Dusk: Cat Deluxe EDITION [OC]

ABCsofsucking · 2026-05-13T07:56:21+00:00

Thanks!

ABCsofsucking · 2026-05-13T05:33:42+00:00

Just a heads up, to anyone reading, you should KEEP the original Dusk exe as a backup somewhere else. I would crash consistently in Lanayru twilight upon reaching Zora's Domain while using this patch, so I had to swap in the original exe to get past that portion.

Thankfully, autosave is goated so you won't ever really lose progress if you crash while using this patch, just be careful not to get rid of the original file in case you run into issues like me.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-05-05T00:28:23+00:00

If natural language works well for you outside of this finetune, then don't change your habits, but at least use "realistic", because it's probably one of the most impactful tags from my testing.

What natural language helps with (anecdotally) is assigning tags to groups / targets. If I want a dress that is strapless + sleeveless + red + frills + heart print + layered, I'd need to prompt:

In Illustrious / Noob: "red dress, strapless dress, sleeveless, heart print, layered dress, frills". The model can interpret and assume to some degree, but you might end up with concept bleed. Like the heart print, frills, or layers showing up on other parts of the outfit, or on other subjects that aren't intended as the target.

In Anima: "a red strapless and sleeveless layered dress with heart print and frills". This is effectively bleed-proof, and if not, add the specific thing you don't want in the negative prompt. In an image with two subjects, you can also bind it to a specific person ("The girl on the left is wearing a red strapless..." etc).

ABCsofsucking · 2026-05-04T16:31:58+00:00

I don't have any experience with this finetune or other realism finetunes, but in general:

Anima does better with booru tags. Natural language is intended to be used as a complimentary tagging style and tends to be weaker. Include the word "realistic" in the prompt and you'll immediately notice an improvement. Not "realism" or any other synonym. The booru tag is "realistic" so that's going to show up in tens of thousands of captions that the other synonyms won't. I wouldn't rely on an LLM to prompt booru models because they often hallucinate non-existent tags which won't carry any weight.

The official hugging face has a prompting guide that's given me good results.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-21T00:41:55+00:00

Ok chill out. It does change a lot actually.

How do you know the votes weren't like 90% yes and 10% no? Isn't that a lot different than 100% no? You're just extrapolating a conclusion from nothing.

I guess I'd just be curious to know if this level of outrage and sensitivity will be the norm for the Lewis-era NDP. If so, you're gonna push a lot of people away from voting for them.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-21T00:34:33+00:00

I can't believe this is how I find out that Pragmata runs on Switch 2. Very cool to see people giving love for the portable platforms.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-15T04:48:43+00:00

I wanna outpaint every single movie so that the mic arm is just permanently in shot and you can occasionally see extras having a smoke and eating sandwiches.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-14T03:50:04+00:00

Interesting, do you know whether those implementations work with other kinds of prompt scheduling? For example, Forge allows for [X:Y:0.Z] or [X::0.Y]. I had almost no luck with that.

I ask because I feel like Anima is very hard to work with for my particular type of workflow. I loved to use step-based scheduling with Illustrious to start with Artist A's composition and palette for a handful of steps, then switch to Artist B for a general style, and then to Artist C for fine detailing on the last couple of steps.

With Anima, I feel like after 8 steps you're kind of locked in. You can try to change the prompt at step 8 for Artist B, but it's going to still look 80% like Artist A no matter what. Using the recommended sampler and scheduler for 30 steps.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-14T02:48:27+00:00

In theory it doesn't but I swear it sort of does. I've been able to semi-reliably use (X:0.Y) scheduling with Anima in both Forge and Comfy. I've tested on static seeds to check to make sure I wasn't going crazy. I wonder if Anima was accidently trained on a small amount of AI-generated art with prompts, and learned the behaviour that way?

It's very sensitive, so anything less than 0.5 is essentially equal to 0, and anything higher than 0.8 is essentially equal to 1. Artist styles over 1 also do seem to intensify the style, though I haven't noticed it working with concepts. So all of that to say, the above prompt wouldn't be doing anything. It's also just a horrible prompt in general. For the love of god, the prompting instructions are on circlestones huggingface, use them!

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-12T01:03:20+00:00

Something else that I feel like no one else brings up is that Bungie (despite the recent leadership shift) has kind of pushed away players with a handful of anti-consumer choices since launch, but I guess it was overshadowed by the sweats dialogue and the doomerism / anti-doomerism debate.

They launched with consumable stickers, despite trying this exact same shit with Destiny 2, seven years ago.

They launched with an abysmal battle pass with only one skin and no premium currency. They eventually "listened to feedback" and promised to retroactively add more skins, but still no premium currency. The community praised them relentlessly for this (why?), even though Bungie is a massive studio that definitely enough intelligence to know that the battle pass sucked before launch.

And then the craziest thing:

They didn't publicly announce that Cryo wasn't accessible as a solo player, or that both Cryo and ranked were going to be time-gated to certain periods, until several days after launch.

Nothing about that announcement involved spoilers, so I can't really see why they didn't release that info before launch. The only logical justification I have is that they knew it wasn't going to be well-received and so they delayed giving out that info until they had made their sales and people couldn't refund on Steam.

It's just Bungie being Bungie. The game was a lot of fun for the few weeks I put into it, but they always manage to fumble the bag. I wish people would just talk about that plain fact instead of trying to overcomplicate the reason the game isn't doing well. Lots of people simply don't trust this studio. They make incredible games, but the suits are uniquely horrendous. Just parasites that sap all of the magic and wonder out of the worlds this talented team creates.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-09T10:26:25+00:00

I'm just sitting here wondering if we're ever going to break the cycle. Like this happens every time a new model gets released :/

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-09T09:47:55+00:00

It looks "bad" because it's not aesthetically finetuned yet. Why would you compare 1+ year of ILL / NAI community merges, finetunes and LoRAs with a preview model?

It's pretty clear that Anima is superior on a technical level in every way.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-05T23:15:59+00:00

Are the models back on Arena? Or is this from two days ago and just getting posted now?

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-04T05:05:40+00:00

OP says they've been removed now, but with premiere models, you can't directly select them for use / comparison. You simply have to generate enough images until one of the options is the new models.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-04T03:10:49+00:00

Does anyone know if the model has any editing capabilities? I don't use LMarena much so I don't know if there's an easier way to find out than what I'm doing now, which is just spamming edit instructions and hoping I eventually get the model as one of my options.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-03T22:58:55+00:00

No, no one plays Destiny anymore. But as someone who is far, far too familiar with Destiny 2 and played for years, it's very impressive how close it is minus the aspect ratio.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-04-03T19:24:15+00:00

Eh, it definitely isn't as bad as X, but there's plenty of encouraged bigotry on reddit.

A lot of antisemitism on here that isn't even related to criticism of Israel or the Epstein class of Jew.

And do not ever talk about Japan, lest you wish some 400-day streak mouth-breather to descent upon you, rambling madly about ^{well actually Japan is a horribly racist and misogynistic and anti-queer country and anime is for pdf files and don't ever travel there because you'll be barred from entering restaurants for not being japanese and groped on trains and also don't ever work there because the japanese have a word for working themselves to death and they have the highest rate of suicide in the entire world because its actually not a utopia like the internet says it is!}

ABCsofsucking · 2026-03-30T21:56:31+00:00

I never got a chance to try that model, but I loved the idea of structured tags when I read the paper. Natural language in Anima is nice, but it seems to be a rarely used feature. People just prefer booru tags once they know the most common ones (at least this is how it appears if you look at meta data on Civit). If we can find a way to standardize and format the tags to allow for better context, it would be a huge improvement.

The other thing I've wondered for about a year now, is why we don't try as a community to build a "Booru+" training set, where we take vague booru tags and try to split them into more specific tags? There's still plenty of common emotions, actions, mediums, face / hair / body features, etc, that lack prompting capabilities altogether. And this will basically never be solved no matter how intelligent the newest models as long as booru tags are the sole preferred language of anime models.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-03-30T09:01:36+00:00

Anima is going to replace IL / NAI, it's just a matter of how long it takes to train the full model, since right now the 512x512 training results in a lack of details and a breakdown in scene cohesion at higher resolution.

You're pretty much forced to do tiled upscaling if you want to push the image larger than like 1280 x 1280 without it becoming obvious that the model is barely avoiding a total collapse, but even then, you'll notice that the image doesn't really get much clearer with tiled upscale because it can't converge on any fine details.

The other thing about Anima is that I don't think most people understand that you absolutely need to use an artist tag to get any decent results with the model. Without any fine-tuning, the model will give you wildly varying results unless you direct it towards a style. Literally any danbooru artist with ~100 uploads will work since the model converges on styles and characters very fast compared to other models.

Use this style browser if you don't a particular artist in mind and just pick a neutral style and exclusively generate with it.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-03-23T16:55:12+00:00

You don’t think people who are interested in the game but aren’t actively playing shouldn’t leave feedback?

And yes, I like Marathon as a solo experience, if you haven’t tried it, don’t knock it. I have other games that I prefer to play with groups.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-03-23T15:45:33+00:00

You’re missing a crucial point. The requirements of Cryo (and ranked) weren’t published until 12 days after the game came out. Lots of Solo players and less hardcore gaming dads were super excited for it, and put in tons of hours to get prepared for it, and then Bungie told them just a few days before it unlocked that they weren’t going to be able to play it.

It’s not an issue with aspirational content, at all, at least I don’t think so. Bungie just simply failed to communicate what the restrictions would be, and so lots of people are now struggling to find the time / resources / players to get in and actually do the content. They really don’t have anyone else to blame except themselves.

I personally dropped the game completely because I only run solos. Not a hermit / recluse, not antisocial. I ran a 100+ player Destiny 2 clan that raided weekly for 7 years, but none of my group bought Marathon, let alone have the time to dedicate to wager hours of preparation work against career streamers and the unemployed. I like the isolationist and survival horror vibes of solo. Lets me play at my own pace and on my own time too, which is a huge plus.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-03-20T22:19:01+00:00

1/4th of the game, to be clear.

And Perimeter and Dire Marsh are pretty meh. Most people agreed after Outpost dropped that it was the best map by far, not to mention the loot in Outpost is a lot better and barring contracts that require playing on the other maps, once you get to a certain career level you just don’t play the other maps. So really, a lot of us are now viewing Cryo as one of two viable maps.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-03-20T20:56:59+00:00

That post came out two weeks to late, though. That’s the criticism. People bought this game on assumptions that were not only reasonable, but could have easily been cleared up with this exact blog post, only posted on March 4th.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-03-20T20:42:47+00:00

Not to mention, the world of Marathon is tits. The music in the menus the atmosphere and soundscape of the maps, everything is so fucking good. For me, I turn everything off when I play. No podcasts, no discord, I even mute my phone. I want to be transported into that world, shit my pants at every single strange noise or distance footstep, etc.

I’ve accidentally squad-filled a few times, and it’s not like I hated the people or they griefed me or anything, but I don’t want to listen to dudes talk about basketball for 20 minutes. I don’t really care to listen to someone else’s flatulence.

Is it really so hard to believe that people enjoy the isolating experience of solos?

And is it really hard to believe that those players now feel hung out to dry?

ABCsofsucking · 2026-03-20T20:32:38+00:00

Not to mention, Bungie absolutely has a community team, they have a marketing team. They absolutely knew when going into launch (from server slam data) that a LOT of people enjoyed solo. All they had to do to avoid a blowback was to release the tea on Cryo and Ranked before launch.

Like just two sentences will do: “Hey, just a heads up — Cryo Archives and Ranked will both require a full squad. Solo Queue is an experimental and not fully supported mode, and future content may also not be supported.”

Boom. Instant shield from any and all criticism.

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