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[Boron]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
Not sure you can blame it on the Allies, given that Japan didn't wind up the same way.

not to forget italy , finland , bulgaria ... .
but the most important point is that 1. none of these did as evil war crimes as germany and
2. none of these nations had decent enough techs to be a real threat .

they were all unimportant secondary war theatres , even japan . if the usa hadn't had to defeat germany first because there was the threat they get an atom bomb too the pacific war would have been over most likely 1943 or so already .

[HotNifeThruButr]

I guess if I were the German government, I'd want to send a clear, strong message to the world saying "WE ARE NOT NAZIS, NOR DO WE WANT TO BECOME THEM OR LIKE THEM IN ANY WAY."

So they ban such Nazi related things to make a statement to the world. This just happens to damage the video game community, but the chances of someone in the German government being involved with video games is pretty slim. For the blood thing, well, it was also a stereotype (which I've heard somewhere, not as big as the racist stereotype, but it's also there) that all Germans were crazy warmongers, especially because *some* people think their language is scary sounding.

Note that the above aren't my opinions, I'm only the messenger.

[Karacan]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
I feel for you. I really do. How awful it must be, to be filled with this distaste for Nazism, yet be unable to blow them away in video games.

Don't mock! That only leaves americans and french as my prefered shoot-em-up humanoid targets, and there's only so many games to play for that.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Karacan:
Don't mock! That only leaves americans and french as my prefered shoot-em-up humanoid targets, and there's only so many games to play for that.

Actually, I'm being genuinely sympathetic in something that is otherwise rare for me, so I understand your confusion. If you think about it hard enough, though, you'll realize that it's not quite so uncharacteristic of me here after all.

The truly depressing thing is that the taint has gone international. Just look at how hard it is to find a game where you can kill children, because it wouldn't be allowed in Germany. Argh. And the little buggers are always so annoying, too, like it's somehow more wrong to kill children, which are much more easily produced, than adults. Besides, isn't that the entire point of video games?

[Karacan]

But the Predator says that there is no honor in killing children. Unless they are equipped with laser-rifles and shotguns.

They might serve as troll-supplies, though, to preserve my stone-gardens.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Karacan:
But the Predator says that there is no honor in killing children. Unless they are equipped with laser-rifles and shotguns.

This is not exactly an uncommon occurrence where I live, for shotguns, anyway. Children are fairly useless until they can wield shotguns, or at least man turrets, anyway.

[Soapyfrog]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
This is not exactly an uncommon occurrence where I live, for shotguns, anyway. Children are fairly useless until they can wield shotguns, or at least man turrets, anyway.

Ah Car wars, how I miss thee!