Trike

Shh, no one tell him!

Turns out I actually have some examples from last night. Here is my Blaster, Peculiar Girl Yumi. The first run through Krea it didn’t catch that her tie is tucked into a vest, so I added that to the prompt for the second attempt. That made it look like the original image. (I’ll try again with a different background because that one is wacky and messily distracting.) It also just called her the generic “female”, so I changed that to “Japanese schoolgirl” to ensure her ethnicity. It ignored the blue eye shadow and lipstick, but those are secondary. Original screencap from the game: First attempt: Second attempt: (The rest of the prompt was auto-generated.)

In addition to what Krimson mentioned, Krea (and I think Leonardo?) have sliders to adjust how similar to the original image you want it to be. The various “Style” presets in Krea’s drop-down menu (under “Settings” on PC, just on the left on iPad) also offer various versions which are closer or farther away from the supplied image. It has varying degrees of success and accuracy. I’m on my iPad right now and this is what it looks like:

Where is this background? That’s cooler/simpler than anything I’ve found.

+ “Mad Max cars roaring across the desert” + “Devil’s Tower Wyoming ufo”

+ “a muscular female hero” + “a muscular female warrior” (yes, a few came out as men :shrug:)

+ “a cyborg with an electric sword” + “a star pilot” + “a hero with a beard” (using “superhero” got me 12 versions of old Superman)

I tried copying this into Bing just to see what would happen, adding various descriptions. As above + “soldier in combat armor” + “vampire drinking” + “vampire queen” + “a werewolf”

I’ve used gambits like “pale blonde Scandinavian hair” to get Bing and Krea to give me more Nordic-colored blondes.

What program did you use to record this?

What program and prompt are you using here?

What is this?

GAH! This is incredible. I love it. Excuse me while I run around in a circle flailing my arms in the air like a Muppet.

Apparently this is releasing May 29th (2024, for those reading this in the future), on PC, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. This is the first I’ve heard of it. I loved the XCOM reboot, the follow-up not so much, and obviously I’m into superheroes, so I’m intrigued. I also really enjoyed the Gears of War turn-based game, so I’m down for this. Be advised, they use adult language. The dialogue so far isn’t great but the gameplay looks decent. Capes preview:

Best value: Mass Effect 2. Played it through 4 times to get different endings and make different choices. Just an amazingly immersive and cool universe with fun gameplay. Worst value: Mass Effect 3. Turns out none of your choices mattered and the story was hot garbage, even before you got to the stupid ending. “Hey, the galaxy is on fire! Earth is being destroyed! Go get some ointment for this one guy.” WTF. I also bought the so-called Collector’s Edition based on the promises lies of BioWare, which was a bunch of digital crap. Best value: WarCraft II and WarCraft III. Super-cool games that sucked me in for multiple hours and many play-throughs with different factions and characters. Plus, making your own maps for PvP was always a cool addition. Worst value: World of Warcraft. So terribly disappointing after the fun of the RTS games. One gaming acquaintance maintained it was easier to roleplay in WoW than CoH. I was like, “I just killed a giant chicken and looted a ‘glass of ice cold milk’ from it. How does that make any sense?” Best value: Star Wars: Dark Forces. Unique gameplay for the day, adding to the Doom aesthetic with amazing abilities like “jump over a 6-inch barrier” and “look up”. 😁 But with Star Wars sound FX and music. I played the heck out of that. Worst value: Star Wars: The Old Republic. Another BioWare garbage title that was, in a word, boring. Best value: Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2. The original WWII versions were so good. They felt like real passion projects by people who were really into that era. I have never tried the modern-era versions of the game, although I did enjoy watching the game movie of the one that seems very much like Halo. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare -

Namor was in the original line-up of the Invaders from the 1970s because it collected some of the WWII-era Marvel heroes from the 1940s comics like The All-Winners Squad, back when Marvel Comics was called Timely Comics. The 1970s reboot couldn’t use Miss America due to trademark by the beauty pageant, and X-Men had introduced a new version of Angel so they didn’t want to confuse people by also having the 1940s version on the team. I think The Blonde Phantom was there but not as a heroine (memory is hazy), but I don’t know why they didn’t use The Whizzer, other than he has a name that was rendered ridiculous over time. Claremont & Byrne later brought Whizzer back in X-Men as an old man who was the father of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, but this later got retconned when Marvel made Magneto their father.

This is an interesting interview with Lawrence Schick, the guy who came up with the term “XP” while working with Gary Gygax on D&D. https://www.eurogamer.net/from-creating-dd-to-making-baldurs-gate-3-meet-the-man-who-coined-the-term-xp

Keeping with the theme, Canada Rocky.

Canadian Lynx Couldn't get Krea to make a cat face, and it kept giving her (and her brother) cat ears, which i had to erase, but close enough. (Also had to erase very obvious camel toe. 😆 Why Krea, why?) Canada Lynx

My newest Tank, Moonlightning (Elec/Dark).

That's the breast version I've seen, like 58008 times better than others.

I have a personal SG called Pulp Heroes on Indomitable but I also belong to a public SG there called Golden Age Group. I log in to Indomitable and suddenly it’s the 1930s again. 😁

She kinda looks like actress Devon Aoki in a couple of those.

I popped her into Krea to upscale her. Her face is off for some reason but otherwise it came out all right.

Oh, they were distorted all right. I just showed you the few where they weren’t as bad. 😆 Check out how many fingers are on the right hand of the guy in the first pic up there. 🖐️ ✌️ Also: