A sim owner/content creator is being a jerk and accusing me of using alts when it isn't even true at all.

[Qie Niangao]

17 hours ago, Axelfoxthefoxyfluff said:

A sim owner has been accusing me of using alts when it isn't even true and has accused me of stuff that isn't even true.

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Ira Glass  Hey there, you've reached the tattle phone. OK, tell me what happened after the beep. Tell me the whole story.

 

[Sprout Evergarden]

ignore move on to another sim

Oh and still call it a sim because it is faster to type

[Alyona Su]

53 minutes ago, Atosuria Daviau said:

ignore move on to another sim

Oh and still call it a sim because it is faster to type

So, U R lzy Typr, then?

[Love Zhaoying]

2 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:

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Ira Glass  Hey there, you've reached the tattle phone. OK, tell me what happened after the beep. Tell me the whole story.

I missed most of the episode!

[Arduenn Schwartzman]

We are the knights who say "Sim".

integer llImRubberYourGlue(key ID,string Target){
	if(ID=="0d7ba84f-7225-4c72-9b47-94ef386f75a6"&Target=="Wrist"){
		return TRUE;
	}else{
		return FALSE;
	}
}

string llGetSimName(){
	return llGetRegionName();
}

 

Edited April 10, 2019 by Arduenn Schwartzman

[Cindy Evanier]

STOP SAYING SIM 

[Ethan Paslong]

10 minutes ago, Cindy Evanier said:

STOP SAYING SIM 

no

[Cindy Evanier]

1 hour ago, Ethan Paslong said:

no

You are only saying that because you want Patch to slap your hand

[Sasy Scarborough]

I must have missed something pretty epic, but why can't we say Sim? I thought it was something to do with a simulation of land something something or other....

I will stop saying sim when SL compiles a proper glossary for jargon used, so that instead of many words we use daily having so many different meanings we can all get along.

 

Example:

Rez - to drag to floor 

Rez - to come into focus

Rez - day you arrived in this world

Alpha - Released final product

Alpha - some guy that is better than some other guy (or so they think)

Alpha - a transparent texture applied to something to make it invisible 

Alpha - the system layers that have had a portion of the SL uv made invisible so that parts of the body disappears 

Alpha - parts of mesh bodies that are segmented that actually do not use an alpha to do so HAZAAAAAAAAAAA thats a mind bender right there

I am just teasing but honestly 

 

I thought a region was a grouping of estates ? and an estate was one SIM... I feel like I am trying to learn how to play some weird card game, what exactly is a flush ? see that is another word that gets overused 

Flush - red in the face 

Flush -  to send things from the body down the plumbing

Flush - something in a card game that beats something else

 

[Theresa Tennyson]

1 hour ago, Sasy Scarborough said:

I must have missed something pretty epic, but why can't we say Sim? I thought it was something to do with a simulation of land something something or other....

I will stop saying sim when SL compiles a proper glossary for jargon used, so that instead of many words we use daily having so many different meanings we can all get along.

 

Example:

Rez - to drag to floor 

Rez - to come into focus

Rez - day you arrived in this world

Alpha - Released final product

Alpha - some guy that is better than some other guy (or so they think)

Alpha - a transparent texture applied to something to make it invisible 

Alpha - the system layers that have had a portion of the SL uv made invisible so that parts of the body disappears 

Alpha - parts of mesh bodies that are segmented that actually do not use an alpha to do so HAZAAAAAAAAAAA thats a mind bender right there

I am just teasing but honestly 

 

I thought a region was a grouping of estates ? and an estate was one SIM... I feel like I am trying to learn how to play some weird card game, what exactly is a flush ? see that is another word that gets overused 

Flush - red in the face 

Flush -  to send things from the body down the plumbing

Flush - something in a card game that beats something else

 

They still can't touch the English language champion:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set

 

[Ethan Paslong]

1 hour ago, Cindy Evanier said:

You are only saying that because you want Patch to slap your hand

ehm.. nah not my hand  😀

[Cindy Evanier]

29 minutes ago, Ethan Paslong said:

ehm.. nah not my hand  😀

I was being PG for the forums

 

[Zeta Vandyke]

2 hours ago, Sasy Scarborough said:

I must have missed something pretty epic, but why can't we say Sim? I thought it was something to do with a simulation of land something something or other....

I think the host server runs a simulator (thus called sim) and on that sim multiple regions can be hosted, so basically your renting a region on a sim. But I coul dbe completely off with that too.

I just keep calling it sim anyway

[Halo Minoptra]

Ask Patch to tell that person that they are not a sim owner.

[Lindal Kidd]

2 hours ago, Sasy Scarborough said:

I thought a region was a grouping of estates ? and an estate was one SIM... I feel like I am trying to learn how to play some weird card game, what exactly is a flush ? see that is

Hi Sasy!  I wasn't going to get embroiled in this particular war of the words, but I felt I should correct this.  A region is just one grid square on the map.  An estate can be as small as one region, or can consist of as many regions as the owner can afford.  Typically, regions that are part of a multi-region estate will have the estate name as part of the region name, e.g. Caledon Downs, Caledon South End, Caledon Oxbridge Village.

"Sim" is short for "simulator".  In common usage, "sim" and "region" are often used interchangeably.  Unless you are Patch Linden.  For the fine technical distinction between the two terms, see this SL Wiki entry (which also gives definitions for a lot of other land-related terms): http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Land

One last very picky point.  "Sim" is a shortened form of a word, but it is not an acronym.  Therefore, you need not write it as "SIM", in all caps.

Edited April 10, 2019 by Lindal Kidd

[Fenix Eldritch]

2 hours ago, Sasy Scarborough said:

I will stop saying sim when SL compiles a proper glossary for jargon used...

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Glossary

[Sasy Scarborough]

26 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

One last very picky point.  "Sim" is a shortened form of a word, but it is not an acronym.  Therefore, you need not write it as "SIM", in all caps.

Lol I was just being cheeky with the caps. Thank you for the explanation though, I did originally think it was simulator, then rethunk it and settled on simulation, as in each persons creative environment. 

21 minutes ago, Fenix Eldritch said:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Glossary

No alpha, typical. Just kidding, but what hilarity. The first word on most letters were hilarious, baked, facelight, escort...it needs a dusting. 

[Zeta Vandyke]

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Second_Life_Glossary

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Glossary

Not confusing at all...

 

[Sasy Scarborough]

7 minutes ago, Zeta Vandyke said:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Second_Life_Glossary

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Glossary

Not confusing at all...

 

The other has alpha yay, not really the ways most used, but included.

I also think the reason I got confused on the region estate thing, was I am both an Estate Owner, and Estate Manager on multiple sims that are separate islands (that is were it gets me) which are regions, but it sounds so expansive saying region, because in RL a region is unlikely to belong to the same person, it can be multiple towns... where as usually someone in RL may own an Estate, which may vary in size but is one connected thing. If I say sim I will always mean one unless I say sims, the same if someone else said it to me, if they said region or estate it would make me think of Caledon as mentioned, Furnation, or the old Transylvania. I think I will stick to sim/s.

Does Patch not like it being used because of the game ?

Because it is in the Glossary.

sim

Simulator, which can refer to a single region or the hardware or software simulating one or more regions.

 

Trails off Zzzzzzz

[Selene Gregoire]

6 hours ago, Cindy Evanier said:

STOP SAYING SIM 

Sim sim sim sim sim sim sim sim sim sim sim sim

[Selene Gregoire]

2 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:

One last very picky point.  "Sim" is a shortened form of a word, but it is not an acronym.  Therefore, you need not write it as "SIM", in all caps.

Thank you! So many make the mistake of assuming sim is an acronym and then get their panties in a wad when corrected.

[Selene Gregoire]

1 hour ago, Sasy Scarborough said:

Does Patch not like it being used because of the game ?

Patch is correct though. Technically, neither regions nor estates are sims. The sim is the program that runs the regions/estates. There can be several sims on a server. Way back when, LL was infamous for cramming as many regions into a single sim as they could, which, obviously, was not a good thing, when cramming as many sims as you can onto a server at the same time.

So you have server, then simulator program on server, then regions on the simulator.

And to make things even more confusing, "server" can refer to the hardware AND the  simulator software. That is probably the main reason most just use the term sim to cover all but the server hardware.

[Rhonda Huntress]

Sim sim sim, sim sim.  Sim sim sim sim sim.

Sim

Sim sim sim sim, sim sim sim sim sim sim. Sim sim sim sim sim. Sim sim -- sim sim sim -- sim sim sim sim.

Sim sim.

 

[Love Zhaoying]

16 minutes ago, Rhonda Huntress said:

Sim sim sim, sim sim.  Sim sim sim sim sim.

Sim

Sim sim sim sim, sim sim sim sim sim sim. Sim sim sim sim sim. Sim sim -- sim sim sim -- sim sim sim sim.

Sim sim.

 

The Sims is another game.

[Selene Gregoire]

14 minutes ago, Rhonda Huntress said:

Sim sim sim, sim sim.  Sim sim sim sim sim.

Sim

Sim sim sim sim, sim sim sim sim sim sim. Sim sim sim sim sim. Sim sim -- sim sim sim -- sim sim sim sim.

Sim sim.

 

Two and a  Half Men.

I was thinking more along the line of: