- is not easy to google
- 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
it it would be a game, story etc. which has that name and covers that topic it would be fine but naming something pretty unrelated to that murder is just quite a bit of tasteless and unnecessary edge; if it had a flock of crows as a log it would at least be a funny joke
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.
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.
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.
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
Which is fine. Clutch those pearls. But maybe examine your behavior as well?
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
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.
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.
I guess one could have said the same about "unity" or "unreal" or even "Godot" at one point.
It's just that it looks like a very promising project and bad names can easily come back and hunt a project iff it has become much larger and more successful. So it having in my opinion a bad name felt like something which isn't irrelevant.
Sure, you have "Unity", "Unreal", "Godot", ".NET" and etc. but I would argue that they are distinct and unique because they have some heavy-weight organizations and popularity behind them. I also think that they are not on the same level of generic use as "murder".
This engine's name, however, will have to compete with the generic "murder" that is already used in various different contexts. Surprisingly, you can still find it as top result if you search "murder engine" so they got that going for them.
Still, would of preferred if it was maybe some variation of "murder" word if they want to stick with that.