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Article #877Re: nazi reference in doom????
From: wd... Walter DAO
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 11:46
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 11:46
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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. > >I'm not sure how well I can describe where this is at, but here goes: > >It is in the second "level". You go into a room, and if you walk >around long enough, the walls sink into the ground in the shape of a >gigantic swastika. Looking at the map (tab key) makes it really >apparent. > >I shouldn't have to explain what is BAD about this symbol. It is not >fictional. It is part of history that is scary. > >So, someone tell me. Is this convenient scenery or something more? > >I would be relieved if it was just convenient scenery, but I still >don't thing it deserves the pixels. > >I enjoyed the game, so this was a real bummer. > >Rich > > OHHH NO!! another bozo !!! this thread has been beat to death in .action. in any case, The underground Nazi rule is that a program is truely a nazi prg. if one can find in Ascii the codes for "Zieg Heil" 10 times in the main prg's exec file. If the string is not there, then the prg. is not registered with the local KKK org. Walt
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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!wdao From: wd...@netcom.com (Walter DAO) Subject: Re: nazi reference in doom???? Message-ID: <wdaoCJD215.Hpz@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <NEVES.94Jan8231740@ballard.cs.colorado.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 11:46:16 GMT Lines: 43 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit