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MoH had some issues earlier with a MoH branded SOG tomahawk: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-14-the-medal-of-honor-tomahawk http://www.eurogamer.net/

by dfc 14y ago

MoH had some issues earlier with a MoH branded SOG tomahawk: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-14-the-medal-of-honor-tomahawk http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-14-the-medal-of-ho... http://soldiersystems.net/2012/08/20/an-american-perspective-on-the-european-perspective-of-eas-medal-of-honor-warfighter/ http://soldiersystems.net/2012/08/20/an-american-perspective... On a side note I think there were a lot of neat ideas in MoH but sadly it seems the game had to be rushed out in order to beat Halo and CoD:BO.

mercurial 14y ago
Jesus H. Christ. My impression was that Medal of Honor/Call of Duty had turned into soulless, corridor shooters with no open gameplay at all, all the while painting a picture of a black and white world where you get to kill people for the crime of having a beard. This was bad enough, but that was just nauseating.
- dfc 14y ago
  An odd way to begin a moral rant. Anyway nobody plays the campaign mode and all the high-speed low-drag cool guys have beards now.
  - CrankyPants 14y ago
    Odd, perhaps, but mocking things which some consider sacred is how one gains credibility on the 'net!
    - mercurial 14y ago
      This wasn't the idea. Not living in a particular religious country, I did not think for a second something this mild could give offense. Religion, as demonstrated by current events, is a very poor way of trolling people.
      - CrankyPants 14y ago
        No worries; I didn't think you were trolling. If I did, I would have ignored it. Still: to many, it's not as mild as you think.
  - snogglethorpe 14y ago
    Eh? It's not odd at all ... "Jesus H Christ" is a bog-standard exclamation with which to express extreme surprise/disgust.
    - dfc 14y ago
      Its a bog standard unclassy way to lose any moral high ground before describing someone else's choices as nauseating. Personally I am not religious but I still think its important to respect other people's faiths in meatspace and in threads on HN.
      - snogglethorpe 14y ago
        Er, no. It's so common that it's essentially lost any religious connotations. It implies nothing about "faith", lack of faith, lack of respect, or anything else. Maybe it originally had such connotations (and thus initially had shock value), but it long ago made the jump to a simple generic exclamation, and a rather mild one at that.
        thebluesky 14y ago
        If that's your idea of a "mild" one what would you regard as religiously offensive?
        snogglethorpe 14y ago
        It has nothing to do with what I think, it has to do with the way the phrase is typically used, and the reaction it gets: In normal usage, it's mild. This is true of many religious words used in this manner ... they've pretty much lost any bite they once had. E.g. "God! <complain complain>" is similar: 75 years ago maybe you'd have had people up in arms over that, but these days nobody will even notice.
        thebluesky 14y ago
        > but these days nobody will even notice Clearly 2 people on this forum alone have already noticed.

by dfc 14y ago

mercurial 14y ago

Jesus H. Christ. My impression was that Medal of Honor/Call of Duty had turned into soulless, corridor shooters with no open gameplay at all, all the while painting a picture of a black and white world where you get to kill people for the crime of having a beard. This was bad enough, but that was just nauseating.

dfc 14y ago
An odd way to begin a moral rant. Anyway nobody plays the campaign mode and all the high-speed low-drag cool guys have beards now.
- CrankyPants 14y ago
  Odd, perhaps, but mocking things which some consider sacred is how one gains credibility on the 'net!
  - mercurial 14y ago
    This wasn't the idea. Not living in a particular religious country, I did not think for a second something this mild could give offense. Religion, as demonstrated by current events, is a very poor way of trolling people.
    - CrankyPants 14y ago
      No worries; I didn't think you were trolling. If I did, I would have ignored it. Still: to many, it's not as mild as you think.
- snogglethorpe 14y ago
  Eh? It's not odd at all ... "Jesus H Christ" is a bog-standard exclamation with which to express extreme surprise/disgust.
  - dfc 14y ago
    Its a bog standard unclassy way to lose any moral high ground before describing someone else's choices as nauseating. Personally I am not religious but I still think its important to respect other people's faiths in meatspace and in threads on HN.
    - snogglethorpe 14y ago
      Er, no. It's so common that it's essentially lost any religious connotations. It implies nothing about "faith", lack of faith, lack of respect, or anything else. Maybe it originally had such connotations (and thus initially had shock value), but it long ago made the jump to a simple generic exclamation, and a rather mild one at that.
      - thebluesky 14y ago
        If that's your idea of a "mild" one what would you regard as religiously offensive?
        snogglethorpe 14y ago
        It has nothing to do with what I think, it has to do with the way the phrase is typically used, and the reaction it gets: In normal usage, it's mild. This is true of many religious words used in this manner ... they've pretty much lost any bite they once had. E.g. "God! <complain complain>" is similar: 75 years ago maybe you'd have had people up in arms over that, but these days nobody will even notice.
        thebluesky 14y ago
        > but these days nobody will even notice Clearly 2 people on this forum alone have already noticed.