All of those things are relaxing to me. I never let myself get that stressed out, but I wouldn't even bother to do most of those things if it wasn't relaxing.

You still get splashed...

Starcraft II Marines are quite a bit different. Firstly, the back story of Starcraft implies that the majority of marines are convicts who are only suited up and fighting because it beats sitting in a prison cell.

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I also read that Diablo 3 will not have a paladin class which I am a little saddened about. I'll probably still get the game though.

Lost it? You have to have it to lose it. All discussions end like this on Allegro.cc. There was never a rational discussion. Just back and forth, everybody jibber-jabbering.

This is why I didn't bother.

My grandfather has stopped smoking 40 years ago. He died of lung cancer. Was it because of his smoking or was it just random? How do you differentiate between the two?

OK, how do you get those numbers? How do you decide the cancer was caused by smoking?

Another one, how do you decide someone has died of second hand smoking? This is even more puzzling.

Except that people do die from diseases caused by smoking cigarettes... And many people also die from long-term exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke.

Again, the difference is that while people generally don't seal themselves in a garage with a running engine (indeed, any commercial garage should have exhaust hoses and fans), people do regularly seal themselves (and others) in a room with lit cigarettes.

I don't believe that I've inhaled as many poisonous gases from car exhaust as cigarette smoke (and there were times in my youth when I would intentionally stand behind a car that was warming up in the winter ). Then again, I've lived in the country nearly all of my life, where there aren't nearly as many motorists as most other members probably live among.

I'm sure I've been exposed to enough exhaust to have done some harm, but not nearly as much harm as my exposure to 20 years worth of cigarette smoke has done.

Getting back to the original argument, I'm really struggling to see what you are crying about. The Barbarian class is a Warrior class as far as I'm concerned. Could you explain what out-of-context definition you are applying here to get yourself so worked up? As to "cartoonish", I don't see what you're getting at here either. Maybe you don't like the above average quality of the animation? - in which case I think you'll just have to deal with the fact that Blizzard can afford the best animators, and so they may as well use them.

Car accidents kill more people than guns, but you don't hear people crying to eliminate cars as a result. That's because so many people have one that it makes it OK somehow. A minority doesn't stand a chance of being left alone.

The Wikipedia page on "List of causes of death by rate" shows that lung cancer just barely beats out auto accidents, by less than one percent.

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And when passengers in a car die, aren't they victims of "second hand death-by-accident"? Think of the children!

How do you determine if a cancerous tumor is caused by cigarettes?

Of that 86.7%, 94.1% were directly due to smoking.

Warriors (in Diablo) cast magic. They're knights. They're not walking brutes. There's a sense of intelligently calculated death handed out by them. Barbarians are brutes who run around and smash things. They burn women and rape Churches. It's like the incredible Hulk. Boring. "Hey! What did he do?" "He smashed him." "What about the last time?" "He smashed him." "And the time before that?" "He smashed him."

I was dissapointed in Diablo 2. I'm completely uninterested in Diablo 3's comic revamb for reasons I've already stated.

Yes! But you're missing the point! The point is that you react to that danger. You do not react to the danger of car exhaust! You even said you stand in front of it in the winter!

I've already cited an article that implies that doesn't matter. Smog wouldn't exist if pollution didn't exist, and the BBC article already stated that people die all the time due to pollution caused illnesses.

How are you going to compare something you weren't trained to pay attention to, to something you've been told you're whole life to be afraid of?

If you're around 20 years of cigarette smoking, well clearly you're going to have significant problems from that over car exhaust. But most people here bump into a smoker a couple times a day maximum. They however spend a good portion of their day driving, walking near cars, and in the volume of pollution from cars. If you want an example of air pollution, take the Great Smokey Mountains.

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There are relatively zero cars in the Smokey Mountains. But that pollution came from somewhere! So we have a place with almost no locally produced pollution, and end up with pollution. How much more so will your local town or city be at the source of the pollution?

Regarding the marines- I mentioned both SC2 marines & U.S, though those in SC2 have their conditions severely worse, hence they have a kind of justification to smoke. Besides they smoke cigars, not cigarettes.

Lies.