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This is my favourite topic
Posted February 26, 2015
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IAmSinistar: How about people stop banning the swastika altogether and just ban the fucking hakenkreuz? That way we can keep an ancient symbol of good fortune and lose its evil mirror-universe twin.

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That's what makes me sad the most about this.
Posted February 26, 2015
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tinyE: My mother (an antique dealer) has actually gotten shit for selling stuff from the 1800s and earlier that is adorned with swastikas. What really puzzles me is when they ask why we have 'Nazi memorabilia' in the shop and we tell them, "No this piece is from 1820 (or whenever)" and they proceed to ask again why we have 'Nazi memorabilia' in the shop. :P It boggles the fucking mind!
Astounding, but not at all surprising, considering how ahistorical the typical American mind is.

Mind you, in my part of the country one can easily find antique shops carrying "big black mammies" and other such racially offensive items. And yet the complaints, they do not come.
Posted February 26, 2015
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tinyE: My mother (an antique dealer) has actually gotten shit for selling stuff from the 1800s and earlier that is adorned with swastikas. What really puzzles me is when they ask why we have 'Nazi memorabilia' in the shop and we tell them, "No this piece is from 1820 (or whenever)" and they proceed to ask again why we have 'Nazi memorabilia' in the shop. :P It boggles the fucking mind!
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Tannath: Poor history teachers?
Or Math.
Post edited February 26, 2015 by j0ekerr
Posted February 26, 2015
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InfraSuperman: I can tell you how the manga's German publisher reacted: http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=3189
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j0ekerr: That just mutilates both the art and the character.

I thought that the whole thing with Neji Hyuga's forehead seal was moronic, but at least Naruto was aimed at young kids, I can see how they wanted to avoid the moral morons. In this case, I just facepalm.

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amok: I still don't see the logic of Nazi Germany adopting a Hindu / Buddhist / Janist symbol.... It's meaning is very good, but still - not very nationalistic, is it?
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j0ekerr: I'm guessing it was a design choice, probably from it symbolizing a mixture of the exotic and the familiar, the symbol was incredibly widespread worldwide, from ancient china to the celts.
aye, vikings, Celts, Germanic tribes - they all used variations of the same symbol
Posted February 26, 2015
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IAmSinistar: How about people stop banning the swastika altogether and just ban the fucking hakenkreuz? That way we can keep an ancient symbol of good fortune and lose its evil mirror-universe twin.
Very true. And yet no one thinks to ban Wagner.
Posted February 26, 2015
The swastika was used by german nationalists long before Hitler took it as a symbol for his NSDAP.
Posted February 26, 2015
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j0ekerr: Very true. And yet no one thinks to ban . <a href="http://www.gog.com/forum/general/regional_locked_games_on_gog/post320" class="link_arrow"></a></div> Or [url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/von-braun.html]Wernher von Braun.

Cripes, I guess we need to pull System Shock 2 now as well, since one of the spaceships is the Von Braun.
Posted February 26, 2015
It turns out that the german launch was a disservice to german customers. Most of them speak english well enough to buy games on gog.com and one major advantage of this site was that it did not have to obey the excessive german censorship regulations.

(This is coming from a german)
Posted February 26, 2015
I see myself as an Earthling (sometimes even this is hard) and am sick of all this.

Maybe GoG should really run a nation, maybe a little enclave in Poland, but I won't march in there first, it would give people ... erm... the wrong impression.
Post edited February 26, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted February 26, 2015
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j0ekerr: Very true. And yet no one thinks to ban . <a href="http://www.gog.com/forum/general/regional_locked_games_on_gog/post320" class="link_arrow"></a></div><div class="small_avatar_2_h"><img src="//images.gog.com/28d871550e4b91e971d63b7f442fdec70922882fcb8aa0194d94bdb03237c1e0_avm.jpg" width="16" height="16" alt="avatar" /></div><span class="quot_text"><span class="quot_user_name">IAmSinistar: </span></span>Or [url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/von-braun.html]Wernher von Braun.

Cripes, I guess we need to pull System Shock 2 now as well, since one of the spaceships is the Von Braun.
"For fifteen years after World War II, von Braun worked with the U.S. Army in the development of ballistic missiles. As part of a military operation called Project Paperclip, he and his rocket team were scooped up from defeated Germany and sent to America where they were installed at Fort Bliss, Texas. There they worked on rockets for the U.S. Army, launching them at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. In 1950 von Braun’s team moved to the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala., where they built the Army’s Jupiter ballistic missile.

In 1960, his rocket development center transferred from the Army to the newly established NASA and received a mandate to build the giant Saturn rockets. Accordingly, von Braun became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that would propel Americans to the Moon."

Well there were "some" german scientists that found promising work in the Army after WW II.
Post edited February 26, 2015 by MaGo72
Posted February 26, 2015
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IAmSinistar: How about people stop banning the swastika altogether and just ban the fucking hakenkreuz? That way we can keep an ancient symbol of good fortune and lose its evil mirror-universe twin.
I agree.
Post edited February 26, 2015 by MIK0
Posted February 26, 2015
Hey, this is really OT, kind of, but is the uncut "Clockwork Orange" still unavailable in the U.K.? Is there a regional lock for that stuff?
Posted February 26, 2015
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mrkgnao: Coming soon:
Sacrifice regionally banned in Romania.
Whaaaat? I honestly hope you are joking. Why would that ever happen?
Posted February 26, 2015
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MaGo72: snip
Oh yes, I am quite familiar with Operation Paperclip. Just one of the many shadowy decisions made by my government. I personally think that von Braun and the rest of his Nazi cohorts should have been held to account, rather than whitewashed into American life (including giving von Braun a role as the face of space science at Disney). But then I am probably too moral a person to engage effectively in realpolitik. And "too moral" is a surprisingly low bar in that arena.
Posted February 26, 2015
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WinterSnowfall: Whaaaat? I honestly hope you are joking. Why would that ever happen?
It's a joke aimed at a certain Romanian who likes Sacrifice a bit too much.
Post edited February 26, 2015 by Grargar
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