wilwheaton:

I finally had some time to play D3 today, and when I tried to get online, it just hung at the “retrieving hero list” screen. It appears to be a serious issue affecting thousands of players.

This is what Blizzard currently has up in their forum about the issue.

So I’m adding this to the growing list of reasons it’s annoying and harmful to players for Blizzard to require server authentication for a single-player game.

Wil, you probably already know this but it does not hurt to repeat it (maybe for someone else reading)… be sure to use a LONG passphrase with non-dictionary words: blizzard does not check the case on the entered passwords on any of its games/services.

DAITARN III… SOLAR ATTTAAAAACK!

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arcaneimages:

Viktor Hertz 

WORD

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Easily amused… who, me?

nevver:

You can’t live in the present forever

GEGNO

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anticapitalist:

Our real first gay president

The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly.

The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. It is also entirely wrong. Like the mini-furor a couple of months back about the claim that Richard Nixon was our first gay president, the story simply ignores that the U.S. already had a gay president more than a century ago.

There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.

Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote:

I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.

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unoetrino:

manchannel:

The Balvenie, Single Malt Scoth Whisky - Aged 40 years. 

ma no dai non può esistere, questo Whisky è così vecchio che potrebbe avere fatto un figlio Whisky che ora potrebbe votare e prendere la patente per poi guidare e andare a comparsi un Whisky!

All’Old Fox puoi trovare scotch di 40 anni, easy. Incluse annate speciali tipo i giubilei, etc.

Just sayin’

(Source: formelle)

And I, for one, welcome our new, giant robotic overlords.

motherfuckinscifi:

We Live In The Future

Nothing could prepare me to discover Vaudeville, the 12-foot fully functioning mech. Weighing in at a whopping 4,500 kilograms, Vaudeville is a walking dream come true. Powered by Kinect integration, the bot is controlled through a cockpit where you (yes, you) can get in and control it. It can also be accessed remotely by connecting your cell phone to a miniature version of the robot and manipulating it by hand.

It gets even better, friends. You can buy one. Or rather, you’ll be able to do so later this year, when Vaudeville goes up for sale online. If you do decide to take that plunge, the heroes at Suidobashi Heavy Industry allow optional customizations for your mech, including a fire-fighting water gun and full-body camouflage.

There are more glorious shots of Vaudeville here. Enjoy the gallery while I contemplate how many of my limbs I have to sell in order to afford one.