Quote fromI said D3 overture sounds like warcraft, not D2 LoD. D2 LoD music is just awesome.
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Dec 6, 20081
Enty posted a message on Music in Diablo 3Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
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Dec 4, 20081
Irrational posted a message on brookeeeeeeeeEr.... Welcome to the site.... Won't it be kind of wierd being on the same site as your brother?Posted in: Introduction -
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Atrumentis posted a message on Map of Sanctuary (Complete)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.Posted in: Lore & Storyline
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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Nov 2, 20081
Equinox posted a message on Samurai yes or no?Posted in: Unannounced Class
Oh, I was talking about the REAL ones. You know, vikings, celts, and what not.Quote from "italofoca" »Just say one game, book, movie with a barbarian like the one you said been not a villan.
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Aug 25, 2008
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ld006 posted a message on G4TV's Adam Sessler Attacks Diablo 3's Art HatersI agree with vegas :/..Posted in: News & Announcements
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 :/ -
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BrutalBarbarian posted a message on Poll: Will you buy D3 as it is?Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionQuote 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! - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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I think I'll throw up a new music vid for the day, these guys have been around forever but I like this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6IPyiAG6oI
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America is still the easiest place to become wealthy so I'm not down on this country, if you learn the trends and learn to ride those waves then opportunity here id wonderful. So it's not all doom and gloom, it is angering though on the level that the average person is going to get screwed in this because they didn't devote their time to these things, they chose to be a teacher, an accountant, etc. and for that they are penalized and that makes me mad. I would rather be just a system engineer and not think about stuff like this, but circumstances won't allow that if I want to make sure I retire with some dignity.
Here is a short list of a few I've come across over the years, a mostly video bread crumb trail for any who want it, this will lead you to more. I'll say up front, I do not necessarily agree with every point in all of these, some truths though are obvious and easy to pick out. Overall though the message is the same. How can I say much of what I do with confidence? I had a few wake calls like at this convention put on by Robert Kiyosaki I attended in Los Angles in 2006, this video (which I didn't record) was made 2 years before the stock market crash.Where are we at in this crash? These charts are a good indicatorThis is what the FED doesn't want you know, BTW many of the views here come from the Austrian school of economics, I tend to agree with it. The one that people like Paul Krugman are embracing is from the Keynesian economics. I think the Keynesian's are in for a rude awakening.Chris Martsenson's crash course on economics, probably the best 3 hours you can spend for the next 20 years of your life. It covers the 3 E's. Economy, Energy, and EnvironmentThe Federal Reserve - Zeitgeist, The Movie (2 Hrs)How long ago did we know a crash was coming? We had a clue since the early 1930's thanks to Nikolai KondratieffThe history of the US dollar, how we got robbed, how this economic mess was destined to happen, and why change is unlikely with our current system -- Dr Lawrence Parks.A lot of good video's on gold and silver, yes I do believe it's going to be a good store of wealth, the hero's of Diablo may have been on to something collecting all that gold.A Resource Based Economy - Zeitgeist Addendum (2 Hrs) Possible Solution
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No it's good anti-piracy measure, it's just not a measure that makes customers happy, but then again taking out the LAN feature isn't either. Not many want it that way but welcome to the new world order a number of companies have implemented these measures and have increased their stringency on licensing. It completely hoses anyone who wants to pirate the software for resale purposes and makes it aggravating for people who want to get a free copy, especially as new expansion packs come out and updates, and there will be at lest a half dozen of updates, there always is.
No there are quite a few software companies that have implemented these self-serving features with enterprise to desktop applications. (OK, granted the enterprise apps are far more expensive) Doesn't support mods? Sorry I meant expansion pack, to me it's a mod.
Yeah I got tired of bitching about that ten years ago and my headaches in this area have been worse than any gamers who doesn't work in a systems engineering postion. I have to deal with product activation and mass deployment over the network and still make sure all the pushed applications licenses get activated, Adobe software for years was a royal pain in the ass to deploy but they have gotten a lot better and easier. Your only safe haven left now is Linux and it's app base, hence why I use Linux a lot more these days.
Do you think anyone will be able to sell a game they can't update or buy an expansion pack for? They'll have to lie to those they sell it to and in the end they person who paid for it will be pissed they can't. If your software has to do check in authentication for updates then piracy has been for the most part been successfully detered because a hacked copy won't be able to do that, it's really the only way to put a kink in piracy. For those who fork up the bread for a real copy what do they care? They don't, they own a real copy, only those who have bogus copies will yell about it.
Microsoft, Adobe (two of the largest software co's) and a host of others already do this and it works fairly well. You place your product key in, activate, and the rest is fairly transparent. Mirosoft has even started forcing activation for it's volume licensing now, you get 28 activations before you have to justify to Microsoft why. That puts a huge kink in pirates who want to burn a copy and sell it again and again. Froma customer standpoint though it is of little consequence, over 3 to 5 year period the odds of you reinstalling an OS more than 5 or 6 times in a corporate environment is very small.
Personally I would take product activation over LAN removal.
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100 hours is really not that much time, but it's about the same as most tech school courses. As an educator I taught 8 week courses to people who were trying to develop a career in IT administration. The courses were $19/k for an AA degree but the truth is this.
If you have a drive to know the material you will do well, an instructor is simply going to get your feet wet in the application, the honing of your skills will take much more time and effort. In my classes 1 out of every 10 students put in the effort to make a career for themselves, the others were wasting their time and money. After 6 years of teaching I had roughly 800 students pass though my class room and I can only think of about 20 tops I would go out of my way to hire today. Even 8 weeks of the courses I taught only allowed me to teach the basics in hands on intensive lab driven classes.
So the moral of the story is if you have a real passion to get into 3D animation or graphic arts there is nothing that will stop you if you are hell bent on it. The other thing to consider is even though these are applications, there is still an artistic bend to it, you still need to have a good eye and an artistic skill that will make you marketable. If you have that already, then application will simply become another medium for you to express yourself.
Ironically I didn't go to school for any computer courses, I started with book's, lots of them and got into entry level positions and worked my way up into more technical positions. To give you an idea when I did support for Adobe we had a crash lab in the back any of us could use and we had PC's on carts we could roll up to our desk with all of Adobe's applications on them.
Most people never used the crash lab and only played games on the mobile PC's, after my shift was over at 10 PM, I would go in the back and teach myself Photoshop, Pagemaker, FrameMaker, etc. for another 3 to 4 hours every night until I knew it like the back of my hand. I also read all the user guides (yes those boring things :D) The same was true in all my positions, that was my college. Some people do well in class room settings, if you are one and know you have the drive for this, then 3 weeks might be just what you need to get started. I would recommend though to check out other schools before settling on one, find out who your instructor is and make sure you have a good rapport with them. Some teachers can suck and nothing will waste your time and money faster than a bad instructor.
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Bankruptcy actually works, investors love buying bargains and making them better assets. This is about the government hiding it's dirt and Wall Street's too because the FED was very much a part of it. It's all about control. They should be reducing the size of government now, reducing expenses, and using government to help streamline buying opportunities for private money while capitol hill gets busy putting back the safe guards in place they removed that helped lead us into this mess. They are doing the opposite.
You are both right, Permit me to issue and control the money of the nation and I care not who makes its laws. - Mayer Amschel Rothschild
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Here be me input matey! But first I would consider your professor, is your professor open for any solution or do he/she have economic path they want you to take? This can be a politically charged topic where people have strong opinions and that might determine how receptive they are. I know some professors can get testy about things like that.
With that said I believe the Austrians will be proven right in the long run some of the more noted were the ones who saw this moment coming Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, Peter Schiff, Robert Kiyosaki, and Ron Paul (mentioned by 3CXOD) to name a few. They have proposed solutions but despite being credited with seeing it their solutions have gotten little attraction because they are not popular solutions, they require us taking our medicine, in essence the correction is the solution to a massive bubble market that has spun out of control for years as prescribed by Ludwig von Mises. The time we should have done something was on the drunken euphoric trip up and the aforementioned we're warning everyone about and getting laughed at and ridiculed for being Dr. Doom's.The Austrian's propose allowing companies to fail and let the process of bankruptcy to help reset the market. This is the only way assets can properly valuate and flush bad debt from the books. Depending on who you listen to they have different ideas of what the government could do to aid, but basically the governments role should be to foster free trade and streamline the process so a quick V shaped recession could take place and the correction would last for a shorter period of time and thus a faster recovery. They argue no matter what we do the downturn is going to be painful. Bail outs, stimulus and recovery packages are attempts to not take our medicine. Such actions will only prolong the down turn and lead us into an L shaped recession not to unlike the lost generation in Japan in the 1990's complete with Zombie banks from which Japan never truly recovered. All the efforts being taken are basically ways vain attempts to reinflate artificial bubbles and prices that cannot persist.
Indeed today we see that the largest bailed out banks are already undead entities on government life support no one has faith in anymore. By keeping these entities alive along with all their toxic debt no investor will place money in assets that can't be properly valuated.Proponents Keynesian approach argue just because someone saw it does not equate to having solutions and simply submit their solutions are not solutions but do so without qualification. On the Keynesian side the poster child has been Paul Krugman because he won a Nobel Prize for his work on trade patterns. I agree and disagree with Krugman on varying points but a few things to consider which I find hard to resolve:
He did not anticipate this crisis reaching this level, as he states in his 10.26.08 blog commentaryBut he has since attempted to suggest he was as close as anyone was to it. Paul Krugman was on the 'Washington Journal' (a four part series) In part 2 starting at 5:35 a caller calls Krugman out for representing Keynesian views and for not seeing this crisis where the Austrians and people like Peter Schiff did.That isn't much of a defense, personally I think of you want a voice in the crisis solution you should have been wise enough to see it coming. In all his commentaries and appearances I have not heard one thing about where the US is going to get the money to pay for all this deficit spending. Obviously we're borrowing it from China but no one wants to talk about the long term implications of this, the Keynesian's mildly acknowledge the long term debt is a problem but with light reverence.We do however hear much about how we need to put America back to work and that Obama can create government jobs and infrastructure spending. But those who argue this again don't ask with what money? They don't consider that all government jobs while honest work is a burden to the tax payer and eventually if allowed to grow too large become a system that feeds on itself destructively. Unlike free trade inviting fresh money based on competition, supply, and demand. They believe deficit spending is a path out of this mess, I disagree. If you start with the 1 hour video I mentioned in my previous post by Dr. Lawrence Parks you can see there are fundamental problems that date 30 plus years back that are compounding our troubles.We have two crisis problems
1) a dollar crisis and this is a fundamental problem, we now operate on a house of fiat currency cards and no one is looking to fix it. There have been over 3800 fiat currencies though out history and all have failed. With a winning tack record of 3800+ losses 0 wins, the prospects of the dollar surviving this time around is also zero. In the US alone we saw the Continental fail, and the US Greenback dollar fail. The Federal Reserve Note will too it's just a matter of time.
2) We have a foreign debt problem in 2005, U.S. interest payments on foreign debt topped the $100 billion mark for the first time - coming in at $114 billion dollars breaking down to $310 million per day, according to Joseph Quinlan, Bank of America's chief market strategist. This equates to more than $1 per day for every person in America. So all this additional deficit spending which the left bemoaned as Bush spent like a liberal on steroids running two wars while lowering taxes, suddenly and conveniently they now see this type action as a solution to the problem. They think now somehow punch through our economic problems if we just spend enough money! (BTW I voted for Obama, that usually makes most Democrat's heads snap after I say stuff like the above)
Conventional wisdom says if you are in a hole you stop digging, tighten the belt and pay down your debt, but not here. Keynesian's however are pumping the idea that even the basic concepts of global economics are too complex for the average person to understand. Kind of like those complex derivatives only advanced mathematicians could decipher that helped to blow up the economy. Certainly every industry has details and complexities only the professionals understand but the basic concepts should not be hard to grasp. At the end of the day it's still money in money out.
Stimulus Has Never WorkedStimulus supporters would love nothing better than to bury that quote. It comes from Morgenthau's personal diary.
I mention this because many reference FDR's New Deal as a justification for today's stimulus, so it behooves us to listen to the architect of the new deal. The depression lasted 10 to 12 years and while FDR did not cause it he was not very successful in pulling the nation out of it, there were 2 New Deals and both failed, it took WWII to pull us out of it.Want an interesting take on this, Michael Maloney is pro gold and silver and while some disagree with his take on gold and silver his use of the FED's own charts are compelling to say the least, and show that the problem is larger than most fathom.Well there you have it, I could type a hell of lot more but that should give a fair amount of material to work from, I would recommend looking at all the links I have provided to give you a fuller perspective. After seeing all that you should have a bang up paper.
If you are bold and want to invest 3 well spent hours, then Chris Martenson's "Crash Course on Economics" is probably one of the most important presentations you can watch for the next 20 years, he talks about the 3 E's, Energy, Environment, and Economy. No matter how you cut it, were in for a hell of ride.
http://www.chrismartenson.com/
They almost didn't know this was coming, Kondratieff waves
Nikolai Dmyitriyevich Kondratieff told them 70 years ago, many today knew for 20 or more years
http://www.kwaves.com/kond_overview.htm
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It's a passionate topic for me I know much about. I accept the dollar will eventually will fail, as have all debased economies throughout history. This scenario has played out again and again over time. The reasons are often different, the result is always the same.
Look at this short and incomplete list of monetary carnage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Examples_of_hyperinflation
I'm not blaming capitalism, I'm pro capitalism! I believe the banks should have been allowed to fail and that a correction should be allowed to correct. Today we can't properly valuate many investments because of Zombie banks and all their undead toxic assets. No investor will touch the banks with a 10 foot pole because of this. You should want to talk about China because they are funding our deficit spending, all this stimulus we hoping will pull us out of our fiscal mess is coming largely from China. A lot of people are dangerously ignoring the risk of them pulling the plug or us defaulting on our obligations.
It is a dollar crisis and a foreign debt crisis, a result of living beyond our means for most of 38 years and Reagan did much to get the ball of debt rolling. I'm saying Obama has people on board who helped create the mess, as did Bush 43, Clinton, and Bush 41 etc. Both parties are at fault. Yes the economic crisis is not going away soon, this is why I wrote a long winded post, because if people want to come out of this then understanding the problem is paramount. Obama will not fix it, he can't. It's global because everyone pinned their currency to the dollar, the only reason the dollar has done well is because people are panicking and fleeing to the default currency, not because of any strength the dollar has, because they don't know where else to go. That isn't going to last.
So what can you do, make sure you place your money in things that will hold value where the fundamentals have not been impaired should the worst be realized. Well I mentioned who I am listening to: Peter Schiff, Robert Kiyosaki, Jim Rogers, and Marc Faber, that is a bread crumb trail any one concerned should at least investigate and see if what they are saying makes sense to you. BTW, what I am saying is basically what all these capitalists are saying, they are among my sources. I hope for the best but I plan for the worst, it's not hard to imagine the worst, we are pretty close to it now. A long winded post, yes I have been hammering about this topic for the last 3 years on other boards and was called a nut for saying a crash was coming based on what I was reading by Republicans back in 2006. Today I am called a pessimist by many Democrats for not getting on board with Obama's financial plan despite having voted for him for other reasons.
My message is simple, educate yourself on finance and money, the rules of money are changing, anyone clinging to old ideas is going to get wiped out. Read what I am saying, then do further research and decide if what I am saying is true. Don't take my word for it, check my sources and then compare it against those who believe the opposite. For 3 years I have been trying to wake people up on this topic, and I will as long as I can.