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1. 🟥 MACHINE GOSPEL 🟥 Thursday 8-10PM DJ Connor Bloodrose

   Industrial. Ritual. Resurrection. 🗓 Thursday | 8–10PM ⚙️ DJ Connor Bloodrose 🖤 Host Dion 📍 INDIGO The cathedral becomes circuitry. Steel moves like scripture. The ankh burns red above the dancefloor. Expect a 2-hour industrial assault inspired by Chicago’s underground: EBM • Electro-Industrial • Aggrotech • Dark Techno One track per band. Relentless flow. No filler. Dress dark. Move hard. Let the machines preach. 🚖 TAXI: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Blasphemous%20Rumours/122/65/2004 See you at INDIGO.

2. How does your avatar look when enhanced by AI?

   On the "slop" issue, people don't know what they're even saying. Slop exists in all art, and AI slop is lazy work done with minimal thought for prompting, often just letting the model do all of the figuring for itself, and using gibberish prompts and random seeds to produce 10,000 images in the hopes of finding one in the mess that looks cool enough to use for a YT thumbnail or whatever. It's unskilled junk that's made for unseemly purposes without any effort or vision. Most of what I see in this thread isn't generated slop. It's the equivalent of playing with filters in Photoshop, changing styles, lighting, etc., and seeing what we get. It's just fun. Some of it is really art in my opinion, though. The way people use the term "AI slop", they'd be better off just saying the truth. "I don't like it for my own personal psychological and/or emotional reasons having nothing to do with art per se, so I'll just call it trash." Thing is, nobody I've ever seen or heard calling AI-assisted artwork "slop" has ever shown me anything better of their own creation. Professional artists use AI tools. The ones who don't tend to stand out to me, not because they're superior, but because they're worse at drawing hands than an AI model, and so forth. I have a very critical eye, and there are pro artists making good money for doing "real art" who can't even draw a cylinder correctly. Basic shapes fail, even. I spent years learning how to draw hands and feet, I don't expect a 2-year-old model to do any better. But if it does perfect hands and skin, and I can't, I'mma use it when I want perfect skin and hands in an art piece. Also, drawing perfect eyes is damned hard, if you're not into manga. Being able to input the best you can do at an eye, and ask the thing to make it look right, and have it actually do it, that's priceless. Oh, and:

3. Full Perm Sellers Being Put Out of Business

   Clothing makers are not the majority of the full-perm merchants. Go to their events. Look at the MP. Not true. Yes, they clothiers charge a fortune because...the people using those models will MAKE a fortune. All the models for furniture, appliances, accessories, rugs, jewelry, etc. -- these are cheap -- often only 65L or 150L or 350L, many of them. Again, look at the MP. These people you are saying "good riddance" to are in fact likely supplying the makers of the clothes you buy, and in fact then going to the trouble to rig them.

4. What type of environment is your home location at?

   I was fooled, but not anymore. I stand with Midnoot on this now. XD

5. Enhancements to SL: what would you like to see?

   what the.... All these unnecessary steps. Nvidia control panel + frame limit and Firestorm option to limit FPS. R.I.P if you're not supreme FS user and or supreme Windows user. :P