Mudhead

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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".
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  mudhead
       
           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)