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mudhead
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. Commonly used to refer to a MUD player who eats, sleeps, and breathes
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MUD. Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out, etc., with
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the consolation, however, that they made wizard level. When encountered in
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person, on a MUD, or in a chat system, all a mudhead will talk about is
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three topics: the tactic, character, or wizard that is supposedly always
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unfairly stopping him/her from becoming a wizard or beating a favorite MUD;
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why the specific game he/she has experience with is so much better than any
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other; and the MUD he or she is writing or going to write because his/her
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design ideas are so much better than in any existing MUD. See also wannabee.
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To the anthropologically literate, this term may recall the Zuni/Hopi legend
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of the mudheads or koyemshi , mythical half-formed children of an unnatural
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union. Figures representing them act as clowns in Zuni sacred ceremonies.
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Others may recall the High School Madness sequence from the Firesign Theatre
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album Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers , in which there is a
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character named Mudhead.
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