mudhead
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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