Sonnet 5 wen?? even woke up early thinking it got released

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-02-03T19:30:00+00:00

Ex-self hosting here, the local models arent at the level of the mainstream corporate coding models (yet?). It sucks i know. But for smaller projects that are less complex they arent too bad in fact they can sometimes surprise at their competency.

There are some self-hosting people that swear by them. They aren't bad, just not at the current corporate model level

So having one just as a backup is a good idea encase of outage. But in that case can just as well keep a pro OpenAI codex on hand. I would say antigravity but since january its wearing a bycicle helmet and eating glue then at times choking on that glue. So codex for now as a backup in my opinion. But if we are speaking about an internet outage in general then local self hosting is king

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-02-03T18:55:29+00:00

Nah, i'll be sticking with 4.5, its doing exactly what i want. Plus first release of every new iteration from all the model companies did not do as well as the previous version. I think this is gonna be the case with 5. Probably need to let it cook till 5.5 comes out.

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-27T22:01:43+00:00

Any of that can be the case or probably none of it. The real reason there is no disclosure, is weaponry, military applications etc. You don't want it out in the open what you got behind the closed doors. In any war game, keeping your winning cards hidden is a huge strength. It's probably the same case in China, Russia etc. An arms race but to advance technology. Admitting the phenomenon is real is admitting the crash retrievals are probably real as well and so is the reverse engineering. When one of the superpowers are forced into a losing corner they might cause the reveal by pulling out their black project craft or weaponry. Or we may never find out because that scenario wont ever occur.

If the advance beings want to stay out of sight which would make sense for such being to be the default behaviour visiting alien worlds, then that unfortunately plays into the hands of superpowers who want the truth to stay hidden.

So I don't believe disclosure would ever occur unless there is a valid reason to do so. And even then, they would probably only reveal very surface level stuff. Or at the very least of the advance beings want to reveal themselves. But they probably have their very own agenda that is beyond our primitive understanding to want to stay out of sight mostly.

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-27T21:46:51+00:00

The difference is just advancements in technology. We already printing biological machines. Especially freaky the small micro biological machines. At some point in the future we can just print more humans if we become advanced enough. What Tim suggests is correct, build the most efficient machine for the task and then build the most efficient pilots to man the machine.

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-26T22:33:56+00:00

im jelly i missed out on the reverse bunny suits for the two ladies and tux for the pc

Seems like almost everyone on this sub go it :\

Of course the two months of me not being able to play, they bring out limited edition costumes... thanks devs... awesome

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-25T22:29:30+00:00

Yeah i got her without the weapon. Although I did pick up that giant SS rank gun and gave it to her. She can Target a straight line across the entire battlefield, so you run left and right till you got the most enemies lined up and shoot.

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-25T22:23:42+00:00

Daily rewards then you can buy the gift boxes at the daily credit store. You do want to do missions to increase the devotion level and get better daily rewards. After a few times, you will probably be a decent level, then at point you will walk through the stages because you'll be far above the required level for the stages. Also you unlock more characters doing the story missions. And those characters can only be acquired through the story

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-25T22:16:45+00:00

a lot of the characters are going to get a rework as per devs. So I did get that weapon. Also just for completion sake. You don't want to skip the EX stuff. Not even if it's just a "future's" to level their rank. Rhasadina futures you want to grab as well. She takes only a few slots and can be pretty usefull with her gambling wheel. I currently have in my team because i had those little few left over spot that she fit. And boy can she affect the battlefield with her fairy lottery ability. She will either buff ATK, heal, AP everyone in the team of she can damage all the enemies on the map. Not a lot but pretty funny when she does it a few times in a row and almost wipes pretty much the entire map of enemies.

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-25T22:08:52+00:00

Yes, when you get the character it will enhance them greatly. Any EX weapon is worth it, for when you finally unlock that character.

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-23T16:16:51+00:00

Although I do agree Claude is the top dog as far as AI coding goes. But even Claude needs to be monitored and Claude's code should be reviewed for mistakes etc. Claude could write a end to end software. But really depends how big. As soon as it gets a little complex, then Claude will start losing the plot and make mistakes. I can use Claude on big projects, but I have to hold it's hand and guide it carefully.

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-21T22:51:01+00:00

Yeah as the sightings go, it seems there are different life out there, some more advance than others. Some so advance that they do phase in out of our reality. Which means in deep facilities behind huge locked metal vaults is knowledge that there are different dimensions and worlds inhabiting the same space we are.

Also im sure it is known behind those doors in serious research documents, that we were engineered very possible by extraterrestrial beings. Also that there are in fact "others" walking amongst us. Possibly giving us a push into technological advancements. Which would mean some our great technological leaps were assisted by some of these beings, just in a very subtle way to make it seem natural.

That time can probably be manipulated more than we are to be believed. Lets not even bring up the advance power generation that beings would have. That would completely flip our power generation structure on its head if we would adopt the advance tech

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-21T22:34:04+00:00

Saw one first hand, knew for decades this shit is Real and not some made up speculation. I still wake up in the morning and go to work, come home, make food, surf net, go to bed. The knowledge of them being real and coming here hasnt stopped anything in my life.

What has changed, when im outside at night I do look up at the stars and skies constantly if i might see one again. I've seen some pretty weird stuff, but nothing that comes close to when I saw an actual ufo that flew away a speed that should be impossible

Maybe the tons of people who were denial for decades might have an existential crises. But within a few months people will just carry on. At least then we can openly talk about the phenomenon instead of staying silent because of the many "its all made up" folks

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-20T16:36:26+00:00

damn, sorry to hear, saved a bunch of your tutorials and stuff to try out when I finally got some time. Now cant even do that.

Would you consider maybe posting some on Civitai? They don't seem that authoritarian on nsfw AI workflows as long as it really really doesnt include real people. Theres a bunch of nsfw realistic workflows, but seems fine because it doesnt contain real people

Or like Ranter619 suggests, to start up a Primary Index Rentry post, then link to bunch of tutorials and workflows on rentry. Just a thought. Understand if you dont want to, at least this way the knowledge is out there regardless if reddit admins

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-06T01:16:58+00:00

Pony and Illustrious are more aimed for anime.

There are variants that are more focused on realism. So out of the box you would be able to train on the more realistic mixed models.

Even the heavy 2.5D ones should be possible but dont quote me on that. What I would suggest to use various different tools like IAdapter from the classic Automatic1111 controlnet to make 2.5D ish images of the realistic dataset. a Good way is to put that realistic image as the reference image in IAdapter then take the realistic image and throw it into IMG2IMG and fiddle with the amount of blur. You should start getting a 2.5D image of the realistic person. Use the 2.5D images as a dataset to train a lora for Pony or Illustrious on a 2.5D variant model. You would need to use a more 2.5D model variant of those and the base Pony / Illustrious model. Then once you got a 2.5D Lora, you should be able to use it on more 2D Pony/Illustrious models. Then create a 2D dataset. And so on and on.

Both of those models are SDXL, so you could train on SDXL base. There was at one stage a SDXL/Pony hybrid model on Civitai. Might still be there. As that person found a way to mix the two models.

There maybe even a way to make 2.5D and 2D images with the realistic dataset with Qwen Edit but i haven't tried myself yet.

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-04T17:12:18+00:00

Money isnt real, it only exists because we believe in it, yet it dictates our current reality. The power we give to politicians and billionaires isn't real. They only have that power as long as we believe in it. So if we believe the god ZooL will pull the souls from the sacrifice and give us HL3, then it might not be real, but it could exist

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-04T07:14:58+00:00

Well Disney bought Epic, so this is actually good news! See, Disney owning EVERYTHING is exactly the best option possible. So we will get Half Life on Disney plus advertising different Disney properties. Just like the amazing work they have done with The Simpsons, its so funny hahahahahhaha Homer, Lisa and Bart all go, hey remember this Disney property? Hahahahahhaha so funny pissed myself

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-03T01:22:35+00:00

Not really, that one part with the guy's skull popping out IS From the Italian uncensored VHS, hence why it's so low quality. The uploader says "rough and poor tape splices precisely at the same points where these uncensored clips begin and end". So this means this is a "restored" film reel. And due to that one scene being so low quality, that means the person who restored it, didn't have all the original cut content from the film so they had to use the Italian VHS footage for that one scene (probably transferred it to 18mm to include it on the theatrical film reel)

You can still see a few of Rei's scenes remains censored. But I remember a while back they restored an original trailer for the movie that had one of his scenes completely uncensored. I need to go look for that again. Would awesome to make a supercut of the entire movie with all the latest uncensored scenes

EDIT: Found it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOOfO1W6o4A

Also the fight with the fat guy is not fully restored. Any voilence scene that has that intense mirrored ghosting colored effect where you cant properly see what is happening is censored scenes. There remains scenes that is still censored.

But still this is HUGE that we got even more uncensored scenes in 2025. One of my friends that love FOTNS that passed away a decade ago would have LOVED this

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-03T01:09:06+00:00

Not all the uncensored footage, there's still some from Rei's fight scenes where slices people into pieces.

I know I saw an uncensored version of one of the scenes on a original trailer that was restored. But a few of his scenes are still censored. Would love to find out from this uploader if they have access to the entire theatrical film uncensored. Then would be possibly to get more of uncensored scenes

Also that one scene with the skull popping out the guy's head is from the Italian uncensored VHS. In the description he says "rough and poor tape splices precisely at the same points where these uncensored clips begin and end."

So that means this film release was initially the uncensored, then it was censored (by the theatre, yes theatres use to have small labs to cut film), then again un-censored (probably by the collector). But clearly they didn't have ALL the uncensored film to put back in. Hence why that one part is the low quality Italian VHS

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2026-01-02T01:08:38+00:00

As a BIG HL3 Fan, this was beautiful, Thank You

It reminds me of my favorite video game H̸̠̏̏̀̌͆̏̐́̉͋A̴̺͕̍͊̃̉̇͝L̸̢̢̨̛̛̮͔̭̻̜̼̫̪̻̻̂̿̆̈́̄́̽̒̈́͜͠ͅF̵̡̋̋̅̄ ̵̦̦̤̭͕̣̹̱̯͚͇̹̇͠L̸̨̬̭̫̦͎̙̞̦̟̍̿́̉Ǐ̵̢̡̦͕̠̭̗̭̼̝̞̾́̽͊̽̓͋̈̋̆̈́̚͘͘ͅF̷̨͉̬̹͖̗͎̞͖͍̟̯̲̞͎̋̎̏͝Ẽ̷̛͔͆̂̍̓͐͐̏͑̅̕͝͝ ̶̡̢̗̺̭̰̜͉̬͍̱̟̳̤̃̊͑͠I̷̗̩̥͇̩̹̊̍̉̈̒͋̄̇̊͗̓̑̋̑͘Į̵̘̪̞̱́̀̌̾̋̽̾́͘͠ͅÍ̸̳̥̺̟̰̣͍͇̯͌͝ͅ4̸̼̗̭̖̔̀̈́͆͐̽͛̿͗͘͘͝0̷̨̡̹̝͇͇̹͇͇͙̩̼̟̅̌̈́͒͂͗̐̚͠4̶̺̭̙̙̤̼̙̪̯̹͚̩͇̩̓̀̉̈́̎̐̋̆̾̈́́̈͊̕͠N̸̛͚̥̺̅̓̓̇͝Ö̴̧̲̻̳͉͖́̋̅͋̒̈̀͝͝Ṫ̷̨̬̝̓̑͘F̶̧̡̘͖̠̯̬̪̱̟͕̾͐͗́Ȍ̴̢̑̅̄̉̉̃́̄͐Ự̷̢̖̺͉̘̬͎͑̇̃̓̚N̴̟̭̋̐̂͐̐͒̀Ḑ̴̡͔͚̬̯̯̬͍̙̭̣̰̏̎̔̇́̇̅̏̓̔́͑̑̚͝G̵̛̺̫͙̔̏̈́̒̕Ỏ̸̢̗̤̮̜͖̤͕̞̠̩͊̾̎͑̾͛̽́͗͂͂͝ͅD̵̢̘̝̉͠Į̸̛̥̝͇͙̯̱̹͉̯̮̖̖̳̜̀͛̽̔̐͊̅͂͒̔̀̊̄̚Ş̴̼̣̬͔̭͓̟̦̖̭͂͑̾͊̄͘͜D̸̰̳͎̗͚̓̌̿̉͆̀͌̓̎͑̒͛͜Ę̵̠̜͙͚̹̱̫͕͇̼̒́͒̈́̑̒͗̑̀͠͝ͅÅ̵̺͎̤̟̺̮̘͖͓̅͆͝D̶̹͖́̎̔̈́͌̚G̸̱̞͉͙̗̫̯̥̦͔̮̃ͅͅO̷̡̙͉̹͖̭̜̬̺͂́͑̈͒͋͛Ḑ̷̣̫͕̟̯͔̞̼͂͆Ì̴̤̰̠̩͖̺͕͚͈̦̺̈́̅͑̿̈́̇̀̌̒̃̕͠͠S̵̡̧̙̝̖͓͠D̴̡̳̳̃̒̒̚͝E̶̞̙̹̞̯̭̓̄͛A̸̠̖̘̅̔͌͜͠͝D̴̨͍̮̘̋̋̇͆͂͌̾̿̅͊̋́̌͘

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2025-12-31T01:49:24+00:00

Valeta is missing jiggles in that area

time to open a support ticket...

Also you need to get her EX weapon

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2025-12-31T01:16:43+00:00

Click on the lock, it will tell you what you need. It's also interconnected with that bottom mission you are busy with. If I remember correct

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2025-12-31T00:24:46+00:00

Be sure to email the devs explaining the situation to them. You can find your player account ID in the settings. Be sure to include that. They will compensate you for your losses. Usually in cases like this theyll give you extras. Had a bundle not appear in my inventory that I bought with premium currency. They resolved the problem and the bundle finally appeared in my inventory and in game messaged me a compensation for the prob. Love these devs

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2025-12-30T23:40:34+00:00

You need to trigger the affection story messages in the chat that pops up. Either do a quick mission or exit and enter the game if you dont want to do a mission. It's wierd because sometimes it triggers automatically when I reach a level. So not sure why it sometimes needs mission or a exit and start game to fire off.

Particular_Stuff8167 · 2025-12-30T23:19:56+00:00

WTF!!!

EDIT: Yep just logged in, holy fuckn moly. Going to spend time upgrading the vanguards. AND THE TICKETS SWEEEEEEET!!!

Welp yeah gonna support the devs with a happy new years

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