r/whenthe • The only straight, cis guy on this sub • Jun 16 '26

the daily whenthe I really don't get it

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u/Not_Luzeria Jun 16 '26

VALVe games 🥀 Like okay I'd get it if the server was based in Russia, but it never fucking is! I'm here in a fucking Stockholm server filled with Russians screaming slurs inbetween incoherent nonsense (russian)!

My general rule of thumb is: the language spoken online should be based either on the server's physical location, the most spoken language (aka just English), or the language of the origin of the platform/community/game

If you have a game made by Russians with a server hosted from Russia, then yeah very much fair game to be speaking Russian there

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u/Godertays Jun 16 '26

Dude i literally cant find game if queueing only in russian server, dota itself tells me to use other servers as well

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u/Not_Luzeria Jun 16 '26

Ok then queue for other servers... but don't pull up speaking Russian... 🥀

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u/Godertays Jun 16 '26

I will, until people state the fact that they cannot understand me, then ofc i will speak english

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u/Not_Luzeria Jun 16 '26

Or... do it the other way around?? 😭😭🥀

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u/Godertays Jun 17 '26

Most guys i match up with are anyway russian, so the way you suggest gives more trouble

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u/up2smthng Jun 17 '26

А ты это определяешь по тому что они тебе отвечают на русском или по тому что они тебе не предъявляют за русский?

По моему опыту в когда некий кадр решает поговорить с командой на русском его понимаю примерно я а остальные тупо в игнор кидают

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u/Godertays Jun 17 '26

По никам, типо Победилдо и Лена Головач, а из за особенности игры если один русско говорящий, значит все они меня поймут

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u/Sybmissiv Jun 17 '26

But what will you do if they do?

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u/Not_Luzeria Jun 17 '26

Mute

And then throw a hissy fit and go cry in the shower

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u/lololofkap Watch out, i graduated from Reddit university! Jun 16 '26

Because almost no games have official Russian servers? And closest countries with servers are Sweden, Germany, maybe Poland. Also i generally speak Russian in games because i expect also hearing other Russians cuz in 95% of the cases in games im playing everyone is Russian because, well, im from Russia and as thus servers i join is also most likely to be filled with people from Russia. Tho if i see person who speaks English or i see that seemingly nobody understands me i assume they aren't from Russia so i change to English

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u/Not_Luzeria Jun 16 '26

why the fuck would you start out with Russian?
and it ain't my fault that bum-ass Russia doesn't have many official servers

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u/lololofkap Watch out, i graduated from Reddit university! Jun 16 '26

1st, Why the fuck do you insult my country by adding "bum-ass", the fuck? 2nd, Because its my main language, and because all previous games i played i had my team speaking Russian. Like i now mainly only play deadlock, and in like 500 hours that i played like 95% whole lobby was Russians, maybe 1-3 English speakers on my/enemy team

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u/Not_Luzeria Jun 16 '26

"Slavic ethnic group is the largest in EU", where tf did you get this info from?
Do you have a source to back this up?

I call things overpopulated by Americans an infestation too, it's just a funnier way to refer to a bloated demographic, it's not that deep.

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u/Nolcio Jun 16 '26

Do you have any research to back this up, or is it just speculation? Schizo, no one uses Russian by default on the European internet except russians and maybe Belarusians. I can already see Czechs, Poles, Slovaks, and Slovenians (aside from the alphabet discrepancy, but who cares about that XDDDD) using russian, especially since it's not taught in schools. "most popular Slavic language" my ass.

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u/Altruistic_Data_6298 Jun 17 '26

Steam stats, Russian is number 3 worldwide

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u/Nolcio Jun 16 '26

What, so you telling me if there is no german server in game, then Germans can join one located in Italy and speak their language, because they are expecting other Germans to be there? And what about Italians??? Russians truly think the world revolves around them.

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u/LocuraRu Jun 18 '26

When I hit the "play" button I expect to be matchmaked with people who do speak my language. You sell me a game, fully translated and dubbed then why the fuck will you matchmake me with somebody whos cilent language is just different? How the fuck am I supposed to make calls to foreigners if all the locations and item names sound VERY DIFFERENT?

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u/Free-Sample-216 Jun 18 '26

Will forever be mad everyone around you doesn't speak german, huh?

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u/bimvert Jun 16 '26

not to say your point isnt valid, but i want to point out that russians are in every european servers cause our government is horrible, and alongside with killing civilians for no other reason than imperialism, they also banned literally fucking everything on the internet, so you have to use vpn, and if you play games you have to choose european servers.
I myself usually start with english until there is more than one other russian in the team.

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u/Free-Sample-216 Jun 18 '26

There's no valve servers in Russia, blame them

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u/Not_Luzeria Jun 18 '26

I WILL BLAME WHOEVER I WANT AND WHOEVER I DISLIKE THE MOST

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u/FoundationWinter8276 purpl Jun 16 '26

Мы на шведских серверах тусуемся ибо наши хуесосы у власти перебанили все что можно, и единственные рабочие ВПН сервера (а значит и сервера онлайн игр) находятся в Швеции. Ну или Нидерландах (у них вообще количество интернте пользователей скачет до 140 миллионов каждый день)

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u/ALMAZ157 Jun 16 '26

Stockhol is closes Server since Russia lacks CIS region Server