Wednesday, May 28th, 2007 - Grammar Nazi

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Poll ended at Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:54 am

Best strip ever!
1
4%
Great strip!
12
44%
Good.
4
15%
OK.
1
4%
Meh.
1
4%
I didn't like this one.
0
No votes
No.
0
No votes
Worst. Strip. Ever.
0
No votes
Polls suck.
3
11%
I hate you MAZZ, for pushing the comic down the page. BURN.
5
19%
 
Total votes: 27

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Postby marklungo » Thu May 29, 2008 6:26 pm

Here's hoping this strip doesn't get banned in Germany. :wink:
Signature? You mean I'm supposed to put some meaningless block of text here?

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Postby Tom Flapwell » Thu May 29, 2008 7:11 pm

Last I heard, Germany wasn't China.
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Postby Baconsticks » Thu May 29, 2008 7:12 pm

Germany has some of the worst censorship laws in the world.
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Postby Muninn » Thu May 29, 2008 10:05 pm

Bacon's current avatar shows the German army marching to ban and crush this comic with cold Teutonic efficiency.

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Postby Simba Cub » Fri May 30, 2008 12:07 am

Welcome back, Avery!



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Postby The MAZZTer » Fri May 30, 2008 2:45 am

All I know about German censorship is that their version of Wolfenstein 3D removed all Nazi references (so like... the story is gone basically), turned all the blood green, and more. Embarrassed much?

[Edit: Oh right, the PC and Jaguar versions were completely banned (probably still are) and the SNES version had to have lots of censorship... no Nazis, dogs turned into rats (thank you PETA) and the blood turned into sweat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D#Controversy

I thought the green blood thing cause I think that is or was commonly done to comply with German censorship laws for other games.]

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Postby nickspoon » Fri May 30, 2008 12:31 pm

German videogame censorship laws are very harsh. If a game is deemed to glorify violence it is restricted to over-18s and can be banned from being advertised or even being placed on store shelves. This is why game developers go out of their way to make the German version sanitary. Recently, the German ratings authority refused to rate Gears of War, leading to it not being sold on the German market (although it can be legally imported).

The use of Nazis and the swastika in video games is also banned, unless the game is an attempt at an accurate historical recreation (e.g. Medal of Honour) - and even then, the authorities may request the removal of swastikas.
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Postby Baconsticks » Fri May 30, 2008 1:31 pm

http://www.cybercafe-software.com/indexlist.html <--List of games that are (somewhat) banned in Germany.
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Postby Mista_B » Fri May 30, 2008 3:27 pm

Geeze, what censorship-nazis.

*cough*

<.<

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Postby Tom Flapwell » Fri May 30, 2008 4:29 pm

Strange that they banned only one of the Grand Theft Auto games.
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Postby Baconsticks » Fri May 30, 2008 4:39 pm

Geeze, what censorship-nazis.

*cough*

<.<

:oops:
That really should not be funny.

I'm still laughing though. :P
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Postby Riiya » Sat May 31, 2008 3:20 am

has D.C. always shown their teeth while they're talking?
Not always, but for many years in close-ups. Fans differed on whether the fangs made the characters look better or worse. I say better.
I've always liked the fangs; they're cute.


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