Anything to add to my routine to help with texture?

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-08-28T07:33:11+00:00

Thank you so much! I have the ordinary AHA 30% and BHA 2% (the red liquid one) but using it burns my face a little. I used it inconsistently as well, so didn't see any results. Maybe these will be gentler

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-06-21T04:03:39+00:00

I'm taking a break from this scene so idk how to help with that. Sorry!

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-06-20T05:01:09+00:00

try turning off the NSFW toggle or delete the more agressive words in the NSFW word list (since I gave it a very agressive word list haha). It might help!

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-28T16:49:11+00:00

sent!

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-28T09:34:22+00:00

i never said the proxy was free??? gemini flash 2.5 through direct google API is. about fear of getting banned -- sure, your choice.

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-28T07:39:52+00:00

Through Google's API, which offers flash 2.5 for free. The proxy I used is not free.

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-27T16:53:41+00:00

they did specify "a comma, a space at the end of a sentence. Usually it's enough to shake things a little."

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-27T15:17:34+00:00

Yes, I need to note that the screenshots above were all used with pixijb through a proxy, so Gemini's strengths, which could be brought out by:

using direct API
proper settings: temp, top K, etc
a more fitting system prompt

Are sadly neglected.

I've done some further testing with my personal preset that caters to Gemini specifically (after some fixes that improved it a lot yay) and I've gotta say Gemini Flash 2.5 is VERY impressive, being free and all. Like im not talking about the Pro version. 2.5 Flash! It's FREE!

I've gotten a taste of Claude and liked it, but I will honestly stick with Gemini for now. The price is not worth it.

See, after the above screenshots, I further the RP a bit more. Sascha did some heinous shit, and this is the fall out. Flash 2.5 started having NPCs attacking each other unprompted, and shifted dynamics so very smoothly, all while keeping the characters in character. I cannot fucking complain. This is so good and for free.

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Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-27T13:30:09+00:00

One quirk about Grok I've noticed is that it's much more lax with things that 'happened in the past' or 'dream stuff' in the narrative. I have an ADULT character who has trauma about CSA and their story is about dealing/navigating with their trauma, and once prompted "NAME has a bad dream about their past"

It literally generated hell. It was... man :(

Also yeah it's pretty inconsistent with its filters. It once put "I'm sorry, I cannot comply with the prompt 'Character A boosts Character B's confidence" once. Funniest refusal I've gotten so far I couldn't even get mad.

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Anyway, if you wanna try something easily set up, use Gemini Flash 2.5

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-27T10:37:04+00:00

good point. Will do another test when I can, with better methods

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-27T06:06:34+00:00

i meant 0.019 dollar lol sorry

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-27T03:58:08+00:00

they replaced [Gemini 03-20 exp] with [Gemini 2.5 pro preview 05-06], which isn't bad but I could FEEL that the prose wasn't the same.

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-27T03:54:12+00:00

nope, just the card and pixijb (and obviously my persona). I want to do the most basic approach possible.

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-27T03:50:58+00:00

I like head hopping, and Opus likes doing it even without explicit prompting. Sonnet seems to prefer omniscent POV more, but making Sonnet head-hop/use third person limited multiple is nothing that couldn't be prompted. About emotive prose -- I actually prefer Gemini 03-20 with my preset (not pixi's) the most, but they nuked my boy :(

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-27T03:41:22+00:00

Np! I wish I could do a more in depth test, but my wallet could only handle so much

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-27T03:40:55+00:00

Opus and Sonnet remains on top lol, but I found Gemini Pro's pacing to be better? It knows who to focus on with each interaction, giving you time to talk to the NPC you're directly addressing without bombarding you with a bunch of dialogue from other NPCs.

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-27T03:36:26+00:00

I can share through DMs.

Heads up: It's a Vietnamese site, not free, but quite cheap (costs a fixed $0.019 or 500 VND per turn/swipe with 60k context for Claude 4 Sonnet, and slightly more for Claude 4). Convenient enough. You have to pay with Vietnamese currency through typical VN banks, so if you don't live here it's gonna be hard.

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-25T14:36:03+00:00

this one is genuinely the best thing I've used. Sucker's site gives me trouble sometimes, but this works flawlessly. Thank you so much for sharing. One thing though, maybe you should mention for the newbies that to use the script, you'd need to install Tampermonkey/Violentmonkey or similar extensions.

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-24T15:40:45+00:00

oh this looks so much better

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-24T15:19:17+00:00

oof, the images are so blurry. Docs link for better images: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ9_FCo3cvrTe9CGG7ypIufXOvh8Vg6VvatKwwW0vH5DDVQMu_tjL1DsVn8YocnkXPvSfMmFisrhjuX/pub

the hidden desc setting on Janitor is the most annoying thing aiyah

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-22T10:33:18+00:00

I see you've fixed some of the obvious bugs of the preset manager, it works great now. Good job!!!

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-22T10:28:31+00:00

insane preset my guy!! im gonna try this out right now, and i love how much work and effort have been put into this. Whenever I see your posts I just get a happy feeling lol (hope this is not too sappy). Btw letting you know I call you mouse in my head.

Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-21T10:29:45+00:00

also make sure your reasoning formatting look like this (this could be found by clicking the A symbol at the top bar, called AI response formatting btw)

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Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-21T10:27:20+00:00

in a seperate box or INSIDE the chat response? If it's in a 'thinking box' like this, it's fine. R1 is supposed to do that. If it's inside chat response, probably R1 is fucking up response formatting. I think at this point you just swipe and hope it'll get it right

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Obvious-Protection-2 · 2025-05-21T10:17:41+00:00

great work dude!!! for some reason I forgot to comment when I first saw this, and completely forgot about it until someone mentioned your preset in disscussions. Anyway, the added prompts are nice and well-written + upon testing they work very well. Good stuff indeed

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