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The other numbers and Hagel rune are very explicit white supremacist symbols, so trying to downplay them is suspect. As Chloyster pointed out, it seemed like the person saying that the 100% is racist was trying to mock people saying bringing up the other symbols. Even the ADL says you need to look at the context for the 100%. Bringing up the OK is also suspect, since, again, even the ADL says the context matters.

Also, nobody is saying they are hate crimes, but hate symbols which you should absolutely be aware of and not include in your game, even if by accident.

I took the "100" part to be that someone was mocking the people who were happy the Nazi/racist symbolism was being addressed by management.

Obviously we only have the article to go off of, but the symbols/ numbers mentioned are definitely Nazi symbols, so if there were a bunch of those symbols (all on one single room I might add) that absolutely seems suspect

No they aren't, as @chloyster@beehaw.org explained.

But I wanted to point a tangent, from the article you linked:

outstretched middle, ring, and pinky fingers to represent a Roman numeral “3.”

Coincidentally, the Romans would count like 👍👉👌... instead of "thumb, index, middle" for the numeral "3", because that resembled the letters "IV", which were the first two letters of "IVPITER", or "Jupiter", formerly known as "Zeus", the God of Gods, and making the "IV" sign in vain was considered a blasphemy... similar to how Jewish people wouldn't "use the name of God in vain", which lead to the expression "hallelujah" from "hallelu-Yah***", meaning "praise Yah***"... in order to also not say the whole name of God. Curiously, Muslim people have no problem with saying "Allah" or writing "ﷲ", just with depictions of their prophet, go figure.

These sign shenanigans have been going on for thousands of years, only difference is now a "meme" with 10 comments on 4chan, can become a hate sign used by thousands or millions in less than a decade.

PS: another curious one, is the ✋ "Hi!" vs. the Greek 🖐 "I smear 💩 on your face"... best not to confuse them 😉 ("oops, got something in my eye" /s)

Not sure the ADL is really a reputable organisation worth looking to as and authority on what is and is not hate. They're an explicitly zionist organisation with a history of defending genocide.

That said, this particular article seems completely fair. They don't say the ok gesture is a symbol of hate, only that it is sometimes used that way. Which is accurate.

But also:

Since the early 1800s, the gesture increasingly became associated with the word “okay” and its abbreviation “ok.”

Whoops guys, got that one wrong. OK is the original form, and okay is a lengthened form of that.

That’s an awful lot to say over “one person suggested” which it seems most people including the authors took to mean agreement.

The 100% emoji is the only thing I thought was weird. I can understand why they might think that way given that the developers went through weeks dealing with what seemed like internal sabotage. Given the context, it makes sense, but it might also be an overreaction.

I use the 100% emoji to show agreement sometimes. I certainly hope people don't think I'm trying to use it as a dog whistle. Kinda sucks because we're running out of agreement emojis at this point lol.

He honestly sounds more creepy not less creepy after that part.

Game asset development is one of the places where versioning systems are least used. Not only versionong "binaries" is taxing for the system, but even game code itself (¹) is often not version tracked, or controlled at all, with more of a "cowboy coder" approach.

It all stems from most non-online games (²) being sold "as is", with no intent of supporting them long term; the moment a studio/producer gets the money, they stop caring about their user base, until it's time to promote the next game. Even games with post-release DLCs, are regularly developed this way, and they end up as a giant clusterf... mess.

If Deck Nine was the "lowest bidder", with 70-80 hours a week "crunch" months, chances are they cut corners on everything, starting with proper asset versioning.

(¹: engine code is a separate thing, which gets suported across multiple games, so tends to be properly developed

²: online games, and games with microtransactions, tend to be kept in better shape, since their income depends on them working for more than a single playthrough)

A nazi party.