• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    As someone from Germany, this would freak the hell out of me. Looks like a mistake, not something intentionally crafted. Whatever the real reason is (companies rarely say the truth), I understand the issue now. Thanks for the link.

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      1 month ago

      The real issue is that they saw the problem and fixed it for Germany only and not for anywhere else.

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        1 month ago

        To be fair, when I saw those symbols I thought about lightning, not SS, especially given the spacing that would have never hinted at the SS symbol.

        Then, knowing the game, I thought it must have been some Slavic mythology reference.

        But I understand Germans, Zios and Americans are obsessed about such things. After all they keep learning from each other about cultural appropriation and erasure.

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          1 month ago

          My first thought wasn’t the SS, but the fact that they saw it and thought it might be a problem in Germany is another story.

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            1 month ago

            But it is. In Germany. Then do you think the same of the Wolfenstein games being about the Cult if the Wolf or whatever it was?

            Germany always had special treatment, self-inflicted or not.