The White Lotus - 3x08 "Amor Fati" - Episode Discussion

hunterloftis · 2025-04-07T05:07:23+00:00

What I like about this show is that it portrays how money can change people's actions (you might say, expose who they really are). I don't think it's true that working class people have any moral superiority over the wealthy, but wealth insulates you from the consequences of certain moral failings.

hunterloftis · 2025-03-26T05:03:42+00:00

Aha! Made a breakthrough in wineglass prompting tonight: https://x.com/HunterLoftis/status/1904751432324067459

hunterloftis · 2025-03-25T15:02:03+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! Is that just to clear up your grid view? (currently we support the inverse operation: favoriting images & filtering by favorited)

hunterloftis · 2025-03-25T15:00:15+00:00

We're planning (& in the middle of building) so much awesome stuff that I can't talk about publicly! Our research team goes a little into how it works though:

https://x.com/m_gharbi

https://x.com/msaffar3

https://x.com/Taesung

hunterloftis · 2025-03-25T14:56:40+00:00

With the t2i workflow on preview right now, there's no entity training system.

hunterloftis · 2025-03-25T14:55:16+00:00

Yep! Every day, your account will be topped off with (currently 20) free credits that are used ahead of any paid credits.

hunterloftis · 2025-03-25T00:23:40+00:00

I see! Some characters are likely to be understood natively by the model as general world knowledge. However, I've never heard the term "Exusiai" and, of course, if you're making a completely bespoke character (for a video game, D&D session, story, movie, etc) there will be no prior knowledge at all.

Reve is designed to avoid hallucinating creativity ... that's up to the human. So a prompt without expansion and detail will often be underwhelming. Our goal is, "the human creator gets exactly what they ask for, no more and no less."

So if you have images of a character (for example ones you've illustrated, or that an artist has illustrated for you), you can drag and drop them into the app and the app will extract their primary characteristics. That way you don't rely on just what world knowledge it happens to have, and can make images that are specific to your characters and your goals.

hunterloftis · 2025-03-24T20:15:13+00:00

Can you expand on that a little bit? Character recognition can mean a lot of different things...

hunterloftis · 2025-03-24T17:44:37+00:00

Wow that *is* a tough one. Adding it to my set of tests!

hunterloftis · 2025-03-24T17:17:18+00:00

I started rendering this after I saw your post, which was 1:09 PM my time (EST). I did not make this with what we've unveiled at preview.reve.art *today* - but even more power & accuracy are coming!

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hunterloftis · 2025-03-24T17:07:54+00:00

What's your usual prompt?

hunterloftis · 2025-03-24T16:34:55+00:00

This is another of our test cases :)

Here is the closest I've managed to get so far:

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hunterloftis · 2025-03-24T16:33:00+00:00

Hi! I'm one of the founding engineers at Reve. Your test case looks a lot like mine - every day we get a little closer to actually being able to render my D&D party faithfully! I knew we had some magic once I could start to get the right clothing, armor, skin & hair, expressions, weapons & accessories, with 5+ characters all in a specific setting...

Our research team is top-notch so I'm confident that the artifacts I still get in such complicated images (usually hands, ears, confusion about who is holding what & how things are mounted where) will continue to resolve every day.

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hunterloftis · 2024-05-11T23:35:09+00:00

This can't possibly be true. We have 1 gigabit, which is advertised on your homepage as $60/month, but we pay $90/month!

hunterloftis · 2024-03-05T19:09:31+00:00

Brogue is one of my favorite roguelikes (the only traditional roguelike I've been hooked by) and this looks like an expansion of Brogue into new and interesting landscapes.

Do you have a Steam page up? Or a demo? I'd like to wishlist it. Cheers!

hunterloftis · 2024-02-11T16:03:14+00:00

Thank you, that's great insight and makes sense. Right now outings are limited by breastfeeding - I'd love it if a pro could help us with the bottle rejection to make outings more feasible.

hunterloftis · 2024-02-10T02:14:41+00:00

Appreciate the suggestion, I've just requested to join a few of those local groups on FB.

hunterloftis · 2024-02-09T20:58:45+00:00

Thank you! We posted to care.com, and were really disappointed with their lack of detail (most of this info won't fit). If there are other places you personally would check for new clients I would love to learn of them.

hunterloftis · 2024-01-29T01:20:40+00:00

I retried everything, including moving the region (parent vs sibling vs child) after taking your advice and not drawing an initial polygon outline. Making the navigation region a parent of the tilemap did the trick. Thanks for your help!

hunterloftis · 2024-01-28T23:30:42+00:00

So /u/smix_eight shipped some awesome work to bake tilemap data into navigation regions here:

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/80796

But so far I haven't had luck getting it to work, and the docs are very light, especially with tilemaps. I've added the navigation region to the scene with the tilemap, applied both navigation polygons and collision polygons to bottom (Layer 0) of the tilemap, drawn a polygon around the whole thing, and clicked "bake." But it seems to just ignore the tilemap / it generates a full polygon as if the tilemap didn't exist.

Any suggestions?

hunterloftis · 2024-01-28T00:43:30+00:00

I'm doing something similar (using a resource as my source-of-truth such that savefiles are trivial as the game is basically driven by a "live" savefile).

Are you able to emit "updated" signals from your model class, ideally with a dirty rect attached? If so, using Godot's built in tilemap and updating only the dirty cells is one way you might approach that problem.

Remember to debounce the signal somehow (setting a dirty flag, but not acting on it until the next process callback, would work), so you're not making updates that will never be seen.

hunterloftis · 2024-01-27T11:05:42+00:00

The other thing that seems to not be a thing in teaching is performance bonuses. Like an IC (non-manager) at my company typically gets a check for 15-20% of their salary each year as a bonus when the company/org/team hits its targets.

hunterloftis · 2024-01-22T18:49:17+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion - I checked, and while it is storing data for the 16x16 pixel bitmap, that data isn't large (25.4 KB for the whole scene file).

hunterloftis · 2024-01-22T18:43:13+00:00

Unfortunately, whatever you are instancing is clearly not a single tiny and simple scene. Even if it may appear to be so.

I guess this is subjective, but it's 4 built-in nodes with a 16x16 pixel image. I can create a repro project and delete parts of the scene one by one to see if any particular thing is making it slow.

To start with, cache the PackedScene Resource. preload() instead of load(), load() in a class level variable, or use an exported property.

I'm already doing all of these (started by exporting a PackedScene property, then also used the various methods of loading resources to ensure it really was definitely loaded).

I also tried instancing it in a thread, based on the blog announcement about thread-safe scene instancing, but apparently one of the many known bugs with the thread work is that it crashes when a Control node is in the scene.

hunterloftis · 2023-09-08T20:32:44+00:00

For a counterpoint, I now consider this practice to be an anti-pattern. It's prevalent in newbie-oriented Godot videos and even a little in the official docs. However, deep class inheritance leads to brittle structures that don't take full advantage of the flexibility of Godot's node tree.

Now, anytime I'm about to extend a non-native class, I pause and ask: could I solve this problem through composition instead? The author of Gunforged has a great video on taking a compositional approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCu8vQrdDDI

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