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The symbol alone was OK, but they doubled it to read SS, and they didn’t send it to Germany; which means it was 100% intentional and not just a little oopsie.
That's because the German team flagged it.
I don't think it's a good look but to decry they're nazis for an email showing runic alphabet and slavic symbols doesn't exactly trigger me too hard. It really sounds like someone fucked up.
People out there still buying Bayer products and they genuinely were part of the Holocaust, a huge part of it. Ford, Volkswagen, etc.
There's a world where someone uses a kolovrat or a sigel without intending to relate them to the Nazis. There is not a world where they use both a kolovrat and two sigels in a row and don't know what it means. Maybe someone at GOG didn't catch on, but the devs knew what was up.
So we think the entire dev team, marketing team and anyone else involved had a whole meeting and plan to do this? What's the end goal?
Hanlon's Razor dude. Going to need more for me to decry the Nazi label onto someone.
Amazing bad faith response. Bravo.
no goal beyond having a laugh at triggering people with nazi symbols; same as NYT did with their Nazi symbol crossword.
The fact the apology didn’t make an effort to say something like “those responsible have been sacked” and instead said something like “nazis shouldn’t have all the Nordic symbols” told me all I needed to know about their workplace environment and the types that work there. no bueno for me.
Not saying I’m boycotting them, because ethical consumerism is near impossible, but I’m not going to rally behind them or applaud them for anything like they’re to be championed sans asterisk.
I really doubt that's even what happened here. I don't think the people who run the company, any member of the marketing team or even anyone important sat down in a meeting to decide this for a fuckin laugh.
It's probably some dumb AI, some intern or some individual fuck or just a genuine mistake. The character doesn't even render the same on every platform. Maybe if there was more than this one event I'd be more interested but I really think this is goofy.
Especially because I know most people crying about it have definitely owned something Microsoft or IBM related and don't even consider it.
Most people only care cause they read an article about it and are genuinely looking for any excuse to hop on their high horse and act high and mighty.
It's silly. I bet you can get most Wolfenstein games on GOG. We gonna be mad now because that game has Nazi symbolism in it? C'mon.
I’ve given you my take, you’ve given me yours.
I’ve personally worked at some big tech companies, and if their execs are anything like the ones I’ve worked under, putting a little right wing laugh in their marketing would be a Tuesday for them.
I’m not doing anything with my take beyond giving a little asterisk anytime I see people championing gog. You’re gonna disregard the asterisk, that’s your prerogative.
Have a good one.
No matter who flags “you platformed Nazi shit”, you immediately escalate this, halt all outgoing communication until you got a lid on this and fix whatever led to that happening.
Maybe if it was more severe. But like I said in another comment, what did they accomplish here? Is there some huge master plan? Did they all sit down and come up with a plot to transform us all into nazis? What's the end game here?
Hanlon's Razor dude, likely it was something stupid that happened.
There is no benefit for them doing this. And doing what you suggested would be some serious pandering for a bunch of unserious pearl clutchers who likely own hanes clothing, buy coke products and drive fords without a second thought of how it has affected the planet and other humans. The only reason most people care about this is because the news told them to or they read it on reddit. Unserious people.
Are you kidding me? They sent Nazi symbols to users.
Not just “nordic symbols that happen to be used in Nazi symbology” but an unmistakable sequence of symbols only used by Nazis (and people teaching others about Nazis).
Also how are you supposed to learn about anything if not the news lol? What weird argument is that supposed to be?
And now we're all nazis for it, they sure got us 🙄
Have you never heard the revolution will not be televised? The government will not educate you about their own wrongdoings? I'm pretty sure most of us here treat all news with a little skepticism which is why most are here and stopped using reddit.
Sorry someone sending an email with some symbols as the tagline isn't enough for me to get out the noose and piss my pants.
If they didn't get it, they should apologize that they posted Nazi shit without realizing. If they understood it, they're ok with posting Nazi shit, i.e. Nazis (or all 3 remaining 4chan trolls with no concept of reality).
In any case, not properly apologizing is a big deal.
I'm pretty sure they apologized.
But again for the third time. I don't think these being the subject of an email causes the entire company to be Nazis I think that's fucking ridiculous to leap to.
If that's the case anyone who owns a Volkswagen or bought Bayer is a Nazi.
Not really, see below. At least they actually stopped sending the emails half-way through, I thought they just sent them to everyone. So while it's a horrible apology, at least they did something prevent that email from going to everyone.
Sure man. They're all nazis and they successfully turned everyone who read it into nazis. Wow what an accomplishment they have done.
They apologized, the German quality assurance team probably was able to change it on their end but not everywhere and they failed to fix it everywhere. I'm not gonna assume what happened behind the scenes but this is such fuckin peanuts for you to run around piss in your pants calling them nazis.
Anyone who has ever bought a Bayer product is also nazis, all Volkswagen drivers and Ford drivers are nazis, honestly anyone who reads English and has ever thought of a swastika is also nazis.
No one listens to the logos of God. It's either the pathos or the ethos; the emotional arguments or the ones that fall squarely on authority holding up what they say is true. Like, I can explain to you that everything you experience is in your brain, so all experiences must correlate with something in your neurons, so these words you're reading on this device are actually inside you, and thus the Earth isn't real as the Buddha and the kid that bent spoons at the Oracle's in the Matrix explain. Cognitive dissonance is king in this world, because the rift between what we're told is going on and what is really going on is absolutely enormous. Some game studio trying to capitalize on a demographic doesn't perturb me. Corporations are going to corporate. What bothers me is how the sheep behave in response to such dipshit shepherds who have taken the reins of the flock. You've let this happen to yerselves.
Wow what a super condescending way to say absolutely nothing worthwhile.
This rune displays differently depending on what program or app you view it in. The game itself was something about a sun which is what the symbol represents.
If GOG was full Nazi I'm sure they have better ways to express it. I think it's super pathetic and screams of pearl clutching to dive on the Nazi label and freak out. It's also so dumb to assume the entire team is in on it like they sat down and plotted this whole scheme. Could be a stupid intern, could be overworked skeleton crew, could be AI.
Sorry you're gonna need more than that for me to become a giant weiner about a stupid game company I could not care less about.
Also stop being such a tool.
Hey brother, I know you think you are helping the world, but you're telling off a cop.
https://youtu.be/Os-iZh4w1xg?is=inF9DtrSJ3Ld7BBh
Not really