RSS SL

1. Commercial Bellisseria

   I think part of the dislike about AI art is a knee-jerk reaction against AI in general; I think another part of it is that to generate AI images, the model will have been taught using existing images created by RL creators, who didn't even know their images were being used that way. So their art is potentially used by AI to create derivatives of it, without them being even credited...so there's an ethical issue there, at least for some people (myself included)....oh, this is a whole conversation in itself, and this is probably the thread for it... "AI means zero skill 99% of the time" I disagree, at least to an extent. That can certainly be the case, but it can also be that the skill set required to create AI art is very different from the skill set required to create what we usually think of as art; it's more about crafting and refining a prompt. It's not seen as a skill because it's language based, and we all can use language, but I do think that it IS a real skill. If somebody has an original vision, for me, that should always "win" in the end, whether they use words or a paintbrush or photoshop to bring that vision to life. You could argue that SL artists who set up scenes (with or without avatars in the scene) and then photograph that are not "real" artists... if they were "real" artists, they would paint that. (I'm playing Devil's advocate - this is not my opinion.) This brings us back to human vision, I think. This is what we respond to when we look at a piece of art (in the widest sense of the world), is it not? Does it really matter what tools (including AI) were used? Not to mention that how do we even tell something is AI generated, at this point???

2. Careful with ban lines on mainroad

   So why get a road parcel if u r so fraid of visitors? 🤣🤣🤣

3. How Does Your SL Look Today?

   Axel at PEAK Lounge

4. Commercial Bellisseria

   for now that is totally the case yes. there are already various plans in marketing, events, promos and what not to bring traffic. but I for one, am waiting until more are set up and got settled in before we even start to organize stuff like that. For now I'm just happy we have an overview of stores. Some will realize they don't even know what to do with the still empty place and abandon it (or LL will take it again), new merchants will move in. So I'd say maybe mid April or so, we can realistically start thinking about actual promos there, and driving some traffic. But then watch.. we will fill up the regions and then next complaint will form immediately " why is it so full, no one can tp in.. that is horrible, LL should have done better.. why is this all a lag soup.. these 2 stores are blocking the traffic for everybody else.. etc etc"

5. Commercial Bellisseria

   If you already have Premium Plus for a 2048 Linden Home or for the uploads then these shops are a nice add-on to the list of benefits, but they are not free to the rest of SL. The difference between monthly Premium and monthly Premium Plus is $4.99 and for those who say those 1024m2 is too big you could buy 512m2 of land (assuming you are using your bonus tier for residential purposes) and it would cost $4 plus tax land tier. Or take out a Plus account with an alt for $5.99 (membership fees are often tax free). You can of course bring the Premium Plus cost down to £11.99 per month by committing to an annual fee, but that ties you into a subscription that may mot prove worthwhile from a business perspective. I would forget street parties. This was tried for Linden Homes, but in secluded event areas away from actual homes and those areas are now as lifeless as the streets outside Linden Homes. They created a desert and called it Not Mainland.