these symbols seem to render very differently on different devices. i got a wheel of hatchets, an eight-pointed star, and two futhark runes on desktop.
…which is why it’s at the very least irresponsible for them to send something like this. if there is actually intent here that only makes it worse.
of course it is, i would rather the newsletter i receive not be written by nazis.
yeah i can’t really find any other association either. i just don’t really want it to be that.
well the newsletter was about an adventure game based on slavic folklore. like the witcher, that game the gog guys (who are polish i think?) created from famous slavic folklore. i’m not debunking anything anyone is saying mind, i would just rather it not be true.
i’m just reporting what i found. the guy in the post is also not affiliated with gog.
also, let’s say gog are nazis. aren’t they polish? isn’t their symbolism law really strict?
yeah sowilo makes more sense geographically but i still don’t know what the association wourd be other than nazis…
i’m just reporting what i found.
so are the other two. the slavic religions are more than a thousand years old.
Edit: okay the kolovrat is iffy. the new version of that religion is very racist.
tangent: when i went to vilnius a few years ago there was a lot of symbolism that weirded me out and felt kinda fascist. but it turned out it was from buildings that were built in the 1700’s, based on baltic legends and traditions. which is what the nazis co-opted. but the people there still had those symbols in their culture.
sure it does: 卐
i also got real weirded out by that, but i decided to check it out closer:
Edit: apparently this is a font thing! those last two symbols are supposed to be koppas. lots of people reacted to this so there’s quite a bit of discussion. i’m assuming gog don’t test on every email client and os combination possible, so it’s a bit more understandable.
i don’t know if that was ever the question. rather it was whether they’ve chosen to split them up or not.
last time i played a ubisoft game on steam it required uplay, i don’t know if that holds for r6s but if it does then that’s probably not something valve likes. maybe you can’t transfer items, but you can fire up uplay through steam and get cheaper dlc for your “steam version” that way?
again, i don’t know.
no, i’m just easily confused.
my reasoning is this: if players on steam and uplay can play together, and see the dlc other players have, and prices of that dlc vary between stores, that counts as “the same product” having a different price. potentially players could transfer dlc from uplay to steam if they require a uplay account everywhere. in that case, ubisoft are violating the terms.
if that doesn’t hold, then valve are overreaching.
overall it’s muddy.
r6s isn’t unreal though, it’s anvil.
well no, the integrations are what i’m talking about. not saying that valve is hosting their own r6s servers, just that by using steam features and having the same game (eg able the connect to the same server) on two stores it falls under their “parity” policy.
i was reading through the court documents earlier (i linked them in a comment) and while i don’t doubt that bloomberg knows better than me, that wasn’t the feel i got from the emails. it started with valve employees asking internally if it was a tos violation, then reaching out to ubisoft, then the demand to change the price on steam to match. the docs are heavily redacted so some details escaped me but… idk.
transactional-update:)