Where Can I Get Diablo 1

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Carri Seargent

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Aug 5, 2024, 11:04:17 AM8/5/24
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Thedude is right though. Diablo has been in every main title but this dumpster fire mess of diablo 4. i mean F*** M* Path Of Exiles story is darker than this by a HUNDRED miles. This is like a dramatic disagreement between a BF and his GF.

That scene was filmed at an Old Hickory House, a onetime Southern-cooking restaurant empire, in Forest Park, Georgia, right next to the airport. (Also close by: the Avengers compound, at least until it was destroyed by Thanos.)


I am assuming that you\u2019ve seen Smokey and the Bandit or, at the very least, know of the existence of said movie. It\u2019s something of a rite of passage down in the South to watch Burt Reynolds, mustachioed and slicker than motor oil on an iron skillet, wheedle his way through the long arms of the law. He was an antihero when Tony Soprano was still in middle school, a wheelman when Dominic Toretto was still on a tricycle, a Southern Han Solo with better jokes.2


Like Mad Max: Fury Road and Fellowship of the Ring, it\u2019s a there-and-back-again tale involving a Trans Am, CB lingo, a runaway bride, a lunatic small-town sheriff, and that sandwich \u2026 but I\u2019m getting ahead of myself.


The magnificent stuntman/raconteur Hal Needham4 created and directed Smokey in the same way that you direct a plummeting plane. Jacked on heady doses of testosterone and other influences, the crew filmed all over Atlanta in the fall of 1976. The towns of Jonesboro and McDonough, among others, stood in for east Texas, and Georgia 400 stood in for the highway that connected Atlanta and Texarkana. Watching Smokey today, for Georgians, is like watching The Walking Dead, Ozark or a Marvel movie \u2026 you see what\u2019s happening onscreen and you think, hey, wait a minute, I know where that is \u2026


Like with so many other movies of the \u201870s, Needham and Reynolds had an idea, a fistful of money, and a whole lot of alcohol and other mood-altering substances. They had a script, yes, but that was more suggestion than road map. They had the South as their canvas \u2014 kudzu, morning mist, lazy rivers, thick forests \u2014 and they created something like folk art, raw and ridiculous and just flat-out fun. And it connected with fans of the day, too; the only movie to outgross Smokey the year it came out was some little space opera with laser swords \u2018n shit.


Stories of the movie\u2019s filming feel like legends from a bygone era of Hollywood, like the way Needham got Jerry Reed \u2014 Snowman in the film \u2014 to write the classic \u201CEastbound and Down\u201D theme song pretty much overnight, or how Needham convinced Pontiac to give him four Trans Ams for filming \u2026 all four were wrecked, and on the final day of filming they had to Frankenstein one together from the parts of the others and push it with an off-camera tow truck.


The movie\u2019s real coup was getting Jackie Gleason to play Sheriff Buford T. Justice, the sweaty, spluttering good ol\u2019 boy enforcer of the law. Gleason was a long way from \u201CThe Honeymooners\u201D by this point, and he responded to both the comedic potential of the script and the paycheck. Needham wasn\u2019t sure if Gleason ever learned his name \u2014 he called him \u201CPally\u201D when happy, \u201CMr. Director\u201D when displeased \u2014 but Gleason damn sure learned his lines, cocktails or not, and brought the heat on every take.


So just what is a Diablo Sandwich? Best I can tell, Gleason made it up on the fly; every reference to a \u201CDiablo Sandwich\u201D on the web leads back to the movie. Needham said later that three-quarters of what Gleason said in the film was his own mad creation. The Justice-Bandit scene was Gleason\u2019s idea and almost entirely improvised. (Buford T. Justice popularized the term \u201Csumbitch,\u201D for which Gleason deserves a posthumous Nobel. What a perfect word.)


Old Hickory House, for its part, embraced its connection with the movie and the sandwich, even as its reach faded. The exact restaurant depicted in the movie was torn down a few years after filming, the Old Hickory House collective collapsed, and now there\u2019s just one left on the whole planet, only a single lonely restaurant still telling you to \u201CPut Some South In Your Mouth!\u201D


The last Old Hickory House stands in Tucker, Georgia, and when I visited, I was the youngest person in the entire restaurant (and I\u2019m not young). Perhaps for that reason, the Diablo Sandwich \u2014 basically minced pork doused in Texas Pete hot sauce \u2014 is now an off-menu item, but you can still get it if you ask. Oh, and it\u2019ll set you back a whole lot more than a buck and a half today:


Time rolls on. The Bandit and Sheriff Buford T. Justice are dead. Nobody drives Trans Ams with giant gold phoenixes on the hood anymore. And Coors is what you drink when the good stuff\u2019s all gone.


Since there\u2019s apparently no Original Diablo Sandwich, the door is wide open for you to make whatever you want and dub it Diablo. There are recipes all over the web, ranging from the semi-reasonable (sloppy joes with hot sauce) to the absurd (ground beef, taco seasoning and lettuce and tomato? Get the hell out of here with that crap). Basically, it all boils down to this: based on what we can observe Sheriff Justice eating in the movie, you need:


How you get there is up to you. If you\u2019re not savvy with a smoker, one easy slow-cooker recipe is to quarter a Boston Butt, then rub it with a mix of paprika, brown sugar, salt and pepper. Lay it down on a bed of quartered Vidalia onions. Drizzle it with half a can of Dr Pepper, a few slaps of hot sauce and a couple cups of your favorite BBQ sauce.


For both the sauces, buy local or indie. Don\u2019t go with Tabasco \u2014 everyone does that \u2014 and don\u2019t settle for Heinz or KC Masterpiece. You deserve better than that. (For the hot sauce, I used some of the Super Sick Habanero Ginger I described here.) And if you want to make your own, boil up a 1:1:1 combination of apple cider vinegar, tomato juice and Dr Pepper \u2014 use a big pot, it bubbles up huge \u2014 and throw in finely diced onion, plus pepper, garlic powder and cayenne to taste.


Cook the pork Beastie Boys style \u2014 slow and low \u2014 for 10 to 12 hours. Discard the onions, save the juice, shred the pork. Butter and toast some hamburger buns, add the shredded pork and juice, top with some more hot sauce (and maybe cole slaw if you want to get fancy) and serve with an ice-cold \u2026 well, you know the rest.


This has been issue #55 of Flashlight & A Biscuit. Check out all the past issues right here. Feel free to email me with your thoughts, tips and advice. If you\u2019re new around here, check out some of our recent hits:


The Bandit\u2019s justification for why they make the bootleg run in the first place: \u201CFor the good ol\u2019 American life. For the money, for the glory and for the fun. Mostly for the money.\u201D Words to live by.


I grant you that the Bandit and the Snowman didn\u2019t have access to Google Maps, but even so, their calculations are WAY off. Snowman says it\u2019s 1800 miles there and back to Texarkana; it\u2019s more like 1350. Even obeying the then-mandatory speed limit of 55 miles an hour, that\u2019s just over 24 hours of driving. Plenty of leeway.


After the destruction of the Black Soulstone, the defeat of the Prime Evil, and the fall of Malthael, Angel of Death, countless lives have been lost and the denizens of Sanctuary find themselves struggling through the darkest of ages. Years have passed and, as some semblance of regular life starts rebuilding, a threat as old as the land itself begins to stir.


The base game's storyline will be expanded in two areas post-launch. The first one will be via expansions, which continue the overall storyline of the game. The second one is through the game's seasons, however, seasons are self-contained storylines, unrelated to the core storyline.[9]


Diablo IV can be played solo or in a group[10] of up to 4 players per party.[11] The game utilizes a shared world system where groups may encounter one another, engaging in both PvE (PvM) and PvP activities;[10] dungeons are instanced, however, and can only be done with multiple players through the party system. The state of the world is unique to each player, depending on their progress through the campaign as well as other variables (such as strongholds).


Players can create clans while in the game and customize a clan banner; clans do not offer any advantages to loot or power progression.[12] The game will not have an auction house.[13] Trading is enabled between players, but with certain limitations (such as the inability to trade crafting materials and Legendary/Unique Items). All loot is personal, and items dropped by monsters and treasure chests will not be visible to other players; the exception to this of course is when the player drops an item on the ground manually.


Account-wide progression is present, where all characters that the player creates will share the same stash, gold, and crafting materials. A renown system, which is divided per region in the world map, is also account-wide, allowing players to reap all the benefits of gaining renown rewards in the different zones. Some of the account-wide progression will be separate for seasons, meaning that certain progress on the eternal server will not carry over to the seasonal server.


The game is multiplatform, with crossplay being available[3]; the player can, however, opt to disable the feature in the options section and only get matched with players from the same platform. Cross-progression is also available,[7] allowing for players to transfer their progress between all available platforms through their Battle.Net-accounts. The console versions feature couch co-op for up to two players,[14] however, each player must have their own Battle.Net-account.[15] Though players in couch co-op can still form parties with other players online.

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