mudhead


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 wizardlevel. When encountered in person, on a MUD or in a chatsystem, all a mudhead will talk about is three topics: thetactic, character, or wizard that is supposedly alwaysunfairly stopping him/her from becoming a wizard or beating afavourite MUD; why the specific game he/she has experiencewith is so much better than any other; and the MUD he or sheis writing or going to write because his/her design ideas areso much better than in any existing MUD. See also wannabee.

To the anthropologically literate, this term may recall theZuni/Hopi legend of the mudheads or "koyemshi", mythicalhalf-formed children of an unnatural union. Figuresrepresenting them act as clowns in Zuni sacred ceremonies.