>GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers>The digital game retailer has not clearly explained how the hate symbols made it into an email, but apologized for the "unfortunate visual association.">GOG has apologized for a "Slavic adventure" newsletter sent out today that featured a number of very distinct Nazi runes in its subject line.>To be clear, this is not a misunderstanding, or images that look kind of alike, or a misinterpretation of an ambiguous situation: That's a Sonnenrad, a kolovrat, and the extremely unmistakable double Siegrune of the SS—quite possibly second only to the swastika as the most distinctive emblem of the Nazi regime.>This is not a small mistake. As PC Gamer's Kara Philips put it, "There's messing up, and then there's whatever this is." So, the obvious question: how the hell did this happen?>"We are sorry for today's newsletter," GOG wrote in an apology on X. "We made a series of mistakes: We created an unfortunate visual association by placing the runes incorrectly, we used the wrong logo for The End of the Sun, we did not check the display of the newsletter on mobile devices—which came out worse—and we didn't port the feedback from our German QA to other languages.">The apology doesn't substantially address how the symbols wound up in the email in the first place. The problem with the runes isn't their placement, it's that they are explicitly and indelibly associated with Nazis and white supremacists. Just as with the swastika, their meaning prior to the Third Reich is irrelevant: The Nazi links are too clear and prevalent to pretend that any other connection is equally meaningful.https://www.pcgamer.com/games/gog-apologizes-for-emailing-nazi-runes-to-its-followers/lmao, I hope some chud got fired for this
Is gog retarded? Genuinely who fuckimg cares. This shit was probably made by an ai
>>740418872>and we didn't port the feedback from our German QA to other languages.">Germans pretend to not be Nazis.>Are Nazis and mask off in e-mailsShould've nuked Germany, not Nippon.
>The problem with the runes isn't their placement, it's that they are explicitly and indelibly associated with Nazis and white supremacists.That is fucking hilarious
>Should've nuked Germany, not Nippon.
>get ai to generate newsletter>GOG: OK MAKE SURE YOU DONT PUT ANY NAZI SYMBOLS IN THE NEWSLETTER>ai: Ok you mean these symbols? These are all of the nazi symbols:>GOG: YES DO NOT USE THOSE SYMBOLS IN THE NEWSLETTER>ai: ok I will make sure to use all of them in the newsletter's title but not in the actual newsletter
AIEEEE IS THAT SAYING SS? I'M LITERALLY SHAKING RIGHT NOW
>>740419010lol, that's rich coming from a slav, eat dirt polack
The coupon in the newsletter advertises a game called End of the Sun that uses apparently nazi font for the S in Sun and some sun symbol for the O in Of that looks similar to the other symbols in the newsletter title.
The problem with the Germans isn't their placement, it's that they are explicitly and indelibly associated with Nazis and white supremacists. Just as with the swastika, their meaning prior to the Third Reich is irrelevant: The Nazi links are too clear and prevalent to pretend that any other connection is equally meaningful.
I got that newsletter and had no idea what they meant. Probably because I don't give a shit about things that happened a century ago.
>>740418872Should have added Ukraine flag to make it politically correct
polaks are actually naziswho couldda known
>>740418872>are those runes? AIEEE SAVE ME SHEKELMAN
>>740419625you're so lame.
>>740418872>Gogcucks got top cocky with spamming "Steam sells licenses" nonstopGood. Hoping for a public firing from this drama.
>>740418872Master wizard slipping a symbol of pain into an email to see if it works on a digital medium. The responses gave them all the info they needed.
>>740418872They complain but they will still buy Witcher 4 with lesbian Ciri and give it 10/10 and GOTY.You gotta ask yourself, does it really matter?
>>740419010You shouldve been aborted, faggot
WTF I LOVE GOG NOW TAKE ALL MY CHUDBUX
AAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEE THE>Okay hand sign>SS words>American flag>All Lives Matter>Young attractive woman>White people>Christianity>European Culture>Asian people/Non-brown minority>JK RowlingI CAN'T DEAL WITH THIS; I'M TRIGGERED, I NEED MY SAFE SPACE!
>>740418872ITS TOO SLAVPILLED
>>740418872>To be clear, this is not a misunderstanding, or images that look kind of alike, or a misinterpretation of an ambiguous situation: That's a SonnenradSonnenrads are just sun wheels. Only the specific sun wheel known as the Black Sun is what's associated with Nazis.
>>740418872A GOG employee has watched too much Sun + Anime music memes on /wsg/
>>740418872Extremely basedMeme magic is telling us something
I can't believe there's an unending supply of gentiles obeying the every whishes of kikes and acting offended on their behalf after Epstein, after the NY tunnel incident, after Lebanon, after Ukraine, after kalergi, after the Samson option documents, after 9/11, after AIPAC got repeatedly exposed, or after anything post internet revealing their plans. >waaawaaa le nazi runes>what's that? children getting shelled every day by coin clippers?>nah that's fine senpai
>>740420573its easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled.
>>740418872they used ai lol apology probably ai too what a bunch of slop
Lol so fucking FRAGILE.Arrange lines in a certain way and they have a (performative) full blown hyperventilating shaking panic attack.
A fucking nigger janny deleted my thread
>>740418872bro...who cares about nazis in this day and age in the post-chud era...from slavs...IN 4chin..sm.h.
>>740418872how is this any different than seeing a manji swastika in asian games
>>740419010>Should've nuked Germany, not Nippon.Not American fault that germs lost before nukes were finished
Why do we insist on holocaust denial when we should be doing holocaust celebration?
>>740422223271k max, mostly due to starvation from allied bombing of supply lines
even if the holocaust happened at it's maximum extent it wouldnt be particularly significant compared to any other large scale act of violence in history. the only reason why it is treated like a special event is because the people it was commited against own the western cinema industry
>>740418872>To be clear, this is not a misunderstanding, or images that look kind of alike, or a misinterpretation of an ambiguous situation: That's a Sonnenrad, a kolovrat, and the extremely unmistakable double Siegrune of the SS—quite possibly second only to the swastika as the most distinctive emblem of the Nazi regime.I can see the point with the SS symbol, but anything else is grasping at straws. Also the symbols associated with nazism today were not even invented by the nazis, there's no reason to chimp out over their usage in other contexts.
>>740418872why apologize for this? nobody cares AT ALLif someone really wanted to know then just say "I used AI to hallucinate this e-mail, oops hehe"
I'm jewish and literally sueing them
we are so so so so so SO SO SORRY about posting the funny double runes!
>>740418872>Just as with the swastika, their meaning prior to the Third Reich is irrelevant: The Nazi links are too clear and prevalent to pretend that any other connection is equally meaningful.So because Nazis happened everyone, including their victims, just have to give up all the parts of our cultural heritage that the Nazis copied. I really hate this kind of thinking. Stop giving your enemies so much power over basic symbols.
wtf i'm finally going to betray Steam after 22 years. heil GOG.
I will now buy gog games
>>740418872>someone at GOG is basedOK I'm buying more games there.
>>740425634i was on pol around when the ok hand gesture thing happened. seeing the thread go up, where they talked about purposfully tricking journalists into thinking the ok hand gesture is a nazi symbol, and then days later seeing journalists write panicked articles about this gesture, as if it had existed for years blew my mind
>>740418872Those are all normal ass symbols relevant to the history being representedThe literal only reason they think it's nazi runes is the sowilo being repeated
>>740418974>This shit was probably made by an aiOr by some random jeet that used AI to make it. Who knows where they oursource their newsletter writing to. I'm pretty sure most corporations use jeets for that e-mail advertising. Jeets or Chinks(both of which are retarded and rely on AI for everything).
>>740426607So a typo doesn't get fixed and all the redditors have fire coming out of their asses for days? Fucking snowflakes.
i am okay with my child seeing these symbols. what i am not okay with is her seeing rainbow flags or darkies.
>>740418872without the double sig-rune they'd have the benefit of the doubt, some larping zoomoid chud went too far
>>740419971
I'm going to buy a game on GOG. Good day to you.
>>740418872It's funny that rightoids are ashamed of their worldview and back down so hard when confronted. Embarrassing cucks.
>>740418872holy BASEDSIEG HEIL, SIEG HEILKILL ALL JEWS, HITLER NUMBER ONETHE ONLY GOOD KIKE IS A DEAD KIKEYAHOO
>>740422453and EVERY SINGLE ONE deserved it for being a stupid filthy jew
>>740419971I feel like the SS symbol is definitely an outlier on this list lol
>>740418872Desperate attempt to woo users away from Steam.
>>740428086Not a chance. They even put it at the bottom of the article.
>>740419402>>740425634>>740421897>>740423234No one gets upset when swastikas are used with their original meaning.Context is everything. But when there's no context, Nazis are assumed, not Eastern mystics.
>>740418872Secret agent from (((Steam))) did this
>>740421897>Just as with the swastika, their meaning prior to the Third Reich is irrelevant: The leftists literally don't care
>>740428301>No one gets upset when swastikas are used with their original meaning.The Finnish Air Force has been pressured to drop the swastika that they have used for over 100 years. Despite the fact that its usage predates even the foundation of the nazi party of Germany.>The reason for the plan is external pressure — the commander said the Air Force has faced awkward situations, for instance, when working with Americans.https://yle.fi/a/74-20179827Now go fuck yourself with your excuses.
>>740418872based poland, they yearn to be conquered again
>>740418872>Hey G can you offer a me a cheap game with no DRM?
Seems totally sane and reasonable that Redditors would see a GOG newsletter and act like the Fourth Reich is coming.
>>740428301>But when there's no context, Nazis are assumed, not Eastern mystics.But there WAS context. The context was that it's an ad for a game based on Slavic myths which uses those symbols in its title font.
>>740427492>Credit monkeybusinessImages
>>740429804>>740430236Europeans are idiots. Probably as a result of being much closer to Germany than we are, and having have been defeated by them (Finland excepted) rather than having defeated them like we did.
>>740430608>Europeans are idiots.>the main reason cited is awkward situations when working with americansI suppose that's technically right since we should just ignore the amerigolems.
>>740418872there really is no better marketing, I wishlisted the game right after hearing about it
>>740430816Lame made up excuseGet angry at the person actually making the decision
>>740422223because it didn't fucking happen
>>740419356Should've clarified better
The other day I played with a german guy in Destiny 2 and he started ranting about left-wing germans and how his country is super cucked because of weak people, it was pretty hilarious because the dude was talking about how things need to be like the good old days which I think he implied WW2 germany, hitler, nazis etc.
>>740429804finns used it because a swedish nazi who was Goerings in-law gifted it to them so that checks out
>>740419356This is funny because this is probably what actually happened.
The fuck is a chud?
>>740418872this seems like a nothingburger. game title had the symbols and it wasn't noticed until it was pointed out and they apologized.
>>740418872This mistake could have happened to anybody. Don't make such a fuss about it!Nobody died over this, nobody lost a single shekel.
>>740431489Politically correct insult for bootlickers because they get offended by actual insults
>>740431489Chud or Chude (Old East Slavic: чyдь, romanized: čudǐ, Finnish: tšuudi, Northern Sami: čuhti) is a term historically applied in the early East Slavic annals to several Baltic Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia. It has also been used to refer to other Finno-Ugric peoples.
>>740418872> GOG apologizesThis is fatal. NEVER apologize.
>>740427492reacting negatively to this is justified
>>740418872why would nazi runes be readily available as a basic text element?
Same vibe
>>740427492Beautiful Jewish couple
>>740430915>>740431241Damn, those goalposts got moved so far you can't even see them in the horizon anymore.
>>740419010no should of nuked your desert shithole until it was nothing but glass then salt the earth there too for good measure
>>740426434The problem with the ok hand sign is that some retards started using it unironically so it turned from a psyop into a legit thing.
>>740418872>Appeal to trannies and faggots>send nazi symbols to every customer>"woops heheh my bad"
>>740418872>"""""Nazi runes""""""""The Nazis also drank water.
>Check comment section>American users claiming victimhood about GoG being nazi sympathizers. I can think of a few reasons why Poles would hate Nazis, thoughever.
>>740418872>pcgamerYeah, no.
>>740418872You can argue that the first two symbols don't have to be exclusively associated with nazis but how can you put two pointy Ss next to each other and not think people might have issues with it
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOO THESE EVIL DANGEROUS SYMBOLS ARE LITERALLY GENOCIDING MEWhy are kikes and leftoids such fragile subhumans that they feel threatened and piss their pants by mere symbols?
It is the year 8000, space trigglypuff sees a spiral and flies into a rage because it was used as a symbol by a short-lived tribe thousands of years ago
>>740419010So this is the reading comprehension of the average low IQ subhuman who seethes at muh nazis and Germany huh?
>>740418872>Apologizing for symbols that already existed 2000+ years before the 1900's came aroundAre people complaining about this genuinely retarded?
>>740419010>not Nipponread about Unit 7312 nukes definitely weren't enough
>>740418872I thought /v/ told me GOG were based?! Why are they apologizing what the hell?
>>740419010brown clown
