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The “Bro visited his friend” meme template. In panel one, a character says “hi GOG any new deals tod-” and another character, labeled with the GOG.com logo, replies with the screenshot of a mail header titled “Slavic adventures 𖥞 ꥟ ϟϟ”. In the second panel, the first character looks at the second one with a worried look on their face.

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
    1·
    16 minutes ago

    Is Slavic Adventures a game?

    Nope. There’s a forum post about it. Forgot the name of the game after reading through the pages, but the game uses many pagan runes and GoG decided to be edgy for some reason. No idea why they’d drop the ball like this. It’s not a good look and the person who made the decision to have this title and then send it out should be fired. It’s obvious what they wanted to achieve.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    103·
    10 hours ago

    Reporter: [REDACTED]
    Reason: manufactured outrage over fonts

    Not sure if reporter was born yesterday or is a fascist hoping to get this post deleted.

    • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
      201·
      10 hours ago

      I think that this person that definitely was born yesterday should read the GOG response:

      I want to briefly address the discussion as a GOG representative. The Sowilo rune is part of my cultural and historical heritage. As a Pole, I am fully aware of both its history and the sensitivities surrounding it. Its use in this promotion was intended solely as a reference to the sun, which is central to the game being promoted.

      What was displayed in several devices as doppelrune is out of our control. ᛋ was displayed as ϟ on several devices. We should pay more attention to checking it on a different systems and devices. I also recognize that placing two such runes next to each other could create an unfortunate association with symbols used by the Nazi regime. This was noticed before distribution, and out of respect for local sensitivities, the material was not sent to the German community.

      At the same time, I do not believe that symbols with a history spanning more than a thousand years should be defined solely by their misuse in the modern history. Allowing that would mean accepting that those who corrupted these symbols now own their meaning.

      As a Pole, I have every reason to treat this history with seriousness and respect. Precisely because of that, I reject any suggestion that this promotion carried an extremist message. It did not. It was a reference to the historical symbol of the sun, nothing more.

      Yeah lil bro that was born yesterday, GOG knew that the symbols could be a problem and decide to send this shit to everyone minus Germany where they could face legal repercussion.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      9 hours ago

      Reporter: [REDACTED]
      Reason: Posting moderation reports is fairly childish, and what I would expect from someone promoting manufactured outrage online.

      It’s rare for someone to double down instead of taking the hint.

  • slimerancher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    14 hours ago

    Which one of these are nazi symbols? I only know about swastika, what are these called and what do they signify?

  • lime!@feddit.nu
    88·
    13 hours ago

    i also got real weirded out by that, but i decided to check it out closer:

    Edit: apparently this is a font thing! those last two symbols are supposed to be koppas. lots of people reacted to this so there’s quite a bit of discussion. i’m assuming gog don’t test on every email client and os combination possible, so it’s a bit more understandable.

    • Athena5898@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 hours ago

      I’m sorry but this is just a excuse they are using. This kind of thing is not a accident in the current climate. Please do not fall for it.

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      235·
      13 hours ago

      well yea, unicode doesn’t include nazi symbolism for obvious reasons, so the nazis have to get creative

      i could, with the good faith GOG frankly doesn’t deserve, see how the first two symbols could’ve happened accidentally. but the SS? nah, whoever wrote this email did this 100% intentionally.

      this is nazi shit, in the same way that someone sending you “hey pretty do you want to have some 🍆🍑💦” is not inviting you to drink a peach-eggplant cocktail.

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        31·
        13 hours ago

        tangent: when i went to vilnius a few years ago there was a lot of symbolism that weirded me out and felt kinda fascist. but it turned out it was from buildings that were built in the 1700’s, based on baltic legends and traditions. which is what the nazis co-opted. but the people there still had those symbols in their culture.

        • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
          81·
          13 hours ago

          this one is in reference to the swastika used for centuries across cultures, way before the nazis even existed. the nazi one is (usually) angled and thicker.

          obviously that doesn’t stop nazis from using it, same for the futhark or koppa.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      131·
      12 hours ago

      why gog decided to put two of them…

      Yeah … that’s the real smoking gun, though. That’s what tips it past being ‘possibly an accident’ and into ‘GOG needs to find and fire their Nazi communications staff member’. (And in either case, they really should be issuing a very public apology.)

    • vapor_body@lemmy.ml
      9·
      13 hours ago

      I wonder if any media environment has tried to normalize the use of images synonymous with fascism and colonialist genocide around you, provided it has at least a paper-thin explanation 🤔

    • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
      44·
      13 hours ago

      Because there isn’t any other symbol left that doesn’t looks like nazi shit for them to use.