DiabloCast Ep60: $250 Buyout

As far as I know I am the only person out of 6 and a half billion who has noticed that Tyrael appears in two incarnations immediately before the Diablo pull. I have whined and whined on Blizzard`s forums about this immersion breaking nonsense, yet he`s still there. Both of him is still there... I am dismayed that not even Jesse seems to think this is silly, or that he hasn`t noticed it. Why am I the only one? What`s wrong with me??? Apart from this, I am getting confused by the whole dynamic of Diablo 3. Specifically that progression in inferno is steep enough and drop rates low enough or crappy enough in act 1 and 2 that it becomes very hard to get anywhere without the AH. It`s not impossible, but it`s far more frustrating than it should be to progress on your own. So at the moment I am stuck in act 2, probably for good since I have trouble motivating myself to continue, and I can either: a:) Grind and grind and grind forever on the off-chance that something useful will drop in an ocean of quivers, low level gear, whites, greys and wizard hats with strength on them. b:) Farm gold and buy gear on the AH in about 1/10th of the time option a:) would take me. The problem with this is that the main reason for playing the game is to find better gear (Correct me if I`m wrong. As I said the dynamics of the game seriously confuse me.). So if I am gonna buy the gear I need, why am I still playing the game after I buy it, since there will be 0 chance of anything dropping that I can realistically use instead of whatever I can buy? As far as I can tell, farming gold in act one to buy gear is the end game in D3, which strikes me as the pinnacle of retarded game design, approaching turkey levels. I mean: whichever way you turn it, by far the most efficient way to spend your time in D3 is to farm gold, not play the game. Fair enough that you can use the gear you buy to progress so you can then find gear to sell yourself. But this all makes the game into a giant ebay simulation, which is even more disappointing than the story, dialogue, double spawning Izuals, the Tyrael Twins and the amazingly slow difficulty progression. I vote you talk about all this a little next week, even if it is just to tell me I`m a moron.