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Blizzard Announces Diablo 3
stpk4 writes "After a week-long tease by Blizzard, Diablo 3 has just been announced in Paris.
The splash screen has been updated at their homepage
and The Escapist has the first write-up." While there aren't many details available yet, it is known that Deckard Cain returns to help our heroes yet again.
The storyline? You mean kill the big evil bad ass? And when that's done, kill the big evil bad ass' brother in an expansion pack? I loooove the Diablo series but the 'story' is a joke.
I'm talking about the Blizzard whose games are unplayable at release for a good week or three until they patch the biggest of the worst bugs.
Any specific reason you do not want to use Eclipse?
1. I despise Java.
2. Every single Java app from an IDE, all the way down to a text editor carries this bulky framework with it that immediately consumes all the memory in my system. It doesn't matter if I'm running it on Windows or Linux.
3. All Java apps are ugly as sin. And it's not that they just lack 'beauty', but I think they actually go out of the way to try and hurt the user. (Remember these Dilbert strips? dilbert-20020923 dilbert-20020924 (I am also aware of the irony that my website looks like absolute crap. I am not a UI designer.)
4. It's a pain in the ass to start developing in Python when using Eclipse. Maybe it's just me, but it takes FOREVER to get Eclipse started, setup, and to begin developing.
I'm not trying to start a flamewar, but I toggle back and forth between vi and kate (but mostly vi) because the UI isn't horrible, and it's quick to start developing. Plus vi is easy to use when I'm connected to a remote machine to make some quick changes or debugging.
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