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Article #707192Re: some thoughts about nazism and games
From: ÃÁËÁÍÇÓ ÐÇËÅÁÓ
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:00
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� F r e e ������ ��� ������ <7r4een$80m$1...@diana.bcn.ttd.net>... >1) Many role and FPS games use nazi-like or nazi symbolism: power, magic, >blood&honor, aggresive eagles, skulls, runes and signs. In (more or less) >historical games this doesn't matter. (BTW, i don't understand a f**k why in >Germany and elsewhere they have troubles with Mortyr, where you have to kill >the nazis). >2) But i see a disgusting influence from those games that make the gamer >identify him/herself with those stupid simbolsim. That's creating sympathy >for very unsympathic fantasies. >3) Specially, i don't like at all that the guys of Unreal have chosen such a >svastika-like logo for Tournament. >3 bis) I just remember Age of Empires, where some kinda priests had a role, >which Hitler (and the Popes) would have loved (dominate by the power of >words). Unbelievable, Bil Gates the Atheist sells it! >4) Considering that the *real* heroes that won the WWII and knew the enemy >are getting very old, and considering the lack of historical >education/interest and evaluation of the youngest generation, the number of >people that find the SS stuff, etc., fancy could increase, right? > >I think we should email those game companies and tell them to put more >creativity in their games and to stop repeating old, disgusting fascist >symbols! > >F r e e > >
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From: ÃÁËÁÍÇÓ ÐÇËÅÁÓ <bm-x...@otenet.gr> Subject: Re: some thoughts about nazism and games Date: 1999/09/22 Message-ID: <7sb58t$ep2$1@newssrv.otenet.gr> X-Deja-AN: 528316870 References: <7r4een$80m$1@diana.bcn.ttd.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: ab...@otenet.gr X-Trace: newssrv.otenet.gr 938023005 15138 195.167.121.59 (22 Sep 1999 17:56:45 GMT) Organization: An OTEnet S.A. customer NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Sep 1999 17:56:45 GMT Newsgroups: 3dfx.games,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,alt.games.unreal,at.freizeit.rollenspiele,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,de.alt.games.unreal,de.rec.spiele.computer.action,de.rec.spiele.misc,z-netz.alt.rollenspiele,z-netz.rechner.spiele MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit