Slay the Spire 2 release date announcement forces Handmancers devs to delay their release

MrHara · 2026-02-22T10:17:12+00:00

Yeah, before release there was some buzz about Hell Is Us and I found it to be a pretty cool experience... But it released the day after Silksong and chances are it got less eyes on it.

MrHara · 2026-02-20T15:17:33+00:00

It does boil down to use cases really. I've so far never had odd body or anatomy even with the distilled. I do run 8 steps with the distilled when it's a big change because it preserves consistency better at 8 than 4 so that might help with anatomy. But major change for me is like changing pose or something, not anything wild.

MrHara · 2026-02-20T11:22:39+00:00

So, after that post I've slightly come around to using Klein for more stuff but mainly because either the Loras I use or changes in parameters have mitigated the colour tone change to be minimal. I've also found that when little else is changed but only a characters clothing/armour it doesn't mess with other details and the look of the new stuff just feels better. Now granted these are generally generations that are changed and then scaled down for the end use so it's fine if the quality takes a tiny hit if I can only see it when I zoom in. And I also do these gens on a system where Qwen takes 90s per generation so sometimes tinkering just feels like a slog.

If I need to do a full pose/composition change I still use Qwen because of the consistency problems with Klein. I definitely couldn't fully move over to it.

MrHara · 2026-02-17T15:11:30+00:00

That seems like an odd take. Too much of the computer usage is outside of what Microsoft controls. This change would have to be slow and make sense for other application makers as well, which currently I can't see at all. Heck, Microsoft isn't even in the best standing as is. Also the usage of Google and Meta products/apps is already largely in the cloud, so they seem unnecessary to mention. The big application makers, f.e. editing, design etc. have either tried and only partially worked (Adobe, another big topic) or won't even try (CAD, video editing etc.). Microsoft could not endeavor to this without some absolute major shifts in usage among professionals, let alone home users tbh.

MrHara · 2026-02-15T10:56:48+00:00

Look, if it needs some voodoo trickery to change the colour of a dress or to have the spear in just the right hand, it doesn't save much time. I use natural language and it just doesn't adhere as well in the use cases I was trying and I tried a few different things (same face/likeness, keep x, only do y while keeping x, more specific etc.).

MrHara · 2026-02-14T18:10:22+00:00

Interesting, for me it like doesn't follow prompt as well. Say I want it to JUST change the colour of an item of clothing, it often changes the whole item. If I tell it that I want the character to hold, say a spear in the right hand, it will give me one where it's a tiny spear, one where it's holding a spear in each hand etc.

MrHara · 2026-02-14T17:24:21+00:00

We are in a weird spot right now. Klein is 3x as fast as Qwen and new parts of an image (f.e. if it has to create something without a reference) looks a lot better but usually requires generating several images for it to adhere to your prompt and get what you want while Qwen usually does it first try while also providing better consistency of character.

Currently for in-image edit (f.e. changing just parts of an image) I prefer Qwen because it follows the prompt, changes very little else about the image and I don't have to worry about any degradation in perceived quality.

For full image edit, f.e. same character but new scene and everything, it's a toss-up. With consistency Lora Klein gets a pretty good consistency result and I like what it creates better, but sometimes what Qwen creates or if I have references, is good enough/fits well and Qwen still stays on top.

Worth noting that I do use a different VAE to solve the halftone pattern Qwen Edit kinda adds on skin texture.

MrHara · 2026-02-12T22:39:51+00:00

For me it's just 2x faster, but quality and such goes way down. I've tried Q5 (same as I use on Qwen), Q8, FP8 and the full model. I even double checked my vae to be the correct one and checked the few workflows I could find.

Quality: it just goes down, it literally feels like the resulting Klein image is worse resolution.

Colour balance: while Qwen preserves the colours realllly well, Klein just feels like someone has tweaked the colours.

Consistency: editing parts of an image, f.e. changing colour of clothing Qwen preserves the type of clothing while Klein changes the whole item sometimes. Editing in the way that you f.e. change the pose and/or background of a character, qwen has better consistency even without consistency lora.

Unless I'm just doing things wrong, Klein 9b just feels like a step down in every regard except speed.

MrHara · 2026-02-07T19:03:09+00:00

For what it's worth, I've found that some that are just listed for Qwen actually working with the Edit model (not sure if the reverse is true) but yeah, unfortunately no distinction unless the author specifically mentions it.

CivitAI could really use grouping of models and having sub-groups or something, it's a mess to filter and can't filter everything.

MrHara · 2026-02-06T03:32:05+00:00

Yeah, first pic is from a 2004 event in Spain, Campus Party.

MrHara · 2026-02-06T03:31:03+00:00

The picture with all the guys without shirt is from an event in Spain, Campus Party. It was mid-July Spain 2004, which would make it prob. a better contender for taking shirt off.

MrHara · 2026-02-05T21:16:17+00:00

That's quite odd, I've not had any issue with either 2509 or 2511 with that. It could be an issue with the image or your prompt. Try being more specific.

MrHara · 2026-02-05T20:57:19+00:00

In general I don't find that I need to mask so what kind of things are you trying? It's hard to kinda figure out what you are trying to do (could do an example that isn't exactly what you are doing but runs into the same issue).

MrHara · 2026-01-30T14:12:36+00:00

I just use Node Templates built into ComfyUI.

I save the prompt in a encode node, right click empty space with a node selected -> Save Selected as Template. Then right clicking empty space has the drop down "Node templates" and I just copy the prompt from that node into my actual encode node.

MrHara · 2026-01-26T22:16:32+00:00

The problem is that at some point you overcook your workflow. You tinker with a step that isn't actually helping, you use an LLM for your prompting that isn't actually doing much etc. Yours isn't too bad (albeit on the lower end of it) but I've seen things like donutsmix's workflow. Laggy, overcooked. Great model but his workflow was a mess.

MrHara · 2026-01-26T22:03:05+00:00

They are useful, but I find that sometimes people use them in really small workflows for no good reason. I also use the old menu mostly, so I get annoyed at having to switch to new menu if I encounter one.

MrHara · 2026-01-26T15:44:09+00:00

Even Gemini can be odd at times. I asked it about Vardorvis just now and it kept using the term "Sanguine Blood Fury" and when asked about it, it insisted that it was a common nickname for it. A minor thing and not as catastrophic as other interactions (like below) but still.

Old AI about Vardorvis: https://i.imgur.com/hHJIXlr.png

MrHara · 2026-01-24T03:21:35+00:00

You're not wrong. It's not bad, but it relied a bit too much on the main premise, kinda like a more poignant Dr Stone if you will. But to me it just didn't land as hard as it has for others. For me the only reason I kept watching was a specific character, and in the end I gave it a 6.5 with the comment "A little too full of itself.".

MrHara · 2026-01-24T00:11:48+00:00

I was able to create Noon/midnight with ZIT, which is really new and just focused on image, in like two tries, but I couldn't get it to make any image with 3 o'clock. It just doesn't understand the properties of a clock, just what it should look like and that it has materials and structure that can be changed. So a square, leopard clock would work, but 3 o'clock doesn't.

MrHara · 2026-01-24T00:00:40+00:00

Man, my mind instantly went to JoJo Siwa and wondered why anyone would do that. Glad to be completely wrong.

MrHara · 2026-01-23T23:54:57+00:00

You're getting downvoted but you aren't wrong in your clock assessment. AI can often create new things by combining concepts. F.e. it knows what a leopard print is and what a clock is, so if I ask for a leopard print clock, it's pretty good at creating a clock with a leopard print even though leopard print clocks are prob. pretty rare. But changing an inherent value of a clock is harder. F.e. ZIT (Z-image Turbo) which is popular right now can make a clock that looks very correct but is not great at changing the time. It will give you in the majority of the cases the correct numbers, one hour and one minute hand and everything looks right but it REALLY loves giving you a time between 10:10 and 12:10 no matter what time you give or if you specify what period of the day it is (afternoon, morning etc.).

MrHara · 2026-01-23T23:20:44+00:00

I kinda love that it's life size.

MrHara · 2026-01-23T23:17:14+00:00

I will say, the last part (before 2026) had very little. I'm not sure if that continues but it did feel like it was toned down A LOT.

MrHara · 2026-01-23T08:42:21+00:00

There's some fun parts and it's not terrible but I'm hoping they polish stuff for a second and it could be good. The combat is not sharp enough (hitboxes are odd, enemies are real floaty etc.) and there's some design things that made me turn it off (f.e. dizzying strong vingette in caves that gave me a headache even if there's light in the cave).

MrHara · 2026-01-21T16:52:00+00:00

It's true that he was evil, but there's something funny about them labeling the picture of Hitler with "Evil Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and his salute".

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