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Article #299967

Re: Pentagrams, Goat heads, Upside-down crosses: Woo Hoo Quake 3

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From: Bull On Parade
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 00:00
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Sir, you are the naive one.  Do you know the history of the upside down
cross or the significance of it?  I guess we would call black people naive
if they wouldn't play because it had KKK imagery throughout it...

Baron Spamedi <here@there.and.everywhere> wrote in message
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>
> Waver <Wav...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:38488141$0$10686@motown.iinet.net.au...
> > I agree. I'm sick of this crap. Its like id can't think of anything ells
> to
> > put in. DOOM 1 was OK. DOOM 2 it was getting boring. Quake1 i was hoping
> it
> > was the last we would see. Now they have gone back fullon in Q3a. that
> > sucks. I'd buying UT.
> >
> > Waver
> >
>
>
> Oh for fucks sake - are all you people really this naieve?
>
> The satanic imagery is just the style of the artwork in the game. I doubt
> very much that anyone at ID is a devil worshipper. Speaking as someone who
> holds no particular religious beliefs I can honestly say the 'satanic'
look
> doesn't bother me at all (don't believe in God, don't believe in the
Devil)
> but I do appreciate what they are achieving by using it.
> The are giving the game a recognisable style - it ties in with work they
> have done in the past and gives helps the game have 'brand recognition'.
> Besides, I would have thought that all the 'God-botherers' amongst you
> would have relished going around and killing heretics etc.
> Try to remember - the graphics are there to give the game a certain mood
> and a certain style, NOT to convey some meaningful religious significance.
>
> Personally I find ID's graphics to be well crafted although if the only
> games I owned were ID ones I would get bored of their brown & red palette!
>
>
> Baron Spamedi
>
>
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From: "Bull On Parade" <B...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Pentagrams, Goat heads, Upside-down crosses: Woo Hoo Quake 3
Date: 1999/12/03
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