So they create this elaborate machine that violates peoples' privacies in the name of safety, and in the banner article explaining its purpose and future plans, they say that it can't see through plastic or rubber. Oh, what a grand idea! The people who you are actually trying to CATCH now have a way out, and every other Average American airline passenger is subjected to this for what?
Screw spears, I'm fixing myself a board with a nail. Everyone knows aliens are afraid of those. If my simple board and nail doesn't frighten them, I will build a bigger board with a bigger nail...
One of the side effects of living in a free society is the ability for individuals to use their freedoms for evil rather than good, and we don't quite know that answer until after the fact. Until we develop a way to see into the future, we have to live under the assumption that people studying how to fly (for example) are doing so with good intent. We have to live under the assumption that people boarding an airplane are doing so with the intent to arrive at their destination unharmed. It's either that, or we can assume that everybody is out to get everybody else and create laws to treat them thusly in the name of "protection" and "security." It appears we and the rest of the free world are moving closer to that every day.
...but not great games. After about a half hour of running into darkness, switching to flashlight, switching to gun, switching to flashlight, wash, rinse, repeat, I promptly uninstalled it.
Is it not the responsibility of these companies to reward their customers and punish the pirates rather than punishing the customers and hoping to punish the pirates, who in turn find a way to circumvent the protection anyway? If these companies are planning on implementing these assumptive forms of copy protection (i.e. they assume their customers have and will always have an internet connection to activate the software), they need to have a plan in place for what happens if/when A) their customer does not have a connection, or B) the company no longer maintains their servers. There needs to be a clause somewhere stating that the company has a "no-DRM" patch in place and will deploy it either A) after a specific sunset period (i.e. 5 years) or B) if the DRM servers go dark.
Having the game phone home more than once after being installed is absurd. If I install it, and if I phone it home, and if the game is confirmed to be good, why the hell should I have to verify that with you every 10 days? Will something actually change that it needs to be reauthenticated?
DVDs, CDs, and books are physical objects that can be bought and sold. When you buy a CD, you are not buying the songs nor do you own the songs, you own the CD. You can't buy an audio book then claim you deserve the physical book because you already own the information the book contains. The physical book is a separate product.
As a music teacher, it is your paid duty to believe and repeat to students that everyone can play music. Have you ever considered the possibility that this is a lie? Have you ever considered that some people are made for certain things and others aren't? Everything is not for everyone. Singing karaoke makes someone a singer as much as Guitar Hero makes someone a guitar player as much as Madden 08 makes someone a football player.
There's this notion of talent and notion of passion. These two go hand in hand. A person has a talent for music, and it is their passion that carries them through to bring this talent to fruition. Does it take a fancy piece of software to help someone discover this talent? Last time I checked, singing started with an open mouth and an "Aaahhh."
Is it elitist for me to believe this? I don't think so. Yes, I am a musician. I started with the clarinet in the 2nd grade and became the youngest player in advanced band. When my friend was trying to learn/play trumpet in 5th grade, he struggled with Mary Had a Little Lamb after several weeks; I picked it up once and played it through. Since then, I learned guitar, bass, piano, and drums. I only took lessons for guitar, the rest are self-taught.
Yes, it takes time and practice, but it also takes talent, and I believe this is something that is natural. I've tried different sports but was never any good. My dad has tried to teach me about cars but I've never had any interest. In an increasingly isolated world, we're starting to forget that everyone in society fits a certain piece of the puzzle that makes up that society. We try to be everything all of the time when we don't need to be. If my car breaks down, I can have my dad work on it. In turn, when he can't fix a computer problem, he can turn to me. When a guitar player needs a beat, he can meet up with a drummer and jam. When a singer needs backing vocals, he or she can meet like-minded individuals and form a group. We have the internet now to make this more possible, yet we seem to be going the opposite direction and disconnecting from everyone else, trying to forge our own miniature frontiers in our homes and apartments.
Let the singers sing, let the musicians play music, let the athletes play sports...we are individual parts of a whole, not whole individuals.
...and not PvP. No other game has made me truly hate an entire race of players more than World of Warcraft after playing on a PvP server, and all my WoW friends completely agree. For all you Alliance reading: burn in hell.
Maybe we care more about having fun than about worrying about optimum input devices, highest possible mouse resolution, upgrading our video cards every 6 months, and so on. All to end up with a "gaming" PC that makes too much noise and crashes all the time (or is down for repairs).
I built my latest gaming PC in September 2006, and upgraded to the 8800GTX the following spring. It was a completely new build, and because I had the money, I went for top of the line components for the first time. All in all it cost around $1500. It's quiet, and it's been running for 88 days without fail. I regularly use it for gaming and digital audio recording. I can play Crysis on high and it runs smooth. If you do it right, you won't have problems.
I should question your use of "quiet" as a slam against the PC when you're talking about your 360. I have one as well, and that bitch screams like a jet engine. It's louder than any PC I've ever owned in the past seven years.
1. First video game experience: Atari 2600 as a very young child (I had to have been about 2). One of my favorite games was Tutankhamen, which I pronounced "Too-TANK-em." 2. First taste of NES: At my best friend's house next door. It was Super Mario Brothers, and I was amazed by how the game scrolled, and how you could jump and had to avoid the holes. I remember completing Level 1-1 after a few tries, much to the surprise of my friend and his parents. This had to have been early in the NES life cycle; 85-86. 3. First gaming high point: Super Mario Brothers 3. That game was HUGE. I remember begging everybody that I knew or barely knew who had a copy to let me play it. I finally got invited over to my grandparents' neighbors' house to play it. 4. First RPG: Dragon Quest for NES, free with my subscription to Nintendo Power. I had to gain experience, so I went around town talking to people. I went back to the king, who said I haven't gained any experience. What!? 6. First "multiplayer" gaming experience: Command & Conquer over the phone line with my previously-mentioned best friend. 7. First major multiplayer experience: Quake 1. After playing countless games of Duke 3D over Kali, a friend game me a set of 4 numbers separated by 3 periods and told me to type it into the Multiplayer Game box. I did, and I was surrounded by ~10 other gamers, running and gunning, fragging left and right. That marked the beginning of the end of my social career. 8. First MMORPG: Technically it was this Java game about space pirates (I can't remember the exact name). You started out in these random 2D rooms, then you can go fly around in space and mine asteroids or something. But my first REAL experience was with Ultima Online. That blew me away.
What many people don't know is that the electric car actually predates gasoline and diesel vehicles, but for so[big]me rea[oil]son, disappeared into obscurity (I guess we could blame lousy battery technology, too). As recent as a decade ago, the GM EV-1 provided a viable solution to current car technology, but again, disappeared into obscurity. The story of this car can be seen in the documentary Who Killed The Electric Car?. It's a damn shame that such a solid alternative was sent to an early grave. Hopefully this time around, with the focus on global warming, car companies will get smart and embrace this technology.
IANAS(cientist), but this experiment, just by its description, seems highly flawed. They're basing it on the assumption that they can recreate a 100% accurate life or death situation with the subject by pushing them off of a platform into a safety net. They've already failed there, as the subject knows what will happen and has employed the necessary cognitive functions to prepare himself. Furthermore, they're assuming that the perception of time slowing can somehow be measured by reading numbers back aloud. Both of these are huge assumptions and leave much to be desired when seeking a definitive answer for a complex, metaphysical phenomenon. I don't buy it.
"It is impossible to tell how many people accessed the file, so it must be a large amount of people."
Argumentum ad Ignorantium, appeal to ignorance, a logical fallacy.
We're studying this chapter in my community college Intro to Logic class. It depresses the hell out of me that a class full of 18+ community college students in Metro Detroit are smarter than the Department of Justice.
It's bad enough that the "news" channels are nothing more than entertainment + advertisements. News sites still serve up the news, but not without surrounding the stories with ads (gladly removed by Adblock). When will they start inserting ads directly into the text? Could this be a future story as seen on Yahoo! News?
EL DORADO, Kan. - A body found in Kansas appears to be that of a missing college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn star, police said Thursday.
Authorities said the preliminary physical description of the body found about 50 miles east of El Dorado matches that of missing college student Emily Sander. Investigators refused to give details about the state of the body or how it was found, other than it was dressed in a fashionable fleece from Old Navy's new line of winter clothes. Toxicology reports show traces of the delicious new Diet Pepsi Max, with the same great taste as regular Diet Pepsi, though containing fewer calories.
In order to call someone using Nintendo's new phone, you not only need their phone number, but you also need their unique 15 digit code. This will prevent random phone calls from child molesters and guys named [666]SatanCock420.
Why it is different is because Radiohead, an internationally successful band, is basically saying, "Piss off," to the industry and taking matters into their own hands. This is akin to Pearl Jam's failed attempt against Ticketmaster to lower the prices for their tour tickets. This is a band using its position in the music world for good rather than evil. They've basically shown major artists, "Hey, you can make just as much money, if not more, by doing it on your own. What do you need a record label for?"
They're putting music back where it belongs: in the hands of the artists and in the ears of the listeners, not some capitalist industry churning out quantity rather than quality. Have we forgotten the early days of rock and roll where a band can walk into a studio, record a demo, and turn it over to the local radio stations and have it become a success? Who decided the success then? This is how the Beach Boys started. These days, your local radio station is likely controlled from a corporate office in NYC or California or any other major US city by a company which decides who gets airtime and who doesn't.
With the power of the internet, if this type of music distribution continues on, we may see a shift in the industry in which the power of music is placed in the hands of the artists and the fans, where it belongs. An old, tired formula can only last so long when a new wave comes to town.
Is advertising really necessary for an established band, though? Have you ever strolled through a magazine, stopped at an ad, and said, "Hey, that looks look a very interesting album! I'll check it out!" I love Radiohead, though they're not a band I track regularly, and to be completely honest, I did not hear about the new album until the day it came out, and from BoingBoing.net, no less. I don't think a modern established band really needs to spend a dime on advertising so long as the open press of the internet knows they are releasing an album.
I was stunned one night last week when I went to www.google.com and got the dreaded "Page cannot be displayed." After confirming my internet connection was good, I sat there in shock, not knowing exactly how to react. I mean, seriously, where do I go to search the web? Yahoo? I realized at that point how launching Google has become a natural reflex for me. The same thing happened Sunday night. I thought the world was ending, but apparently it's just a special feature for overcharged Comcast customers.
Reading this news story presented me with a real moral and philosophical dilemma. On the one hand, I fully support our first amendment rights and am fully against the trampling on said rights. I am for thinking outside of the box and pushing the limits to really get people to think. On the other hand, I am all for common sense. Sometimes I have to choose between the two.
What this case really boils down to is, "Who is the bigger idiot in this case?" Is it the girl who wore a provocative device which could (and was) easily be mistaken for some sort of explosive device, or is it the police for reacting the way they did in the presence of said device? To really give a straight answer, one would have to step outside his regular beliefs and look at this situation as objectively as possible. Look at it in a way that the average human being would. Keep in mind how the human mind works and how people react to such situations. If these steps are taken, I don't think it is possible to defend this girl's position.
The following factors combine to create a volatile situation: an unusual article of clothing, a device which easily resembles a bomb, Playdoh, an airport, heightened security, failure to communicate, increased scrutiny and anxiety, a large, fast moving crowd of people, police with guns. It's easy to look at this situation in the past as it happened, but imagine being in that situation as it unfolded, where the answers weren't available, when everything was unknown. Apply the following formula:
Anxiety = Uncertainty x Importance
This was a mess waiting to happen, and I refuse to believe that this girl did not know what she was doing.
Did the cops react in an expected manner? I believe so. Should she be charged with anything? Meh, that's debatable. I think better things (such as an open discussion) could come out of this than simply charging the girl and moving on.
Does this story mean the terrorists have won? Only if terrorists are responsible for the basic human emotion of fear. Pre or post-9/11, I believe this situation would have been handled the same way. 9/11 just helps stories like this make it to the front page.
I have an XFX 8800GTX and ever since I installed that sucker, I've been getting BSODs out the arse. I've already had it replaced once; no dice. I've tried all the latest drivers; no dice. I've updated the BIOS, uninstalled and reinstalled the sound card, performed voodoo magic; no dice. Something is surely messed up here. My power supply is 620W and definitely enough to handle the card. I really don't understand what the hell is going on, but it's seriously unacceptable.
I was very surprised to see swastikas in CoD3. You don't even see those in PC games (which is the platform I came from). I believe it's because of international laws that swastikas can't be in games, and because consoles are regional and PC games, for the most part, are not.
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So they create this elaborate machine that violates peoples' privacies in the name of safety, and in the banner article explaining its purpose and future plans, they say that it can't see through plastic or rubber. Oh, what a grand idea! The people who you are actually trying to CATCH now have a way out, and every other Average American airline passenger is subjected to this for what?
Screw spears, I'm fixing myself a board with a nail. Everyone knows aliens are afraid of those. If my simple board and nail doesn't frighten them, I will build a bigger board with a bigger nail...
One of the side effects of living in a free society is the ability for individuals to use their freedoms for evil rather than good, and we don't quite know that answer until after the fact. Until we develop a way to see into the future, we have to live under the assumption that people studying how to fly (for example) are doing so with good intent. We have to live under the assumption that people boarding an airplane are doing so with the intent to arrive at their destination unharmed. It's either that, or we can assume that everybody is out to get everybody else and create laws to treat them thusly in the name of "protection" and "security." It appears we and the rest of the free world are moving closer to that every day.
...but not great games. After about a half hour of running into darkness, switching to flashlight, switching to gun, switching to flashlight, wash, rinse, repeat, I promptly uninstalled it.
Social status? Who is actually complimenting you gear? And how can they see it in the darkness of your parents' basement?
Is it not the responsibility of these companies to reward their customers and punish the pirates rather than punishing the customers and hoping to punish the pirates, who in turn find a way to circumvent the protection anyway? If these companies are planning on implementing these assumptive forms of copy protection (i.e. they assume their customers have and will always have an internet connection to activate the software), they need to have a plan in place for what happens if/when A) their customer does not have a connection, or B) the company no longer maintains their servers. There needs to be a clause somewhere stating that the company has a "no-DRM" patch in place and will deploy it either A) after a specific sunset period (i.e. 5 years) or B) if the DRM servers go dark. Having the game phone home more than once after being installed is absurd. If I install it, and if I phone it home, and if the game is confirmed to be good, why the hell should I have to verify that with you every 10 days? Will something actually change that it needs to be reauthenticated?
DVDs, CDs, and books are physical objects that can be bought and sold. When you buy a CD, you are not buying the songs nor do you own the songs, you own the CD. You can't buy an audio book then claim you deserve the physical book because you already own the information the book contains. The physical book is a separate product.
As a music teacher, it is your paid duty to believe and repeat to students that everyone can play music. Have you ever considered the possibility that this is a lie? Have you ever considered that some people are made for certain things and others aren't? Everything is not for everyone. Singing karaoke makes someone a singer as much as Guitar Hero makes someone a guitar player as much as Madden 08 makes someone a football player.
There's this notion of talent and notion of passion. These two go hand in hand. A person has a talent for music, and it is their passion that carries them through to bring this talent to fruition. Does it take a fancy piece of software to help someone discover this talent? Last time I checked, singing started with an open mouth and an "Aaahhh."
Is it elitist for me to believe this? I don't think so. Yes, I am a musician. I started with the clarinet in the 2nd grade and became the youngest player in advanced band. When my friend was trying to learn/play trumpet in 5th grade, he struggled with Mary Had a Little Lamb after several weeks; I picked it up once and played it through. Since then, I learned guitar, bass, piano, and drums. I only took lessons for guitar, the rest are self-taught.
Yes, it takes time and practice, but it also takes talent, and I believe this is something that is natural. I've tried different sports but was never any good. My dad has tried to teach me about cars but I've never had any interest. In an increasingly isolated world, we're starting to forget that everyone in society fits a certain piece of the puzzle that makes up that society. We try to be everything all of the time when we don't need to be. If my car breaks down, I can have my dad work on it. In turn, when he can't fix a computer problem, he can turn to me. When a guitar player needs a beat, he can meet up with a drummer and jam. When a singer needs backing vocals, he or she can meet like-minded individuals and form a group. We have the internet now to make this more possible, yet we seem to be going the opposite direction and disconnecting from everyone else, trying to forge our own miniature frontiers in our homes and apartments.
Let the singers sing, let the musicians play music, let the athletes play sports...we are individual parts of a whole, not whole individuals.
...and not PvP. No other game has made me truly hate an entire race of players more than World of Warcraft after playing on a PvP server, and all my WoW friends completely agree. For all you Alliance reading: burn in hell.
Maybe we care more about having fun than about worrying about optimum input devices, highest possible mouse resolution, upgrading our video cards every 6 months, and so on. All to end up with a "gaming" PC that makes too much noise and crashes all the time (or is down for repairs).
I built my latest gaming PC in September 2006, and upgraded to the 8800GTX the following spring. It was a completely new build, and because I had the money, I went for top of the line components for the first time. All in all it cost around $1500. It's quiet, and it's been running for 88 days without fail. I regularly use it for gaming and digital audio recording. I can play Crysis on high and it runs smooth. If you do it right, you won't have problems.
I should question your use of "quiet" as a slam against the PC when you're talking about your 360. I have one as well, and that bitch screams like a jet engine. It's louder than any PC I've ever owned in the past seven years.
1. First video game experience: Atari 2600 as a very young child (I had to have been about 2). One of my favorite games was Tutankhamen, which I pronounced "Too-TANK-em."
2. First taste of NES: At my best friend's house next door. It was Super Mario Brothers, and I was amazed by how the game scrolled, and how you could jump and had to avoid the holes. I remember completing Level 1-1 after a few tries, much to the surprise of my friend and his parents. This had to have been early in the NES life cycle; 85-86.
3. First gaming high point: Super Mario Brothers 3. That game was HUGE. I remember begging everybody that I knew or barely knew who had a copy to let me play it. I finally got invited over to my grandparents' neighbors' house to play it.
4. First RPG: Dragon Quest for NES, free with my subscription to Nintendo Power. I had to gain experience, so I went around town talking to people. I went back to the king, who said I haven't gained any experience. What!?
6. First "multiplayer" gaming experience: Command & Conquer over the phone line with my previously-mentioned best friend.
7. First major multiplayer experience: Quake 1. After playing countless games of Duke 3D over Kali, a friend game me a set of 4 numbers separated by 3 periods and told me to type it into the Multiplayer Game box. I did, and I was surrounded by ~10 other gamers, running and gunning, fragging left and right. That marked the beginning of the end of my social career.
8. First MMORPG: Technically it was this Java game about space pirates (I can't remember the exact name). You started out in these random 2D rooms, then you can go fly around in space and mine asteroids or something. But my first REAL experience was with Ultima Online. That blew me away.
What many people don't know is that the electric car actually predates gasoline and diesel vehicles, but for so[big]me rea[oil]son, disappeared into obscurity (I guess we could blame lousy battery technology, too). As recent as a decade ago, the GM EV-1 provided a viable solution to current car technology, but again, disappeared into obscurity. The story of this car can be seen in the documentary Who Killed The Electric Car? . It's a damn shame that such a solid alternative was sent to an early grave. Hopefully this time around, with the focus on global warming, car companies will get smart and embrace this technology.
IANAS(cientist), but this experiment, just by its description, seems highly flawed. They're basing it on the assumption that they can recreate a 100% accurate life or death situation with the subject by pushing them off of a platform into a safety net. They've already failed there, as the subject knows what will happen and has employed the necessary cognitive functions to prepare himself. Furthermore, they're assuming that the perception of time slowing can somehow be measured by reading numbers back aloud. Both of these are huge assumptions and leave much to be desired when seeking a definitive answer for a complex, metaphysical phenomenon. I don't buy it.
"It is impossible to tell how many people accessed the file, so it must be a large amount of people."
Argumentum ad Ignorantium, appeal to ignorance, a logical fallacy.
We're studying this chapter in my community college Intro to Logic class. It depresses the hell out of me that a class full of 18+ community college students in Metro Detroit are smarter than the Department of Justice.
It's bad enough that the "news" channels are nothing more than entertainment + advertisements. News sites still serve up the news, but not without surrounding the stories with ads (gladly removed by Adblock). When will they start inserting ads directly into the text? Could this be a future story as seen on Yahoo! News?
EL DORADO, Kan. - A body found in Kansas appears to be that of a missing college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn star, police said Thursday.
Authorities said the preliminary physical description of the body found about 50 miles east of El Dorado matches that of missing college student Emily Sander. Investigators refused to give details about the state of the body or how it was found, other than it was dressed in a fashionable fleece from Old Navy's new line of winter clothes. Toxicology reports show traces of the delicious new Diet Pepsi Max, with the same great taste as regular Diet Pepsi, though containing fewer calories.
In order to call someone using Nintendo's new phone, you not only need their phone number, but you also need their unique 15 digit code. This will prevent random phone calls from child molesters and guys named [666]SatanCock420.
Warning signs exist only in hindsight.
Why it is different is because Radiohead, an internationally successful band, is basically saying, "Piss off," to the industry and taking matters into their own hands. This is akin to Pearl Jam's failed attempt against Ticketmaster to lower the prices for their tour tickets. This is a band using its position in the music world for good rather than evil. They've basically shown major artists, "Hey, you can make just as much money, if not more, by doing it on your own. What do you need a record label for?"
They're putting music back where it belongs: in the hands of the artists and in the ears of the listeners, not some capitalist industry churning out quantity rather than quality. Have we forgotten the early days of rock and roll where a band can walk into a studio, record a demo, and turn it over to the local radio stations and have it become a success? Who decided the success then? This is how the Beach Boys started. These days, your local radio station is likely controlled from a corporate office in NYC or California or any other major US city by a company which decides who gets airtime and who doesn't.
With the power of the internet, if this type of music distribution continues on, we may see a shift in the industry in which the power of music is placed in the hands of the artists and the fans, where it belongs. An old, tired formula can only last so long when a new wave comes to town.
Is advertising really necessary for an established band, though? Have you ever strolled through a magazine, stopped at an ad, and said, "Hey, that looks look a very interesting album! I'll check it out!" I love Radiohead, though they're not a band I track regularly, and to be completely honest, I did not hear about the new album until the day it came out, and from BoingBoing.net, no less. I don't think a modern established band really needs to spend a dime on advertising so long as the open press of the internet knows they are releasing an album.
I'll be sure to catch all three episodes.
I was stunned one night last week when I went to www.google.com and got the dreaded "Page cannot be displayed." After confirming my internet connection was good, I sat there in shock, not knowing exactly how to react. I mean, seriously, where do I go to search the web? Yahoo? I realized at that point how launching Google has become a natural reflex for me. The same thing happened Sunday night. I thought the world was ending, but apparently it's just a special feature for overcharged Comcast customers.
Interpol discovers the real secret hidden behind the Myspace angles.
Reading this news story presented me with a real moral and philosophical dilemma. On the one hand, I fully support our first amendment rights and am fully against the trampling on said rights. I am for thinking outside of the box and pushing the limits to really get people to think. On the other hand, I am all for common sense. Sometimes I have to choose between the two.
What this case really boils down to is, "Who is the bigger idiot in this case?" Is it the girl who wore a provocative device which could (and was) easily be mistaken for some sort of explosive device, or is it the police for reacting the way they did in the presence of said device? To really give a straight answer, one would have to step outside his regular beliefs and look at this situation as objectively as possible. Look at it in a way that the average human being would. Keep in mind how the human mind works and how people react to such situations. If these steps are taken, I don't think it is possible to defend this girl's position.
The following factors combine to create a volatile situation: an unusual article of clothing, a device which easily resembles a bomb, Playdoh, an airport, heightened security, failure to communicate, increased scrutiny and anxiety, a large, fast moving crowd of people, police with guns. It's easy to look at this situation in the past as it happened, but imagine being in that situation as it unfolded, where the answers weren't available, when everything was unknown. Apply the following formula:
Anxiety = Uncertainty x Importance
This was a mess waiting to happen, and I refuse to believe that this girl did not know what she was doing.
Did the cops react in an expected manner? I believe so. Should she be charged with anything? Meh, that's debatable. I think better things (such as an open discussion) could come out of this than simply charging the girl and moving on.
Does this story mean the terrorists have won? Only if terrorists are responsible for the basic human emotion of fear. Pre or post-9/11, I believe this situation would have been handled the same way. 9/11 just helps stories like this make it to the front page.
I have an XFX 8800GTX and ever since I installed that sucker, I've been getting BSODs out the arse. I've already had it replaced once; no dice. I've tried all the latest drivers; no dice. I've updated the BIOS, uninstalled and reinstalled the sound card, performed voodoo magic; no dice. Something is surely messed up here. My power supply is 620W and definitely enough to handle the card. I really don't understand what the hell is going on, but it's seriously unacceptable.
I was very surprised to see swastikas in CoD3. You don't even see those in PC games (which is the platform I came from). I believe it's because of international laws that swastikas can't be in games, and because consoles are regional and PC games, for the most part, are not.