GoG uses SS runes for "Slavic adventures" promotion

[Ancalagon]

Hello

I'm not quire sure where to post this, but ... wow.

It's really, really sad these days, but any project involving certain cultural elements will receive greater scrutiny, and you just cant' use these symbols anymore. Plausible deniability is not there.

further details can be found here

 

[Reynard]

As someone believes in the wonderful cultural power of Norse myth and literature, I say take this stuff back. Every good use of symbols co-opted by monsters is a blow against their corruption.

 

[Whisper-Kitten]

As someone believes in the wonderful cultural power of Norse myth and literature, I say take this stuff back. Every good use of symbols co-opted by monsters is a blow against their corruption.

I am going to have to agree with you on this one. Your can't ban symbols simply due to the usage by terrible groups.

 

[Reynard]

I am going to have to agree with you on this one. Your can't ban symbols simply due to the usage by terrible groups.

And when push-back comes, use it as an opportunity to teach that history and cultural significance.

 

[CandyLaser]

The double lightning bolt SS symbol is not a historical Norse rune or symbol. It was invented c. 1908 and adopted by the Nazis in 1929. You might - might - be able to reclaim some of the other symbols, but that one? It's a Nazi symbol through and through, and has never really held any other meaning.

 

[Umbran]

I am going to have to agree with you on this one. Your can't ban symbols simply due to the usage by terrible groups.

By all means, walk down the streets of Berlin with a swastika banner, then. I am sure they'll appreciate it.

Just like language, the meaning of symbols changes with use. If used by a powerful evil, that symbol changes meaning.

 

[Whisper-Kitten]

By all means, walk down the streets of Berlin with a swastika banner, then. I am sure they'll appreciate it.

Just like language, the meaning of symbols changes with use. If used by a powerful evil, that symbol changes meaning.

 

[Alzrius]

Just like language, the meaning of symbols changes with use. If used by a powerful evil, that symbol changes meaning.

All the more reason for a powerful good to use the symbol, and change it back.

 

[Sossij]

The S rune (not ᛋ) is a modern invention and using two of them next to each other is also a modern invention and very much a Nazi thing. Even the developer of the game in question is distancing themselves from this and asking GoG why it was used.

 

[CandyLaser]

All the more reason for a powerful good to use the symbol, and change it back.

And is that what you think is happening here, by using one unambiguous Nazi symbol alongside two additional, slightly more deniable Nazi symbols in a marketing email for a video game?