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They just commented on the Reddit post abiut this and it's a pretty weak excuse. Downright stupid one in my opinion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txlz7z/hey_gog_wtaf/opxsir6/?context=3
Ah yes, let's put double sun runes for uh no reason. Also hmm this looks like an SS logo we should not send it to Germany but everywhere else is fine. Yes, that is a sensible thing to do after noticing that you have written something that looks exactly like an SS logo.
NO IT FUCKING ISN'T YOU LYING NAZI FUCK. It's an invented rune based on the S rune from the younger futhark, a system that existed In Scandinavia. There are four kinds of younger futhark and none of them are Polish, there are zero futhark runestones in Poland.
It's a cryptonazi dogwhistle. That theory did existed in historiography but was debunked long ago, and every few years some hack surfaces with some stupid book about Poles are totally Aryans i swear and dudes with comic book nordic tattoos come out of woodwork to the internet.
"We knew it was a problem (which is why we didn't send it to the country that has laws against it), but we still sent it anyway" is maybe the stupidest way to approach this lmao
A redditor said they subbed to the email in English, so they got the email in Germany. They were just checking language (which is semi-reasonable from a "do this quick" logic). But is a really funny way to do compliance.
"Yeah this might be illegal in X country, just check if that country's language is used and comply with the bare minimum. Surely no one outside the country speaks that language, or someone inside speaks another language."
That's even worse
I don't know if there are other companies I could say this for but the idea of GOG self-immolating actually upsets me, will someone there please fire up an apology letter draft and say this guy has been disciplined and had his keys taken away? Their installers are consistently the best choices for game piracy as a linux user.
We're gonna have to denazify GOG
Holy shit, this is real?
Oh yeah
Can't forget the suns...
Oh I didn't, they just don't display properly for me (hence the symbols next to the lightning bolts)
I know, I just wanted to have others see the combination
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