Shut Up. We're Talking.
Darren and Karen present this commentary podcast covering recent topics found within the MMORPG Blogging and Podcasting community.
Shut Up! We're Talking #16 Agenda:
  • Introductions
  • Listener mail/What we're playing
  • Leave it Alone
  • Why Can't they do that?
  • Too many MMOs?
  • The Moments of 2007
  • Blog of the Week

    Hosts:
  • Darren - Commonsensegamer.com
  • Karen - Journeys With Jaye
  • Troy - Wife Aggro Podcast
  • Mark - Channel Massive

    Topics:
  • Anyway Games
  • Random-battle
  • Nerfbat

    Blog of the Week:
  • Mrrx's Gaming Journal
  • Direct download: 016-SUWT-12-24-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:58am CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #15 Agenda:
  • Introductions
  • Listener mail/What we're playing
  • STO:WTF!
  • Loving the Grind
  • Settle the Score
  • Mergers
  • Balance Daniel-san
  • Blog of the Week

    Hosts:
  • Darren - Commonsensegamer.com
  • Brent - Virgin Worlds
  • John - Ancient Gaming Noob
  • Cameron - Random Battle

    Topics:
  • westkarana.com
  • nerfbat.com
  • Eating Bees
  • theserverisdown.com

    Blog of the Week:
  • crazykinux.com
  • Direct download: 015-SUWT-12-9-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:24pm CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #14 Agenda:
  • Introductions
  • Listener mail/What we're playing
  • The Stuff we say
  • The Digital Delay
  • Mudflation
  • All in the Timing
  • Eve in the Morning
  • Blog of the Week

    Hosts:
  • Darren - Commonsensegamer.com
  • Aaron - hallower1980.blogspot.com
  • Adam - trollonfire.wordpress.com
  • Mike - syncaine.wordpress.com

    Topics:
  • journeyswithjaye.com
  • commonsensegamer.com
  • digital-download-delays
  • keenandgraev.com
  • hallower1980.blogspot.com
  • tagn.wordpress.com
  • syncaine.wordpress.com

    Blog of the Week:
  • raoworld.wordpress.com
  • Direct download: 014-SUWT-11-26-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:47am CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #13 Agenda:
    - Introductions
    - Listener mail/What we're playing
    - Late to the Party
    - Blogger Commandments?
    - Dumbing Down
    - Personality
    - Cheats in MMOs?
    - Blog of the Week

    Hosts:

    Darren - Commonsensegamer.com
    John - tagn.wordpress.com
    Dennis - potshot.wordpress.com
    Craig - damianov.wordpress.com

    Topics:

    syncaine.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/analyzing-the-magic-formula
    www.keenandgraev.com/?p=453
    www.keenandgraev.com/?p=456
    westkarana.com/index.php/2007/11/08/the-kind-of-game-that-leaves-you-bruised-battered-bleeding-and-begging-for-more/
    trollonfire.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/mmos-a-personality-shift/
    hallower1980.blogspot.com/2007/10/cheating-thats-good.html

    Blog of the Week:
    http://digitalhedonist.com/
    Direct download: 013-SUWT-11-11-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:30pm CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #12 Agenda:
    - Introductions
    - Listener mail/What we're playing
    - Adults need only apply
    - What is a Successful MMO?
    - Polish kills MMORPGs?
    - The new four letter word: Easy
    - Blog of the Week

    Hosts:
    Darren - commonsensegamer.com
    Craig "Grimwell" Dalrymple - grimwell.com
    Brenda - westkarana.com
    Tom - www.gamersmind.org

    Topics:
    tobolds.blogspot.com/2007/10/adults-only.html
    tagn.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/my-new-scorecard
    potshot.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-measure-of-success
    adingworld.wordpress.com/2007/10/13/polish-kills-mmogs
    keenandgraev.com/?p=404
    oakstout.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/why-is-easy-bad
    mmomentofzen.blogspot.com/2007/10/difficulty-levels.html

    Blog of the Week
    trollonfire.wordpress.com/
    Direct download: 012-SUWT-10-29-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:55am CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #11 Agenda:
    - Introductions
    - Listener mail/What we're playing
    - Dear PC Game Developers...
    - UI Freedom
    - 10 000 Hours to ding!
    - How Big will the Graveyard get?
    - Avoiding MMO Burnout
    - Blog of the Week

    Hosts:

    Darren - Commonsensegamer.com
    Kevin - theserverisdown.com
    Johnathan - Online Gamer's Anthology

    Topics:

    http://www.psychochild.org/?p=340
    http://www.nerfbat.com/2007/10/01/mmo-rant-11-custom-user-interfaces/
    http://www.mmognation.com/2007/10/01/let-me-move-my-stuff/
    http://tidehorizon.blogspot.com/2007/10/10000-hours-to-ding.html
    http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2007/10/is-2007-bad-year-for-mmorpgs.html
    http://potshot.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/rome-sacked/
    http://theserverisdown.com/2007/10/09/gods-and-heroes-is-officially-on-ice/
    http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2007/10/gods-heroes-cancelled.html
    http://wifeagro.blogspot.com/2007/10/avoiding-mmo-burnout-when-is-enough.html

    Blog of the Week
    http://adingworld.wordpress.com/
    Direct download: 011-SUWT-10-14-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:30pm CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #10 Agenda:
  • Introductions
  • Listener mail/What we're playing
  • Some Web 2.0 Action
  • Sexually Confused
  • It's the Chef
  • 3 Mistakes
  • Gaming Parents
  • Blog of the Week

    Hosts:
    Darren - commonsensegamer
    Kean & Graev
    Sean - Brackishwater


    Topics:
    Metathis, Metathat, Metaplace
    Metaplace Madness
    Metaplace
    Metaplace - where is it’s niche?
    Raph's New Game
    Metaplace re-read
    Metaplace the Next Big Thing
    The Meta Place Craze
    Meh to Metaplace
    Chinese MMO bans Manginas
    All your Ladies belong to us
    Play as you are
    Girlz Don't Exist
    It Ain’t the Recipe - It’s the Chef
    Three Things
    Gaming Parents

    Blog of the Week:
    Tide's Horizon
  • Direct download: 010-SUWT-9-30-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:33pm CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #9 Agenda:
  • Introductions
  • Listener mail/What we're playing
  • 1-800-MMO-SERVICES
  • Are Bloggers Press?
  • Family Aggro...disspell please
  • Help Wanted
  • Non-Beta-Tester, umm, testing.
  • Blog of the Week

    Hosts:
    Darren - commonsensegamer
    Brent - VirginWorlds
    Troy - Voyages of Vanguard
    Sean - Brackishwater

    Topics:
    Are Bloggers Press?
    Darren Wants to Know so we Answer
    Are Bloggers Considered Press?
    Are Bloggers and Podcasters Press?
    Hot off the Blogging Press
    This Just In
    Am I a Member of the Press
    Bloggers Press
    Are Bloggers Press (Tobold)
    MMO Elitism
    Do you Help New Players
    What are Beta Tests For?
    Test the Beta Please
    Testy

    Blog of the Week:
    MMOpinionated
  • Direct download: 009-SUWT-9-16-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:47pm CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #8 Agenda:
  • Introductions
  • Listener mail/What we're playing
  • The Midgame
  • Agency and MTs
  • I know what you don't know
  • Are they killing PvE?
  • The Secrecy
  • Blog of the Week

    Hosts
    Darren - commonsensegamer
    John - Ancient Gaming Noob
    Dennis - Potshot
    Jason - WifeAggro
    Karen - Journey's with Jaye

    Topics
    The Midgame
    Agency and MT
    Know what you know
    Killing PvE
    The NDA and Me

    Blog of the Week
    Random Ogre Thoughts
  • Direct download: 008-SUWT-9-3-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:44pm CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #7 Agenda:
  • Introductions
  • Listener mail/What we're playing
  • We be Social
  • Justifying MMO fees
  • The Revolution
  • End Game Sucks!
  • Go MMO, you don't go back
  • Blog of the week

    Hosts:
    Darren - commonsensegamer.com
    Adele - adelecaelia.wordpress.com
    Nick (aka Pixie Styx) - strangelands
    Troy - Voyages of Vanguard podcast

    Topics:
    Social Research
    Dr. Phil
    Lonely and Social
    Social Gamers
    Taken to Task
    Talking with a Console Gamer
    Jusifying MMO Fees
    The Revolution
    End Game Sucks!
    End Game Haiku
    End Game and Real People
    Stupid is as End Game Does
    Go Massive or Go Home

    Blog of the week:
    theserverisdown.com
  • Direct download: 007-SUWT-8-19-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:05pm CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #6 Agenda:
  • Introductions
  • Listener mail/What we're playing
  • Blizz and the Bizz
  • Bethesda, I love you long time
  • Staying on the Level
  • We have to talk Chickens
  • Why can't MMO's be more like this...
  • Blog of the week

    Hosts:
    Darren - commonsensegamer.com
    Adele - adelecaelia.wordpress.com
    John - tagn.wordpress.com
    Craig - damianov.wordpress.com
    Dennis - potshot.wordpress.com

    Topics:
    WoW: Next Expansion Incoming?
    WoW Expansion Tidbits
    I Refuse To Post About The Wrath of the Lich King!
    World of Warcraft : The Next Expansion
    Fan Faire vs. Blizzcon, who will deliver?
    Bethesda Heads Online
    Squeee! Bethsoft MMOs, INC!
    Alternatives to XP-Based Leveling
    Interesting idea from mud-dev
    Is the honeymoon over for LOTRO?
    Why did the chicken cross the Lone-Lands?

    Blog of the week:
    Anyway Games - http://hallower1980.blogspot.com/
  • Direct download: 006-SUWT-8-5-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:13pm CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #5 Agenda for Today:
    1. Introductions - who we are
    2. Listener mail/What we're playing
    3. I'm not dead yet!
    4. Give me an 'M'.
    5. E3 Blogging coverage
    6. Hitting the same old rat
    7. WTF!!Barbie Online??
    8. Blog of the week

    Hosts:
    Darren - CommonSenseGamer.com
    Adele - adelecaelia.wordpress.com
    Michael - MMOGnation.com
    Marc - alaph.net

    Blogs:
    damianov.wordpress.com
    eyeslikeours.com
    hallower1980.blogspot.com
    moorgard.com
    gamingmmo.com
    commonsensegamer.com
    keenandgraev.com
    nosignalinput.co.uk
    dubiousquality.blogspot.com
    nerfbat.com
    random-battle.com

    Blog of the week:
    mushiii.wordpress.com
    Direct download: 005-SUWT-7-22-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:50pm CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #4 Shut Up! We're Talking #4

    Here's the agenda:
  • Introductions
  • Listener mail/What we're playing
  • SOE....drinking the hateraide
  • MMO Slump. Calm before the storm or something more?
  • Lego Universe
  • Auto Assault the sign of "Kiss of Death" for Sci-fi MMOs?
  • Crafting to Order
  • Blog of the Week
  • Bye-bye

    Hosts:
  • Darren - www.commonsensegamer.com
  • Brent - www.virginworlds.com
  • John - www.tagn.wordpress.com

    Blogs:
  • SOE Hate
  • Pirates of the Burning Sea and SOE
  • Curing the Slump
  • Could this Summer be a Gaming Slump?
  • LEGO Universe
  • Kiss of Death
  • Craft to Order

    Blog of the Week:
  • GamersMind Bodies
  • Direct download: 004-SUWT-7-8-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:52pm CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #3 Shut Up! We're Talking #3

    Here's the agenda:
  • Introductions
  • Listener mail
  • New Bloggers/Advice/Tips/Tricks
  • Guilds: what are they good for?
  • MMOG Numbers
  • Are MMOs getting easy?
  • Gaming bodies
  • Blog of the Week
  • Bye-bye

    Hosts:
  • Darren - www.commonsensegamer.com
  • Cuppy - www.cuppycake.org
  • Cyan - www.eq2-daily.com
  • Cameron - www.random-battle.com

    Blogs:
  • New Bloggers
  • So You Want to Be a Blogger?
  • Family Guild: Safe Haven from Drama?
  • Musing on Guilds
  • World of Warcraft in decline
  • MMOG subscriptions
  • MMOGEase
  • MMORPGs Are Too Easy
  • The Girls of WoW
  • Idealizing Fantasy Bodies
  • Direct download: 003-SUWT-6-23-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:20pm CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #2 Show Notes:
  • Introductions
  • What we're playing
  • Bring out the Axes
  • Did TBC kill WoW?
  • When the Virtual and Real World Collide
  • Quality in Games
  • Blog of the Week
  • Listener mail.

    Links:
  • A Pretty Pink Axe to Grind
  • Female Gamer? - Who cares? by Cuppycake
  • Warriors to the forum
  • Cuppy, AKA the anti-feminist
  • I Reject the Big Boys
  • NewBreed on How TBC killed WoW
  • Why TBC Killed End-Game WoW for Me and a Plea to Blizzard
  • The Missing Ingredient
  • Speaking on Ingredients
  • Follow Up Thought…

    Darren and Cuppy present this commentary podcast covering recent topics found within the MMORPG Blogging and Podcasting community.
  • Direct download: 002-SUWT-6-5-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:20am CDT

    Shut Up! We're Talking #1 Here's the proposed agenda:
    - Introductions
    - What we're playing
    - SOE/Vanguard wrap-up
    - EQ2 Underdog
    - Blizz's new announcement
    - Blogline
    - Theme of the week.
    - Listener mail - NONE! HA!!!

    Links

    EQ is the Underdog at MMOG Nation
    Darren on Neriak
    LotRo Gripes from TAGN
    Eating Bees

    Darren and Cuppy present this commentary podcast covering recent topics found within the MMORPG Blogging and Podcasting community.
    Direct download: 001-SUWT-5-27-07.mp3
    Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:12pm CDT