---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "General Concepts" Tutorial GOAL There is no object to the game other than to wander around and socially interact with other users. Titles and memberships can be picked up along the way, as your skills and knowledge increase. There are no winners or losers, only fellow users. Enjoy! RL RL is short for "Real Life" - that area of the user's life outside of the talker. (IRL is also used, meaning In Real Life). VR VR is short for "virtual reality" - that area of the user's life inside of the talker. The fact that the talker has no physical geography does not, of course, make it any less "real" to the user. SPAM Spam is not a command; rather it is the word used to describe the situation when text is rolling up on your screen faster than you can read (or comprehend) it. Spam can be controlled with the use of the /more command when using the client tinyfugue. It should be noted that "spam" refers to _useless_ information. If one goes idle in a room in the middle of a conversation, one ought to expect to come back to screens-full of text. This is NOT "spam" -- and it is the user's own fault! LAG The concept by which a user incurs a delay between when they have typed text or a command and when they actually see it (or the results). IDLEING The concept of being logged in but not saying, doing, or interacting with people or the talker for a specified period of time AFK AFK is short for "Away From Keyboard". A user setting themself AFK means they are not at their computer keyboard and are off doing some RL thing, for an undetermined period of time. Bathroom, making food, out to movie, sex, etc.. CYBERSEX (also known as NETSEX, CYBERRING, TINYSEX, and various other names) This definition was the result of a conversation between Jopsy, Druid, and Bedouin, and dates from 3/18/91: Jopsy says "Okay, in my humble opinion, TinySex is that act in which one or more players engage in a ~conversation~ of sorts, where, by using descriptive phrases, their tinybodies seem to engage in an act which mirrors sex in reallife, for the implicitly agreed upon purpose of sexual s(t)imulation or gratification." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------