Many of the more interesting skill gems are only available after character level 19/24/31. Some even have to drop in game (not available as quest reward).

PoE has such a complex system of skills and support gems that you can make many skills do what you want. There are the "Faster Attack" and "Faster Projectiles" support gems, as well as several skills that can "fill the screen" as you put it - gems like "Fork" and "Chain" that can be applied to any projectile skill, or "Increased Area of Effect" for any AoE skill. Of course it takes some time to level your character and the respective skill/support gems to reach that level of destruction.

Click on any item and while you are "holding" it with your mouse (while the item is the cursor), press Enter to open chat and type "/itemlevel".

Not the most intuitive thing, but very useful for crafting items.

The fact that muscle burns more calories then fat is true even when you are at rest. So when your body has more muscles, your RMR goes up, regardless of the actual physical activity performed.
But obviously if you spend a lot of time at rest, your muscles will turn back to fat. (I know this is oversimplification.)

I'm pretty sure they didn't celebrate the events fom 19xx in 1752!

The thing is that most non-IT companies outsource IT operations to dedicated IT companies. In this case you don't choose the level of competence of individual admins, you just agree to (buy) some SLAs for the different activities. In my experience it is much easier and cheaper to find an outsourcing company to take care of your Windows machines than it is for Linux, AIX, HPUX, Solaris or other UNIX(like) systems, not to mention mainframes and stuff.

Actually what the GP describes is exactly my experience in almost 10 years of dealing with different French customers and suppliers.
I understand people can and should take vacations, but it is quite common to have the relevant support staff (usually a single person) leave without having anyone else available for at least some urgent cases. Just wait two weeks until this one guy comes back? That's not a good way to do business.
Also don't get me started on 2 hour lunch breaks. When I read TFA, I was surprised this guy even saw 3 hours of actual work - my experience says it's one hour before and one after lunch.
Of course there are exceptions to this. But they are just that - exceptions.

For me, the digital copy is always downloaded faster compared to going to the nearest store and buying it there, not to mention I can start the download and install remotely from work and have it ready by the time I come home :)

I encourage you to compare Diablo 3 (very clearly an AAA title) to any of the other recent ARPGs (most notably Path of Exile).

AAA titles usually have good sales due to hype, but that doesn't equal to game quality in my book.

Actually you should look at the value of the target to be hit by the missile, not at the value of the missile to be intercepted. You can destroy infrastracture and equipment worth of millions of dollars with a single missile, not to mention that most of the stuff that is destroyed can't be replaced instantly. The $100,000 cost of the interceptor is small compared to that.

Around here, there is a notable difference in quality of the road surface between the lanes, because there are plenty of heavy load trucks. I actually do drive in the passing lane on an empty highway just to save on shocks maintenance costs.