Real-world sensitivities and game names

dirtywick · #1 July 13th, 2008, 04:15 AM

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I don't see a reason why the name "Adolf" would incite hysteria. It became largely unpopular, that's true, but I don't think that it causes offense or should be a taboo.

I dont know anyone named "Judas". Some names became *really* unpopular.

Among Christians, certainly. On the other hand, it is also the name of Judas Maccabeus , one of the great warriors of Jewish History, and so, I suspect, far less unpopular among Jews.

Uh, that guy lived ~175 years before the name Judas became infamous.

MaxWilson · #2 July 13th, 2008, 04:44 AM

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dirtywick said:
Uh, that guy lived ~175 years before the name Judas became infamous.

It took me a second, but I think he means that someone might name their kid after Judas Maccabeus--not that Judas Maccabeus himself was named after (/despite) Judas Iscariot.

-Max

Tifone · #3 July 13th, 2008, 06:06 AM

Meh. Censorship on an intellectual and art work makes no sense to me, no matter what.

JimMorrison · #4 July 13th, 2008, 06:48 AM

Just watched the documentary "The Yes Men" tonight, good stuff.

It's about a couple of guys who impersonate representatives from the WTO, through a mock website that is remarkably similar to the real WTO website.

Anyway, they got their start by doing the same thing with George Bush's personal website. They obtained a VERY similar URL, and made a replica of the website, with certain subliminally satirical twists.

Anyways, they showed a news clip where GW Bush was asked what he thought about this kind of spoof website, and whether they had "taken things too far", and it yielded this lovely quote-

"Sure, I think there should be limits, limits on freedom."
George W Bush

So maybe there should be, right?