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- noun The aspect of reality occupied by players and computers, rather than the personaland maintained by MUD. The term can be used adjectivally if hyphenated. Sometimes the words are capitalised, and sometimes they're subsequently abbreviated to RW. MUDspeke words and phrases which are generalisable from MUD to the real world are said to be real-world extensible, eg. "FOD job 2991", "Time to reset my desk...", "My supervisor looby looed the credit". See also real life, You mean..?, the game, real-world persona.
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