Comment on Email came out of nowhere
Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz 4 days agoI don’t have the email but I would assume those emojis in this case are Slavic neopaganist symbols, also known as rodnovery.
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
“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.
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.
There’s a multitude of ways to correct someone without coming off as a pedantic prick in the process
It does make it less funny when someone tries to politely correct and is wrong vs belligerently doing so with inaccurate information though.
You really didn’t have to add dumb at the end there. We all make mistakes, and this emoji can also be interpreted and implemented in pretty different ways
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
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.
Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Yeah thinking about it using the lightning rune twice is really sus. Very hard to defend that.
nuko147@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Viewing this runes as they are, it comes to my mind the Black Sun symbol as 1st thought.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 3 days ago
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
nuko147@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So GOG has a Nazi employee or it uses AI for newsletters.
antonim@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not like specifically Slavic runes exist anyway.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 days 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.