mudhead
n.
Commonly used to refer to a MUD player who eats, sleeps, and breathes
MUD. Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out, etc., with
the consolation, however, that they made wizard level. When encountered in
person, on a MUD, or in a chat system, all a mudhead will talk about is
three topics: the tactic, character, or wizard that is supposedly always
unfairly stopping him/her from becoming a wizard or beating a favorite MUD;
why the specific game he/she has experience with is so much better than any
other; and the MUD he or she is writing or going to write because his/her
design ideas are so much better than in any existing MUD. See also
wannabee.
To the anthropologically literate, this term may recall the Zuni/Hopi
legend of the mudheads or koyemshi, mythical half-formed children of an
unnatural union. Figures representing them act as clowns in Zuni sacred
ceremonies. Others may recall the ?High School Madness? sequence from the
Firesign Theatre album Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers, in which
there is a character named ?Mudhead?.
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mudhead
A MUD player who eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD.
Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out,
etc. with the consolation, however, that they made wizard
level. When encountered in person, on a MUD or in a chat
system, all a mudhead will talk about is three topics: the
tactic, character, or wizard that is supposedly always
unfairly stopping him/her from becoming a wizard or beating a
favourite MUD; why the specific game he/she has experience
with is so much better than any other; and the MUD he or she
is writing or going to write because his/her design ideas are
so much better than in any existing MUD. See also wannabee.
To the anthropologically literate, this term may recall the
Zuni/Hopi legend of the mudheads or "koyemshi", mythical
half-formed children of an unnatural union. Figures
representing them act as clowns in Zuni sacred ceremonies.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-29)
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