In honour of our wedding date:

[mindspell]

That should give you an objective viewpoint...

 

[xfer]

i've never played Magic!

...and is that DJ??

 

[avi]

whatever Alex, you can make all the excuses you want but the fact remains that your were still MUDding!

a r/l sword beats that any day

 

[chupe666]

oh my cripes

 

[xfer]

w/e, MUDding and its counterparts--online Neverwinter Nights, SWG, DAOC, etc.--are super-fun!

 

[avi]

more like "are super-nerdy!"

 

[avi]

(sorry about your thread Chupe)

 

[The Dope]

Someone please explain "MUDing."

 

[chupe666]

no, this is amazing!

and yeah i need to know what MUD-ing is too.

 

[xfer]

basically like a text-based MMORPG

 

[The Dope]

Yeah....

 

[mindspell]

w/e, MUDding and its counterparts--online Neverwinter Nights, SWG, DAOC, etc.--are super-fun

for NERDS!

 

[lizard]

well that clears everything up.

 

[mindspell]

for Chupe and the Dope: Google says:

http://www.mudconnect.com/mudfaq/

 

[The Dope]

So it's a game of some sort.

With monsters and dungeons.

 

[avi]

but only TEXT! that means EXTRA nerd points!

 

[xfer]

yeah, pretty much!

 

[inkybmistro]

what the hell is the LotFP RPG?

 

[xfer]

MUDs are generally usually either role-playing based (full of people pretending to be medieval and shit) or stats-based (more like a real video game, where you trick out your character with the best equipment and team up to kill the hardest monsters and solve the puzzles, etc.)

the one i was on was more stats-based, but it had a sizable amount of people trying to role-play. the end result was that the stats players preyed on the roleplayers and continually killed them and stole their equipment, saying things like "hey fucktard gimme your 5dam zeus sword or i'm going to turn you into hamburger" while the rpers were like "What is this odd style of speech thou hast, stranger?"

 

[The Dope]

The jury is still out on whether MUDding is "just a game" or "an extension of real life with gamelike qualities," but either way, treat it with care.

Apparently I was a little bit hasty when I referred to it as a game. And this quote was taken from a section discussing the proper MUDing etiquette, so as not to ruin the fantasy world experience for nerds and dorks everywhere.