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Do I think they will? No.
Do I want them to? YES!!

There was a "challenge mode" in D2 that you could only use the first unique weapon you find and nothing else (naked).

D3 seems like it will be harder so, you may only use the first unique items you find for each slot and sell everything (or just give it to another char).

I think this could be pretty fun. Your idea I think has too many rules, try to make it simpler.

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Yeah it's by far my favorite spell, I am going to be trying a Blizz-Hydra build. However, I think the spell visually looks a bit underwhelming, looked WAY better in D2.

Archon, because I think it looks stupid.

Obviously it's going to be good, but I just hate the whole idea of the spell. Same with the barb spell that transforms him into whatever that thing is...I just can't get into it.

Forks Over Knives...on netflix instant view

Man, D1 voice acting is awesome.

On topic, looks like a giant mound of treasure through the portal, I never really paid much attention to it.

They should give us a reason to pick them up, otherwise it seems pretty stupid. What about an imbue feature?

I will do HC as soon as possible...if my friends are up to it.

Defeat X boss in Y difficulty without picking up a single health globe or using a single potion.
Kill every monster in X dungeon in Y mount of time
Defeat X boss in inferno without wearing Y peice(s) of gear (Example: Kill King Leoric without wearing boots)
Defeat X boss under Y conditions
Craft an item with X name (Maybe like "Deadly ____ of death" or something sort of funny)
Craft an item with X stats
Complete X event under Y conditons

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To be honest, I wouldn't play HC if "life or death" pvp was forced on my char. I am all for the option to have it (I would use it sometimes) but sometimes I just want to mess around with my friends and not worry about losing everything.

Before everyone says "go play SC", HC PvM is what it's all about, especially with inferno mode and that is what is most important to me.

I wouldn't mind having a small light radius, but I don't like anything else it adds color/visual wise. The darkness is good and looking at it more maybe a little sharpness is nice, but everything else I think looks worse.

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I'm not saying we should take no heed about such experiments, but it's an ethical debate that shouldn't stop or start at "it's un-ethical, the end."

Overall, I think scientific advancement trumps many things, but I do think we should find alternate way to test products that involves less use of animals. I can't give you an idea on what way that could be, but it is something I feel we can achieve or at least work toward.

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As I alluded to, it's a regional issue. Some locations would be almost entirely without a reliable food source in the absence of animal protien (basically, all desert and polar climates, plus a few rather infertile grassy areas that are predominanted by herding). No ammount of technology i'm aware of could economically feed the people of the artic, the asian steppe, the african plains, etc. with vegetarian (much less vegan) meals.

Right, but if the wealthy nations could cut back on their consumption/production of meat and instead made more exportable crops with our land we could send these to nations in need to add to their diets. Also, think of the amount of grain and corn we feed to animals of factory farms, if we used those crops to produce food for us, we would have even more food to go around.

I'm not arguing against the fact that there many many nations that have a need for animal products and in any case that it is necessary for the health of well-being of a population I have nothing against them using what they need to survive and maintain a healthy diet.

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It's a noble choice, but I don't think it's quite an imperative for anyone who has the means. If there were a compelling reason to increase agricultural yeild and cut back on animal food production to increase over-all health and meet or exceed food demand, I think it would gain traction. Right now it just feels like a moral crusade. I honestly believe PITA has done more to damage the possible growth of vegetarian/vegan eating habbits than the cattle industry (for example). Rarely do I ever have the urge to eat a steak more than when i'm in the company of someone who finds fishing to be more repugnant than human genocide.

First off, I would just like to say that PETA is an extremest group and in no way reflects the normal degree of ideas and beliefs of the majority of vegans and vegetarians. I 100% agree with you about PETA being counter productive.

Anyways, I think there are many reasons to increase plant agriculture and cut back on animal agriculture. One of the biggest reasons is that meat has a lot of negative health effects that have been linked to it, especially when it is consumed as often as it is in the U.S. such as heart disease, atherosclerosis, colon cancer (and recently they are starting to think other forms of cancer as well), endometriosis. Also, products like milk and eggs have been linked to similar health effects. Couple that with all the chemicals they use to beef up the animals on factory farms, and you have something pretty unhealthy.

Another very good reason is the environmental impact on which animal agriculture has. It produces more green house gases than all forms of travel (cars, planes, trains, jets) combined and is often responsible for water pollution, deforestation for animal feed production/room for more farm land. There are many other environmental impacts as well if you choose to look around.

I am not even saying we should end all farms, and if you are going to buy meat you should ALWAYS buy from local farmers who give their animals healthy diets and do not inject them with a load of chemicals.

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I just want to point out if you guys forgo eating meat because the animals are treated badly that means production slows down and animals will have to suffer longer before they make it to someones plate. I like them to be put out of their misery as soon as possible.

Like veal, yummy.



In all seriousness though I could never go without meat. It's too delicious, though I do understand some of the health benefits of it.

well, one person not buying meat or animal products isn't going to make much of an impact but if a large number of people do it, animal product sales will go down which would cause the companies to produce less, which is in the general direction of what i want to achieve.

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I would love to be vegetarian, but my country's main export is Cows.
Meat is cheaper than vegetables here, so it's reaaaally hard to quit meat and become a veggie.

Although, I would be vegetarian for the health benefits, and not for ideology or philosophical reasons. Cows here are raised in the wild, free from unnecessary suffering, and I'm at peace with that.

I'm not sure about your country and how it compares to where I live, but I will tell you about my situation and maybe you will be able to relate a little bit.

I live in Ohio, USA which is farmland more or less, and even though I live in one of the larger cities in Ohio, there are not many options. Meat is fairly cheap around here, and vegan options are a little bit pricier.

I find most of the stuff I eat in the health food section of stores and I am lucky enough to live only 45 minutes from Ann Arbor which has a large vegetarian/vegan population so I occasionally go there to buy some new things that I never see around here.

Walmart carries a surprising amount of vegan stuff, but it may be different where you live.

If you are doing it for the health reasons, maybe just try to cut back and have one day a week be "vegan/vegetarian day" or if you already do that, just add an extra day. So if it would cause you financial problems, maybe this is an alternative option to going all out. It doesn't have to be an all in thing, even cutting back will get you toward your goal.

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Also, in case anyone was wondering, I was raised in a meat eating very authentic Polish family. We make our own kielbasa, we sing the kishka song, call our grandpa dzia dzia, my family owns a shop in polish town and sells all the things you would expect to find. On top of that my step-grandma(my actual busha died before I was born) was Polish/Italian and she owned and made the sauce for a very successful pizza place around town.

I haven't seen any of this money anywhere, but I have heard a rumor that my dzia dzia owns a sold gold bar.

More to the point, I was not raised vegan being told a bunch of lies or anything. I wasn't influenced into make the decision or anything and my family thinks I'm crazy.

Obviously there is a time and place where we can use animals for the greater good, but it's very hard to do draw a line where it begins and where it ends, especially when you are talking scientific experimentation and things like that. I mean, I can't really even tell you where I stand on this because I do think our scientific progress is very much dependent on research involving animals, I would have to give my opinion on case to case and even then I would have mixed emotions about it.

Things like testing make-up products and testing food even on animals is a little bit extreme.

When it comes to third world hunger, starvation, survival and the well being of a population of course eating meat in that situation is something I couldn't personally oppose.

Human civilization has always eaten meat and animal products and we would have never made it this far without it, but did we ever consume it so often and in such large quantities? Did we have the information about food we have now?

At this day in age, and with our knowledge of food that eating meat is not necessary to sustain a healthy diet, if you have the resources and means to get what you need, which it isn't really very difficult anymore.