mudhead

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mudhead - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

mudhead - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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".