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minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·5 months agoI’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.
minus-squareNatanox@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoWay more even. Just look at emulation on Android, you can play good damn Sekiro on it by now. Even if they manage to take away our desktops, Smartphones become beautifully powerful and can be docked to TVs and all via USB-C easily.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoWe need to get MUDs more popular again. But that would require getting Telnet popular again.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoBut why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoBecause a MUD that isn’t part of a BBS feels wrong to me.
minus-squarefubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoCan you fill me in on what that means? Searching for mud doesn’t give me useful results.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoPeople were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser. http://mud.arctic.org/ this one is still around.
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoIt means Multi User Dungeon. It’s a networked multiplayer game, usually focused on dungeon-crawling as the name suggests. Early ones were based heavily on BD&D and AD&D, but others got more creative.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon For a list of still-active MUDs: https://www.mudconnect.com/
I’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.
Way more even. Just look at emulation on Android, you can play good damn Sekiro on it by now.
Even if they manage to take away our desktops, Smartphones become beautifully powerful and can be docked to TVs and all via USB-C easily.
We need to get MUDs more popular again. But that would require getting Telnet popular again.
But why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.
Because a MUD that isn’t part of a BBS feels wrong to me.
Can you fill me in on what that means? Searching for mud doesn’t give me useful results.
People were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser.
http://mud.arctic.org/ this one is still around.
It means Multi User Dungeon. It’s a networked multiplayer game, usually focused on dungeon-crawling as the name suggests. Early ones were based heavily on BD&D and AD&D, but others got more creative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon
For a list of still-active MUDs:
https://www.mudconnect.com/