Or you could just find a small sense of satisfaction from learning about an inside reference aimed at people who played the original Sims.
Do you mean "Sims" as in the specific game "The Sims"? If so, you should know that "Reticulating splines" predates that by 7 years. It first appeared in SimCity 2000, released in 1993.
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