Sometimes that's the only way to reach out to people, and if I can turn around and get some of the racist loons who want to co-opt a game and have a real Crusade to realize that, "Gee, lots of innocent people would die if we did this," well, good on me I guess? But just like Paradox uses Swastikas to represent the Indian dynasties who used Swastikas as part of their imagery centuries before the Nazis stole and perverted that symbol of life, I don't have any problem using the term within the context of a video game that, again, forces us to say, "Hold on, before we go having too much fun, let's remember that real people really died this way and let's learn from it in our real lives."
"Deus Vult" was a historical horror-show, of that I have no doubt and no love. If you want to turn around and tell me that a historical icon has been co-opted by racists, I'm gonna turn around and tell you, "Well, why the fuck are we letting them get away with it?" Redeem Pepe The Frog from his kidnappers! Redeem this shield, at least so far as history allows!ĭo it for the thousands who actually, really died and the millions who have suffered, those who we are forced to acknowledge when we play. If you look through my characters, most of them are "kind" and "charitable," but as with any game involving any characters they ultimately are just outlets for real-world frustrations. It's a dynastic strategy game based on a rather horrible historic period, but it later expanded to include almost a thousand years worth of history. Part of the reason I play Crusader Kings is because I'm not afraid to acknowledge the history behind it. I wouldn't personally use a swastika in anything besides a historical context, but when we're in that context we have to stop and say, "Wait, will we really let this jerk from the past rule over our present." I've never really agreed with the, "Some recent baddie used this so we need to rewrite history around them" approach to this issue.
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