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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. The 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|spods]]. The [[spod]] tends to be something of a long term fFanatic. Where 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. They also use very little network traffic, and use simple protocols, making them ideal fFor setting up quietly at work.

The [[spod]] has earned a place in the [[jargon file|Jargon File]].