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".
    

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)