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Article #855Re: nazi reference in doom????
From: jne... I have green eyes
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 21:55
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 21:55
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In article <2h0l0o$t...@tukki.cc.jyu.fi>, joh...@network.cc.jyu.fi (Jonne Henrikki Kolima) writes: >In article <albertwC...@netcom.com> alb...@netcom.com (The Feddie Punk of Solomon) writes: >>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, in Wolfenstein 3D you were inside *enemy* buildings (nazis, of course) >but in Doom you're strolling around in once-friendly environment ie. all >the architectural design is made by *your* side. Well, maybe they liked the mystic sign from India (where the swastika was derived from) and wanted to incorporate it into their ariechecture.... Who knows... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jared Evans Computer Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology INTERNET:jne5873@ritvax.isc.rit.edu-------------------------------->Core dumped To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is 9.8 m/s^2 IBM seems to believe that when they urinate in something,it improves the flavor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send all a.holes and flames to /dev/null INTERNET:THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!nigel.msen.com!sdd.hp.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!rochester!rit!isc-newsserver!ritvax.isc.rit.edu!JNE5873 From: jne...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (I have green eyes!) Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: nazi reference in doom???? Message-ID: <1994Jan13.215505.6920@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Date: 13 Jan 94 21:55:05 GMT References: <NEVES.94Jan8231740@ballard.cs.colorado.edu> <albertwCJCp7L.HEt@netcom.com>,<2h0l0o$t8t@tukki.cc.jyu.fi> Sender: ne...@ultb.isc.rit.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: jne...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: vaxd-eth.isc.rit.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit