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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. with that, we shall refer more largely to the modern, online convention of mud.
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'''MUD''' is an [[acronym]] for ''m''ulti-''u''ser ''d''ungeon (or ''d''imension), a [[role-playing game|role-playing]] [[computer]] [[game]] that runs on a [[bulletin board system]] or [[Internet]] server. Many people may connect simultaneously. Once connected, players control a character. They see textual descriptions of rooms, objects, other characters, and computer-controlled creatures or NPCs (''n''on-''p''layer ''c''haracters) in a virtual world. Players may interact with each other and the surroundings by typing commands that resemble plain [[English language|English]].
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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. people who use these tend to be called [[spods]]. The [[spod]] tends to be something of a long term fFanatic, where many mudders may move on after a year or two. Talkers are signifigantly easier to run, 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]] certain circles. The spod has earned a place in [[hacker jargon]]
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