Lemmy Shitpost

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Yes, but. Big but.

The devs of the games included in that email signed off on it before it went out. The version the devs were shown had no "runes" included.

GOG has acknowledged that those runes can display on some devices distinctly as the symbol for the SS, so they did not send this email to subscribers subscribed in the German language. Instead of just using a different fucking symbol, or not using it twice in a row.

As far as I understand it, those are pretty random runes, not specifically Slavic at all.

Taken as a whole, it shows that they had some idea of how this would appear, and they went through with it anyway, for no obvious benefit.

Not a good look.

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[–] Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz 45 points 5 months ago

Yeah thinking about it using the lightning rune twice is really sus. Very hard to defend that.

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[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

Viewing this runes as they are, it comes to my mind the Black Sun symbol as 1st thought.

Edit: shit the game is called End of the Sun.

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[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The devs covered that, they were not aware of any dogwhistles with the symbols they used during development, and once they were made aware of said dogwhistles, they spent the time to remove them from the game as thoroughly as possible

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[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

So GOG has a Nazi employee or it uses AI for newsletters.

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[–] antonim@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

As far as I understand it, those are pretty random runes, not specifically Slavic at all.

Not like specifically Slavic runes exist anyway.

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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago

It's so crazy that the dev team even went into damage control to point out that it was not them.

That Slavic team probably feeling like crap today because of something GoG did.

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[–] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 45 points 5 months ago

Notice there is no double sig in there. Also note that Rodnovery is a neopagan religion, associated with nationalism. It's the Slavic equivalent the Norse pantheon fetishism you see in the West in the form of Odinism.

You should assume they're Nazi symbols because they are, even if Nazis stole a lot of symbols from everyone else. The sig was first adapted into the double sig in 1929 to be used as the Schutzstaffel logo

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[+] M137@lemmy.today -34 points 5 months ago (4 children)

"those emojis"

They're not emojis, at all. Emojis are pictures with a very specific and limited set. They're ascii characters.
You calling them emojis is "grandma calling your Xbox a "Nintendo Station"" level dumb.

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[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 41 points 5 months ago

Those aren't standard ASCII characters. They are Unicode. They are closer to emojis than anything else.

Before you try to lecture anyone you might want to spend more than 10 seconds on wikipedia next time.

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[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 months ago (1 child)

There’s a multitude of ways to correct someone without coming off as a pedantic prick in the process

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[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago

It does make it less funny when someone tries to politely correct and is wrong vs belligerently doing so with inaccurate information though.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago*

You really didn't have to add dumb at the end there. We all make mistakes, and emoji can also be interpreted and implemented in pretty different ways