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D3 disappointed me, i played beta and thought it was fun but it wasn't remotely as good as the evolution of d1 to d2.
it was too dumbed down and the game really doesn't add much in the way of innovation that any other game made within the last 10 years made.
d3 is just like starcraft 2, we waited so long but most of the new stuff pales in comparison to other companies products, the only reason i'd get it is it is diablo.
heck i kept comparing starcraft 2 to dawn of war, a game with some nice innovations and a better story, only reason to play sc2 was the fact that it was sc2.i haven't got d3 yet, i might when the price drops to something more reasonable like say in the 40s.
maybe... i wasn't really trilled with the classes, i miss the necromancer, the witch doctor isn't the same

well they are never going to please everyone.I like that its the same game. to often devs try too hard and make the new game completely different than the old game.I dont play real time skill (rts) games so i wouldn't know about them. wait a minute, you are unhappy because there isn't enough innovation and its basically the same game, but you are also unhappy that there isn't the same classes. that sounds contradictory. Edited by Artemis Entreri, : No reason given.

Yup, still playing as much as possible. Which isn't too much, actually, I have a level 26 Demon Hunter..
Flaws? What are the flaws? Connection speed or something? I haven't noticed anything, but all my multiplayer games are not public (just me and the wife). Seems fairly stable to us. Maybe something that affects you more at higher levels? .Everyone gets that yellow head-piece (and others) as they progress the Blacksmith. But the items you actually craft will always come with random modifiers. I'm a DH and my wife's made a monk and a witch doctor... Maybe we just haven't seen the flaws yet?

supposedly you cannot solo a melee character past normal difficulty. you can solo into nightmare, but you cannot complete it.A wizard is unbalanced and is the most powerful class in the game, and can solo everything.I think you have to beat the more difficult areas as a wizard to get access to the items to give to your lower level characters just to get through the game at higher difficulty levels.Blizzard really dropped the ball this time.I am in the same boat as you for the moment, I have a level 24 barbarian, and I have not run into the game flaw yet, so I am still enjoying the game, and i only play about 1 or 2 times per week.

Well I played D2 for, like, 10 years so I think a few months should be good. PM your email when you sign up and I'll add you.

Thanks for sharing your story. That shit really sucks. I'm in a good mood on a Friday so I won't comment further about it.

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Well I think that....Hey, wait a minute: this is a spam post!I feel so stupid.

This was a rather pleasant news cycle to wake up to this Friday the 13th. Good riddance

Indeed. I think we need to make a slight modification to our drones. If we are going after scumbag psychos like Jihadi John, I would like to see a drone that fires circular saw blades instead of missiles. Would be a fitting end to see one of those beheading douchebags get his head lopped off by one of our Predators.

I won't cheer the death of another human being, but in this case, I have no objections.

Fitting? Perhaps, but only at the cost of removing all pretense of staking out the moral high ground.

It's hard not to feel some sense of rough justice at the death of this particular murderous thug.On the other hand, I'm not too comfy with presidents having a license to kill.

Let's acknowledge that when we use drone strikes to kill thugs out in public, that we aren't exactly using a weapon of surgical precision. Now add some head-slicing-off blades to that mix, and perhaps you might see some possibility of exceeding mere payback.Does that make it any easier to feel something other than justice?

I think you misread my tone, NoNukes. I feel a great deal more than that without any help.It was rough justice, the kind of rough justice we had before laws and trials, when "let's kill him like he killed some of us" was how things were done. Call it pre-Aeschylus justice, before Athene and Apollo supplanted the Furies.Call it a war. Call it a lynching. Call it an endless vendetta. But don't call me a supporter of it. Even the early headlines on the drone strike were appalling--we definitely killed somebody; we think it was Jihadi John.Humans still experience the rage and crave the vengeance that law tries to contain; in some ways, we built the law the way good werewolves have familiars lock them up during the full moon. I was acknowledging that I understand and share some of those emotions, in part because denying the legitimacy of grief and anger won't get us anywhere. The image of a president with a global kill button seemed enough to suggest the many downsides, given this venue.When we went after Saddam, at one point early on the U.S. targeted a building where he was thought to be hiding. He wasn't there, but a number of civilians were, including women and children. The news reports were saturated with regret at missing Saddam, and all I could think of was those dead kids and their mothers whose lives were considered trivial next to the satisfaction of smart-bombing Saddam on live TV.I had already warned people that we would lose more American lives there than we did on 9/11, to general incredulity--folks anticipated another turkey-shoot, but the intent to occupy was clear, and occupying any part of the Middle East always ends badlly.When I heard the 'Shucks we missed!' news reports years ago, I despaired at the lives lost and the lives to be lost and the evil we were going to do to ourselves as we set the entire region aflame.I still care more about sparing the innocent than hammering the guilty, but I guess I was too telegraphic in that prior post. Consider this an unpacking.