splives

Parasites similar to mites that dwell on the head. Or inside...for they have the ability to travel to the brain and subtly take over a human's consciousness.

"Hey, dude, is that a splive on your head?"

"No, you insolent human. That is my mother."

by Andrew Morgan July 1, 2005

reticulating splines

Nonsense technobabble used in a production context.

Reticulating splines started off as an in-joke at Maxis and grew to fame with the widespread popularity of The Sims. While it does have a "real" meaning, this definition isn't actually correct in the context of its use. It's really a programming joke.

Reticulating splines is essentially filler. Don't want to describe what's holding up the program? It's reticulating splines. Why isn't the Internet working? The splines aren't reticulated. Heck, don't want to explain your calculus assignment? We're reticulating splines this week.

See also processor gremlins for the computer hardware equivalent.

Sorry the video took so long to upload. Reticulating splines took hours!

by ndm13 April 21, 2015

smplives

smplives is a really funny person that speaks facts.

-have you heard of smplives?
-nope.
-oh you should check their account they’re really cool.

by idk cool person June 24, 2021

reticulating splines

v.
A necessary computation performed by numerous Maxis Sim games. Content simply cannot be generated without meticulous reticulation.

See: reticulatingsplines on ytmnd for further information.

I just generated a random map, but had to wait for the game to finish reticulating splines.

by Crick Albert July 22, 2009

spliver

A small amount. +/- 6% of something.

Pour me up a spliver of that. It looks slappin.

by Tank-izzle December 16, 2021

splines

Objects that must be reticulated before any Sim game may be operated.

"Reticulating Splines" -Any Maxis Game

by Marinesownme September 4, 2006

reticulating splines

The process of combining many short lines and curves into longer, interpolated ones called "splines."

Also, the process of combining many imprecise and abstract ideas into one larger, complex one.

Tomorrow I'm going to sit down and figure out the meaning of life, so I'll be reticulating splines.

by def5 December 30, 2008