I imagine the actual conversation going a bit like this…
“Who’s Phreak again?”
“That (chick, player, bitch, lunatic …..) who loves Malta!”
(Sidebar…Malta sucks in popular opinion, they are some of the meaniest, nastiest, hardest to fight high level enemies in the game….but come on- their big bad baddies are called Gunslingers and Kronos Titan Mechs!!!!! How can I not love???)