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Re: nazi reference in doom????

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From: zi... Stephan K. Zitz
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 08:08
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In article <1994Jan9.0...@news.yale.edu>,
David Sarcastic <sk...@minerva.cis.yale.edu> wrote:
|>Bruce Sterling Woodcock (ster...@netcom.com) wrote:
|>
|>> Someone ought to show this guy a copy of Wolfenstein 3D... he'd probably
|>> have a heart attack.
|>
|>> I also think it's funny that random acts of violence with pentagrams and
|>> satannic symbols are okay, but swastikas are right out.
|>
|>> Rich:  Get a life.  It's just a game.  Get over it.
|>
|>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.
|>

Without meaning to sound too argumentative or anything...  IF I made a
game and used a cross figure as part of the room, would it anger you?

Seriously...  Some shapes just fit better for a certain situation... 
maybe the swastika figure worked best in this situation...  and given that
5x5 grid it was in....  *shrug*

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|>.........1.11.21.1211.111221.312211.13112221.1113213211.31131211131221.........
|>..dave sklar \ sk...@minerva.cis.yale.edu \ "i just grin as i walk" -bboys...

umm... :)  shouldn't that be
1..11..21..1112..3112..211213..312213...212223....
:):)

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