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@LukeAlmighty Depends. There are some really fucked up forms of torture out there. Can't remember where I heard this from, but there are some bastards that would whip the sole of the victim's feet, and the damage and pain would be so excruciating that it would make it impossible for someone to walk for a long time.
And at the same time, put someone in solitary confinement for 13 years, and you utterly destroy someone.
There's degrees of bad on both sides, and in some cases prison might be better, and in others torture might be better.

@LukeAlmighty I think torture like that might break more international laws than capital punishment... so it'd be harder to implement.

@LukeAlmighty I didn't know Vaush favored the death penalty.

I actually had no plan of ever playing this cause I heard it wasn't great, but since they gave it away for free... might end up trying it... maybe... no guarantees.

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@Inginsub @RustyCrab
Through the KDE distro I started with, I think Kate was the default. And I kept using it. That would have been 8 years ago, so hope my memory is correct. On what I use now, it's not, and I have to install it. But I think it's still the better known text editor for KDE.

@RustyCrab Point is, even the good names are stupid as fuck... stop putting K in front of everything...

@RustyCrab k3b is for DVD burning, though it's understandable that people have forgotten about that. Kate is the text editor.... a damn good text editor, but you wouldn't know to search for it if you weren't on a KDE distro.

@mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @dsm
Great program! Love the thing. The only reason I can find it is I managed to remember it starts with "cz".

@RustyCrab Don't think that bad names are limited to Linux ecosystem, but it does suffer the most there I guess. As much as I love KDE... "Kcalc", "Kate", "Konsole", "K3b", "Kasts"... just... stop...

Brodie Robertson and everybody else in the linux world keeps yelling at people for wanting steamOS on PC when they should "just install bazzite".

It is impossible to explain to a linuxfag that their failed community ecosystem is in large part due to their compete inability to name things.
"SteamOS" -- it's an OS for steam
"ChromeOS" -- it's an OS for chrome
"Microsoft Office" -- "I guess that's tools you'd use in an office"
"Mapquest" -- guess I look at maps
"Door dash" -- "they dash things to your door
"Minecraft" -- you mine things and you craft things

"bazzite" -- what the fuck does that mean
"gnome" -- what the fuck does that mean
"mutter" -- is that like a mumble alternative?
"Wayland" -- like from Aliens?
"minetest" -- sounds like Minecra-- oh wait you changed it to "Luanti" WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN

@LukeAlmighty Actually, they might have other reasons for packaging the game differently based on regions. Remember that China has rules on censoring things like skeletons in games? Yeah. They might have several versions of LoL that they ship to different areas exclusively. So if this version is designed for your country, for whatever cultural censorship reasons, English could be viewed as kinda useless to include, just like you wouldn't include English in the Chinese version of LoL.

It goes back to my original assumption that they expect this to be used only in this geographic area.

@LukeAlmighty And that's how you find out I never played League.

In that case... hhmmm... if that's game audio (not just interface language) my assumption would be that they're packaging their game based on geographic regions, to reduce size. Which again, makes Greek being there very odd. And it's still be weird cause there would be better ways to package and distribute things.

@BasedLunatic
And that's why context matters. Still, you're assuming just because he's from Africa, that he might carry a disease he got there. Technically racist. But in practice, it's one of those racisms that is kinda rational.

@BasedLunatic
Leave that last sentence out, and you come of as a hypochondriac.
With the "if he was white...", you could be anywhere between just slightly racist, to KKK white robe racist, depending on context details.

@LukeAlmighty If they don't expect, or maybe want, the game to end up being played outside of this geographic area, this certainly is something they'd do. If anything, I find the inclusion of Greek weirder, cause they're further away from the rest.
My initial assumption was that this was some random app (only words I recognize there are "chat" and "client"). And that would definitely have more reasons to be geographically restricted. If it's a game, that does make it a bit more unusual, but not outside the scope of possibility imo.

As for why you wouldn't want to sell a game to a world wide audience, maybe dealing with American, UK, or other countries' legal stuff is too much for a small dev team. But again, I'm making assumptions about what kind of game, and how big it is.

If it's a small East European team, small game, and especially if we're talking early access, or early version, lack of language options doesn't seem particularly weird.

If on the other hand, this is a game the size of even classic WoW, sure, that would be fucking weird. Or if this were a game made by Koreans. Then it literally wouldn't make sense. Context matters, and I have little context to go on.

@BasedLunatic
What's special about 67? What am I missing here?

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