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Article #847Re: nazi reference in doom????
From: zi... Stephan K. Zitz
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 07:31
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 07:31
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In article <albertwC...@netcom.com>, The Feddie Punk of Solomon <alb...@netcom.com> wrote: |In article <NEVES.94J...@ballard.cs.colorado.edu> ne...@ballard.cs.colorado.edu (NEVES RICHARD K) writes: >> |>I just grabbed the shareware version of doom and played it for the |>first time today. |> |>I was VERY disturbed to see this huge swastika in one of the rooms. |>It bothers me 'cause it makes me think the creators of the game have |>some sort of agenda. That's really nasty and dangerous symbolism, |>don't you guys think. | |Wolfenstein 3D had swastika's up the wazoo, but no one said a word. |>What's with the big bruhaha now? Well... Wolfenstein had a reason to have the swastika portrayed every three feet... You WERE, afterall, in a castle/whatever of the nazis... However... Just because the swastika shape is used, doesn't automatically insinuate the shape is symbolizing the nazi icon... /----------------------------------------------------------------------\ <> Stephan K. Zitz <> My mind is my best friend... <> <> zi...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu <> And my worst enemy... <> \======================================================================/
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zib-berlin.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!sylvester.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: zi...@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Stephan K. Zitz) Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: nazi reference in doom???? Date: 9 Jan 1994 01:31:58 -0600 Organization: The University of Texas - Austin Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2gobte$b7r@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> References: <NEVES.94Jan8231740@ballard.cs.colorado.edu> <albertwCJCp7L.HEt@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sylvester.cc.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit