crosspost from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43675346
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The “Bro visited his friend” meme template. In panel one, a character says “hi GOG any new deals tod-” and another character, labeled with the GOG.com logo, replies with the screenshot of a mail header titled “Slavic adventures 𖥞 ꥟ ϟϟ”. In the second panel, the first character looks at the second one with a worried look on their face.


Oh wow, that GOG representative trying to justify it makes even worse:
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That is some weapons-grade apologetic bs. Thanks for the heads-up OP
LMAOOOOO well thats a fucking insane thing to admit that casually
So they notice that it totally, unmistakably looks like an SS symbol and then they just send it out anyways
They couldve just said “It was an automated thing” or “It was AI generated” or whatever but no, they say “we knew and we didnt give a fuck”
At least honest i guess?
german here… i too received that exact email… so sadly the rep is talking out of his ass
It was not sent to users with German language set.
@[email protected] commented GOG’s response claiming the symbols just displayed like that on some devices. Like it’s just some bug in how they are rendered, which sounds like bullshit… When you have time, could you please try to copy them from the email and paste to some web unicode explorer or something to be sure it really is that symbol used in the email?
that is the result for the unicode symbols from the mail topic “Slavic adventure 𖥞 ꥟ ϟϟ”
U+03DF ϟ GREEK SMALL LETTER KOPPA
U+1695E 𖥞 BAMUM LETTER PHASE-D MVOP
U+A95F ꥟ REJANG SECTION MARK
imo the problematic part is not the existance of each individual symbol in the mail… the problem is the combination of all of em together
Interesting. I got the email without the symbols, but Im not german.
I wonder how realistic the one rune being displayed as the other on several devices is. Like, they are both unicode, and the screenshots seem to be from regular web browsers which should be pretty good at displaying it. It sounds like bullshit honestly…
Might depend on the default font the device uses? That’s the only thing that would impact it to my knowledge.