soccer is still not a widely accepted sport in the US, so while you laugh at what a "stupid" sport soccer is, the rest of the world is laughing at us for not supporting what could be a World Cup Championship calibur team this quatrain. when a foreign country wins the World Cup, there is literally partying and dancing in the streets, but sadly, that would not be the case should the US take the cup.
that's actually not that impressive considering that patches for diablo ii came out at least a year apart from each other, and the patches that DID come out were very minor upgrades...most patches only had new items and skill changes rather than new content. i can't blame blizzard for not patching diablo as often as they could (or should) because with diablo being a game that you don't have to pay for to play online, there really isn't that much incentive for blizzard to make the game the best that it can be. the biggest diablo ii patch EVER (patch 1.10) had only one person working on it for most of it's development (this number increased to two in the final months).
to contrast, WoW (a game that you have to pay for) has big patches every couple of months and little patches almost every other week. you've gotta give it to blizzard, they know where their priorities lie.
They would not be paying $2 billion for just the technology. As has already been stated, the technology isn't worth that. But if they spent $1 billion on creating a site just like facebook, do you really think that everyone that already has a facebook will want to go get an account on this new site? They want to buy facebook because of all of the people that are already signed up, and for all of the people that will inevitably sign up.
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smugness can also breed the urge to smell your own farts!
yeah, because you have to be stoned to play as either one.
soccer is still not a widely accepted sport in the US, so while you laugh at what a "stupid" sport soccer is, the rest of the world is laughing at us for not supporting what could be a World Cup Championship calibur team this quatrain. when a foreign country wins the World Cup, there is literally partying and dancing in the streets, but sadly, that would not be the case should the US take the cup.
that's actually not that impressive considering that patches for diablo ii came out at least a year apart from each other, and the patches that DID come out were very minor upgrades...most patches only had new items and skill changes rather than new content. i can't blame blizzard for not patching diablo as often as they could (or should) because with diablo being a game that you don't have to pay for to play online, there really isn't that much incentive for blizzard to make the game the best that it can be. the biggest diablo ii patch EVER (patch 1.10) had only one person working on it for most of it's development (this number increased to two in the final months).
to contrast, WoW (a game that you have to pay for) has big patches every couple of months and little patches almost every other week. you've gotta give it to blizzard, they know where their priorities lie.
they also want to raise the legal gambling age from 18 to 21:
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there is a difference between software engineer (which the article claims is the #1 job to have in America) and a game developer
They would not be paying $2 billion for just the technology. As has already been stated, the technology isn't worth that. But if they spent $1 billion on creating a site just like facebook, do you really think that everyone that already has a facebook will want to go get an account on this new site? They want to buy facebook because of all of the people that are already signed up, and for all of the people that will inevitably sign up.