Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 15:33:34 11/17/98
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On November 17, 1998 at 03:41:24, Peter Herttrich wrote: >On November 16, 1998 at 13:06:33, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >> >>On November 16, 1998 at 09:58:47, James Robertson wrote: >> >>>On November 16, 1998 at 01:06:10, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>> >>>>I can see how a list of buggy software might help people out, but why bitch and >>>>moan about vulgar language and nudity? There are any number of programs w/o >>>>either, why not promote a little diversity? >> >>>Perhaps (just maybe) the people here are decent. Ever thought of that? >> >>I'm not. I buy a wide variety of computer games. Violence has always been a >>part of computer entertainment titles, and this doesn't particularly bother me. >>Personally I don't go out of my way to get titles that contain sexual themes, >>but occasionally you find a game that has some of that, too. And as a parent of >>a five year old kid who likes to play games, and who likes to watch me play >>games that he can't play yet, I have to be careful what kind of language come >>out of the speakers, if only to avoid getting in big trouble with my wife. >>Occasionaly you'll hear a "hell","damn", or perhaps a little worse, and one >>phrase from Mech Commander, "That's me knocking, butthead!", delights my kid to >>no end and is eventually going to get me in big trouble. >> >>If violence is a problem in video games or in the movies or music or society in >>general, fine, there's that issue, but I totally don't buy the argument that >>chess is somehow sacred. I think that KK's comments about Chess Maniac Five >>Billion constitute KK's opnion, and are probably not the foundation of a wide >>reaching consensus regarding keeping chess free of the things that used to be >>banned from comic books. >> >>I think it is a marketplace issue, meaning buy what you want. >> >>I like the system of having a little warning on the outside of the box, which >>lets me make a choice without someone else thinking they can make it for me. >> >>bruce > >You need not look so far. >The german version of Fritz5 has also things, what I cannot accept. >If you have 'talking on', sometimes you will here the sentence: >"Wie die Hamburger Polizei, erst schlagen, dann fragen" or in english >"Like the police of Hamburg, first hit and then ask". > >This is a very bad sentence, it comes from an action of the police in >Hamburg, which is very well know as the 'Hamburger Kessel', where >some hunderts of people were pressed in little round and fixed there >for hours. > >Such a thing has NOTHING to do with chess. This is political. I think this is funny. It's obviously a joke. I hope that in the English translation, they used LA (Los Angeles) instead of Hamburg though. Dave Gomboc >There a more things in Fritz: "Freie Fahrt fuer frei Buerger" english >"Free drive for free people". Was a stupid argument from a german >'car-driver-party'. > >Comments, ChessBase? > >Peter
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