Infestation 88 developer, Nightmare Forge Games, have responded to claims that the ‘88’ in the game’s title refers to the Neo-Nazi salute.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    Oooh. Thanks for reminding me of the other important reason to be aware of dog whistles and to look at the context in which they are being applied.

    The people who aggressively insist everything is just a coincidence while trying to nitpick everything to death are almost never acting in good faith. Best case scenario, they are an edgelord kid on 4chan who doesn’t understand they are being manipulated. More likely they are angry that people understand their “secret code”.

    Either way, they aren’t worth interacting with.

    So… good job demonstrating what a bad faith dipshit would insist upon. You missed the /s though. Be careful with that. Some people might actually think you woke up and said “I need to defend some neonazis from criticism”.

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      6 months ago

      Or, you know, I don’t think that literally everything I can justify with numerology is Nazism, and so I don’t think I’m defending neonazis because someone used 14 letters in a game title.

      Your argument is unassailable, because in your mind anyone who finds in unconvincing is a literal Nazi.

      Think to yourself what someone would have to discover for you to decide they weren’t Nazis.
      I know what I would need to see to think that I was wrong: statements, affiliations, something beyond numerology, refusal to make changes in the face of an unfortunate coincidence, or almost anything.

      What would make you say “shit, I was wrong and listening to numerology”?