the two blizzard authenticators I ordered from the blizzard store will not work. I just sat on hold for 2hrs and i finally got through to tech support and they too cannot get those working. suspect its something to do with asia region and all that. so they refunded my money (not sure shipping is refunded), and told me to keep them and try again in the future. I just set up the mobile app authenticator for my d3 account

Don't play public games on d3. rumours of some kind of hacking exploit
http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/txvx0/gathering_information_please_respond_to_this/

D3 effective HP calculator
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlAL8oB-FXTidHpWR2J2bmg4WnZESFBLLTU4UlJGX0E#gid=0

if you want a diablo 3 starter guest pass, let me know, I have 6, and I can ask around for more .
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Act I up to the Skeleton King is available
Level 13 cap
Matchmaking available only with other Starter Edition players
No Real Money Auction House access
Global Play is not available. Players attempting to connect to Diablo III Starter Edition in a region other than their Battle.net Account's home region will receive Error 12. See the Global Play support article for more information.

argh. can't run diablo 3 at work no discrete GPU card, so it won't run.
. if i remote desktop to home. yes, I can still see login the game at 2FPS...

can stil auction house, but its a pain.

finished killing normal mode diablo at 4am on saturday with john. took a couple of tries.


--nightmare mode--
finished nightmare butcher this morning after so many failures at night.
only to be unable to kill stupid vampiric sand wasps cos they keep regen health faster than i can take down...
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finished diablo 3 normal mode (aka tutorial mode).. ouch...die so many times.. then in nightmare mode. die to a common zombie. zzz.

free pizza from great eastern.

http://robotsgonebad.com/2012/05/diablo-3-launch-recap/
http://nogamenotalk.com/2012/05/16/diablo-iii-launch-at-funan-the-gates-of-hell-finally-reopen-with-confetti/
http://nogamenotalk.com/2012/05/18/nric-only-used-for-verification-purposes-at-diablo-iii-launch-asiasoft/

considering some ppl waited >24hrs (starting at 6am on monday).. I'm glad I took all of 5 seconds to buy it at qisahn and getting in monday afternoon.

(not sure if it applies to s.e.a)
http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/14/microsoft-to-offer-15-windows-8-upgrade/

In need of a new computer, but holding out because you don't want to be saddled with a last-gen OS when Windows 8 lands? Worry not potential consumers, Microsoft plans to offer a cheap upgrade path to its latest and greatest if you buy in now. Well, not now, but soon. Starting June 2nd Redmond will offer a $15 upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro. Mary Jo Foley first reported the deal last week, but wasn't able to put a price on the offer. Now, Paul Thurrott is filling in those blanks. For $14.99 any new PC purchaser will be insured against the coming Metro revolution. This is hardly a new tactic for Microsoft, which has used similar deals to try and stave off steep drops in computer sales as the release of a new OS approaches. The only question we have left is, why the push to Pro? Though, far be it for us to look a gift horse in the mouth.