Don’t even ask Hitler about getting a Wii

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It can always be a tough job to make Microsoft look like a good guy. I mean, John Hodgman can’t carry all the weight. But sometimes a company gets a random stroke of consumer-generated luck, as with this quickly assembled mashup of Microsoft banning Hitler from XBox Live for using a modified console. A young man in the U.K. simply used footage from the World War II movie Downfall and added some perfectly timed, expletive-riddled subtitles.

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