SL Devil's Dictionary

Windlight: A rendering system designed to put residents lacking in design skills and good taste on more equal footing with those whose pre-Windlight builds or avatars once stood out.

Oversize Prim: Object generally used to create male genitalia the size of Mount Everest.

which gives us my favorite pick-up line of all time:

"Hey Baby, want to go back to my place and play Sir Edmund Hilary and the little sherpa girl?"

/me wonders if she can alter her Belgian Farmgirl costume to look like a Sherpa

You could claim to drive a sherpa (van of course)

My contribution to the new person terms dictionary is this...

Resolved = Linden term for when things are at their most broken

Hey - on the other side of forty and you know what... it does not look nearly as bad as u may think...

Desmond - how brilliant

I am hoping not

Cybering should be on the list and I'm not really clever enough to come up with something good ....

Cybering - Watching a plywood pole get jabbed through the oddly orange stomach of your newbie-an princess.

Second Life: A place where, hundreds of thousands of teenage male wow players go while waiting for the expansion pack, where they meet and become customers of the small group of SL regulars and grief them or have sex with them, while laughing wildly and who vanish after a few months.

WoW:

A online version of Dungeons and Dragons - and just as nerdy.

If your online boyfriend / girlfriend plays this game - dump them.

Trust me -- getting stood up because your online Siggy is trying to get the phat lewts from a make believe demon isn't worth it, no matter how desperate you are.

That doesn't make sense to me. Perhaps it is because I am a virgin.
I thought cybering causes prim splinters or infects one with animation disorder that
makes your hand continuously go back and forth. Or maybe it is up and down.

And then you go blind.

I wish the BBC code was fixed and everyone would use a larger font.

Contacts List: [n.] A lengthy list of other residents whom:
1) You do not speak to
2) You do not wish to speak to
3) You don't quite remember
4) Are hippos
The list includes a number of features allowing people to more easily stalk you around the grid, steal your objects and, conversely, increase the amount of time it takes an individual to deduce you are online and hiding. As an illustration of the fleeting nature of online friendships, this list may sometimes disappear entirely.

Fashionista: [n.] An individual who role-plays as a clothes horse in Second Life.

Freebie: [n.] 1. An object created by an individual that is distributed for no cost, 2. An object created by another individual, then stolen and distributed for no cost.

Group: [n.] A private collective of residents allowing the dissemination of gossip and drama in a more efficient manner.

Group Chat: [n.] An easy method to inform a large group of people you are either unable to communicate with them, or that you have land to sell or a 'brilliant' club to promote.

Infohub: [n.] Building or zone dedicated to helping teach residents about the world using outdated information from three years ago on broken notecard dispensers. May also have information regarding the upcoming town hall meeting that happened last year.

Live Help: [n.] Often cited method of in-world help, like the emergency services, to respond to grid problems, TOS violations and resident issues. Discontinued following huge rise in number of residents reporting boxes stuck on their heads and demanding help.

Mega-Prim: [n.] Extremely large prim made using an exploit within the coding that is both legal and illegal to use, depending on which Linden you ask, the phase of the moon and the direction the wind may be blowing in. Often used to hide blight builds by erecting enormous, conspicuous screens.

Mentor: [n.] Resident volunteer trained to remove boxes from the heads of new residents and how to instruct people to contact the Lindens for any other problems.

PG Sim: [n.] Region dedicated to providing child-friendly content on a grid where individuals under the age of 18 are not permitted. The exposure of pixellated flesh, particularly nipples, in these regions can lead to a suspension, as well as the use of offensive language. Think of the children who aren't watching!

Residents Online: [n.] Often termed 'concurrency' during discussions of why the grid is broken again, it is randomly generated approximation of how many people are unlikely to respond to interaction with you. As high numbers are likely to cause server problems, the probability of the server going offline to prevent this increases as log-ins rise.

Second Life Blog: [n.] Venue where the Lindens post bad news after it has happened, then drown said bad news under a series of inane posts and tutorials. Residents are entitled to comment on those posts that the Lindens approve for commenting, provided they stick to the rules of complaining in length about the lack of fixes, the personal costs of downtime running into millions of Lindens, that voice should never have been introduced, outlines of how the company should be run and at least one poorly formed comparison to Hitler.

SL Magazine: [n.] In-world vanity press for the purpose of presenting the editor as well-connected and fashionable. Articles generally present ways for the individual resident to conform to the purchasing habits of a certain demographic.

SL Photography: [n.] Process of using photoshop to disguise Second Life's crude graphics. Places a high emphasis on lens flare and using render glow. Styles typical of the genre include windlight sunsets, glamour shots of your avatar naked and vacation-like snaps of your avatar noob-leaning outside a famous landmark. (See also Snapshot).

Snapshot: [n.] A screenshot of Second Life, used to demonstrate the crude nature of Second Life graphic rendering. These can be used to provide evidence in an abuse report, blackmail your neighbour when they indulge in adult activities and impress people with how zany you are, you box-on-head wearing fool. (See also Sl Photography).

Total Residents: [n.] A vague and arbitrary number that has the same relationship to reality as government published unemployment figures. Often used in Orwellian press releases to emphasis the continual growth of Second Life, despite the fact that if this number of people attempted to use the grid at once, the server hubs would explode.

Transaction: [n.] An elaborate ritual simulating the exchange of Lindens for an in-world item, or the purchasing of currency. The first part consists of a ceremonial enactment of the exchange, which generally does not involve goods changing hands. The participants then exchange highly complex codes with each other, which, should they match, then result in items being exchanged.

Voice: [n.] Feature allowing residents to say "Pardon?" and "Sorry?" at each other for twenty minutes before agreeing to use skype instead. Also used for entertaining others within a wide radius with the loud sounds of your television, radio, pets, screaming children and the traffic outside your window. Implemented at the expense of 'fixes' and widely held to be the start of the slippery-slope of Second Life's decline. Sometimes used as a verb "I am voicing with that nice Gorean man next door".

Vendor: SL's new slot machines

Teleport/Tping: the act of attempting to go from point A to point B on the grid, usually ending up, and or arriving at the desktop of your computer.

Customer Support: ....pending......

Weekend: A period of time in which you can not access your non land, use your non money or rez your non objects. Weekend may start anytime after Thursday morning and finish anytime before Wednesday night.

See "Resolved"

Pony! - A recent forum idea in which a rallying cry of "Pony!" is used in place of other comments in retaliation for posts that seem to be deliberately inflammatory or outright illogical

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Support Portal:
Another way for Lindens to ignore your concerns. Actually provides all the support of a five-year-old sports bra.

Inventory:
a partial list of things you have made or acquired that may or may not actually be there.

Club:
A gathering place for camping bots, generally identified by multiple massive particle effects, walls with texture shimmer, and strippers in newbie skins.

Group Chat:
A communication system designed to work only for those who do not wish to use this feature. Any person who actually wants to reply will immediately recieve an error or be logged out. Those who do not want this feature cannot turn it off.

This is great! LMAO

Privacy - Not applicable in SL.

Short of buying your own island, and banning the rest of sl from it, your house is open for anyone to nose around, tresspass upon etc.

Linden Dollar: A fictional dollar that cost you real dollars to buy that may or may not be cashed out, found a enough of except by well known FIC business owners, land barons, a lot of unsavory Scam Artist companies like Ginko, business types who resell freebies and stolen products. It has history of lots of double speak, legal jargon and hype but we all want some Linden dollars.
Often the question is heard in newly born residents, "I need a job" or "Got any Lindens to spare?"
Lindens are very busy, do not disturb those Lindens if you find them you newly born resident you!
Get a clue, you must have disposable real dollars and buy lindens, quit be so lazy and cheap.
You know Second Life is only for those who can buy Linden dollars and can spend tons of money on virtual dollars, land and clothing.
Just joking we know anyone can create hundreds of free accounts that how we got 12 million residents here.