Steam: "Suck my robot balls"

This does make me think we should brand this onto the forehead of every ICE member

Is this in connection to the Colombian president's post?

People really tearing GoG to shreds here but I don't really understand why. I'm not a GoG user/stan so I don't have a dog in this race, but this doesn't (to me) seem to follow any pattern of malicious behavior.

• To my knowledge they haven't had recurring big controversies of this kind that show systemic cultural issues. Their Wikipedia page has a "Controversies" section with 3 events, including this one, for a total of 9 sentences.
• Even if it was sent maliciously and intentionally, if they apologize and it doesn't happen again I'm not going to get bent out of shape. These email campaigns are run by peons low on the totem pole and hardly get any thorough review.
• The SS symbol is relatively niche and bland (though I concede this differs by country). To my knowledge it's not the most common dogwhistle or exceedingly controversial. I've often seen people gaff into it when trying to punch up text with lighting bolts ⚡. It's not exactly on the same tier as the death's head => concentration camp connection.
• Building on the above and knowing that GoG uses ai, its plausible that it could be accidental
  • An intern gets some copy, runs the header through Ai like he usually does because emojis in headers perform way better.
  • The LLM looking for "runes" has a strong bias for pairs of the symbol; probably nobody writes Elder Futhark runes, and especially that one, outside of the SS context.
  • Even if the intern knows the symbol, not all systems render it in an obvious way.
  • The email service automatically filters it from German emails due to stricter laws on Nazi symbols.

I'm not saying people can't choose to believe it was malicious or that it's impossible for GoG to have a rotten company culture. But I'm confused at the level of vitriol. You'd think we were talking about tobacco or oil companies with an established history of killing puppies.

The "GOG Bad Now" people in this thread are out of their minds.

This was overwhelmingly obviously some combination of poor decision and mistake with no malicious intent behind it.

Yes, it was a fuck up. Yes, they should apologize. No, this should not be a brand-ruining event for GOG.

If there was any history in their past for them to suggest they were facists or nazi sympathizers, this might be a different story.