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God loves you!

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Protection and power are overrated. I think you are very wise to choose happiness and love. -Uncle Iroh

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For those interested, there's a Diablo 3 Open Beta going on until Monday. You have today and tomorrow to play Diablo 3 until lvl 13 with whatever character(s) you want.

I played it for a few hours last night.

Then I cried myself to sleep.

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RE: "I hate my voice" -- one of the most popular radio personalities in the U.S. is Ira Glass, who has one of the worst radio voices I can think of. If he can do it, anyone can.

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I hate his voice so hard.

Stupid successful asshole.

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(UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)

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I love Ira Glass. Diane Rehm, on the other hand, makes me want to fill my ears in with concrete.

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I cannot stand the silky dulcet tones of Garrison Keillor.  I don't know what dark pact he signed in which millennia that compels me to listen to A Prairie Home Companion with semi-regularity, but my love/hate relationship with Keillor's voice will probably last, and send me, to my grave.

Eddie Doty

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The beta is designed to be linear, easy, and fast. It's effectively a tutorial, and set at an easy difficulty. Hell, the randomization has only recently been worked in.

But the mechanics are solid, the gearing and crafting is fun. It's Diablo.

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I rather enjoy listening to Keillor, particularly The News from Lake Wobegone, which, sadly due to my work schedule, is the only part of the show I'm able to catch these days (iTunes feed).  As much as I enjoy listening to him, he does have a kind of hypnotic effect which tends to put me to sleep.

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big_smile  Proper Vehicle and Ragdoll physics!! Underwater combat!! Real Muzzle Flashes! Oh man I can't wait to see what the map creator community does with this, there's some amazing potential, especially with the underwater stuff. We can finally recreate the ending of Thunderball in videogame form! If they're modelling underwater, I wonder if it'd be a stretch to add submarines to the game? Full on naval battle tactics would be so cool to try out.

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I hope thy don't add too many new features, to be honest... I've already got precious few unbound keys on my keyboard in Arma 2...

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At least they're keeping it focused as a milsim; they've brought over the physics model from Take on Helicopters which is pretty damn sweet.

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Again, the thing that counts with ARMA is the engine improvements. I don't give a damn what they do in terms of missions and features, because I'll be playing custom online clan missions anyway, and there'll probably be a whole series of realism mods on top of it.

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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Between The Division, WatchDogs, and Destiny, seems like inter-connected Day-Z style coop games will be the future of next-gen gaming

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