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Article #861Re: nazi reference in doom????
From: ster... Bruce Sterling Woodcock
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 08:52
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 08:52
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In article <1994Jan9.0...@news.yale.edu> sk...@minerva.cis.yale.edu (David Sarcastic) writes: >Bruce Sterling Woodcock (ster...@netcom.com) wrote: >They had a place in Wolf3D...it made sense, you were in a castle >*destroying* nazis. But there's no reason for it in Doom, which is why >it's a little disconcering. Who are you to say what has reason to be in Doom and what doesn't? Are you a developer? Most likely, as someone else pointed out, it was an inside joke about Wolf3D. And, as someone else pointed out, the people you are fighting are supposed to be *bad* guys. There's no reason for lots of things in Doom, like power-ups and chainsaws and pressure plates. None of these belong in a scientific installation, either. Oh, gee, I think that one oval-shaped crossing across the acid pit looks blantantly sexual... we'd better remove that too. Bruce -- |----- Bruce Sterling Woodcock ------ Internet: ster...@netcom.com -----| Yes. We fuck. Often, and with great enjoyment of the act. We aren't married, we use birth control, we use interesting little toys on occasion. We moan like beasts in heat. Life is *great*. -- Bryant, ref. to Erin, on alt.brother-jed.
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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zib-berlin.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!sterling From: ster...@netcom.com (Bruce Sterling Woodcock) Subject: Re: nazi reference in doom???? Message-ID: <sterlingCJCtzG.DG5@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <NEVES.94Jan8231740@ballard.cs.colorado.edu> <sterlingCJCpEE.8nD@netcom.com> <1994Jan9.074055.17472@news.yale.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 08:52:27 GMT Lines: 25 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit