Earlier this monthwe shared a couple of curious screenshotswith you from Blizzard’sDiablo III. Instead of prominently featuring a Barbarian with bloodied mace amidst a crowd of skeletons, the screens revealed a brighter side of the game. One showed a unicorn spraying a crowd of enemies with a stream of rainbow colored poo. The other, well, had a marshmallow barbarian poised to strike.
The screens were nothing more than a tease — a shot at theDiabloultra-fans who have been clamoring for a grittierDiablo IIIsince noticing that the gamewould have foreign colors likegreenorblue.
The image of that unicorn and his poo rainbow resonated with me on a level that I don’t want to make public. It must have hit the guys over atNerdyShirtspretty hard, too. They now carrytheabominableshirt commemoratingthe epic mocking of hardcoreDiablofans with the aforementioned unicorn. The tee is bright, tasteful and colorful — everything that aDiablozealot hates.
[Update:Oh, Internet. I originally thought that this shirt was created to commemorate a fake (yet tasteful) screenshot ofDiablo IIIfeaturing a unicorn crapping a rainbow. I’m afraid that this isn’t the case.
Apparently, this is a recreation of a t-shirt Blizzard employees wore to BlizzCon 2008. You know, to piss off the “Hey, this game has to be dark or I’ll do somethingmean… like sign an Internet petition!” crowd.
Well played, Blizzard. Thanks for your comments guys, and a very special thanks goes to Rob. He e-mailed mea hot link so I could get my facts straight.]
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