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- From: pechever@phakt.usc.edu (The Heckler)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: regarding witchburning in computer games
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:13:23 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <mLH1XB3w165w@tweekco.uucp> alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard) writes:
- [red sonja's squealing deleted]
- >IF the game is as described, it doesn't sound any more offensive than
- >the games based on playing the role of a Nazi concentration camp
- >commander killing Jews in a death camp.
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- (prefatory note: i can't tell if a.liz is being sarcastic or not...i don't find
- his example particularly offensive)
- hmm...the phrase 'it's just a game' and the question 'aren't we taking
- ourselves a bit too seriously here?' come to mind.
- time someone reposted the first law of virtual reality.
- okay, let's all say it together:
- "thou shalt not equate bit-mapped text with reality"
- better now?
-
- the heckler
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