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Blizzard games has garnered yet another record in the gaming industry: since its launch on th 15th of May, Diablo III has become the world's fastest selling game on the PC platform, since ever .  To put it into numbers, the first 24 hour release period saw 3.5 million downloads of the game, and 6.3 million more purchases during the following week. This count refers only to direct purchases of the game. Blizzard had a pre-launch offer giving Diablo III bulk with a one-year subscription to World of Warcraft, which gathered an additional  1.2 million copies. South Korea has kept its reputation as an avid devourer of all things Blizzard. To quote the official press release: " The above figures also do not include players in Korean Internet game rooms, where Diablo III has become the top-played game, achieving a record share of more than 39% as of May 22." The official press release also makes room for an apology from Blizzard for the  massive flop ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson is not inspiring merely as an astrophysicist, but as a public speaker and human being. We're not all astrophysicists. We don't have the opportunity to ask big questions about the universe. But he inspires me to ask myself questions, to make me question things I can personally be articulate in.

Jenna Talackova I haven’t approached homosexuality or transgender issues in my posts because it’s something I’m still in the process of fully understanding myself. Especially when it comes to transgender people, which is a difficult subject to wrap around: what’s the essential difference between a man and a transgender man? It’s much more of an identity issue than a sexual orientation/preference thing, and it makes it more difficult to fully understand.  Jenna Talackova Now don’t get me wrong, I do believe every person on this planet is equal and I’m completely against discrimination, but the interesting twist is this: there are people out there who are born with both kinds of reproductive organs, and they have elective surgery (and my understanding is that doctors recommend the removal of one of the organs, as it’s much healthier for the individual to develop with only one set) to remove one of those gender organs and they eventually grow up as the remaining gender. But th...