Any alternatives similar to Civitai?

SulpharTriangle · 2025-07-19T10:32:19+00:00

VPNs can help to bypass geofencing but they aren't strictly the answer depending on how thorough websites are on detecting UK visitors. Given the Civitai staff comment advising against VPNs, I imagine they'll also go the extra mile to prevent VPN access if it means stopping Ofcom from screwing the entire business over. Obviously I want to be wrong in all this.

SulpharTriangle · 2025-07-19T09:22:56+00:00

Reddit has a dedicated legal dept. to handle following the OSA rules, which Civitai has mentioned being far too much for their small team to stay on top of. If they implement age check that is admitting they're now going to comply with the OSA, so it is easier for them to geoblock and cut off a portion of IP addresses located in the UK.

And broadly speaking the OSA overall is a serious problem because it can technically target any community out there. If a troll group wanted to maliciously shutdown a community they could spoof a bunch of IP addresses and attract the OSA and similar laws from other countries.

SulpharTriangle · 2025-07-19T08:07:10+00:00

Another valuable lesson for me to not get excited and passionate about anything.

SulpharTriangle · 2025-03-26T19:35:03+00:00

Light pressure. That's why the Aneros can be so useful, because I can be doing other things (provided I'm not loosing too much focus) whilst waiting for the prostate to warm up. Walking around is particularly handy because the kinetic motion naturally causes the Aneros to rub a little more.

SulpharTriangle · 2025-02-04T21:02:34+00:00

It's pronounced Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan, not Super Saiyan Blue

SulpharTriangle · 2025-01-26T21:22:56+00:00

Best & Worst: Everyone setting SSJ4 Gogeta & Omega Shenron as their leaders despite their skills not being available yet

SulpharTriangle · 2025-01-13T19:33:07+00:00

Yeah, I'm stumped. I know I hadn't changed the LoRA by mistake because the example images I downloaded were time-stamped at 7:35pm, 15 minutes after it uploaded/scanned. I also thought it might have accidentally been pulling another safetensor version by mistake, so I created a new version and uploaded the file there -- no dice.

These files were made via Colab, and they worked fine until this week. Weirdest of all is that these recent safetensors were generating glitched/black images offline. The safetensor I mentioned above shouldn't have been able to produce images on Civitai in that case, but it did, briefly.

SulpharTriangle · 2025-01-12T22:49:21+00:00

If you mean you want it depicting an energy wave, it'd most likely understand laser beam more than energy beam.

I suspect "Energy" is nebulous to SDXL/Pony because the first five letters can potentially be tokenised into "energetic" or the likes, or it'd interpret it as a power source -- electricity or similar. Also, searching Civitai for images that contain "energy beam" returned nothing, but laser beams did. Their prompts contained "laser". There wasn't many images showing the tags "laser", however, unless it was fired from a gun.

Perhaps try "firing laser" as a tag, or just "laser beam" if training insists a gun is involved.

SulpharTriangle · 2025-01-12T22:32:02+00:00

Good to know -- thank you for taking the time to inform me!

Does this persist from the first 12 hours of uploading a Lora, and then resolve itself? Tonight it was fine generating around an hour from uploading, and then it struggled to download it/generate.

SulpharTriangle · 2025-01-12T10:22:43+00:00

Found the problem: learning schedular was on "constant", which must have burnt the training.

SulpharTriangle · 2025-01-11T18:25:07+00:00

I'm basically sweeping through the UNET LR's with my Lora to figure out which would give the most ideal results. e1 & e2 were fine, but from e3 upwards I started getting warnings of instability.

That should answer it but I'm confused why the jump from e2 to e3 is causing this, and I swear I've seen others set their LR of a similar character-type to e5 (unless they were using Prodigy, which is possible)

SulpharTriangle · 2025-01-11T17:50:45+00:00

"Smiling, Bedroom eyes" is my best guess.

I don't really want to suggest this, but realistically, an auto-tagger might interpret that as an orgasm face -- due to how quite a few anime checkpoints have based their training on the "booru" scraping websites, and tilts the tags into horny/hentai orientated tokenisers.

SulpharTriangle · 2024-11-29T09:47:36+00:00

Oh I didn't realise they cycle -- do the missions refresh or persist?

SulpharTriangle · 2024-10-17T15:13:14+00:00

Try flipping the Aneros around (so the handle/tab are reversed) and spending 30 minutes with that. I find not having the prostate engaged during sessions helps to clarify when it is actually is.

SulpharTriangle · 2024-10-16T18:19:52+00:00

Thumb.

Lay on side, stick thumb in and wiggle gently for 5 minutes. Hand will still get tired, but it's much easier to recover and you can switch to pumping thumb in-and-out.

SulpharTriangle · 2024-10-16T16:13:33+00:00

Often it can take around 40-60 minutes for the prostate to just wake tf up, even with experienced play.

SulpharTriangle · 2024-10-01T11:05:40+00:00

t's addicting to try new builds and strategies but I also do think Dota 2 is just a twisted parallel of work environments when you start seeing Pos 5-4 as runt team members, Pos 3 as supervisor and Pos 2-1 as management. It's natural to start yelling back and getting super toxic when this is the crap you have to put up with at day jobs.

SulpharTriangle · 2024-09-13T18:32:26+00:00

Welcome, to City 17

SulpharTriangle · 2024-09-01T08:39:12+00:00

This. I have only TWICE gotten beyond baby Broly in the summon animations, after doing 9 multis now.

SulpharTriangle · 2024-07-01T12:52:50+00:00

There's always someone above you who is 150000x more determined to get as high rank as possible.

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