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Taxation is one thing and it sucks to be sure but the real problem is and has been for many years foreign debt. In 2005 interest alone on foreign debt topped a $114 billion, that is $310 million a day, or more personally slightly greater than a dollar a day for every man, woman, and child.

What were facing is going to be a nightmare in the coming decade, we will likely default on our social obligations estimated now between $60 to $100 trillion. Here is the big issue, The baby boomers demographics are 1/3rd larger in size than the succeeding generation Gen-X. In other words there are not enough people in the next generation to keep the Fractional Reserve Banking Ponzi scheme going. Fractional Reserve Banking is an exponential system that must grow, you deposit a dollar and the banks loan out $30 to $40, its elf’n magic money and the banks don’t have it, that Bernanke panicked and injected all those dollars into the banks out of fear there would be a run on the banks.

When the baby boomers retire they will rely on the smaller Gen-X to support social security, Medicaid, Medicare, and hold up the stock market as they start to withdraw their IRA’s and 401k retirements. Social security was created with the idea people would retire at 65 when average life expectancy was 63. Today the average life expectancy is 77. In other words benefits must carry the largest generation of our times into years it did not plan for them to live up to.

By 2016 they are required by law (ERISA ACT of 1974) to start taking payment on their IRA’s and 401k’s (if there is anything left for them by then) but even if the law is removed the fact is people will start to withdraw anyways out of need. Most have planned to live on less than what they made when working.

Healthcare costs are only going up, even if Obama revamps our healthcare system, it will still be heavily taxed by the baby boomers, supported by the smaller Gen-X crowd. By now you no doubt are starting to see the problem. This is the $53 trillion in entitlements people are talking about now estimated at the above numbers I mentioned.

Never before in history have so many bet their retirement on the stock market, today there are more mutual funds than public companies, more funds chasing fewer dollars, eventually more sellers than buyers. If this crash doesn’t do the trick the next one by 2020 at the latest will unless we do something drastic soon.

I love this debate about weather we should have let the banks fail or not, they already DID! Their undead carcasses now walk under the US liquidity thanks to witch doctor Bernanke and no one trusts them any more, a.k.a. Zombie banks like we saw in Japan, they lost a decade and never recovered.
If you want a fantastic explanation of why were in trouble, watch this 8 part series by Peter Schiff in 2006 at mortgage bankers seminar where he tells over 1000 mortgage brokers they are about to be out of jobs. He completely nails it, the only thing he got wrong was the timing on the dollars collapse. He didn’t see everyone fleeing to it out of fear. While his timing on that was wrong in the end I think he will be proven right since fleeing to the default currency in a panic is anything but a move of strength. What fundamental is going to keep it strong?

It’s really worth the watch
http://www.youtube.com/results?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&search_query=peter+schiff+mortgage+bankers&search_type

Quote from "Magistrate" »

So, if a person is a democrat they are infallible? :confused:

I don't think so Obama was a better choice on many fronts, McCain never had a chance and I get to say that as I said that the moment he won the party nomination. I voted for Obama because I knew it was going to boil down to McCain and Obama and he was the better of the two in my estimation. I don't think McCain is a bad guy mind you, I just don't think he was going to represent us very well, he just mirrored Bush too closely.

That said I think Ron Paul was the best with respect to economy, I just knew he too stood a zero chance of winning. The Democrats and Republicans are both wrong the economy. Both wanted a bailout and voted for it, and Bush blessed it. Both were for a stimulus (just their own brand of stimulus) and ended up mewing over a trite $30 billion out of a massive nearly $800 billion, so either way each party was for spending, er I mean investing.

I'm not for additional spending, neither party nor any of the Keynesian economists can explain where the money is coming from nor seem to care, let alone bother asking. That should scare the hell out of us all. They all just seem real comfy with the idea the money is going to magically fly out Bernanke's ass on a rainbow like they were Lucky Charms.

I don't buy argument the light radius made it difficult to see all the targets and that some how made game play suck. I think that is a just an excuse so Blizzard doesn’t have to explain why they intentionally wanted to lighten it. It was said in one the interviews a few weeks back artists wanted their work more visible to showcase it; I think that is closer to the truth, and from their perspective I can understand that, but if it was that important to them they should have behind the scenes CD-ROM with all imagery, fans would love it.

Both D1 and D2 had many areas where you couldn’t see all the targets but you heard them or you saw glows coming from the room they were in. That added to the eeriness and made game play better. DOOM 3 used the same tactic (albeit first shooter) very effectively making it a scary game, but that's point it's an unlit dark room save the lone torch light around your character, you not supposed to all the targets, and it made it scarier because you weren't sure what all was in the room. I was bummed I could see the boss in the distance in the game play video, it would have been much foreboding to not know what it was until the fight. Things that go bump in the night are creepier than than things that you see go bump. Like Deckard Cain's guard yelled "What in the hells is that!?" it would have been more fitting if we didn't get see half of it walking in the lower levels before he yelled that; but rather only heard it.

Getting rid of the green ambient coloring light in favor of blue (I'm thinking somewhere between hex values 000099, 003366, or 000066) would give off a nice darker colder effect. The green they are using in the game play largely affects the mid-tone colors so I don't think you would lose any clarity of the characters attacking you.

By doing that and adding a light radius effect would not require darkening the backdrop very much, the overall effect would be a darker setting with a torch glow that should work fine. I refuse to believe they couldn’t make the light radius work in 3D, I don’t think they really tried. Of course this is my opinion but I have an art background and my IT career started in that area before moving on to nerdier technical work, so it’s hard for me believe all their reasons. 50,000 on a petition may not mean much, but it was enough to hit the news and get Blizzard to publically address it even though we fans largely got the bird.

After checking back in here to Diablo fans a dozen or so times I think it's pretty clear what a lot of the posts are about.

A lot of die hard Diablo fans are pissed that Blizzard North was a political sacrificial lamb (how else does a division lose it's baby?) and will not continue the legacy they started while Blizzard Irvine and their foo foo anime got it's grubby little hands on it (I smell a rat) and is WOW'ing it to death. So we (meaning who are not happy with the colors) all check in to see if we can learn how badly they are abusing our favorite game with some kind of Pokemon evil plot.


Mean time die hard WOW (which I do not play) fans who may have played too much WOW want something different yet WOW'ish and are thrilled to see a game that will give them something WOW-fresh to play in between there WOW conquests.

So it goes, of course I'm having a little fun in my post here throwing jabs but despite the embellishment it is probably not too far from the truth. OMG! Diablo has possessed all at Blizzard Irvine and is destroying the game with WOW magic!!! ROLMAO!

Quote from "Kenelm" »

I said D3 overture sounds like warcraft, not D2 LoD. D2 LoD music is just awesome.

I am sorry i misunderstood.

Er.... Welcome to the site.... Won't it be kind of wierd being on the same site as your brother?

Here is my very own fan-made map of Sanctuary that includes most of the locations that we have ever heard about in the Diablo series (manuals and novels included). I designed it myself using Solomir's cartography.

Its about 6 x A4 pieces big. It was originally drawn up from the DII manual's map, but then just after it was nearly finished Blizzard released their own updated map. So of course I then had to go back and fix my map to reflect the current state of Sanctuary with the Worldstone's destruction and everything. But that is also why the shape of the map is a little different. But don't blame me, blame those inaccurate scribes at Blizzard :P.

And as more information gets released (like when the game finally comes out), I'll continue to update the map accordingly.

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Quote from "italofoca" »

Just say one game, book, movie with a barbarian like the one you said been not a villan.

Oh, I was talking about the REAL ones. You know, vikings, celts, and what not.

Conan is a joke, seriously.

I agree with vegas :/..

the art direction is not bad, it just doesn't fit diablo at all, if we didn't know that diablo 3 was being made and we looked at that barbarian woman screenshot, we would never think that it's diablo 3, we would think it's from a new WOW game or something, but not diablo.

and blizzard is not changing the graphics because they already made most of the game using WOW ideas and WOW looking graphics, they said it themselves that diablo 3 is very influenced by WOW, and WOW makes money so if they take some things from WOW they are hoping to attrack WOW players too and hope it will be almost as big as WOW...all of us diablo fans will buy diablo 3, even if we like it or not just to see how it is.

Blizzard north really didn't think diablo would make a lot of money, they just made a great game (even with its few flaws it was still great) without thinking about making a lot of money, but this is not blizzard's case anymore, I remember when they listened to their fans and made games because they wanted to make great games, not because they wanted to make money.

there are way to many blizzard fans that think they can't do anything wrong, that they are game making gods or something and trust blizzard completely, I don't really think blizzard has made any good games besides diablo and diablo 2 (exp not included), WOW is total crap and played by losers and little kids. I remember playing diablo 1 and having the crap scared out of me, I was actually afraid to go in a fight the monsters and I'm sure a lot of you got at least chills playing diablo 1 and it wasn't only scary, but it wa salso fun and it took skill and thinking, but diablo 3 has lost the "diablo" heart and doesn't really feel like diablo anymore, diablo 1 had crap graphics, but at least they did what they were meant to do, inmerse you in the game and scare you.

It sucks that the graphics look colorful and too soft and have no texture or defenition at all, like most people say, they look like paintings, if I wanna look at a painting then I go to a museum, but I don't wanna kill a zombie that doesn't look like a zombie or walk through a monster infected section that doesn't look scary, graphics might not play an important part in most games, but they do in diablo, and I too like vegas don't play many games and carefully choose which ones to play because I don't have much time to play games and I rather use it playing a great game than just random other not so good games

blizzard's arguments about the gaem are not substantial either, it's all bull because they just DON'T wanna change the graphics and want to appeal to as many people as possible, thus they are aiming for a non mature rating too :/

Quote from "Alaric17" »

This thread and people's stupidity and even Credge's WANNABE SMART act has me well over the edge to end it here as is if this is what D3's community will be like (Full off asswhipe wannabe smart guys, and no good jerks) then i would not very well like to be apart of d3. But with all that aside I would by it as the graphics stand now, Yea Its still a little Eerie to me Im not sticking myself in the stoneage of graphics here to play this game.

Hey man, it could be worse! its not like everyones going WUG WUW WUG WUW WUG WUW or anything like that. I would play so much to get my hands on that game now!