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> - is not easy to google

Nobody is googling "Murder" looking for a game engine and being disappointed that they can't find it. If you search "Murder Engine" this is the first thing that pops up.

> - is quite tasteless, less so if murder is mainly something you see on tv, but for some people murder is sadly much less of an fictional rare thing

I have an immediate family member that was brutally murdered. I also have no problem with the name of the engine. Of the things to take issue with, this seems silly. You would hate LOVE2D which has libraries famously named ANAL and LUBE.

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To clarify I find it tasteless and edge, i.e. a bad choice. This doesn't mean I have a problem with it, nor does it mean I'm offended by it or think others would be offended by it or hate it or anything like that.

I also am not sure why you think I would find LOVE2D tasteless. The name has a clear connection to what it names, it paints a clear and positive picture and has a slightly less obvious joke in it onto which they then double down by how they name some of their libraries. That has style and taste.

But murder is lacking all of that, or at least it's too non obvious. This disconnect between the name and what it is/the picture it paints is why I called it tasteless and edgy. It feels like there was either a lack of ideas or it wants to edge on and provoke but the picture this paints isn't beneficial/good for a 2d game engine in any way as far as I can tell. Even comes with a (small) to cause harm and require a renaming later one.

> To clarify I find it tasteless and edge, i.e. a bad choice. This doesn't mean I have a problem with it, nor does it mean I'm offended by it or think others would be offended by it or hate it or anything like that.

If it doesn't bother you and you don't think it will bother others, how is it tasteless?

> The name has a clear connection to what it names

So Murder Engine is fine then.

The desire to clutch one's pearls in disgust over any little thing is showing up a lot in this thread, I think.

> one's pearls in disgust over any little thing is showing up a lot in this thread,

not really, but I guess arguing with you about it is pointless as you are either ignoring or not understanding the points I am making and instead try to exaggerate things by implying that finding something tastless means much more then it does

If you're unable to articulate why something is tasteless beyond "because I think it is", it sounds like you're sort of just making things up.

Which is fine. Clutch those pearls. But maybe examine your behavior as well?

except that I did explain, but you just pretend that part doesn't exist

and somehow after I did you started becomming all provocative and manipulative in how you phrased sentences so that it seems I sayed/mean/think things I do no

so idk. by I don't think I'm the person with the problem here

You're being weirdly aggressive about this. I think they explained themselves pretty well. I don't agree with them at all but they have said how they felt and why.

I asked a clarifying question and then made an assertion about a behavior. I personally wouldn’t call that “aggressive”, but to each their own I suppose.

> I have an immediate family member that was brutally murdered.

Ah yes, I remember electing you to represent people with brutally murdered family members at People With Brutally Murdered Famiky Members Anonymous.

Love2D is cute, Murder, ANAL, LUBE are tasteless. Maybe deadbeef is too. It's fine, it is what it is, bad names are sprinkled everywhere. Let it be known as tasteless. It's OK.

Presumably the members at People With Brutally Murdered Famiky Members Anonymous don't have that much of a problem doesn't already have a problem with the non-consensual homicide depicted in most videogames?

Of all the things to get triggered by...

Personally I'm glad that there are still projects with names not chosen by the public outrage committee and then approved by the ad-friendlyness commission.

Never did I claim to represent everyone who has had atrocities happen to them. I'm just giving a data point that not everyone who has had someone murdered recoils in disgust at the sight of the word. Taste is a matter of opinion. The person I replied to happens to think that ANAL and LUBE are perfectly fine as they thematically match the name Love2D. You think it's tasteless. All valid opinions.

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