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Topic: Anyone still play MUD games?
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Mike Olpin
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From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 12-11-2008 05:58 PM
Perhaps Wikipedia can help!
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Mud (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mud can refer to one of several things:
* Mud, a liquid or semi-liquid mixture of water and soil
* Mud, in the construction industry, is wet plaster, joint compound, stucco, cement; see also slurry
* Mudslinging, saying bad things about one's political opponent
* Mud (band), a British glam rock band
* Coffee is sometimes referred to as "mud," either as a pejorative, denoting that it is stale, grainy, and distasteful, or just as shorthand, as it is used in diner lingo.
* MUD Coffee, a specialty coffee company in the East Village, NYC
* Mud, a record label, part of Parasol Records
MUD can mean:
* Master of Urban Design
* Multi-User Dungeon, a type of multi-player computer game
* MUD, in the game of contract bridge, is a defensive signalling convention that stands for Middle-Up-Down.
* Municipal Utility District, a special type of local government formed with exclusive rights to manage and distribute one or more commodities in the interests of the public shareholders of those commodities (typical examples include water districts or publicly owned electricity companies).
* MUD eXtension Protocol (MXP), a format for extending Multi-User Dungeons
* Master User Domain - In Windows NT 4.0 domains deployment strategies - a domain, containing only users, not resources
* Mud (TV series), a BBC television programme
* Manchester's Unbelievable Dungeon, a private members' club in the fetish community in the north west of England, United Kingdom
* Matched-unrelated donor in organ transplantation
Perhaps not. I'm betting it's the game based on the context.
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Mark J. Marshall
Film God
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From: New Castle, DE, USA
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 12-12-2008 08:19 AM
quote: Tony Bandiera Jr
Amazing the trouble people will go thru to aviod answering a simple freakin question...
Well, next time try asking politely instead of insinuating that it was somehow my fault that you didn't understand the subject and you'll find that I would be happy to answer.
"Anyone still do this?" is a teaser subject.
"Anyone still play MUDs?" is not.
For the record, MUD stands for "Multi-User Dungeon" or "Multi-User Dimension" or possibly some other things. They're basically multi-user text based role playing games, and they've been around since way before the Internet went all graphical. This was back in the days of Telnet, Z-Modem, Gopher, Finger, ... remember that?
I've personally played on several MUDs set in Middle-Earth, some in the Star Wars universe, and one based on Star Trek. Although I quickly discovered that I didn't know as much about Star Trek as I thought I did.
As a programmer I was also fascinated with the source code and what made them work. I always wanted to dive in and start modifying the code but never really got around to it.
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James Westbrook
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From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 12-12-2008 04:08 PM
Our dearly departed George Carlin would have disapproved of referring to FBI, WWW, etc as acronyms. "MUD" in this context IS an acronym as it spells a word. According to the late Mr Carlin, if I recall this correctly, FBI, CIA, KGB are not acronyms. They are dicks.
I do agree with Mike about being annoyed when an article uses abbreviations and the like and does not bother explaining what these abbreviations mean.
I am sure if Brad, Adam or one of the administrators finds the thread title wrong, they will jump in.
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Seeing as not everyone here who doesn't know is gonna take the time to Google mud (which will probably produce a trillion hits).
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