I will admit George Carlin is one of my favorite comedians and I am extremely fond of his "People I Can Do Without" skit. So in my odd search of a title and a tribute to him as well as getting out some of in game angst I found this appropriate. Here is my list, with a little help from various players as well. What list, you may ask? The list of gamers that just get under my skin...it's bad enough we have to put up with the gold farmers who now whisper you at the most inconvenient of times, but when other players start doing the ridiculous and in some cases extremely rude things to annoy others they end up on my list.

Beckett Massive Online Gamer's Most Influential Women in MMOs.

 Massive Online Gamer has listed their top 20 people in MMOs for two years running, 2008 and 2009.  In 2009, one woman received a mention although she did not make the top 20.  Where are the women in MMOs?  Further research showed that they are often in the support areas of the MMO industry,

Perma-Death Play in Dungeons & Dragons: Eberron Unlimited

Most players to all MMORG have their roots in pen & paper (PnP) games from the 80's and 90's. While most MMO's are the next step in PnP games they have to give up some of the elements that made players come to them in the first place.

By Eric Bloom, longtime gamer and lead vocalist for Blue Oyster Cult

I recently entered the 'beta' test for Aion, thanks to our magnanimous editor Doug Kale. The 5 gig + download takes awhile depending on your internet connection. Turns out I sucked the bandwidth out of the whole hotel system downloading while I was playing a concert 2 nights ago. However, the download was smooth, no glitches. My trusty Toshiba Satellite with SLi actually handled the download while I played WAR at the same time. (Yay!, got 2 pieces of Sent gear for my Sorc doing Bile).