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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {MUD}{muddie}]