1. Re: Mark Honnor's Game Demo , Holocaust, Ragnarok
First, where *is* that demo? Rummaging through
my in box, I can't find anything (our mail
server must have played up again).
Second, holocaust. From the Greek holo "whole"
and kaein "to burn".
1. A sacrificial offering that is consumed
entirely by flames; burnt offering.
2. Great or total destruction by fire;
a conflagration.
3. Any widespread destruction.
I know it's the fashion to use words
inappropriately for journalistic purposes.
When it impoverishes the language as the
exclusive use of "holocaust" for "shoah",
it is obnoxious. As obnoxious as the use of
"icon" for "symbol". An icon, properly,
is a pictogram. E.g. as an icon, a cup-and-saucer
sign means "cups and saucers"; as a symbol, it
can mean "cafeteria".
There is a very nice shareware game called
Ragnarok. It is really NetHack with graphics
and transported from Colossal Cave to Norse
Mythology (and pretty accurate Norse Mythology,
too).
