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Most commonly, mud is a typically messy mixture of dirt and water. The bane of maids and housewives everywhere, mud tends to get animals, children, and the carpet very messy. withWith that, we shall refer more largely to the modern, online convention of mud.
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Other variants emphasize building by providing players with a powerful [[programming language]] (as in [[MOO]]'s) to make their own objects and rooms, or function as elaborate chat systems with no fantasy trappings.
A lesser known variant is the [[talker]], typically based on [[ew-too]], [[summink]], [[sensi-summink]], [[playground]], and plenty of other code bases. peopleThe talker is essentially a mud, with most of the complex bits of code stripped away, leaving just the communication level commands -- hence the name ''talker''. People who use these tend to be called [[spods|spod]]. The [[spod]] tends to be something of a long term fFanatic,. whereWhere many mudders may move on after a year or two, people who use talkers typically have been doing so fFor a decade or more. Talkers are signifigantly easier to run than an average mud, since they don't incorporate very much [[artificial intelligence]], and they are usually much more user fFriendly, since there is not often much fFighting as a fFocus. In other words, whole fFamilies of husbands, wives, children, and siblings have been known to [[spod]] in certain circles. TheThey spodalso hasuse earnedvery alittle placenetwork intraffic, [[hackerand jargon]]use simple protocols, making them ideal fFor setting up quietly at work.
The [[spod]] has earned a place in the [[jargon file|Jargon File]].
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