A mud is a Multi-User Dimension (or Dungeon) -- it's a collaboratively built virtual space. Sort of like Sang Sacre. A MOO is something that as far as I could ever tell is exactly the same thing, but with different initials.
Haven't you killed me enough for one day?
Mal ,'War Stories'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
amych - Dec 30, 2002 4:40:09 pm PST #1718 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Sophia Brooks - Dec 30, 2002 4:41:03 pm PST #1719 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
John H - Dec 30, 2002 4:41:35 pm PST #1720 of 10001
From [link]
Short for Mud, Object Oriented, a specific implementation of a MUD system developed by Stephen white. MOO is in the public domain and can be freely downloaded and executed.
So it's a specific implementation of a MUD.
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Rebecca Lizard - Dec 30, 2002 4:41:38 pm PST #1721 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
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askye - Dec 30, 2002 4:42:46 pm PST #1722 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
was distracted by the door, totally cross posted with better info.
P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2002 4:43:52 pm PST #1723 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
t /natter
Calls for a music thread again, BTW.
Which I'm still against.
Rob - Dec 30, 2002 4:44:12 pm PST #1724 of 10001
MOO apparently is a recursive acronym, standing for MUD Object Oriented.
§ ita § - Dec 30, 2002 4:49:55 pm PST #1725 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Also still not for music.
Steph L. - Dec 30, 2002 5:01:46 pm PST #1726 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Also not for music.
bon bon - Dec 30, 2002 5:01:51 pm PST #1727 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I think our relative musical mileages tend to vary too much for a sustained discussion with a critical mass of people.