It’s a rare moment for praise! The game Party Hard not only does not have any Swiss crosses in it, it also puts the correct paramedic symbol on the side of the ambulance:
Awesome! So it is possible to do this right. All other game developers take note. I’m not happy about the Red Cross insignia on the roof, though. Is this a warzone? None of the parties I’ve been to were. But then, I don’t party hard.
Another game developer doesn’t get it, and this time it’s Volition. The ambulances in Saints Row: The Third carry a Swiss cross on their roof:
I apologize that this image doesn’t have the correct proportions, by the way, I stole this from YouTube.
In this game, Square Enix has a character carrying two boxes full of Swiss chocolate onto a plane:
The event does not seem to be explained in the plot so far, so I don’t know what it’s all about.
Dead Trigger 2 by Madfinger is a strange game. It seems like a force of the Swiss army is fighting zombies around the world. When they get hurt, they evoke a vision of Swiss national pride by imagining a large heart beating for Switzerland, and the overwhelming joy of being Swiss then heals wounded soldiers. This is what it looks like:
Very odd, but it probably goes hand in hand with the Swiss pharmacist they hired for their hideout:
I’m guessing those white little boxes contain Swiss ID cards or something, because all the soldiers speak English. Surely the fake IDs make them feel more Swiss, enabling their Switzerland-related patriotic healing powers.
Vox’ video about opioid-based painkillers being responsible for an increasing number of deaths in the USA contains this bizarre scene that probably says something about marijuana bread in Switzerland:
After all, French is one of Switzerland’s national languages and “pain” means bread. Maybe they’re trying to say that baking marijuana into bread is legal in Switzerland and could lead to steel briefcases full of money, but I’d like to warn them at this point. Possession of more than 10 grams of pot is still fined in Switzerland, and cannabis trade is illegal.
So Vox’ business idea with the Swiss weed bread isn’t that great. Maybe they should try in Uruguay instead, where it’s legal. Here, I’ll fix that graphic for them:
Dear Vox, if you want to hire me to fix all your graphics, check the about page for my email!
SciShow’s video about whether you should use hydrogen peroxide to clean wounds also includes a white metal box probably full of of Swiss chocolate. Maybe it helps distract from the wounds if fed to screaming children.
The fun bit is that they even use the square shape typical of the Swiss flag (without enough margin and the cross dimensions are all wrong, but still.)
My thanks go out to Carson for this find!
Why would you put a Swiss flag on a helmet in the Unicode character set, ending up with an emoji showing a Swiss-flag helmet? What use is a Swiss-flag helmet to the rest of the world?
The otherwise excellent city simulation game Cities: Skylines has a Swiss cross on their hospital roof and a Red Cross insignia on the front of the building, violating two rules at the same time:
This U.S. bank hurts my heart with its large and pulsating Swiss organ:
That is a very patriotic heart, even though it beats for Switzerland and not the U.S., where it lives. I wonder if the illustration means the medical loans are in Swiss Francs only. Wow, I’ve really been milking this currency joke. What’s next, a decorative German-made chinaware first-aid cow wearing stockings and a lab coat with a Swiss flag on it?
Oh. As a matter of fact, yes. That’s exactly what’s next:
Seen at Bazar Suisse, but made in Germany.
My first praise! Usually I just give out blame, but the authors of PlanetBase did (at least partially) the right thing: They put a red cross in the medical section of bases built in their game. Visible here at 9:51:
Now of course they shouldn’t be using the Red Cross signet either. The Red Cross in fact urges video game developers not to use their insignia. So hurray for not using a Swiss flag, but boo for using the Red Cross emblem.