Unhappened Stories: AvonN's Pizza Emporium Failure
... or: "How the world really ends" ;)
This is kind of a "thank-you" gallery ... born out of a Joke (what else lol) ...
When I had just started exploring civitai, I ran into some technical issues... so I asked for help on discord ... and ACTUALLY GOT SUPPORT! ;) ... Not only that, but jomcey and other mods/admins where actually interested in getting my problem fixed... I can't remember the last time before that when any kind of support really was interested in helping out... especially as it turned out to be something more complicated, and I eventually decided to call it a night...
"AvonN — 7/20/24, 7:30 AM
... I'm certain when I come back, civit will be like new... new name, new function, maybe a pizza design site... lol... better go to sleep haha "
I was chuckling while lying in bed afterwards, while images of a Pizza Emporium Generation Gallery started flooding my mind... (which also means I was still awake for a while lol)
... but I couldn't really mold those thoughts into something coherent... the old Pizza Tycoon PC Game came up as a possible direction, but that seemed too simple... so this idea/joke/threat (hahaha ;) ) has been on a slow cooker in my brain for far too long...
I dabbled with some concepts for a while, but nothing stuck to the wall (yep... incorporal concepts usually don't do that anyway ;) ).... but I was in a general creative block end of 2024... so I gave it another try... for some yet unknown mysterious reason, I thought: why not try to use different checkpoints - after all, the "thanx" is not only for the civitai team, but also for the community, who made me feel at home so quickly :)
Suuure. Great Idea... so instead of having a skeleton generation prompt to build a gallery on, I now needed to play around with each checkpoint anew.... (plus I seem to have some technical localDB/multitab issue messing with generations with civit lately)... so as always: way to much buzz and time sunk into a new gallery :P ...
This gallery is focused on "fun"... so I wanted to keep it PG this time... (just to help future acceptance with my more controversial ideas naturally ;) )
So...
<tl;dr>
Thanks @jomcey & @theally that night back then, thanks all of the civitai team in general (even making downtimes a fun past time thanks to maintenance images hahaha ;) ), thanks all of you creative or just horny model and image creators - you all have made my past half year more enjoyable :)
PS: I had quite some difficulty with a couple of image concepts ... not a PRO by far indeed ;)
In those cases I needed to rely on Flux or Illustrious... (Still looking at NoobAI)... otherwise I tried to stay with Pony - just for the booru prompting alone :P (but what do I know ;) )