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- From: law10@po.CWRU.Edu (Lorrie A. Wood)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: regarding witchburning in computer games
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 06:32:56 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- >From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
- >Subject: regarding witchburning in computer games
- >Date: Tue Jan 26 20:20:57 1993
- >
- >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.
- >
-
- *lurk off*
- Or about as spiffy as the popular shareware games called Wolfenstein
- (there are currently seven), based on a berserk Polish-American running
- amok and killing Nazis.
- *hypocrite alert*
- Yes, I played it and beat it (game 1 & 7), and well, enjoyed the high-
- quality graphics and screams the Nazis made when you shot them.
- Can I help it if it was finals week?
-
- ** Oboy massive not-nice alert **
-
- Janis and Raven: It's been like 3 months since I said I'd send you your
- stuff and I haven't yet! Eep!
- Of course, if you've both forgotten me, I'm off the hook, right? 8-)
- Gosh, it's great to be back here. The only problem is reading all the
- copious scad of badwidth you guys put out. It's wonderful!
-
- BB and Read You Later . . . 8-)
-
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- false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in
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