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"'Destiny 2' Included a Legendary Gauntlet With a White Supremacist Logo"

Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it's not well known. The flag was flying in Charlottesville, it's not a secret or anything

I have read most of the thread, but so far I haven't seen anyone say what Destiny thing it's referring to.

It doesn't have meaning in Destiny
 
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https://twitter.com/Bungie/status/907722205496172545
 
Gaslighting is a powerful tool. They expect people to be confused and conflicted when they reveal imagery that's been right under our noses the entire time.
This particular flag has been all over the place for quite a while. They're kind of saying "you're not paying attention" if you haven't spotted it before.
 
And like I said, ambiguity is the name of the game. These asshole thrive in the grey area now. You sitting back wondering where the clan hoods are only helps them. And after all this Gamergate nonsense, you really don't think there aren't any WS in the gaming industry? You keep straddling that fence, though.

It wouldn't hurt Bungie to see if they have any reason to suspect the designer of being a white supremacist and deal with it. I doubt it'd be difficult to find out. If they are stupid enough to put WS imagery in a game while working at Bungie for release all over the world, they're probably not closeted in their racism.

Also don't try paint me as a centrist or liberal I'm anything but, I'm as left wing as they come.
 
To play devils advocate, your reply made me try something.

This google search might prove otherwise.

Is it possible the designer was just.. lazy?

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I can just imagine the conversation...

Bioware: Yeah, we pissed off alot of people by using google image search to lazily show Tali's face.

Bungie: Hold my beer!
 
In that case, it seems weird that a costume like this would even be approved in the first place. The designer must be decently high up in the art department.

Well, Luke Smith was a major WoW nerd, and I'd imagine he's not the only one. If not familiar with the original neo-Nazi flag, it may have been seen as a small callback to that.
 
People asking for the guy to be fired, because "there's no chance this is a coincidence", are talking out of their asses.
There absolutely is a chance this is a coincidence, and you shouldn't ask for someone being fired over something that could've very well been unintentional.

Reading this thread I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, ffs.

If whoever did it, did it indeed on purpose, they're idiots; but since there's no way to tell for sure, y'all should chill the fuck down.
 
So if it's "purely coincidental" and just "similar", not "intentional" and not supposed to be a KEKISTAN flag, wtf is it supposed to be?
 
How did something like this go unnoticed within Bungie, have to wonder. I mean wtf.

It's really easy to miss something like this when you're QAQC'ing thousands of things, man. It would have gotten past me for sure, I had no idea wtf KEK was until I saw this thread (maybe I live under a rock?).
 
People asking for the guy to be fired, because "there's no chance this is a coincidence", are talking out of their asses.
There absolutely is a chance this is a coincidence, and you shouldn't ask for someone being fired over something that could've very well been unintentional.

coincidence, really? come on man
 
People asking for the guy to be fired, because "there's no chance this is a coincidence", are talking out of their asses.
There absolutely is a chance this is a coincidence, and you shouldn't ask for someone being fired over something that could've very well been unintentional.

Reading this thread I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, ffs.

If whoever did it, did it indeed on purpose, they're idiots; but since there's no way to tell for sure, y'all should chill the fuck down.

Man, please.
 
People asking for the guy to be fired, because "there's no chance this is a coincidence", are talking out of their asses.
There absolutely is a chance this is a coincidence, and you shouldn't ask for someone being fired over something that could've very well been unintentional.

Reading this thread I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, ffs.

If whoever did it, did it indeed on purpose, they're idiots; but since there's no way to tell for sure, y'all should chill the fuck down.

It must be cool to live in whatever alternate reality you live, man
 
People asking for the guy to be fired, because "there's no chance this is a coincidence", are talking out of their asses.
There absolutely is a chance this is a coincidence, and you shouldn't ask for someone being fired over something that could've very well been unintentional.

Reading this thread I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, ffs.

If whoever did it, did it indeed on purpose, they're idiots; but since there's no way to tell for sure, y'all should chill the fuck down.

That's wrong. There is a way. Do an internal review of the employee once identified and see if they frequent questionable websites using company computers, look at their social media to see if they're tweeting stupid shit, etc.
 
People asking for the guy to be fired, because "there's no chance this is a coincidence", are talking out of their asses.
There absolutely is a chance this is a coincidence, and you shouldn't ask for someone being fired over something that could've very well been unintentional.

Reading this thread I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, ffs.

If whoever did it, did it indeed on purpose, they're idiots; but since there's no way to tell for sure, y'all should chill the fuck down.

delet this
 
coincidence, really? come on man
? You mean you know for a fact it isn't? Sure enough to call for people to get fired over your hunch? I don't think so.
It must be cool to live in whatever alternate reality you live, man
I live in a reality where even confessions and eye witness are demonstrably NOT 100% fool proof, but i guess some gaffers here are more infallible than that.

That's wrong. There is a way. Do an internal review of the employee once identified and see if they frequent questionable websites using company computers, look at their social media to see if they're tweeting stupid shit, etc.
That's perfectly fine by me, that's an internal investigation that is way different than whatever is going on in the thread.
When i say "there is no way to know", of course i mean for the people in this thread (unless they work at Bungie, i guess).

I understand the sentiment, i've been on that side of the argument before, doesn't mean it's sensible nor logical.

But i'm not saying Bungie shouldn't proceed with internal investigations, and act accordingly, that's a different story.
I'm saying that claiming "this is 100% not a coincidence, get them fired", is based on bullshit.
 
It is a shame the nature of this issue prevents Bungie from really making a statement about it.

What I mean by this is that it would have been kind of cool to see a quickly put together brand new "Hidden Area" deployed via patch that would give people who own this item a new "unlocked quest" where you would have to fight your way to a forge like machine, then BURN this arm armor and reform (ie "reroll") a newer, ALL DIFFERENT, more powerful version of an arm armor that you could only get from this quest.

Something called like "Rainbow Megaton" or "Color Vibrancy" that could be a total and utter backhanded response to the original intent of the arm armor's design in the first place.

Ah well, a direct item target and change/removal is probably for the best given the popularity of the game, but a gamer can dream of new in-game content...
 
that's an internal investigation that is way different than whatever is going on in the thread.

Yes, a discussion is occurring in this thread, because this is a forum for discussion. When you try to shoot down said discussion, you better believe you'll get some blowback. What exactly is it you're trying to get to, anyways? Because it appears you want people to stop discussing this for whatever reason.
 
I thought that this was going to be something blown out of proportion... Nope that looks exactly like it. I wonder if there will be disciplinary action taken against this.
 
I didn't know about this and have been wearing these all day yesterday. Came to GAF to find out why my nice,shiny gauntlets look like shit now.

They could have used a better replacement skin.
 
Yes, a discussion is occurring in this thread, because this is a forum for discussion. When you try to shoot down said discussion, you better believe you'll get some blowback. What exactly is it you're trying to get to, anyways? Because it appears you want people to stop discussing this for whatever reason.

What are you talking about? Please read what i wrote first.
I have 0 issue with people discussing this, i specifically called out people wanting the artist responsible to be fired, because 100% certain this could not be an unfortunate coincidence.
Something i disagree with since, likely or not, it still could be a possibility.

I found those posts to be over the line, and i said so.
I never shot down anyone, and i never asked for anyone to stop debating the topic.
I have no idea where you got that from, either.
 
When they're actually out there at their rallies using that signal, that's all I need to see to count it as legit. I'm not gonna be fooled by that "it's just 4Chan trolling, breh" bullshit.

Exactly. Half of this shit started off for a laugh in the first place. When you see a table full of known white supremacists all suddenly deciding to flash an Ok symbol, and people in the Nazi crowds doing the same thing, it doesn't matter that it started off with someone making up bullshit. They're eating that shit themselves. Shit-eating grin as they hold up an 👌.
 
What are you talking about? Please read what i wrote first.
I have 0 issue with people discussing this, i specifically called out people wanting the artist responsible to be fired, because 100% certain this could not be an unfortunate coincidence.
Something i disagree with since, likely or not, it still could be a possibility.

I found those posts to be over the line, and i said so.
I never shot down anyone, and i never asked for anyone to stop debating the topic.
I have no idea where you got that from, either.

People are allowed to be outraged. Who are you to try and quell that outrage? You know no more about the situation than others on here. People can be mad and hope the person or persons responsible for this are punished for it. You can disagree and say it could all be a coincidence. Neither side is right, neither side is wrong, not until more details surface. Until then? Discussion. Let people articulate their disdain instead of trying to shoot them down for no other reason then "they could be wrong".
 
People are allowed to be outraged. Who are you to try and quell that outrage? You know no more about the situation than others on here. People can be mad and hope the person or persons responsible for this are punished for it. You can disagree and say it could all be a coincidence. Neither side is right, neither side is wrong, not until more details surface. Until then? Discussion. Let people articulate their disdain instead of trying to shoot them down for no other reason then "they could be wrong".
I really have no idea what you're on about, i'm genuine, not trying to be a dick either.

People are free to say whatever they want, i'm not even a mod, but i'm free to point out how i found some of the opinions expressed here to be wrong and criticize them.

Does "discussion" mean "free from rebuttal and criticism" to you? That's really all i'm doing.
I didn't tell anyone to stop posting, so i don't know what you mean.
Telling someone you disagree with them, isn't shooting them down, that is part of the discussion being had.

Besides, there are many ways to express outrage, doesn't mean all of them are right.
 
I live in a reality where even confessions and eye witness are demonstrably NOT 100% fool proof

So you voted for Trump, is what you're saying.

The image was practically lifted from that KKK symbol, dude. Are you going to sit there and tell me that exact fucking image just happened to pop into some artists head? THEY ARE THE EXACT, IDENTICAL IMAGE.
And Bungie agrees. So it doesn't matter what your opinion is at this point. Dude is getting fired.
 
I really have no idea what you're on about, i'm genuine, not trying to be a dick either.

Oh?

People asking for the guy to be fired, because "there's no chance this is a coincidence", are talking out of their asses.

Reading this thread I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, ffs.

y'all should chill the fuck down.

You're the one that came in guns blazing. If you wanted to have a civil discussion about how there is technically a possibility that this was all a harmless mistake, maybe next time don't insult the people you wanted to have said discussion with. It makes you look like a dick.
 
Man it sucks that that kek is a bad thing now. I remember original WoW, maybe even still in modern WoW for all I know, you couldn't understand the enemy faction because the game hashed what they were saying, so "lol" got translated to "kek" and people basically used it as horde laughing at alliance etc. Just a silly WoW reference.

I remember it from Starcraft II memes. Kekekeke zerg rush, etc.
 
So you voted for Trump, is what you're saying.

The image was practically lifted from that KKK symbol, dude. Are you going to sit there and tell me that exact fucking image just happened to pop into some artists head? THEY ARE THE EXACT, IDENTICAL IMAGE.
And Bungie agrees. So it doesn't matter what your opinion is at this point. Dude is getting fired.
They're not exact nor identical, nor is it a 'KKK symbol'. He's not saying he voted for Trump, he's saying we live in a world where eye witness reports aren't valid testimony. That's a fact. It's not unreasonable to suggest that this may not be as clear cut as people think.

The fact you need to exaggerate the issue to make your point doesn't help your case.

You're the one that came in guns blazing. If you wanted to have a civil discussion about how there is technically a possibility that this was all a harmless mistake, maybe next time don't insult the people you wanted to have said discussion with. It makes you look like a dick.
Nah. The guy just doesn't agree with some people here and you go off on him telling him he's discussing things incorrectly.

You can't hide behind this "it's a discussion" line when you seem to actively wish for him to stop his line of discussion. Of the two of you you're genuinely the one that comes across as having more of an issue with someone trying to discuss something other than "yeh he did it, fire him".
 
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