• deft@lemmy.wtf
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    12 hours ago

    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.

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      3 hours ago

      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.

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        2 hours ago

        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.

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          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?

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            2 hours ago

            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.

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      9 hours ago

      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.

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        8 hours ago

        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.

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      9 hours ago

      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.

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        8 hours ago

        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.