I Built a Local-AI Character Forge and a Browser Game Engine on a $100/y VPS (No GPU, No Excuses)

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The VPS's job is to store JSON, serve static assets, and run two small local AI models. Text and image AI are, quite literally, taking turns. The flashy AI (LLM identities, diffusion-generated clothing) lives in CHARFORGE; the load-bearing AI in the game engine is deliberately old-school and predictable, because 30 NPCs making decisions every frame is not where you want nondeterministic LLM latency showing up.

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