Do NOT set your language to Afrikaans!

I will do the install.

If anyone is curious, a player who was a language translator ended up making the single player button say "You are a [racial slur]" if the language was set to Afrikaans

As someone who lives in South Africa which one of our main languages is Afrikaans, this is kinda neat. Also “ZA” stands for “Zuid Afrika” which is Dutch for South Africa since Afrikaans has it origins from Dutch

As an Afrikaner, I can confirm this is an epic gamer moment

CHECK THE READ MORE BEFORE COMMENTING FOR A CORRECTION for anyone curious, the af_ZA language file means it's in Afrikaans and the ZA refers to the Afrikaans name for South Africa, Zuid-Afrika EDIT: made a mistake when I wrote this comment at 3am, i meant it was the Dutch name for South Africa, since 1) it was the Dutch who originally colonised there, 2) Afrikaans was for a long time considered a variant of Dutch, 3) Dutch was still one of the official languages when the country codes were established and Saudi Arabia had grabbed SA previously

1:24 unrelated but ZA stands for South Africa because in Dutch, South Africa is “Zuid-Afrika”, also Saudi Arabia took SA.

Hey Phoenix, by 1:23, ZA stands for Zuid Afrika, which is Dutch for South Africa, considering that Afrikaans is a hybrid of Dutch, English and other languages.

I was very confused, so I took his advice and googled… I’m surprised I never heard about this…

From an article in Kotaku from around the time: The newest version of Minecraft greets players with the sentence "You are a N-WORD ," if they switch their language settings to Afrikaans, the language spoken in South Africa and Namibia. It appears to have been the doing of an unruly Minecraft user who was among many people who worked on language translations of the popular game. Minecraft's developers at Mojang have apologized and pinned this on the player-translator. The screenshot above is from Kotaku's Mike Fahey's version of the game. The largely text-free Minecraft is playable in a multitude of languages (56 by our count if you include Pirate and Canadian English), and relies at least in part on user-submitted translations of the menus and other text. Mojang's Jens "Jeb" Bergensten became aware of the problem today, tweeting the following: "This is certainly one of the hazards with crowd-sourced development; quality assurance becomes very important, and it's possible for things like this to make their way into a game that millions of people play. Still, it's a bummer that it happened." Kotaku has reached out to Bergensten and Mojang for comment and will update if and when we hear back. [Update, Jan. 28] Bergensten, in a statement to Kotaku called the slur the work of "pranksters," and said the version they vandalized is a "snapshot build" that is not pushed to all 5 million Minecraft users.

The funny thing is, people probably won't set their language to Afrikaans for no reason, but since Phoenix told us specifically not to, a lot of people would do it. That's the beauty of reverse psychology.

Never thought I would see Phoenix do a video involving Afrikaans it was a very nice surprise 😄 P.s : jy is my gunsteling persoon wat ek elke dag kyk maak nie saak of dit out videos is nie (you are my favorite person that I watch every day even rewatching old videos )

Keep up The Work!

If you didn't know, the original text for singleplayer in that update is "You are a *****R" This is supposedly because mojang got their translations from crowd-sourcing which in turn let someone set Singleplayer to that. So yeah, not great.

Fun fact Phoenix, older versions of minecraft often crash like this because of your Options.txt file. I have to do the same fix every now and then when I occasionally use 1.5.2 actually, so that might help.

For future reference, old versions of minecraft used a different system for certain assets like sounds, and the crash can be fixed by installing old versions to a separate directory

yay some coverage of my country!

Damn mc went out of their way to say you are a nice person so nice and non controversial

For those wondering/too lazy to search it up: Yes, this is real. The singleplayer button had the n word on it. You can find complaints from when that snapshot was launched (2012) and a apology from mojang. Supposedly it was a community translator that wanted to do some mischief.

Hey Phoenix if you want to run the launcher you need to delete the options.txt file. Version 1.2 didn’t have this document, and it's not backwards compatible so the game just gives out an error message. I had the same problem when installing version 2.0. I would move the file to new folder and then put it back in later. You can also just straight up delete it, but then you’ll have to reset your settings.

what is that thumbnail goddamn phoenix you are challenging the algorithm!