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Several months back, a friend and I theorized what it might take to implement a pager/beeper system similar to the Norphone system in world.

If this works as it seems to be advertised, it's pretty interesting. Excited to check it out.
mencsz.bsky.social 猛 ᴍᴇɴɢ ☁️ @mencsz.bsky.social · 7d
“𝐬𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟕” by SINCHI 📱💚
Smart. Stylish. Fully featured for your RP life - with messaging, animations, and 2K textures in one sleek device. 🌿✨

📍https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kuala/65/206/1500
💚 Video Commission: Taiane Evergarden
🧙🏻 Voice Over: Evelyn Foxtail
🪄 YouTube: youtu.be/w7aGunOZ8z8
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
butterroux.secondlife.bio
In the last week, I've encountered two products by well-known creators where they've been reusing or offering up old, regular textures, with the light/shadow baked-in, as the albedo/base color for PBR products.

It looks as crap as expected. But vendor laziness is not a New Thing.

#secondlife
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
butterroux.secondlife.bio
More confident in the stability now, so I'm happy to share that the Black Light FX devkit is here! Create black light emulation in SL, in just a few steps!

PBR required. Basic understanding of PBR will be helpful. End-user only (no-trans).
#secondlife

marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Black-Ligh...
"black light fx -- black light emulation in Second Life... that works" this text is printed atop colorful swirls against a black background.
October 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The Black Light FX Sampler is back on the MP, thanks for your patience! Only L$10!

With any luck, the devkit will be available soon for you to make your own!

#secondlife

marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Butters-Bl...
Five images reacting to apparent black light. Two abstract patterns, a cheshire cat, mushrooms, and a digital clock reading "4:20".
October 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The Black Light FX Sampler is now on the marketplace for the mere cost of L$10.

This has been a a hella fun project. I hope you enjoy it! The devkit will be coming later, so that you can make your own. #secondlife

marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Butters-Bl...
October 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Hard agree. I've been blocked by accounts here, presumably in retaliation for my curation. IDC, but it's interesting to me. I mutelist but have never blocked.

No problems with folks doing their thing, but it doesn't mean I need to see it.

A real sense of entitlement, like they're owed an audience.
miro.secondlife.bio Miro // Abyss Monster [Stelio] @miro.secondlife.bio · Oct 1
If you take issue with people wanting a content blacklist or curating their space, I think you need to really ask yourself why it bothers you so much when someone DOESN'T participate. Because you're not being progressive, you're being a weirdo who's shitting on other people's comfort.
October 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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A little demo of my latest project, Black Light FX, in action.

A sampler version will be coming to the MP soon, costing almost nothing, for anyone who wants to test it out. A full devkit, including the ability to make your own, will be coming later! #secondlife
October 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Lots of shitty #secondlife vendors. @starlitendeavor.bsky.social is not one of those. Kudos to y'all. Incredible boots.

See the whole story here:
www.flickr.com/photos/19179...
I want to share a story with you all because it deserves to be heard.
I recently tried on the demo version of the "Nomada" boots by Starlit Endeavor, currently on display at The Fifty. I loved the texturing, I was ready to buy them... and then I noticed an issue with t...
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September 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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old. #secondlife
A digital representation of a man. There is a Second Life in world image view window with a cropped picture of the man, atop a background of the same scene. The background is black and white, the in world picture is in color. He is standing in front of a tavern, looking off to his left slightly.
August 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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@philiprosedale.bsky.social curious whether the viewer loads both PBR and fallback textures for an obj, or whether the fallback is only retrieved on an as-need basis (e.g., editing)

Seems to me a perf improvement opportunity and easyish logic fix, if BP textures are being retrieved unnecessarily
July 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Serious Q to other creators, and I ask this as someone who's a huge PBR fan: why don't most of you, at very minimum, take 2min to use your albedo as the diffuse in fallback textures so users don't see white blobs?

Not saying you even need to bake in the AO, though that'd be nice.

#secondlife
July 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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People finding a way to sneak that stupid fishing game through moderation filters. Why doesn't bsky mute substrings? If I block "foobar", it should block "foobar", "#foobar", "#foobar#bazquux", "foobar#bazquux", etc.

#secondlife
July 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
butterroux.secondlife.bio
Coming your way at 6PM SLT! Dwayne has cleaned the ventilation system as to allow the aqua-net to circulate out. Or so he said, anyway... 🤔
butterroux.secondlife.bio butter.roux @butterroux.secondlife.bio · Jul 3
CONNECT 26400/v.32/v.42/v.42bis

Welcome to Prodigy(TM)! Loading...

Come enjoy this retro extravaganza tomorrow at Captain Dick's Take-Offs & Landings. You know, that strip club by the airport. 4-July, 6PM SLT.

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/C...

#secondlife
An image made to resemble an old Netscape browser with a webpage loaded. The webpage background is a grainy, heavily pixelized picture of a pink and purple warehouse building with an airplane atop it, a strip club. Along with this is a generic hair metal looking singer, and three 1990s style browser "buttons": A Netscape Now button, a "Captain Dick's Webring" button and "Designed by DWAYNE" button. The image is also designed to look like it is missing an image for "269_miller_tallboys.jpg" There's a banner which reads "Captain Dick's Take-Offs and Landings | A Very Hairy Dick's Friday: Hair Metal Madness!!" Additional text: An evening of Classics, Deep Cuts and All Those Power Ballads brought to you by Butter, Owl, and Other Hot Rockers Friday July 4 6PM SLT L$500 prize for best in "Hair Metal God or Hair Metal Groupie".
July 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
butterroux.secondlife.bio
CONNECT 26400/v.32/v.42/v.42bis

Welcome to Prodigy(TM)! Loading...

Come enjoy this retro extravaganza tomorrow at Captain Dick's Take-Offs & Landings. You know, that strip club by the airport. 4-July, 6PM SLT.

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/C...

#secondlife
An image made to resemble an old Netscape browser with a webpage loaded. The webpage background is a grainy, heavily pixelized picture of a pink and purple warehouse building with an airplane atop it, a strip club. Along with this is a generic hair metal looking singer, and three 1990s style browser "buttons": A Netscape Now button, a "Captain Dick's Webring" button and "Designed by DWAYNE" button. The image is also designed to look like it is missing an image for "269_miller_tallboys.jpg" There's a banner which reads "Captain Dick's Take-Offs and Landings | A Very Hairy Dick's Friday: Hair Metal Madness!!" Additional text: An evening of Classics, Deep Cuts and All Those Power Ballads brought to you by Butter, Owl, and Other Hot Rockers Friday July 4 6PM SLT L$500 prize for best in "Hair Metal God or Hair Metal Groupie".
July 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
butterroux.secondlife.bio
Come sit right down /
Lay your head on my shoulder /
It's not the point /
That I'm forty years older

🎵: Faith No More, "Edge of the World"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDRU...

📸 @ Captain Dick's Takeoff & Landings

Contest theme: "Confident Boomer"

#secondlife
Digital representation of man in a lounge bar. He's an older man, with a graying moustache. He is wearing a baseball cap and aviator sunglasses, a red glitter jacket and open neck buttoned shirt, dark trousers and pale blue boat shoes. He's sitting on a barstool with a beer in his hand In the distance there is a neon pink flamingo light and an inflatable palm tree decor.
June 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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"Seven lonely days without a word /
Did I do something somehow that you heard?"

🎵: Chris Isaak, "7 Lonely Nights"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy9K...

📸: Elysion

#secondlife
Digital representation of a man sitting in a chair. He is wearing a green t-shirt, faded denim jeans and Vans-style shoes. He has one leg up and is looking off into the distance a bit. We see the reflection of light in his glasses. We are seeing him through a window; there is a hint of window frame and partially-drawn window blinds in the shot, as well as reflections/shadows in the hazy glass.
June 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
butterroux.secondlife.bio
I feel fine and I feel good /
I feel like I never should /
Whenever I get this way /
I just don't know what to say

🎵: New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkOr...

📸: Arcanum ("Artsy")
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/A...

#secondlife
Shot of a man with tousled hair and a moustache, looking down or maybe eyes closed, arm propped up somewhere out of the shot. he's wearing a black shirt with white or gray stripes. He is entirely in black and white. In the background are a variety of colored geometric lights, akin to LEDs maybe. The colored background is a contrast to the black and white figure in the foreground.
June 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
butterroux.secondlife.bio
No mood, just a shot, learning to tweak midtones.

📸 @ Chaos and Calm
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/J...

#secondlife
Black and white digital representation of a man sitting on a pillow with his head in his hand. He is wearing a dark shirt and jeans. There is various outdoor, urban clutter behind him and people in the distance. The shot is focused with him in a close cropped depth of field, with significant blurriness around him.
June 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
butterroux.secondlife.bio
"You know the day destroys the night /
Night divides the day /
Tried to run, tried to hide /
Break on through to the other side"

🎵: The Doors, "Break On Through (to the Other Side)"
📸 @ "Amanita", a new build by Sati-boo.

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/P...

#secondlife
A digital representation of a man, shirtless. The camera angle is focused down on the man from a bit above his head, and he is looking up. It is a narrowly shot/composed image, containing mostly the man and the candles nearby. There is a purple aura/glow in the room and candles with blue flames, in something of an occult or witchcraft setting. There is a thin, manually created frame in the composition giving the optical illusion of the man stepping through the frame.
May 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
butterroux.secondlife.bio
"я тебя сломаю." --Иван Драго, "Rocky IV"

#secondlife
Homage to Ivan Drago from the movie Rocky IV. A digital representation of a man in forearm wraps, red and yellow trunks, and no shirt. He is muscular and glistening. He stands before a red background with a metallic gold hammer and sickle to his upper left.
May 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Stanley Kowalski homage.

#secondlife
Black and white picture of a man in a tanktop, light colored pants and suspenders. He is slouched back and looking off to his side, as if at a camera or person. He's got a beer bottle in his hand, halfway between his waist and his face. It's an homage to Marlon Brando's character in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
May 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
butterroux.secondlife.bio
Put me in, coach.

🎵: John Fogarty, "Centerfield"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq3h...

#secondlife
Digital representation of a man standing in a baseball field, balancing a baseball on his fingertip and holding a bat along his shoulder on the other. He is wearing a red baseball cap backwards, a t shirt pulled up exposing his midriff, red joggers with ties and white canvas athletic shoes. He is wearing eyeblack beneath his eyes. In the distance is an old-fashioned baseball scoreboard at center field.
April 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
butterroux.secondlife.bio
#allnaturalchallenge

As inspired by Grant Valeska on primfeed and flickr, posting a 'natural' picture of myself for which there is minimal post-processing and no AI. The rules are as follows:

• no makeup
• natural hair
• no shoes
• white top and jeans
• no bare private parts

#secondlife
digital representation of a man leaning against a white backdrop, one foot against the wall. He is barefoot, wearing medium wash cuffed jeans and a white tank top.
April 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Good Egg. 🥚🥕 #secondlife
Digital representation of a man, splashed in paint, wearing a bandana across his forehead, with his hand on his chin in a contemplative pose. He is looking toward a very large egg, splattered with paint. Light is cast against the man and the egg, casting both a glow and slight shadows on both.
April 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Catnap. #secondlife
A man sleeping, laying on his stomach, visible from the shoulders up, facing the bottom end of a wooden, padded outdoor lounger. One arm extends along the end of the lounger, the other tucked beneath him. Nestled into his shoulder and neck is a black and white cat, also sleeping. Some minor shadows/light streaks appear across the scene.
April 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM