On Thursday, they finished the last door. On Friday, I wrote a check to pay off the doors. In the spring, I’ll have them come back and start on the windows. I’m very happy with the quality of work done by Wayne Overhead Doors, and the quality of the Provia doors.

Wild Last Boss: not bad so far

I figured the “reborn as my OP RPG character in the distant future of the game world” genre was played out, so I didn’t give this a chance. Fortunately someone recommended it recently, and as soon as Our Hero became Our Heroine, her voice won me over. While she’s quite versatile, for this role she’s using her Dog Days Princess Leon voice, which I’m quite fond of.

Her expository sidekick is actually the first named role for that actress.

Catgirl Output

In Z Image Turbo, short prompts tend to produce very similar images, to the point that something like “pretty young woman with slender figure” will produce 100 images of basically the same 19-year-old Chinese fashion model with obvious plastic surgery on her face.

At the same time, long detailed physical descriptions may produce too much diversity, to the point where a request for young, healthy, attractive women will occasionally produce fat ugly broads in their fifties. The elaborate dynamicprompts set that I built to shove Qwen Image out of its comfort zone is too strong for ZIT; in my batch of 5,000 SFnal cheesecakes, nearly 3% were unflatteringly heavyset. Another 3% were thicc and tasty, so it wasn’t all bad.

When I was illustrating the previous post, though, I started with “highly-detailed cartoon. six sexy half-naked catgirls on the bridge of a starship” and they came out completely nude with Barbie-doll genitals and breasts tipped with pink hearts. Adding “they are wearing cyberpunk outfits” shifted to a 3D-rendered realistic style and replaced real cat-ears with cat-ear headphones.

I went back to the original prompt and tried to dress them a little, adding “They are wearing lace bras, lace-topped stockings, lace panties, and long lace gloves”; this kept the real ears, but switched to photographic style. So I changed it to “They are wearing sexy lingerie” and it not only shifted back to 2D, it went with flat-shaded anime style.

I expect better style consistency when they release the full Z Image base model; Turbo is ridiculously fast, but there’s a clear tradeoff. In the meantime, I’ve converted the data from this repo to YAML so I can use its lengthy descriptions of many artist styles:

(echo "styles:";\
    sed -e '1 s/^.*=//' artist_prompts.js | jq -r '.[]|.[]'  |
    sed -e 's/^/    - /' ) > artist-styles.yaml

sed -e '1 s/^.*=//' artist_prompts.js |
    jq -r '. | to_entries[] | "\(.key): \(.value)"' | sed -e \
        's/^/\n/' -e 's/: /:\n    - /' -e 's/["//' -e 's/"]//' \
        -e 's/","/\n    - /g'  | sed -e '/:/s/ /_/g' > artists.yaml

NSFW

Doordash knows

I was quite sick on Friday, so I didn’t have any energy to cook on Saturday, and ordered dinner via Doordash. The “top dasher” had a clearly female name, but the driver who showed up at my door was a man in his mid-thirties who spoke about ten words of broken English.

Checking the site, “she” has over 13,000 successful deliveries. You can’t convince me that the company doesn’t know how many illegals are sharing accounts.

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