Disclaimer: I am not personally invested in the whole thing. I am not cool and remote like a mountain but I don't care that much about GOG.
As I understand, GOG sent out a newsletter promoting a game with Nazi symbols.
The game's developers released a statement in a reddit comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txlz7z/hey_gog_wtaf/opxpgf0/
Afterwards GOG made two statements:
- https://old.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txmcyd/ts_gotta_be_racist_gog_explain/opxtour/
- https://www.gog.com/forum/general/weird_subject_line_choice_for_a_newsletter/post60
I don't expect folks to read through the whole thing but some surface level thoughts would be appreciated. Like they make a lot of emotionally charged statements citing culture and I can't tell if they are genuine or hot air.
Clear Nazi shit and they know it and are now trying to weasel out of the backlash. Not a coincidence that it's all Poles trying to justify it as "ancient slavic symbols". Most people who are obsessed with ancient runes and European pagan symbols are Nazis. Whether they're Germanic or Slavic makes very little difference
I just now read the GOG statement on the forum and you are most likely correct.
Earlier when I had just skimmed it, I read it as them saying that some other rune they used look like SS rune. But instead they intended to use that rune and are claiming it renders differently across fonts which... why is that relevant?
Also this bit (emphasis mine):
LMAO. So nice and sensitive of them to not send the email with the Operation Barbarossa-ass subject line to Germany.
So they knew and still did it.
I have a friend who knows all about that stuff and he's been a Communist for far longer than me lol It may be like being obsessed with guns, you're either a right wing lunatic or an autistic person with a taste for intricate mechanisms.