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Actually an avatar is a vessel, usually human, for a god.

And Blizzard isn't getting a slice of the pie when amateur designers offer their maps up for purchase on Bnet? That is difficult to believe. If amateur designers get cash off the Blizzard Marketplace without Blizzard taking a cut, I'll believe it. If not, then it's pretty clear that they...

Remember when Blizzard used to be eminently consumer-based, and the original StarCraft allowed you to make "spawn copies" off one disc? That meant if you were LANing it up with seven other buddies, they could all install a copy just for LAN and TCP/IP use off a single disc. So with one disc...

You mean aside from racist?

There are five things you need to build a great society: 1. Economic Surplus 2. Principled Military 3. Constitutional Government 4. Leadership that serves the people 5. Moral Code Every single empire in human history have risen because of those five traits, and every single one...

Meritocracy.

I have a special place in my heart for DF 2: Jedi Knight because it's one of my favorite shooters of all time. I got REALLY into it, and I ended up being the only Top 10 player who ran on a 56k modem in TheZone. But in terms of sheer Star Warsness, KotOR takes the cake. KotOR 2 pissed me...

Yeah. Like I said, I don't expect it to be like Warhammer. But I do expect it to be like WarCraft. Another interesting contention between night elves and orcs... Durotar is technically night elf territory, but there are elements in the Horde (notably Saurfang) who believe that it is the...

I remember reading the WoW homepage for the first time. Other MMOs just didn't do it for me, but me and my friends were all looking for a game to play so we can keep in touch with one another during college. One of the things that really stuck out to me, beyond any promises of gameplay, was...