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Slack.com slash DHQ. Electronic Arts is beta testing its new video game

battlefield 5. The game is a first-person shooter in which players fight in World War

2. But, in order to keep the game from becoming toxic, EA is banning the use of the word

Nazi during online game chat. The Nazi ban raises several questions for gamers. Like, why

are you shooting at all those German people? And what have they ever done to you? When

ask these questions during online chat, players responded with answers such as, it's because

they are. And those lousy crowds are all a bunch of. Which seemed highly unsatisfactory,

given the appalling level of violence. One gamer said he was killing the Germans because

their leader was quote, literally Hitler, unquote. But this just seemed like the usual left-wing

hyperbole. After all, what's wrong with Hitler being literally Hitler as long as he's

not a Nazi? And is he a Nazi? No one could say. There are other controversial issues with

the game. For instance, some players complained battlefield 5 allowed gamers to play as female

soldiers fighting on the front lines, which they said was not realistic. But while Electronic

Arts said they would not remove the female soldiers, they did agree to make the game more

realistic by having them lose every battle to the superior all-male German army. Which

they're fighting for no discernible reason. Further investigation revealed that the ban

on the word Nazi was the idea of EA game developer Hachmi Dinwitz, who previously contributed

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