erhm actually the first word of that book is “dictionary” ☝️🤓

no that’s just wrong. that word is extremely offensive in many parts of europe and in canada as well, and i don’t doubt it’s offensive in other places too. it is absolutely offensive in france (and other francophone parts of europe/america) too.

GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers

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.

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“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.

the article also has a screenshot of the email in question, and of gog’s apology on xitter

i’ve stopped buying on gog since the nazi newsletter shit. imo any publisher worth their salt should stop publishing on there and publish to other drm-free storefronts like itch

so does google docs iirc. it can even export to odt

the irony of this being a twist on a fascist slogan lol

(not mad at u btw, i just find it funny)

i’ve linked to more context in the original post

but the TL;DR is:

• framework has started to financially support open-source project
• among those projects are hyprland and omarchy, both having ties to the far-right (hyprland’s community is a toxic nazi bar and omarchy is maintained by a loud and proud racist)
• people were understandably upset at framework for this
• framework’s response was “nooo you guys, we are apolitical! we are trying to make a big tent! and that includes fascists too, stop being meanies!”