The email in the comments
The transphobic company is also a nazi company.
I am shocked, shocked I say.
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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This does make me think we should brand this onto the forehead of every ICE member
Epic use of Epic Rap Battles clip
pretty certain itwas mostly a font rendering fuck-up. that being said, the should have diyched the symbols altogether.
This is the top of the email:
This is the typeset of the game they're promoting:
This looks like a monumentally stupid fuckup. Never attribute to malice that what can be easily attributed to stupidity, incompetence, or negligence.
They knew the sig "runes" were problematic before sending out the email, as they said they removed them for their German customers, but then kept it for everyone else. They knew, but decided to keep of in anyway.
ffs, why must everything good turn out to be shit. well, gog hasnt been THAT good, but it has been nice extra thing. knowing companies cant do anything without having at least 6 meetings about it, there is no way this went unnoticed by people there, so i rule out rogue actor doing this.
I'm sorry, not with the fucking double sig rune. You can't be that brain dead to not see and know it is the symbol of the fucking SS and then even try to dance around German laws against the usage of NS-symbols and even fuck that up.
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"Found my grandpa's helmet. He must've been an electrician or something."
People defending this as "those are lighning bolts, not everyone knows it's nazi imagery" are american, right?
Like, everyone in Europe knows this is strictly and unmistakably nazi imagery, especially in Poland. There is no wiggle room for not knowing; that's not even an excuse GOG themselves are trying to make, because if they tried to use that excuse then literally no one with the ability to read it in Europe would be uneducated enough to fall for it.
Racists wil Fuck around and then plead ignorance to avoid Finding Out.
People defending this as “those are lighning bolts, not everyone knows it’s nazi imagery” are american, right?
Nah, they know what they are. They're trying to a) downplay the symbol's significance and normalize displaying it and b) get a "snowflake got triggered by lightning bolts" own out of it.
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I got the email three days ago here in America, I didn't look at it at the time. I dunno if Gmail can edit an email after I've received it, I suppose they can. Here's how it rendered just now when I opened it. I'm not defending anything, I just wanted to show what I found::
In not linking reddit, which has way more details about how it went about.
https://www.theverge.com/games/945088/gog-apologizes-email-nazi-symbols-the-end-of-the-sun
In email marketing, you typically send emails in batches. Sometimes for A/B testing, other times to avoid spam catchers/overloading the system. Or sometimes for geo location purposes (like everyone gets the email at 8am, so it batches it to time zone)
The GoG reps said they sent it to a small batch and after the call out, stop the email sends and fixed it.
Ditto here. If I'd seen it in my own inbox I'd be sending some choice words their way
Don't let that stop you.
This is messed up, as a contributor to their Patreon to preserve games, I wrote some pretty harsh words.
I see what you mean
had they used 1 or 3 of the symbol instead, I don't think we'd have this problem
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