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Um, TC, ur doin it wrong. Your knowledge of the Holocaust is middling at best, but then, it was a bad attempt at a Godwin anyway.

Here's a hint: the anti-Semitism of the Holocaust was considered an unusual type at its time, because the Nazis stressed a basis for it in ethnicity, not religion. Hitler even went so far as to call religion-based anti-Semitism "misguided," which won him few friends in anti-Semitic circles at the time (not that this bothered him overmuch; being a mad dictator and all, he just manufactured his own friends). The end result is that trying to draw a parallel here for attempts to punish belief don't work.

If you're going to Godwin, then for crying out loud, do it properly and draw parallels to groups that were actually targeted for their beliefs. For example, red or purple triangles (used for Communists and Jehovah's Witnesses, respectively) would have been more accurate. They would also have been less well-known, which I suspect would have precluded you from using these even if you had known about them, which I doubt you did, simply because you wouldn't be able to piss off as many people.



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What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.