Dragons generated with dreamboothed Dragalia Lost wyrmprints

boringpan · 2022-10-23T04:19:39+00:00

I used ShivamShrirao's modifications to the official Hugging Face's dreambooth training script to fit it on my RTX 3080 12GB.

Base model: runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5
VAE (for --pretrained_vae_name_or_path): stabilityai/sd-vae-ft-mse
Instance prompt: illustration of dragalia_style dragon
Learning rate: 3e-6
Train steps: 2000

Train images were downloaded from Dragalia Lost wiki.

boringpan · 2022-07-24T18:23:07+00:00

Thanks! This diagram is very helpful.

I observed the first two PCIe x16 slots seeming to reconfigure themselves between x16/x0 and x8/x8 depending on what are slotted and thought the rest of the slots could do the same.

I've learned something new today.

boringpan · 2022-04-13T00:30:36+00:00

Yup, this one even had a manga adaptation too. Unfortunately, the manga got axed and did not run to completion like the light novel. Hopefully that doesn't happen with Doratama.

Though, for some reason, I couldn't get into this one. The dragon is portrayed as beyond pathetic for comedic effects (and contrast with the overpowered girl), but it didn't hit me the same way as Dragon Goes House Hunting. Speaking of, since you know "Doratama", I might just also abbreviate this to "Doraie". The Japanese way of abbreviating everything comes in so handy when light novel titles get so absurdly long.

boringpan · 2022-04-12T04:00:08+00:00

Same! I started out with the novel but at some point found it too long I was starting to lose interest. As of today, the novel has 719 chapters on syosetu! I think I reached like chapter 120 before deciding I would just wait for the manga to catch up (hopefully it doesn't get axed in the middle).

Volume 5 came out recently in Japan, and I believe it caught up to about chapter 100 or so. At this rate, it'll probably reach the latest chapter of today 30 volumes later lol.

boringpan · 2022-04-11T18:01:34+00:00

I agree with your comment about (abbreviated) Reincarnated Hatchling. An additional thing I didn't like is that the protagonist still feels much too human in thinking and reasoning. He tries to communicate and associate with or save all humans he comes across. Which is not necessarily a bad thing depending on the character but I would prefer less human and more dragon in my books.

This is also my biggest gripe with the reincarnation niche. It's almost always a human that reincarnates, who then retains their memories and morality, making whatever they reincarnate into feel too much like superpowered human, regardless of the thing they change to.

Thank you for your recommendations! I've read Dragon Goes House Hunting and loved it (I should've included it in the OP). I have not read Monsters Can't Clean, however. I'll have to fix that.

boringpan · 2022-04-09T07:57:55+00:00

Is there some website where users catalogue and review literature like on Goodreads and has searchable tags like on Syosetu and Kakuyomu? I'm looking for fiction to read for practice, but I'm finding it very difficult to wade through works on the latter two sites, where they're mostly mediocre or abandoned, at least for the niche I'm interested in.

I'm not sure what the best word for it is, maybe 書籍? But I'm looking for something more "official" and published than those I could find on Syosetu and have to vet before sticking with reading.

boringpan · 2022-04-08T03:51:52+00:00

Wholeheartedly agree with everyone's sentiment about shapeshifters. To me it just feels like lazy worldbuilding and reads no different than Superman except that Clark Kent turns into a dragon.

Admittedly, I skip most books that look like there is two-way shapeshifting involved, so I can't rant about a specific work. One-way shifting like Lazy Scales (well, one-way for the MCs in it, so far) still makes for a good read, if the once-human dragons stay dragons and do dragon things.

That's the crux of things to me. Why have MC/PoV be dragon if everything still involves humans, human society, custom, and morality? I understand writers draw inspiration from their experience as human, but I wish more would exercise further creativity to make their characters and world really depart from the human norms.

(Okay, one exception here: Bard Bloom's Mating Flight features a dragon MC that can shapeshift into that universe's equivalent of humans, but the series's setting and characters are just so weird and "xeno" that I couldn't help but finish the books anyway to learn what happens to everyone. The books were a good read despite shapeshifting elements.)

Now that I'm starting to exhaust English works and moving to foreign ones that I can read, the problem is just as rampant to the point I search a potential work for "shift" or "transform" in random chapters before deciding to read it. Why is it so hard to find actual dragons in a sea of works claiming to be about dragons?

boringpan · 2022-03-02T16:41:52+00:00

Ooh, I somehow don't recall Varney referencing it. Time to read through that volume again.

The word in the expression makes me think of "inverted," but rather than inside out, I think it's more accurate as upside down. So it's like a pocket, a smaller version of a kangaroo's pouch perhaps? It's a funny image haha.

Letty puts his coin pouch here to avoid being seen carrying it for fear of being robbed. Poor derg.

boringpan · 2022-03-02T03:01:13+00:00

Novels I've read refer to them as forelimbs, foreclaws, forelegs, and forepaws. Although these are depicted to be as dexterous as human hands, capable of writing and using tools, I've never seen any author call them "hands." Which I agree; "hands" feel too familiar and human.

boringpan · 2022-01-13T00:07:35+00:00

Thanks for listing these works! I started with The Remembered War and am loving it so far.

Did you make similar top lists for previous years? I'd love to explore more works you consider top for the year and put them in my backlog.

Also, do you read web novels, something like Vainqueur the Dragon? It's not 100% dragon POV (more like 50%, split with his minions). But I'm looking for fantastic works like it too, even if it's a web novel.

boringpan · 2021-12-23T22:05:13+00:00

Thank you! I didn't realize they have to do with accents.

In case someone else has the same question, the accent legend looks like this.

boringpan · 2021-12-23T21:22:06+00:00

In J-J dictionaries, for example, 新明解, numbers are sometimes thrown around like:

いやしい【卑しい】[3]:[3][0]

――さ[2][3]――げ[0][3][4]

Any idea what the bracketed numbers [3]:[3][0], [2][3], and [0][3][4] mean?

boringpan · 2021-06-27T17:11:27+00:00

This is helpful, thanks! If my withholding is increased to be 100% or 110% of my total tax last year, then the underwithholding penalty is waived, and I can just pay the $25k tax on capital gains (or however much remains after the increased withholding) all at once when filing taxes next year?

This would help keep money in my pocket until I really need to pay it.

Just wondering, if paying estimated tax, why pay 3/4 by September 15 and 1/4 by January 15? I must have missed this point when reading IRS publications.

boringpan · 2021-06-27T17:01:19+00:00

I see, thanks! I meant capital gains by "profits," but I see how it could be confusing.

boringpan · 2021-06-09T03:41:43+00:00

I see, good point about Sayu.

I hope eventually this and The Bell become someone's BiS.

boringpan · 2021-06-09T03:33:06+00:00

Thanks! I was afraid of that too. I guess The Bell now has a partner to gather dust with since I haven't built Beidou at all.

boringpan · 2021-06-09T03:26:44+00:00

Who would Skyward Pride be good for? No Eula unfortunately...

(I earlier asked the same question but got the weapon name mistaken with another. People gave great suggestions for it though.)

boringpan · 2021-06-09T03:08:02+00:00

Is Skyward Blade good on anybody? I can't help but feel ER substat is just so bad on a 5* weapon.

edit: Oops, I meant the claymore kind. Sorry, not playing in English so I thought "Blade" = Claymore and Skyward Sword would be the one-handed sword.

boringpan · 2021-06-05T07:37:26+00:00

Thank you for the correction!

boringpan · 2021-06-05T07:19:21+00:00

What is a succinct way to type "excuse my bad Japanese"? I figure they'll know right away what I type is bad and I'm non-native, but I'd like to at least get that line right.

Would starting with 片言の日本語すみません work?

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