mudhead

games 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)