Re: (OT) What I love to hate was

On 13 Feb 2001 10:32 GMT KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de writes:

>But I rarely, if ever have seen anybody complaining about my own pet 
>GW 
>hate:
>The often gory graphic and bloodthirsty rhetoric of their 
>publications. 
>Warhammer was first advertised with the headline "Let's smash skulls" 
>and it has gone downhill from there - see their recent Dark Eldar. 
>
>Like with other matters, your tastes may vary, but is it just me who 
>prefers his games in a language that would not make a Nazi 
>Kriegsberichterstatter blush ?
>
>Greetings
>Karl Heinz

Karl, I have no idea what 'Kriegsberichterstatter' means in English or
Spanish but if it means tacky, demeaning extremely socially unsettling
gore (And I was in Nursing for 15 years) then yes.  I just thought I was
either 1) the only one or 2)a hypocrite given that our hobby *is* war
games.	But yes, what little GW materials I have read/handled can become
fixated on violence IMO.  Inquisitor?  The Spanish Inquisition was
'funny'?   But I just downplay the more extreme rhetoric in my non-GW
world (see the Ralnai reference in my Sig <blush>) and try not to spend
too much time in the GW sourcebooks...

Gracias, Glenn/Triphibious (American Mongrel)
You don't have to be French to be a 'frog', or even human!
Nektons - Real Marines! (Die, Ralnai, Die!)
Starguard, Dirtside 2,	Ratner's Space Marines, Stellar Conflicts
and Uprisings, and Full Thrust/2nd.  Resistance is everything!

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