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Mud: Directed by Jeff Nichols. With Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland. Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.
- (190K)
- Adventure, Drama
- Jeff Nichols
- 2013-05-10
Mud is a 2012 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Jeff Nichols. In the film, Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland portray a pair of teenagers who encounter the titular Mud ( Matthew McConaughey ), a fugitive hiding on a small island, and agree to help him evade his pursuers.
Jul 12, 2002 · See here GlamRock legends Mud with the full concerts at the tv shows The Geordie Scene and Supersonics.
- 27 min
- 25.4K
- BestOfGlamRock
Mud are an English glam rock band, formed in February 1966. Their earlier success came in a pop and then glam rock style, while later hits were influenced by 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly , [ 1 ] and they are best remembered for their hit singles " Dyna-mite ", " Tiger Feet ", which was the UK's best-selling single of 1974, and " Lonely ...
- Early History
- Popular Variants
- Gameplay
- Style
- Development
- Community
- Psychology and Engagement
- Grammatical Usage and Derived Terms
- See Also
- External Links
Origins
Colossal Cave Adventure, created in 1975 by Will Crowther on a DEC PDP-10 computer, was the first widely used adventure game. The game was significantly expanded in 1976 by Don Woods. Also called Adventure, it contained many D&D features and references, including a computer controlled dungeon master. Numerous dungeon crawlers were created on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois and other American universities that used PLATO, beginning in 1975. Among them were "pedit5", "oubliette",...
Wider access and early derivatives
MUD, better known as Essex MUD and MUD1 in later years, ran on the University of Essex network, and became more widely accessible when a guest account was set up that allowed users on JANET (a British academic X.25 computer network) to connect on weekends and between the hours of 2 AM and 8 AM on weekdays. It became the first Internet multiplayer online role-playing game in 1980, when the university connected its internal network to ARPANet. The original MUD game was closed down in late 1987,...
Proto-Metaverse
Since mainframe computers allowed purely digital messages to be shared by individuals, some observers feel the history of proto-Metaverses starts with their rise in the 1950s. However, most feel that history started in the 1970s with MUDs.
AberMUD
The first popular MUD codebase was AberMUD, written in 1987 by Alan Cox, named after the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Alan Cox had played the original University of Essex MUD, and the gameplay was heavily influenced by it. AberMUD was initially written in B for a Honeywell L66 mainframe under GCOS3/TSS. In late 1988 it was ported to C, which enabled it to spread rapidly to many Unix platforms upon its release in 1989. AberMUD's popularity resulted in several inspired works, the most nota...
TinyMUD
Monster was a multi-user adventure game created by Richard Skrenta for the VAX and written in VMS Pascal. It was publicly released in November 1988. Monster was disk-based and modifications to the game were immediate. Monster pioneered the approach of allowing players to build the game world, setting new puzzles or creating dungeons for other players to explore. Monster, which comprised about 60,000 lines of code, had a lot of features which appeared to be designed to allow Colossal Cave Adve...
Hourglass
The first version of Hourglass was written by Yehuda Simmons and later Daniel James for Avalon: The Legend Lives which debuted in 1989 at the last of the London MUD mega Meets aptly named Adventure '89 and initially hosted on the IOWA system. Initially written in ARM assembly language on the Acorn Archimedes 440, in 1994 it made the leap from the venerable Archimedes to Debian Linux on the PC and later Red Hat where, other than shifting to Ubuntu, it has remained ever since. An early version...
The typical MUD will describe to the player the room or area they are standing in, listing the objects, players and non-player characters (NPCs) in the area, as well as all of the exits. To carry out a task the player would enter a text command such as take apple or attack dragon. Movement around the game environment is generally accomplished by en...
While there have been many variations in overall focus, gameplay and features in MUDs, some distinct sub-groups have formed that can be used to help categorize different game mechanics, game genres and non-gameuses.
Within a MUD's technical infrastructure, a mudlib (concatenation of "MUD library") defines the rules of the in-game world. Examples of mudlibs include Ain Soph Mudlib, CDlib, Discworld Mudlib, Lima Mudlib, LPUniversity Mudlib, MorgenGrauen Mudlib, Nightmare Mudlib, and TMI Mudlib.
MUD history has been preserved primarily through community sites and blogs and not through mainstream sources with journalistic repute. As of the late 1990s, a website called The Mud Connector has served as a central and curated repository for active MUDs. In 1995, The Independent reported that over 60,000 people regularly played about 600 MUDs, up...
Sherry Turkledeveloped a theory that the constant use (and in many cases, overuse) of MUDs allows users to develop different personalities in their environments. She uses examples, dating back to the text-based MUDs of the mid-1990s, showing college students who simultaneously live different lives through characters in separate MUDs, up to three at...
As a noun, the word MUD is variously written MUD, Mud, and mud, depending on speaker and context. It is also used as a verb, with to mud meaning to play or interact with a MUD and mudding referring to the act of doing so. A mudder is, naturally, one who MUDs. Compound words and portmanteaux such as mudlist, mudsex, and mudflation are also regularly...
Source code repositories
1. Erwin S. Andreasen: Home of the 16k MUD competition, and other resources. 2. MudBytes.net: MUD code repository and discussion.
Resources
1. The Mud Connector: Extensive mud portal with hundreds of mud listings 2. Top Mud Sites: MUD listings, reviews, discussion forum and rankings by category. 3. MUDseek: Google custom search engine indexing MUD and MUD-related web sites. 4. MUD Stats: MUD statistics. 5. MUDs at Curlie 6. MUDbase
Apr 25, 2013 · Jeff Nichols ‘ “Mud,” a Mississippi River coming-of-age story, takes place on that threshold, down in the delta where innocence and experience, the past and the future, all run together like dirt and water. It starts off as a boy’s adventure story, in the dark of a kid’s bedroom.
Mississippi adolescents Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland) are exploring along the mighty Mississippi when they stumble upon a small island inhabited by Mud (Matthew McConaughey), a desperado who claims to be on the run from brutal bounty hunters after killing a man in Texas.
