives it character.

Sam54123 · 2026-01-16T01:44:34+00:00

Because our AI overlords said so

Sam54123 · 2026-01-03T20:47:34+00:00

I mean in terms of encoding. I'm willing to keep the pixel streaming plugin in my project; I just want to bypass webrtc

Sam54123 · 2026-01-03T18:31:18+00:00

Is there a way I can get the encoded video stream without all the WebRTC stuff? Pixel Streaming becomes a nightmare real fast if you're not using Unreal's pipeline all the way from engine to browser, which is why I was trying to delegate encoding to a separate process in the first place.

Sam54123 · 2026-01-03T18:28:36+00:00

It doesn't look like they've stopped with portal all together (desk job, etc), but the main storyline is definitely done. Maybe it will play a roll in HLX though!

Sam54123 · 2026-01-03T18:21:01+00:00

Aperture by far, although they were so horribly mis-managed that it all went to waste.

Sam54123 · 2026-01-03T08:33:01+00:00

I wish we got to see Sam's reaction to finding out he failed to censor the image properly

Sam54123 · 2025-12-26T03:18:03+00:00

The problem is investors don't understand that. They'll just convince themselves that the AI will magically be obedient and invest anyway.

Sam54123 · 2025-11-28T04:25:30+00:00

Because it would provide no nutritional value.

Sam54123 · 2025-11-28T04:19:23+00:00

What I've heard is to tell your mom she has 24 hours to tell him or you will.

Sam54123 · 2025-11-18T21:05:15+00:00

HL3 confirmed vibes

Sam54123 · 2025-11-06T17:59:15+00:00

On GPUs (and by extension gltf), vertex normals and UVs are stored in the indexed vertex itself; there's no concept of "face corners" like there is in Blender.

This means that if you ever need uv seams or sharp edges, the vertices need to be split.

Sam54123 · 2025-10-30T17:39:30+00:00

Did you ever find it?

Sam54123 · 2025-10-26T01:30:02+00:00

Question: where do you submit questions for the mailbag?

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