Lemmitors still eagerly buying the "ancient slavic runes" defense
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mathemachristian [he/him]
Slop.Never trust a rune guy
Yup, it’s that classic fake outrage bullshit that permeates the cringiest corners of social media. They need to indulge in these performative contests to signal “superior” virtue over logical moderates who cooly observe that symbols on a screen are not intrinsically hateful & are objectively incapable of harm. People acting & realizing shitty ideologies are capable of harm. Stopping them is the furthest thing from denouncing a symbol.
They’re “fighting fascism” they claim. Are they, though? If objecting over symbols “stopped fascists”, no one’s ever seen it.
They’re claiming these symbols send messages of hate. What’s the “message of hate” here? These sun-related symbols (fitting the game’s sun & rune theme) are vague.
They’re stroking their justice boners over some unearned sense of accomplishment that they “fought the good fight”. Denouncing symbols is the least meaningful opposition or rational discourse: it doesn’t challenge shitty ideas or their adherents. It does absolutely nothing.
Irrational losers, however, don’t like critical thought. Discrediting their bullshit sense of superiority & accomplishment (at doing nothing meaningful despite feeling like they are) offends them.
"Logical moderate" is an oxymoron. I need to resist the urge to fedpost.
it's over, i have already depicted you as the performative virtue signaler and myself as the cooly observing logical moderate
I will say, as a guy who find Slavic and Norse mythology cool it does suck how much of that shit had gotten co-opted by Nazis.
I once thought about getting a tattoo inspired by one of my favorite games, Valheim, but was worried people would think it was Nazi shit.
God, I love various mythos and folklore. Every time I come across something Norse I always have to do a background check. It's exhausting.
Any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
Game looks quite good. No evidence of any Nazi related stuff in the gameplay, Steam forums etc. That seems entirely to be GOG’s doing
Might buy it at on Steam at 45% off as part of their “women-led games” sale.
No that person is actually correct the devs are cool and had a way better response. They even changed so.e stuff in the game before all this happened because some of those symbols have been taken up by Nazis. This is squarely on GoG for the whole black sun and SS bolts.
It's just wild to be like, "Wow a Nazi dogwhistle! I know what I'm buying today!"
Sure yeah I just read the original apology from the devs and it feels bad seeing them catching strays over this. This was all on GoG
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You would think/hope that a Polish game studio would know better. Like, the country that suffered most at the hands of the Nazis, predominantly housing many of the groups that suffered most at their hands.
You would think/hope that a Polish game studio would know better
Based on my prior experiences with Poles, no I would not
Depends which ones and where, but yes many hold outright hitlerian views. I have'nt had any interaction with polish diaspora, however I expect them to be extreme gusanos
Unfortunately there’s many neonazis in Poland and some of them seem to work for this game studio
No it's GoG that did this shit not the studio
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If Germany didn't invade Poland first, we would be as hitlerian as the baltics.
That's sad, but based on my own experiences I'm not completely surprised.
The Ukrainization of GOG is complete.
look how dare you quote Ukraine giving a nazi from WW2 state honors and a state funeral that's just Russian propaganda
I know that would happen but people calling what happened last week propaganda is wild
Edit, oh that's the only comment removed from that entire thread. Interesting
Why is it all the most Nazi looking runes that aren't even from the same alphabet?
People that are into paganism for none Nazi reasons (if that's possible) should be really weary of that.
Like, spell out a word or something, if you want to come across as genuinely interested in that culture.
Of course none of that matters because neopaganism is all Naziism.
I would argue rather that the aesthetics of paganism have been coopted by Nazis--especially the Nordic avenues (less so the Celtic).
Paganism, and Wicca in particular, attracts also countercultural types who seek a greater connection to the Earth than their capitalist alienation provides. These are the folks who might grow a small garden or herb planter at home, who take a moment of reflection on a solstice, or who choose veganism for animal welfare/ecological reasons.
Yes, there is a "crunchy to fascist pipeline". Yes, Nordic runes in particular have been a dog whistle for fascists for decades. But there are also misfits, outcasts, and Renaissance Faire nerds who are otherwise agnostic/atheist and find spirituality in communion with nature, and so call themselves pagans or Wiccans.
I guess MCU is pretty Pagan as well.
Yeah, I get the appeal. I was just still kinda mad at all the Nazis.
ᛋᚬᛚᛅᚱ ᛁᚾᛏᛁᚱ
ⓘ ᚦᛁᛋᛅ ᛘᛅᚦᚱ ᛁᚱ ᚴᚱᚢᚾᛅᚦᚱ ᚢᛘ ᛅᛏ ᚢᛁᚱᛅ ᚴᛅᛏᛅᚱ.
My old norse is real, real rusty, and I haven't read runes since primary school but uhh. Is this just transliterating the word "Solar" and then the word endir (Which iirc means "End")? What's the joke, I don't get it. :(
Yup. Sólar, sól in indefinite genitive. Suns end. An attempt at translating the name of the game. There isn't really any joke here. I didn't come up with any joke so I just did the name of the game instead.
Although, I'm not sure if ᛁᚾᛏᛁ ᛋᚬᛚᛅᚱᛁᚾᛅᚱ (endi sólarinnar) might have been more correct. The different grammatical cases are not my strong suite.
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That's right there's a game involved. I was wondering if it was some sort of joke about butts. My brain is fried, it is no good.
What is your runic?
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I tried to write "Pig poop balls" but I absolutely fucked it up, because while I knew the word for "Pig" that was the only word I knew, and I'm still pretty sure I wrote it wrong
Well that PR non-apology has just made me permanently delete my gog account, they can go fuck themselves.
It's not a slavic rune! It's only slavid insofar as the Rus were Scandinavian in origin! It's a "reconstructed" version of a rune from the younger futhark. But this isnt even tbat. This is a fucking doppelsig, the most nazi synbol you could make next to a hakenkreuz
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they meant the futhark version but the some fonts are display is as the sig rune /s
apparently that's the excuse they gave but patriotic fact checkers confirmed that they didn't even use the unicode symbol for the futhark sowilo rune ᛋ but the a smallcaps koppa ϟ.
THATS NOT EVEN AN EXCUSE IN LA LA LAND.
IT'S STILL NOT SLAVIC, IT'S STILL NOT OKAY TO DO A DOPPELRUNE, THIS IS STILL THE SS SYMBOL
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Reading the thread, the GOG staff acknowledged that a German coworker had advised against them sending this out, so they removed the emojis from the German language version of the email. They still sent the SS runes out to people in Germany subscribed in English, which is very illegal in a marketing communication about a fantasy video game, and it's a law that's enforced fairly rigorously.
Hopefully there will be criminal prosecution.
Interesting how many of them are into this 'culture' but when a Black or Asian person wants to make a game about their culture it's white genocide
