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Stuff that's just gory isn't creepy. It's just gory. The Butcher scene worked so well because of the surrounding darkness, the perversion of the base element of bountifulness with carnage and depravity, and, above all, a sense of absolute loneliness against a suffocating and overwhelming evil. There's no power in or point to having gore for gore's sake. That is wisdom that I believe was lost in the team transition.

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i see that everibody is refering to diablo 2 where max screen resolution was 800x600 so it would become really messy and hard to distinguish anything BUT in D3 there are much greater resolutions and wider screen so it means your char and everything is a bit smaller than in D2 so i would not vote for 4 players as there is more than 4 classes so my vote goes for 5 atm and 7 if will be confirmed 2 more classes in expansion, Winged put a relly nice example video but as you can see there is much more ''dead'' space than in D2 so it is possible for more players without a big masshup

As far as I've seen, for desktop PC's 1024x768 is still the singular most common screen resolution (if you don't lump screen resolutions together statistically). Regardless, the effects are so large and flashy, and there's often so much going on with the screen--UI, destructible environments, chat text, monsters storming in from every conceivable angle--that a larger screen doesn't do much to compensate. Or at least it didn't at Blizzcon '10.

Four player max is still fine with me, as it has been with the last six thousand polls exactly like this one. In Diablo II, whenever I played in an engaged party, there was typically only two or three other people with me, and this was very uncommon. It only really got up to eight when people were sitting around and leaching XP from grind runs.

Yes, "Diablo III will be a different game," blah blah blah. There's still something to be said for the past. People will group and leach. That's how it always, always, always is. I don't think that's a good reason to have huge party caps. And that's about the only reason I can see for doing so, since anything else is a minority fact.

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Female munk lol xD

Lol.

1) Not needy.
2) Listens.

That is all.

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We need to start the DiabloFans personals.

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I'm sorry dude but I seriously doubt you know what you're talking about and you're words hold no water with me. I highly doubt Blizzard is on cruise control. Nor do I think the team will loose steam. What makes you think quality decreases with time?? Do you develope games or did you read this somewhere or what?

Honestly, ask this.
Do you think an action RPG takes 5+ years to make? and with the amount of MONEY they get from WoW?

The Diablo team doesn't keep getting funds from WoW. Development teams are given a set budget and must stick within that budget from the get-go. That's basically how it works in every company as far as such projects go. Movies, construction, software development...

Seriously, tell me... the number of CS programmers around the world.. i dun get it.
Have you seen the work environment they have? thoes guys have party in their main headquarter almost everyday.

Many highly-respected, revolutionary, and powerful companies employ the same tactics and it has been proven to not only increase creativity, but also productivity. Google, to name one.

I respect their work environment but seriously, your there to work.
5 years is not justified by no means, and with such a small content game compared to any other game out there, I don't see any reason why it should take 5+ years. [Maybe you should fill me in ?]

The company basically fell apart as far as the Diablo franchise was concerned. They had to put all the pieces back together again.

They'll probably just release the game or something dumb like that.

They're just angsty 'cuz we have something new and innovative and they have squat. Squat, I say!

Disparition du palais et des sortilèges by Stravinsky. Fifteenth ... movement? ... of Firebird.
I cry nearly every time I listen to it :*) It's so inspirational. Ronde des princesses (9 or so) is my second favorite part. Then probably Danse infernale de tous les sujets de Kastcheï.

God, I wish I could speak French. Or at least I think those titles are in French. Maybe Russian? Lol. I'm so ignorant.

No, they haven't, but they did allow us to change our default channel and therefor bypass all the channel-idling spambots. Came with 1.13.

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And I'm wearing my robe.

Are you a... WIZARD?! :sorcerer:

That may make the situation worse if he containment housing were to actually split. Radiation would leak more easily into the water table. But I don't know, sounds like an oversize great idea in hindsight.

Happy birthday, Airandius

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So all that being said, fear of nuclear power is mostly a collection of misconceptions and primordial emotional responses. Coal power is far more dangerous and harmful (I did not even begin to talk about the CO2 emissions of coal power), but it doesn't make headlines so the general public doesn't really fear coal power as it does nuclear power. Coal is an invisible killer that most people do not even know of.

The irony is that coal-powered factories and power stations in Ohio have been proven to infuse the atmosphere and land here in Pennsylvania with far more radiation than any of our nuclear plants. To my knowledge, nuclear plants give off nothing above natural radiation levels, which is what you'd find from the sun. My dad works in the reactors for fourteen hours every day and he leaves the plant every day without even the slightest hint of radiation on him.

This is a simple case of the media's long stance of demonizing nuclear power due to, as you said, common misconceptions, and then exploiting it for web hits and station stats. I can't tell you how many people I know off the top of my head that actually thought the steam that comes out of coolant towers was stuffed with radiation. I laugh every time I hear it. Anything that escapes from the plant, such as steam, either does not even touch the fuel rods (or the chassis) in the first place or is so thoroughly purified you could give it to your children.

But I guess The Simpsons is factual or something. I'm sure they put a lot of research into getting the sludge-green ooze color just right.

Is this scenario being downplayed? Exactly the opposite. I think it's getting more coverage than the Gulf oil spill, and that was far more destructive and harmful to the environment and mankind.

This is just, wow...

http://metalchaosblog.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html

In the end, a AH is better because it allows people to have fairer trades. In Diablo II, sometimes it's impossible to get what you want for a fair price simply because you have no alternatives. I'm having a nightmare trying to get a 4os eth ca or cv right now and I'm offering bers, ists, mals, BK's, arachs, and wisps. People will milk you dry.

With an AH, we can see prices so we have a ground for saying, no, that price is outrageous. We can see our options. We can get trades done faster because people who want what you have will be able to search for it with ease.

If this could be accessed at any time, whether ingame or not, it would be that much better. That way if you're levelling, you won't be missing out on the trade action. A complimentary peer-to-peer trading function for ingame purposes would still have to go alongside it, though.

It always happens to me when I come here on my iPhone with Safari.

If we could edit the source code, it would be a simple matter of going to where ever that thing is printed from and cutting out the link element or making the href void.