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OkStyX
Canada1199 Posts
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grunge
United States40 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:00 Chaggi wrote: Ah really? We see it here in Korea a lot, I believe it's used for religious purposes, never walked in one though. Germany takes Nazis and anything association with them very seriously. They still have Nazis in their country to this day, in small numbers(much like any extremist in a country). Their history with Nazi movement is a blight on their country and they do not joke around at all when it comes to anything relating to the Nazi party. There is no room for nuance either, as they still have Nazis looking for the graves of party members and all sorts of other weird shit. All politics are local. Across the world the simple is a harmless symbol. To Germany, it is a blight on their history and the symbol worshiped by extremist to this day. | ||
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Greenwizard
48 Posts
I wonder when will we get over this period of OMFG i am gonna sue you for everything. I wonder how long until we stop searching similarities with these 8 lines and scream. Should we forget and forgive , no , should we blame people who aren't even born at that period , no. | ||
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Popkiller
3415 Posts
Shall we write to Google? | ||
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Iyerbeth
England2410 Posts
On April 11 2013 04:50 Serimek wrote: How can SnowfaLL can be understood as sexual ? Is my understanding of English too limited ? I don't get it either. Also, this is insane. There's so many maps you could end up even accidentally with that same symbol - it's an obvious 4 player rotational symmetry. -_- | ||
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Hier
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:03 jinorazi wrote: thats the thing, most people (and blizzard) dont give a single fuck on correctness and would cry foul. everything in the world revolves around western culture, who gives a fuck about asian culture. Its on the EU server, where Germany is and it is illegal to have the symbol in a game in Germany. | ||
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yokohama
United States1116 Posts
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Greenwizard
48 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:10 El Caz wrote: A long while back I started working on a map that had a bikini wearing girl right in the middle of it. Later on I realized that I wouldn't be able to share the map with just a couple of friends for a few laughs like I could do on SC1, since maps are uploaded and shared with whoever finds them. Blizzard has censorship rules like this in place in case you hurt someone else's sensibilities, so uploading a bikini girl map could get me in trouble, and I ditched the idea. Well, that's the excuse I'm using, since once I finished the 'artsy' bits using the editor's brushes, I got too lazy to continue working on the balancing, triggers or anything else. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/Elcaz/bikini-girl1.jpg I'm thinking I could do this with a face, instead of a full body. It'd be less problematic censorship wise (less fun as well, I guess) but I seriously have no clue regarding balance or what makes a map fun, but drawing stuff on it is a challenge I enjoyed. Regarding Kabel and his map, I don't think the swastika resemblance was intentional. Blizzard has no way of knowing if something offensive was intentional or not, so they stick to their guidelines and ban you accordingly. It does make for people being wary about what they upload but I guess that means the guidelines are working as intended. And teoreticly the age needed to play BW , is a little bigger then the age needed to see a girl in a bikiny :D | ||
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urashimakt
United States1591 Posts
On April 11 2013 04:57 Shikyo wrote: How? "The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good" or "auspicious," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix. The swastika literally means "to be good". " That's totally different from the nazi one o_O How can people even mix them up, they're 45 degrees bent to begin with Again the finnish air force had those exact ones You already know how it's offensive. Show a Westerner a swastika or a sauwastika and 99 times out of 100 they'll tell you that's the Nazi symbol of hatred. It doesn't matter that you specifically have looked into the origin of the symbol, it matters that there are 99 other people to match you who haven't. Additionally, both versions (left-facing and right-facing) were present in the Nazi regime, although only one of them was used on the flag. Bottom line, it would be a huge battle for Blizzard to host such a map on their servers (you'll notice it already got reported, so someone obviously noticed and objected to it) and it's a much safer route just to remove it. The suspension is unfortunate. | ||
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Grimmyman123
Canada939 Posts
Firstly the map does not depict a Nazi Swastika. The Nazi emblem has 90 degree bends clockwise, as the map shows the bends to the counter clockwise. MAP ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images/thumb/3/3c/Sniper_Ridge.jpg/120px-Sniper_Ridge.jpg) NAZI version ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg/150px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png) However, I do feel, a good usage of the symbol, and clearly the map was based off the inverse symbols usage at the Red Swastika School which is a government aided PRIMARY school in Singapore. Possibly the Broodwar map designer was a former student? ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f5/RedSwastikaSchool.jpg/220px-RedSwastikaSchool.jpg) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Swastika_School While both directions are consider swastikas, as they are the inverse of each other, only the RIGHT HAND bend is associated with the Nazi party. More information on the symbol, which has many many meanings, can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika | ||
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Silvanel
Poland4769 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:15 Plansix wrote: Its on the EU server, where Germany is and it is illegal to have the symbol in a game in Germany. Where does the uploader comes from? Thats the only thing that matter. If he is from Poland for example i am pretty confident he would won in court should he wanted to challange Blizzard (we have some precedences in similiar cases). Obviously noone is going to sue Blizzard for something like that, too much trouble for too little gain. Ps. We have laws prohibiting Nazi propaganda but it has been already established in courts that symbol itself does not constitute nazi propaganda. | ||
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Bagi
Germany6799 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:22 Grimmyman123 wrote: This clearly shows that the Blizzard staff are clearly uneducated and are complete historical imbeciles. Ironic, when you clearly lack common sense yourself. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:19 urashimakt wrote: You already know how it's offensive. Show a Westerner a swastika or a sauwastika and 99 times out of 100 they'll tell you that's the Nazi symbol of hatred. It doesn't matter that you specifically have looked into the origin of the symbol, it matters that there are 99 other people to match you who haven't. Additionally, both versions (left-facing and right-facing) were present in the Nazi regime, although only one of them was used on the flag. Bottom line, it would be a huge battle for Blizzard to host such a map on their servers (you'll notice it already got reported, so someone obviously noticed and objected to it) and it's a much safer route just to remove it. The suspension is unfortunate. It was also on the EU server and Germany still makes showing the Swastika in any format illegal. If you read the wiki, they still have problems with Neo Nazi in 2005. I doubt they have gone away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_§_86a Still on the books to this day. | ||
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
That is the nazi swastika, notice the change in the angle at which the symbol is set. That is the one people hate because of it's significance with the Nazi Party ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/HinduSwastika.svg) This is the indian swastika, this one is a symbol of auspiciousness and has been a symbol from the Indus Valley since time immemorial, look at the similarity. This is sheer ignorance. | ||
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Grimmyman123
Canada939 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:24 Bagi wrote: Ironic, when you clearly lack common sense yourself. YAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!! ![[image loading]](http://www.comedycentral.com/images/shows/crankyankers/characters/cy_specialed_m4.jpg) (See Crank Yankers "I've got mail" for joke reference) User was warned for this post | ||
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ymir233
United States8275 Posts
You have no idea of the difficulties this entailed. But then again, people running a simple flower shop like Blizzard might not understand the idea of Google. | ||
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Joedaddy
United States1948 Posts
I highly doubt that Blizzard is going to take the time to change anything though. I'm sure they get all kinds of appeals on the bans the dole out. Just write the 7 days off as a loss and remember to tip toe around the sensitive natures of those who hold power over you in the future. Best of luck  | ||
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followZeRoX
Serbia1451 Posts
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