A few days ago, in the Starbucks down the street from my house, there were two guys huddled around a laptop. Call of Duty: World at War was running. You could hear the faint sounds of World War II coming from the headphones dangling around one guy's neck. "I'm schiess auffiing the fenster," he told his friend.

Today, they had a third friend along. And each of them had a laptop. They were sitting at the big table that's supposed to be reserved for handicapped folks. They were playing Diablo 2 with each other. Waves of spell effects surged across their screens. The normal people in Starbucks passing by to put milk and sugar in their coffees turned their heads to see what the colorful commotion was. There but for the grace of God (and the fact that I don't have Diablo 2 installed on my laptop) go I.

Which reminded me of this mod to run Diablo 2 in resolutions higher than 800x600, something that wasn't previously possible. You can download the files and see some comparative screenshots in this thread.

(Thanks to Tim James, who also points out that the monsters won't activate beyond the range of the game's native resolution.)