🚀 go-pugleaf

Yes.  Yes!  YES!  There WAS a swastika in doom.  Get over it*.
10 to 1 it was a reference to Wolfenstein, a great game that
deserves as much plugging and bragging as the ID guys want.
As I'm sure there will be Doom references in future games.
If there is anybody from ID out there, please, PLEASE!!! just
post an explanation, so we don't have to have another 500 messages
on the evils of Nazism**, swastikas, religious symbols, etc. ad nauseum
(a quite literal latin in this case).  Put it in the FAQ!  Have a
SPECIAL SWASTIKA REPORT!!!  Every week, a post that says "YES!  There
IS a reference to Nazis in Doom!  Please do not comment.  See the FAQ."
Maybe start a NEW newsgroup!  Alt.games.doom.evil.nazi.symbol.and.its.
malignant.meanings.  Then it can have it's own FTP site, just for 
papers, articles, and future college theses on Nazism in Computer Games!

For the humor/sarcasm impared (who (coincidentally?) tend to be
the same people who insist on posting "There's Nazis in my computer 
game!"***) this is a long dead, stinking, rotting, barely recognizable 
corpse of a horse****.  Stop beating on it.  This group is only 500 
messages old.  Don't make me start a kill file already.

<Sigh>  I know this will do absolutely zero good in stopping it.
But I feel better.  Now I can sleep tonight.

* No, I don't approve of Nazis.  I know of their atrocities.
  I don't want to hear about that either.

** Nazism can also be spelled Nasiism.  Both are correct spellings.
   I checked.  Yes, that's right.  I was anal retentive, just for 
   you.  I don't want to hear about that either.

*** No, I don't think Nazism is funny.  It is one of the most vile
    embodiments of evil ever to come down the pike.  Ditto.

**** I don't approve of cruelty to animals, either.

Now.  Have I covered everything?  Good.  Now we can let it drop.

-- 
Nathan Don Walton, wal...@owlnet.rice.edu, Rice University, Houston, Texas
The preceding text is a study in bovine scatology.