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Gog Promotional E-Mail Containing Nazi Symbols Goes Out to Subscribers (outof.games)
submitted 5 months ago by [A] to c/games@lemmy.world
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Well that's a headline I never thought I'll write. Several posts and comments on the GOG subreddit have noticed a promotional e-mail that contains some... interesting symbols, which I can confirm with my own e-mail. As can be seen from the screenshot below, an e-mail containing a discount code for the game The End of the Sun (nothing out of the ordinary so far) contains 4 symbols that resemble Nazi iconography.

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[+] -70 points 5 months ago (10 children)

It's a rune and displays differently depending on where you are viewing it.

That author is one hell of a pearl clutcher.

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  • [–] 72 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Idk, GOG even said they were aware it might "cause problems". So why include them at all and risk the trouble? They even removes it from the German announcement. Like come on, thats obvious enough where you probably shouldn't send it to the whole world if you won't send it to the country the Nazis spawned in.

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  • [–] [S, A] 46 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    It's double runes of a different unicode character, they recognised the whole thing would appear to be Nazi and they deliberately did not send it to Germany where it is illegal.

    The reddit post does a good job of people calling this out: https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txlz7z/hey_gog_wtaf/

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (4 children)
    1. It's a literal hate symbol.
    2. You are defending a company using Nazi imagery.
    3. There was no reason for the inclusion of the Nazi hate symbol.
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  • [+] -37 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Oh boy! Look at you making assertions. Please fix this for us by boycotting GOG and telling all your friends at Starbucks.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, explain how using the Schutzstaffel insignia is acceptable?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Like, if Starbucks put a swastika on their cups, and the symbol came out 45° rotated on some of them (as the third reich did), and they just decided not to ship those ones to Germany, it'd be pretty hard to defend.

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