It is time for another episode of MER and this week we are joined by Dover from Darth Hater. We recap his adventures at E3 and take a few minutes to speculate (oh ok…. at least a half hour) on what is to come.

In addition, we answer your email questions and debate on whether or not players’ actions are acceptable in our beloved segment, MMO Loser.

Oh and FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That... thats not fair! For once in my life, my insomnia had given me an advantage. That first title... IT WAS MINE!

Well, at the very least, I will be the very first to listen to it! *listens with an intent to defeat all other listeners!*

Great episode gentlemen

Mmoloser stuff:
The name stuff is clearly a loser, the extra part you Americans mostlikely dont get is the country shorts which alot of swedish/german/italian and french people do for example:
SephirothSWE
SephirothITA
SephirothGER
Most of my MMO names come from Dante's Inferno ( the book not the awful game ) and barely anyone recognizes them and if people do i generally talk to those people for a while.

Also have to agree with Dover, random invites without a word make you a loser aswel.

After finishing my listen, (and having first stolen from me! *shakes fist!* ), I have the following to say:

What is the line for taking names from other things? Apparently, we hate Final Fantasy 7, so... jk. But if I named my Trooper 'Barret', also a FF7 character, would that be loser? Or would it have to be harder to recognize?

I use a variety of sources when making my character names. Being a Gamemaster for various table top RPGs, I am constantly making and naming characters. It is why I can forgive Blizzard for characters like Harrison Jones. Eventually, you can just run out of ideas. XD

A lot of my character names are from Asia, typically China or Japan, since that is where I studied in college. In my signature, Shilong is a bastardization of Chi Long, who is a Chinese demon who was shot by 1,000 arrows on the battlefield and did not die. Another name I frequently use is Shokatsuryu, which is how the Japanese say the name Zhuge Liang, who is a famous character from the novel 'Romance of Three Kingdoms' in China.

Is the only reason I am not a loser is because I am not ShokatsuryuLVR or some sillyness? (Sorry, some devil's advocate for you. )

Also, you guys made me contemplate which of the classes I was starting. I am playing a trooper in my free time with MERC, but whenever I play with my girlfriend (who wants to be a Bounty Hunter), I had to choose an Imperial character and went with Sith Sorcerer. But because of the frequent glow rave stick references, I again contemplate if I should try the Agent first. By first, I do mean that eventually, I will play all 8 class stories from 1-50 eventually.

That was an awesome episode, just listened to it and time just flew by! I was wondering if you could put show notes in the first post when you do these, to make it easier to either see what's in the show, or to remind us what was in it...!

I agree with Dover about the setup portion of the show being as fun as the actual recorded part. I had such a good time recording Episode 40 with you guys and there was TONS of fun banter before we started the "actual" podcast flow.

As always, great episode gentlemen!

- Alan

How would you classify names that are all onomatopoeia? Cuz I'm really good at that.

Love the MMO loser segment. Rudely spamming anything at some one in game makes you a loser. Hopefully TOR will have a quick and easy way to ignore people.

I have to agree with you guys 100% about launch classes and how the majority of the player base will most likely play jedi/sith. I'm dreading rolling my first character and seeing the starting zone flooded with lightsabers XD