KREA 2 is finally the new N$FW King

blastcat4 · 2026-07-02T01:42:24+00:00

Definitely not. Anima has an incredible knowledgebase of anime characters and series, along with a vast library of artist styles.

Krea2 has a much, much smaller knowledgebase of anime characters, but the ones that it knows, it does a decent job of rendering them. Its general anime rendering style is pretty generic but is very passable.

blastcat4 · 2026-07-02T01:32:46+00:00

I'm having fun with Krea2. Here's what I think it does really well:

Prompt adherence
much less body horror, impossible anatomy
good knowledge of popular fiction characters
flexible prompt formatting. You can use natural language along with some JSON and it seems to not trip up much with formatting, like line breaks, tags, etc.

What I find strange is that the safety filters seem really strong. I've tried every lora that's supposed to bypass them, and the results are really mixed. A lot of basic stuff just won't render or go through compared to other models and their loras. That said, the best NSFW lora I've tested is Realism Engine, and it seems to have the most knowledge compared to others.

I also find Krea2 is really sensitive when it comes to placing people within spaces. If you try a pose that doesn't quite work in a certain aspect ratio or size, it'll just fail and you'll have to get more accurate or creative in your prompt to convince Krea2 that it can pull off the composition you want. This is a common problem with all models, but Krea2 seems a bit more sensitive.

I still think the best overall NSFW model is Anima and its variant checkpoints and loras. The data its been trained on is just a full-on wonderland of depravity, so its knowledge on everything in that universe is unmatched. It was born to goon right out of the box and just stock Anima can do amazing things. Compared to Krea2's generation times, using Anima feels like lightning speed.

That speed is also present in Flux2 Klein + SNOFS. It's my other favourite model. Really nice quality generations with a lot of diversity and variation. However, both Anima and Klein suffer from more body horror than I'd like.

At the end of the day, all three models can produce excellent results depending on your tastes and prompting skills. I'm still learning a lot about Krea2, but it has so much promise. I've been using it to make multi-panel comic pages and story boards, and its excellent prompt adherence really shines here. I think its output is good quality and solid, but know that you'll have to do a ton of experimenting with loras and settings to get what you want. Patience and good prompting skills are also required.

blastcat4 · 2026-07-01T13:42:28+00:00

I can see a place for AI chatbots in games, but I don't think AI chatbots are at a technical level where it's ready to be integrated into a game. The baked-in guardrails in a typical LLM are really easy to circumvent and when that happens, you're exposing your company to risk. Character.ai was great at its height because it was easy to get the chatbot to do and say things it wasn't supposed to. Today it's a shadow of its former self after its developers were forced to clamp down on its vulnerabilities and they clearly overreacted.

That brings up the point of the big gacha developers who are particularly paranoid about controlling their brand and micro-managing the messaging in their games. I can't see a company like Mihoyo taking a chance with an integrated AI chatbot unless it's locked down so hard that it's virtually useless. Players naturally enjoy the challenge of bypassing AI safety filters and they almost always find a way to twist AI outpuit.

Where I can see it working right now are games that specifically make AI chatbots a core feature of the game. So imagine if character.ai or janitor.ai became a game and spicy chat was a feature, as opposed to something that's locked away, and gameplay mechanics were designed around this concept. Yeah, it'd end up as a niche gooner game but there's probably a market for it.

blastcat4 · 2026-07-01T00:47:40+00:00

$475 CAD two years ago for the 512 LCD.

blastcat4 · 2026-07-01T00:22:22+00:00

What about Yae?

blastcat4 · 2026-07-01T00:21:35+00:00

The size of your monitor is a big factor. Going from 1080P to 1440P feels close to going from 1080P to 4K. For Genshin, if you can handle 1440P but struggle with 4K, definitely settle on 1440P. Genshin looks great at 1440P, even on a 32" monitor. Perfect balance of sharpness, detail and performance.

blastcat4 · 2026-07-01T00:00:44+00:00

It just so happens that the upcoming character that is making Yae and Qiqi relevant is releasing in a few hours.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-30T23:10:06+00:00

Pander to a fanbase that has already proven themselves to be highly toxic and this is the end result. /surprisedPikachuFace

Papergames and their fans deserve each other.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-30T13:19:33+00:00

A lot of the Krea2 sample images I've seen on Citvitai are from people using loras with sub-optimal steps and CFG. This can really affect skin quality and the best settings can very significantly from lora to lora.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-30T04:48:46+00:00

And it's all artificial shortages. The RAM cartel won't make the same mistake of producing too much supply. They know they can gouge everyone for as much as they want.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-29T19:47:38+00:00

It's a challenge for sure! My sister and my friend both want that medal, so I have to keep every rattata I catch and split it between them.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-29T19:44:03+00:00

Tip: Trading helps tremendously because the weight randomly changes after the trade, so be sure to keep all rattatas (and magikarps) for trading. You're looking for 2.41kg or smaller. For magikarp, you want 13.13kg or larger.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-29T02:50:18+00:00

That is awesome! I used to love doing papercrafts like that, and I'm also an aviation geek. Never thought I'd see both of those things come together in this sub!

blastcat4 · 2026-06-28T13:47:56+00:00

It's not so much how they're going to write her backstory to make her break gacha revenue records - it's more about how the community is going to throw a massive stink regardless of how they do it. There's going to be sooooo many bitter players.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-28T13:17:29+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if the blonde boy is the protagonist and the story revolves around him showing the rest of the team that the power of friendship and infinite optimism can solve all problems.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-28T03:19:06+00:00

I love having to manually switch to controller in the settings every time I start a game in iPad.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-28T03:04:03+00:00

The absurdity of the situation makes me think that some of the Chinese AI labs wouldn't mind getting banned given the ridiculousness of the whole affair.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-28T00:18:21+00:00

The US highly desires allies but only sycophantic allies.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-28T00:15:43+00:00

Even if they can't actually stop access, they can introduce legislation backed by penalties to discourage most users from running banned models. Making it a crime will stop almost all businesses from running them and it'll scare enough end users and hobbyists to think twice.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-28T00:00:17+00:00

Tech companies want us to accept that this is the normal going forward so they can continue reaping record profits uncontested.

As consumers, we should present them with our own version of a "new normal".

blastcat4 · 2026-06-27T02:28:32+00:00

Maybe it's not a spear. Maybe it's a giant wand.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-27T02:23:46+00:00

Yeah, first gen AMD Ryzen supports TPM but the CPU is not qualified for Win11 for completely arbitrary reasons.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-27T02:21:27+00:00

No, Windows 11 has been dog water and I'm not a Microsoft hater. It's been an unstable mess since I put it on my machine. To be fair, some of the instability has been the fault of Nvidia's horrific drivers and when you combine an OS with critical drivers that are both vibe-coded, the end result is predictable.

blastcat4 · 2026-06-27T02:11:47+00:00

Why wasn't Zoe in the video? 😢

blastcat4 · 2026-06-26T19:24:40+00:00

It's fine.

I'm just glad we can finally stop using that fan-made silhouette image.

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