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I completely flamed out over at Night Cafe. After my two week ban for the “8647 Straight to Hell” image, I tested the waters a little more. I tried to make a few images of Trump with a diaper on his head or picking his nose or whatever, and they would all come out just as flattering as possible. So I started to make a few images that consisted of nothing but questions and statements about my perceived running of the joint - “Is this place run by a bunch of MAGA pukes?” and “So glad I canceled my subscription at this schitt site,” and the like. Yeah, I knew what I was getting into.

Anyway … they banned me for a full month including not being about create so my streak was gone. I decided to drop a little feedback that basically consisted of: “Go fuck yourselves.” And they banned me until 2053. I’m not holding my breath.

Anyway, I’ve been satisfying my AI’ing at Perchance, though I’m not sure I can really recommend the site. They just changed models and it’s actually pretty robust for character creation, but there are absolutely no guard rails over there and if you stray off the PG-13 filter you are in for shit that makes 2 Girls, One Cup look like The Brady Bunch.

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I kind of miss Night Cafe. Well, not Night Cafe, but I miss my daily rituals there. I always did everything I could to earn points, so I spent a lot of time liking images, and joining contests (or whatever they called them) and snagging my daily freebies.

I did enjoy the contests. I came in top 20% quite a few times. My best finish was fourth!

That said, what’s a decent replacement for Night Cafe? I’ve got that ridiculous Perchance site, but it is so limited and it’s basically down to 90% porn creation over there at this point - not that I haven’t dabbled, but that’s only fun for so long. I was subscribed to Night Cafe for all the pro extras, but I’m not really looking for any new subscription outlays at the moment. Read - a free site would be cool.

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I mainly use Copilot and Sora. I still check into Night Cafe every day to collect my free points, but none of the non-pro models quite reach the quality/style of Copilot/Sora/ChatGPT (which all use the same AI for images) so the points just build up. (As of tonight I have 1,925 points in one Night Cafe account and 2,202 in the other.

(My next choice beyond the Holy Trinity is Microsoft Gemini, which uses Inagen 4. I’ve almost completely abandoned the Dall-E 3 in Bing.)

My main utility of Night Cafe now is the “quick create” button, which mixes elements from some of your earlier prompts plus new ideas and comes up with a new prompt. I get some interesting prompts from that—but then use them in Copilot.

Here’s a new prompt Night Cafe generated tonight:

Realistic over-the-shoulder shot of a kitsune perched at the foot of a throne, watching a sleeping emperor. Candid photo with forced perspective and shallow dof taken with an iphone 15.

This is that prompt ran through a few options at Night Cafe

SD 1.5, Flux Schnell, DreamshaperXL, Flux Kontext Max
Ideogram 2a Turbo, HiDream, Imagen 4 Ultra, Imagen 4 fast

(They just added 3 levels of Imagen 4, so everyone gets 5 free Pro renders.)

This is the prompt ran through Copilot

And this is through Gemini

Some of the non-Copilot images aren’t bad, but I still think Copilot wins on quality and prompt adherence.

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Okay, this is spooky.

I created an image in Nightcafe with a bit of word play. I asked for a confrontation between Dracula and a Dalek, with the caption “No, I said GARLIC”.

The AI gave me what I wanted, and then added the following summary:

Okay, how does an artificial intelligence know that this is a joke?

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I don’t know how AI understands when something is humorous, but it does.

I like your prompt concept. Here’s a variation:

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Copilot (which is very chatty) is always commenting on prompts of mine in ways that indicate “understanding” the context of what I’m aiming for. Modern AIs are scary smart.

I uploaded your image to Copilot and told it to describe and interpret it:

:man_vampire::speaker_high_volume: Dalek vs Dracula… with a side of culinary confusion

This image is a deliciously absurd crossover: a Dalek—those iconic metallic villains from Doctor Who—confronts a classic vampire in full Dracula regalia. The setting echoes gothic elegance, with tall arches and ornate architecture framing the scene like a haunted ballroom or vampire’s lair.

:megaphone: The punchline: “I said GARLIC”
That little line flips everything—mixing sci-fi menace with vampire lore, and doubling down on absurdity. Garlic is famously used to repel vampires, so the Dalek either misunderstood a defense request… or it’s about to engage in the weirdest extermination method yet. Imagine the Dalek unloading cloves like grenades.

:performing_arts: Why it works:

  • Mismatched genre collision: Sci-fi coldness vs. gothic horror camp.
  • Verbal twist: “Garlic” and “Exterminate” sound comically similar in Dalek-speak.
  • Cultural mashup: It feels like a send-up of both fandoms—loving, goofy, and irreverent.

This could be right at home in one of your surreal narrative mashups, Darren. Want to build a prompt around this? Maybe Daleks invading classic monster movies—or Dracula mistaking a food court for a vampire summit?

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See this post

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You got your aesthetics model in my LLM!

You got your LLM in my aesthetics model!

IMO, Midjourney has the best image generation out of any of the major services but I also admit that it lacks in prompt coherence since it’s not backed by a giant separate LLM. Don’t love Meta (though better this than, ugh, Grok) but interested to see if this bridges the gap

(Article intentionally selected as the headline amused me with the author begrudgingly admitting that MJ stuff looks pretty good)