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The rudimentary blocks are just a few bytes each.
But there are a lot of them.

Just one player has about 4 million blocks around them loaded, more if they're moving around a bit. Then there are all the entities, light values, special blocks and such. The world is split into 'regions' and 'chunks'. A chunk is 16x16 blocks, from 0 to 255 height.

The blockiness is to make it a hell of a lot easier to modify the environment in predictable ways. It also lends itself to modding.
You get things like 'Feed the Beast', a modpack which seems to be taking off quite well at the moment. I have clocked 200+ hours in the past few months...

As you can see at this url there is a lot more than simple square blocks here: http://omglolbah.net/ksh/minecraft/
Redpower2 (a mod) introduces 'microblocks' which allow you to do all sorts of things. In one of the screenshots there are narrow white 'bars' separating the redpower alloy wire on the wall (red wiring). These microblocks come in a variety of sizes and shapes. For simplicity all of them are rectangular in shape, but with the different sizes you can build quite complex shapes out of them :D

You're missing the point.

No, I'm disagreeing with your point.

You don't need to be a healer in D3 to make use of the health bars, in fact the best usage of them is to tell whether a party member is dead or alive without having to scan the bloody screen looking for their marker.

I rarely if ever play Diablo without friends on skype so this is not an issue to me.

Information and objects clustered closer to the center of the screen to minimize eye and mouse movement.

The "need to be available all the time, with no delay" I agree. It is a benefit to have it all on the center screen. There is however a pile of information that you need to glance at once in a while. An aggro meter is a good example as most DPS do not really need to stare at it, so having it off at the side so you can just have a quick glance every once in a while works so it does not clutter the center screen drowning out the higher priority messages. Again, this is a choice.

There's no advantage to being able to have various UI elements on other displays since you cannot swap equipment, talents, or a hundred other things that you cannot do while in combat.

Have a big-ass grid of all the raid members on a side of the screen with various flash warnings can be hugely useful as any class that need to remove debuffs and such. It is a choice of what works for the individual.

So I say again. Multimonitor display for a game is a fucking useless expenditure for some pointless eyecandy or to show off your e-peen. It's nothing more than a waste of money.

If you're buying it for JUST the gaming aspect I might be willing to accept that point, but in my experience this is rarely the case. I have several friends with eyefinity 3x screen setups and the benefit when doing other things (even work related stuff) is immense.
An example of my work computer usage:
http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/IOGraphica/IOGraphica_4.1_hours__from_16-59_to_21-05_with_text.png

But for me it all boils down to this: I find the gaming more enjoyable when using all 3 screens. I also find using the computer for most tasks is more enjoyable when I have this much screen space available. That alone makes me consider it worth the money.
I do not expect everyone to find this to be the best way to consume their entertainment but for me it works, and that is really all that matters to me.

Diablo3: http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/random/diablo3_5760x1080.png

Thanks for demonstrating the exact problem with multi-monitor displays. The UI is crippled. Your focus will mostly be on the the center display. The minimap (which is useful) is not tucked far out of your focus in the upper right. Chat displays and party health indicators are tucked far off to the left.

How fucking useless for a bit of eye candy.

I find that the peripheral vision is awesome in most FPS games. I have none of the issues people seem to state as 'main problems'.

* Vertigo?.. um no.
* Driver support (amd eyefinity) works ok for me. Some games have a shitty implementation assuming the aspect ratio can be found from just the width (which in my setup is 5760 pixels...). Most work fine though.

But really, for gaming it is nice. For everything else it is flipping awesome.

Reference docs on right monitor, visual studio or putty on the center, and browser/spotify/skype/debug windows on the left screen.
I've gotten so used to it now that I feel almost cramped on the two 22" monitors at work.

http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/random/triplehead_setup.jpg

It DOES take up a bit of space. I'm considering spending the 500 bucks for a proper 3-screen mounting rig. It would free up all the desk space under the monitors and allow me to adjust the height easier.

To address your specific points:

Eyefinity has bevel compensation. It is surprisingly easy to set up. You get some angled lines that you "line up" across the bevels.

Most FPS games will give you a much wider field of view when you use such a wide display. In Battlefield and counter-strike I get almost 180 degrees of vision.
Toptip though... If you stand looking parallel to a wall in CS/Halflife/TF2 the side screen will 'cross into' the wall... not rendering it...
You in effect have a limited wallhack in the driver. It is fairly amusing at times ;)

I also found that I rapidly adjusted to the way the aspect ratio and 'distortion' of sorts at the edges of my vision. It just becomes natural.
Same thing in WoW and SWTOR. It works -excellently- in those MMOs. Both support eyefinity out of the box.

Diablo3: http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/random/diablo3_5760x1080.png

WoW (with a heavily modified TukUI package) http://omglolbah.net/ksh/pictures/wow/uimods_2012_01_01__21_34_comments.png

I find that the peripheral vision is awesome in most FPS games. I have none of the issues people seem to state as 'main problems'.

* Vertigo?.. um no.
* Driver support (amd eyefinity) works ok for me. Some games have a shitty implementation assuming the aspect ratio can be found from just the width (which in my setup is 5760 pixels...). Most work fine though.

But really, for gaming it is nice. For everything else it is flipping awesome.

Reference docs on right monitor, visual studio or putty on the center, and browser/spotify/skype/debug windows on the left screen.
I've gotten so used to it now that I feel almost cramped on the two 22" monitors at work.

http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/random/triplehead_setup.jpg

It DOES take up a bit of space. I'm considering spending the 500 bucks for a proper 3-screen mounting rig. It would free up all the desk space under the monitors and allow me to adjust the height easier.

To address your specific points:

Eyefinity has bevel compensation. It is surprisingly easy to set up. You get some angled lines that you "line up" across the bevels.

Most FPS games will give you a much wider field of view when you use such a wide display. In Battlefield and counter-strike I get almost 180 degrees of vision.
Toptip though... If you stand looking parallel to a wall in CS/Halflife/TF2 the side screen will 'cross into' the wall... not rendering it...
You in effect have a limited wallhack in the driver. It is fairly amusing at times ;)

I also found that I rapidly adjusted to the way the aspect ratio and 'distortion' of sorts at the edges of my vision. It just becomes natural.
Same thing in WoW and SWTOR. It works -excellently- in those MMOs. Both support eyefinity out of the box.

Diablo3: http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/random/diablo3_5760x1080.png

WoW (with a heavily modified TukUI package) http://omglolbah.net/ksh/pictures/wow/uimods_2012_01_01__21_34_comments.png

I find that the peripheral vision is awesome in most FPS games. I have none of the issues people seem to state as 'main problems'.

* Vertigo?.. um no.
* Driver support (amd eyefinity) works ok for me. Some games have a shitty implementation assuming the aspect ratio can be found from just the width (which in my setup is 5760 pixels...). Most work fine though.

But really, for gaming it is nice. For everything else it is flipping awesome.

Reference docs on right monitor, visual studio or putty on the center, and browser/spotify/skype/debug windows on the left screen.
I've gotten so used to it now that I feel almost cramped on the two 22" monitors at work.

http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/random/triplehead_setup.jpg

It DOES take up a bit of space. I'm considering spending the 500 bucks for a proper 3-screen mounting rig. It would free up all the desk space under the monitors and allow me to adjust the height easier.

To address your specific points:

Eyefinity has bevel compensation. It is surprisingly easy to set up. You get some angled lines that you "line up" across the bevels.

Most FPS games will give you a much wider field of view when you use such a wide display. In Battlefield and counter-strike I get almost 180 degrees of vision.
Toptip though... If you stand looking parallel to a wall in CS/Halflife/TF2 the side screen will 'cross into' the wall... not rendering it...
You in effect have a limited wallhack in the driver. It is fairly amusing at times ;)

I also found that I rapidly adjusted to the way the aspect ratio and 'distortion' of sorts at the edges of my vision. It just becomes natural.
Same thing in WoW and SWTOR. It works -excellently- in those MMOs. Both support eyefinity out of the box.

Diablo3: http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/random/diablo3_5760x1080.png

WoW (with a heavily modified TukUI package) http://omglolbah.net/ksh/pictures/wow/uimods_2012_01_01__21_34_comments.png

One 1920x1080 display at 30 inches... or three 22" displays for a total of 5760x1080?

I went with the spiffy option of fine resolution. It works great.

http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/random/triplehead_setup.jpg

http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/random/triplehead_setup.jpg

Short answer: It is the best operating system for my current needs.

I've always wondered what to do with my third monitor. I've been trying to figure out how to program simultaneously on three programs, but I'm not that awesome. Then I tried to figure out how to program on one, watch movies on the other, and play solitaire on the third. Too much mouse movement. I was going to try running three WoW sessions so I could level up three characters almost as fast as one, but you've just given me the best solution: Monitor 50 IRC channels on one, play games on the other--and for the third? Fireboobs.

I can't wait to be such an unproductive member of society... Maybe I can convince my company to buy them for me.

http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/random/triplehead_setup.jpg

Short answer: It is the best operating system for my current needs.

http://omglolbah.net/ksh/steamgames.png

That is just the steam games I own. I have a bunch of other games bought through other stores and even some actual physical boxes sitting around. (Like the C&C games (all of them even..))

So yes, I will buy games if the few hours spent on the pirated version are enjoyable.

If they're so damn upset about an episode of southpark....

Do they really expect us to take them seriously when they respond with the kind of images used...?

If they expect to get away with something that close to a death threat they should just shut the fuck up about mohammad already...

This says it all:
http://www.omglolbah.net/ksh/pictures/random/farmville_mohammad.png