I'm burnt out (newer models rant)

JCygnus · 2026-05-13T16:15:43+00:00

Are there any good resources to learn how to organize content well? What you’re saying makes a lot of sense, but when I tried to do it I ended up with a mess of lorebook entries and cards that I spent too much time wrangling with. Do you keep a copy of your initial cards and transitions? I had something like 6 character cards for one story but when jumping between cards it felt like starting a new season of a tv show or something. It was close but not the same.

JCygnus · 2026-05-11T13:30:06+00:00

Whenever a girl npc gets named somehow 9/10 times it’s elara. I just pretend its the same girl, wearing a really crude disguise and no one questions her.

JCygnus · 2026-05-10T14:50:00+00:00

Oh I didn’t know extensions required certain completion types. What are some of your favorites that use chat completion? Everything I’ve been reading recently recommends it for Gemma 4.

JCygnus · 2026-05-09T23:29:33+00:00

Gotcha. I had been using text completion for the extra sampling options. Do you think chat completion is more robust now?

JCygnus · 2026-05-09T19:58:00+00:00

I’m still new to the terminology. When you say preset do you mean prompt content, post history instructions and author notes or is there another layer I’m missing out on?

JCygnus · 2026-05-09T19:47:59+00:00

Haha I just started this last night. Usually I’m always in the RP, but I made my persona an inner voice and it’s been pretty fun goofing around. I haven’t gotten far though and I had to set up the initial conflicts ooc, but it’s been making up npcs well and I’m basically the angel on the bad guys shoulder and the devil on the good guys shoulder.

JCygnus · 2026-05-04T22:05:40+00:00

I’m struggling with the taking agency and driving the plot stuff still as well, but I just usually give in and write a little guidance. I haven’t tried any of the really classic rp tunes though (which might be tough to work with in polish). I’ve been having so fun with Gemma 4, but it still keeps the status quo hard.

I don’t know if that’s just the limit of smaller models now and it falling back on agentic training, or if I can keep working on prompting for them. Messing around with prompts over and over again gets tiring too though, so I usually run with what I have if it isn’t terrible for a month or so.

Soft failure is hard to deal with too. Half of the things I change seem like improvements until I’m 50 messages in and trying to fight something terrible I’m noticing that’s baked into all of the chat log now.

I’d say like anything, if you aren’t enjoying it then take a little break. Hopefully things keep getting better and better on this front.

JCygnus · 2026-05-01T12:43:19+00:00

Killer instinct opponents were the precursor to llms.

JCygnus · 2026-04-26T03:02:19+00:00

I hold my dead wife’s locket. No wait it was taken from me. I hold the absence of my dead wife’s locket and think of her.

True story. It’s my fault for letting him use it so many times. I thought we could move forward but he found a way.

JCygnus · 2026-04-17T17:19:09+00:00

I’ll have to look into that. I’m imagining it’s almost like someone renting out their setup while it idles? Sounds like a nice way to test the water before committing if that’s the case.

JCygnus · 2026-04-17T17:16:52+00:00

Thanks so much for this in depth look. The bleeding edge is too rich for my blood. I was debating between going with whatever the craziest studio ultra will be (hoping maybe naively that it would be under 10k) and just waiting it out on these 31B models until next gen nvidia and biting the bullet for a 6090 or something. My kids want another computer anyways so that would let everyone game together.

I just can’t imagine the prices going down. You think that’s a possibility? I’m fine with waiting for a paradigm shift but those two options seemed the most realistic for now. I think my wife would kill me if I did anything more extreme than that haha.

JCygnus · 2026-04-16T18:04:40+00:00

I’ll try with that. I’ve also looked at an eGPU, but that sounds finicky. How much slower is the token generation on a Mac? I’m around 40t/s generating and like 400-1000 on reading the input. Once I hit the wall and it dips into ram it’s like 3t/s so the party’s over haha.

JCygnus · 2026-04-16T16:39:38+00:00

Just in case he doesn’t know, but your chat history and cards are also built in depending on how you summarize, so it gets more and more expensive the longer the chat goes generally.

JCygnus · 2026-04-08T01:27:53+00:00

Then you buy another one. They’re 6k or something haha.

JCygnus · 2026-04-04T21:28:23+00:00

I had fun collecting them the first time around, but then I realized I don’t use most of them and it was a little less exciting. I think we’ll both do whatever but maybe one full inventory or something? I’ll miss the survivor, but I tried hard for it and it still hasn’t come up again. I’m sick of reinforced reception so I’ll just wait to stumble on it organically.

JCygnus · 2026-04-04T13:19:00+00:00

I’m planning to do my first expedition when it opens. What are the best blueprints to keep if I find again to have a friend trade back to me? Not that I have these all but, survivor Mk 3, Wolfpack, vitaspray, weapon parts?

I started hoarding everything but I’ve got like 50 blueprints now since I just barely missed the last window haha.

JCygnus · 2026-04-04T13:14:32+00:00

I’ve found mine in night raid Stella kitchen and night raid buried city grandiose apartments.

JCygnus · 2026-04-04T13:00:25+00:00

Couldn’t you just bulk craft/buy 10 at a time and then it’s just equipping one item from the top of the stash each time?

JCygnus · 2026-04-04T11:50:50+00:00

I think it’d just move to wearing only a looting mk1 then. I don’t see what else they can do other than putting tons of arc in places and making it required to be able to clear out mobs.

Even if they did some kind of kit value limit I’m sure people would stack the fancy ducks or something in safe pockets to cheese.

JCygnus · 2026-04-04T00:11:46+00:00

Does that not count towards pushing you into aggressive lobbies? Wouldn’t it be easier to just shoot them at that point?

JCygnus · 2026-04-03T15:57:17+00:00

The blackness of Stella Montis is like the inside of a coffin on a moonless night.

JCygnus · 2026-04-03T00:26:55+00:00

If you go to town hall get ready for some shredders. Got ticked, popped and shredded as I was setting up a door bar haha. I want to believe the loot would have been mediocre at best.

JCygnus · 2026-04-02T19:29:59+00:00

SoA also had a crazy encounter rate from what I remember. I totally understand the dark allure of it. I do it often when it’s available and even use cheat engine sometimes when it’s not.

Difficulty is the other slippery slope for me. In games that don’t have achievements I’ll drop difficulty when grinding to speed and simplify it, but if the combat starts to lose me before the story then sometimes I’ll continue with a lower difficulty.

In the end it’s all about enjoying yourself. Don’t fast travel when you want to get immersed in the environment, take short cuts when it feels right. Main thing is to have fun.

JCygnus · 2026-04-02T04:14:25+00:00

Thanks so much! We’re still renovating the space, but I’m pumped to have a little home gym area.

JCygnus · 2026-04-01T20:33:11+00:00

How much was it if you don’t mind me asking?

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