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The "Bro visited his friend" meme template. In panel one, a character says "hi GOG any new deals tod-" and another character, labeled with the GOG.com logo, replies with the screenshot of a mail header titled "Slavic adventures π₯ κ₯ ΟΟ". In the second panel, the first character looks at the second one with a worried look on their face.
Is Slavic Adventures a game?
Nope. There's a forum post about it. Forgot the name of the game after reading through the pages, but the game uses many pagan runes and GoG decided to be edgy for some reason. No idea why they'd drop the ball like this. It's not a good look and the person who made the decision to have this title and then send it out should be fired. It's obvious what they wanted to achieve.
Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: manufactured outrage over fonts
Not sure if reporter was born yesterday or is a fascist hoping to get this post deleted.
I think that this person that definitely was born yesterday should read the GOG response:
I want to briefly address the discussion as a GOG representative. The Sowilo rune is part of my cultural and historical heritage. As a Pole, I am fully aware of both its history and the sensitivities surrounding it. Its use in this promotion was intended solely as a reference to the sun, which is central to the game being promoted.
What was displayed in several devices as doppelrune is out of our control. α was displayed as Ο on several devices. We should pay more attention to checking it on a different systems and devices. I also recognize that placing two such runes next to each other could create an unfortunate association with symbols used by the Nazi regime. This was noticed before distribution, and out of respect for local sensitivities, the material was not sent to the German community.
At the same time, I do not believe that symbols with a history spanning more than a thousand years should be defined solely by their misuse in the modern history. Allowing that would mean accepting that those who corrupted these symbols now own their meaning.
As a Pole, I have every reason to treat this history with seriousness and respect. Precisely because of that, I reject any suggestion that this promotion carried an extremist message. It did not. It was a reference to the historical symbol of the sun, nothing more.
Yeah lil bro that was born yesterday, GOG knew that the symbols could be a problem and decide to send this shit to everyone minus Germany where they could face legal repercussion.
The Sowilo rune is part of my cultural and historical heritage. As a Pole, I am fully aware of both its history and the sensitivities surrounding it. Its use in this promotion was intended solely as a reference to the sun, which is central to the game being promoted.
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I also recognize that placing two such runes next to each other could create an unfortunate association with symbols used by the Nazi regime.
then why post it? 
At the same time, I do not believe that symbols with a history spanning more than a thousand years should be defined solely by their misuse in the modern history.
No, no their history doesn't span a thousand years, they got used, then forgotten, became a historical artifact and were revivded over a thousand years later by a certain political movement.
It was a reference to the historical symbol of the sun, nothing more.
yeah yeah and the wolfsangel just means "national identity" it just kinda looks like a nazi symbol nothing sus going on there
German here, it was sent to me.
So not even this part of their response is true LMAO.
Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Posting moderation reports is fairly childish, and what I would expect from someone promoting manufactured outrage online.
Itβs rare for someone to double down instead of taking the hint.
This is a gmail interface? 
Which one of these are nazi symbols? I only know about swastika, what are these called and what do they signify?
the first two are technically unrelated to any nazi shit (in the same way that the eggplant emoji π is totally just an eggplant and means nothing else yknow), but when put together, they form a black sun
the last two are unmistakably the symbol of the SS
Like, they could have used ANY runes, but they SPECIFICALLY used the black sun and SS runes.
Ah, okay, thanks for the info.
In the Gog character text box, the symbol on the far right is the symbol for the SS
Got it, I think I have seen those before. Didn't recognize them here.
With fascism on the rise in capitalist states, itβs worth learning how to recognize their shibboleths, which they use to recognize each other and to turn spacesβonline and offβinto Nazi bars.
Yeah, I remember reading that before. Thanks.
