Minecraft Menu Drops the N-Bomb

An stereotypical, translator-turned-troll managed to add an unpleasant racial epithet to Minecraft's main menu.

Yesterday, Afrikaans-speaking players who fired aweigh the latest snapshot build up of Minecraft got an unpleasant surprise: The phrase "You are a Jigaboo," had replaced the single actor choice on the menu screen.

Recently-promoted manoeuver developer, Jens Bergensten, apologized for the incident and pinned the blame on a "prankster" hiding amongst the multitude of volunteer translators working on the gamy. "Sorry about that =( I thought I had prohibited that user," read one of his tweets.

The offending translation has since been removed, and the forum matter that earlier it pointed out has been shuffled off this fatal coil as well.

Minecraft is largely text edition-unbound, merely many users have taken it upon themselves to translate the game into a multifariousness of different languages, manifestly without a lot oversight from Mojang. The game is currently playable in 56 different languages, including a couple of tongue-in-cheek, made-up ones, like "Pirate," "Canadian English" and "French."

At present, I'd be prevarication if I said that the theme of dirty a highly popular game's main carte du jour with absurdly creepy expletives doesn't vellicat my ever-so-slightly anarchic funny bone, but is "NIGGER," thoroughgoing with caps, really the best this person could do heavenward with? That's just depressing, in a tired sort of way. It makes the low-brow gremlins who cacography mustaches and crudely-haggard genitals happening billboards look like Banksy.

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/minecraft-menu-drops-the-n-bomb/

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