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Re: Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

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Post by foobarbecue » Sat, Dec 01, 2018, 10:21 PM UTC

xyproto wrote: post #43

It looks great, but imagine the name of the software being "Moron3D". That is the reality for every native Norwegian speaker, since "dust" means "moron" in Norwegian. I don't mean this in a petty way, it's just hard to ignore, for me. In related news, Honda tried to launch a car in Norway a couple of years back named "Honda Fitta" which roughly translates to "Honda the Cunt". The tagline was: "Fitta is small inside,…

I've always wondered if this sort of thing prevents The GIMP from greater adoption.

Re: Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

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Post by dysoco » Sat, Dec 01, 2018, 10:34 PM UTC

foobarbecue wrote: post #60

xyproto wrote: post #43

It looks great, but imagine the name of the software being "Moron3D". That is the reality for every native Norwegian speaker, since "dust" means "moron" in Norwegian. I don't mean this in a petty way, it's just hard to ignore, for me. In related news, Honda tried to launch a car in Norway a couple of years back named "Honda Fitta" which roughly translates to "Honda the Cunt". The tagline was: "Fitta is small inside,…

Same problem with the Chevy Nova selling in spanish-speaking countries. (No va: doesn't go.)

Or the Mitsubishi Pajero in Argentina which literally means Mitsubishi Wanker.

They did change the name though, thankfully.

Re: Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

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Post by arthurfm » Sat, Dec 01, 2018, 10:46 PM UTC

foobarbecue wrote: post #60

xyproto wrote: post #43

It looks great, but imagine the name of the software being "Moron3D". That is the reality for every native Norwegian speaker, since "dust" means "moron" in Norwegian. I don't mean this in a petty way, it's just hard to ignore, for me. In related news, Honda tried to launch a car in Norway a couple of years back named "Honda Fitta" which roughly translates to "Honda the Cunt". The tagline was: "Fitta is small inside,…

Same problem with the Chevy Nova selling in spanish-speaking countries. (No va: doesn't go.)

Another good example is Audi's E-Tron.In French, étron means turd.

Re: Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

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Post by malkia » Sat, Dec 01, 2018, 11:13 PM UTC

xyproto wrote: post #43

It looks great, but imagine the name of the software being "Moron3D". That is the reality for every native Norwegian speaker, since "dust" means "moron" in Norwegian. I don't mean this in a petty way, it's just hard to ignore, for me. In related news, Honda tried to launch a car in Norway a couple of years back named "Honda Fitta" which roughly translates to "Honda the Cunt". The tagline was: "Fitta is small inside,…

well, Hui is a popular name, but in certain slavic languages it means "dick", "penis". You just have to get used to it.

Re: Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

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Post by npolet » Sat, Dec 01, 2018, 11:44 PM UTC

lostgame wrote: post #38

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making an alternative to one of the most unfortunately convoluted, beyond unusable pieces of UI/UX garbage on the planet...(Blender)...what a nightmare to use for even a moment.

Really not sure this is an alternative to blender. Blenders functionality stretches way way further than this. Go check out the blender 2.8. I think you'll be really quite impressed by the improvements that have gone into it.

Blender might be a "nightmare" for you. But without putting any proper criticism, your point is null.

Re: Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

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Post by ObsoleteNerd » Sun, Dec 02, 2018, 12:16 AM UTC

blattimwind wrote: post #57

xyproto wrote: post #43

It looks great, but imagine the name of the software being "Moron3D". That is the reality for every native Norwegian speaker, since "dust" means "moron" in Norwegian. I don't mean this in a petty way, it's just hard to ignore, for me. In related news, Honda tried to launch a car in Norway a couple of years back named "Honda Fitta" which roughly translates to "Honda the Cunt". The tagline was: "Fitta is small inside,…

MongoDB... e: MongoDB is a perfectly valid example of a brand name that's somewhere in the "very offensive" area in some languages. Like GasjewsDB an easily avoidable cultural pitfall.

Yeah MongoDB always gives me a very-un-PC chuckle as an Australian. It was a common insult growing up in the 80s.

Re: Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

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Post by dplgk » Sun, Dec 02, 2018, 1:05 AM UTC

Does it allow precision input of sizes, quickly like sketchup? I'm looking for sketchup replacement.

Re: Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

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Post by mrobot » Sun, Dec 02, 2018, 1:13 AM UTC

This might be a stupid question but in the mosquito create video, what are the blue smudges he draws in the left portion of the image for? What are the blue lines dragged down in the GIMP? What exactly is going on in that part of the video?

Re: Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

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Post by bredren » Sun, Dec 02, 2018, 1:16 AM UTC

foobarbecue wrote: post #61

xyproto wrote: post #43

It looks great, but imagine the name of the software being "Moron3D". That is the reality for every native Norwegian speaker, since "dust" means "moron" in Norwegian. I don't mean this in a petty way, it's just hard to ignore, for me. In related news, Honda tried to launch a car in Norway a couple of years back named "Honda Fitta" which roughly translates to "Honda the Cunt". The tagline was: "Fitta is small inside,…

I've always wondered if this sort of thing prevents The GIMP from greater adoption.

I think so. Fckeditor changed its name after some debate [1].

I remember the first time I came across it as a wysiwyg plugin for vBulletin and thought fckeditor had an edgy name. It immediately comes to mind in this context.

I felt some pause introducing fckeditor into an internal wikimedia install for a big company filled with old people I was working for at the time, just because I didn't want any waves whatsoever with those folks.

I definitely would not have gotten up in front of them at a weekly meeting and trumpted how great of a tool "gimp" was.

I sort of think people who keep names that are known to be problematic in FOSS are doing so somewhat to passive-troll and to keep normies away. Though my view of this is quite english-centric.

[1] https://ckeditor.com/old/forums/CKEditor-3.x/Should-FCKedito...

Re: Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

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Post by ryannevius » Sun, Dec 02, 2018, 1:22 AM UTC

lostgame wrote: post #38

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making an alternative to one of the most unfortunately convoluted, beyond unusable pieces of UI/UX garbage on the planet...(Blender)...what a nightmare to use for even a moment.

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted so hard...It's not a secret that Blender has a bad UI. I'm not making a comment about Blender as a whole here; I use it daily and have for the past 10? years. It's a great piece of software. But it's clearly lacking in the UI department.

There's even a three-part article (2013) from Andrew Kramer of Blender Guru, describing the issues and with some suggestions for trying to fix them. Luckily, Blender has made progress since then, and I'm sure we'll continue to see a great piece of software get even more consistent and clear in the future. Note: this doesn't mean dumbing the software down.