Would love it ^.^
Obligoblivion wrote:
A chairde,
There are so many things I want to discuss on this thread but I'll try keep my rant short enough:
1. It is incredibly difficult to gather any number of Irish players into a community and this would easily help create a better community. Especially since I used to have to look around who was online in my country just to see who to talk to and in turn made friends with international students but left out a lot of Irish players who came to talk to me and try to join the community because even these forums are tedious to use.
2. Irish is a very real, non English language. It is what I grew up speaking and working with so I undoubtedly love the idea of being able to speak, chat and communicate in my native language. The language is used by everyone who goes through our education system so it would of great use either way to all.
3. There are plenty of dedicated Irish members online the majority of the time to offer moderation of the chat in the Irish language, myself included so I don't think there would be a problem searching for mods.
4. I have had conversations in Irish with some of the Irish player in this thread in lobbies and was told I would be muted for not speaking English so an Irish channel alternative would be good. If this isn't a good enough reason we can easily make ourselves better known by speaking the language in the channels together more frequently if you wanted to see the use the channel would be to us?
5. It's a recognised EU language out of 24 languages. It is also 1 of 10 recognised EU languages not currently hosted as a channel on the client and not hosted as an in-game language for use which many Irish users would use and contribute in translations for client use.
In general: We are very much a country thriving with a language in revival from thousands of years of oppression. The channel is great in joining our language and community further and allowing us to communicate in a language native to our country and by star vote it's quite clear there is a desire for the channel to be set up.
"Ní neart go cur le chéile" - There's no strength without unity.
le grá mór daoibh,
Barra (Obligoblivion)
Raiku wrote:
tá mé sásta tá mé ag foghlaim gaeilge a labhairt
(I am happy i am learning irish)
Ive been learning gaeilge for the past 2 months and NEED this channel.
This is so true. I did not have any Irish people to talk to while I first started playing osu. This forced me to play on my own most of the time and not play multiplayer as I felt that I was not really fitting in. I had to message people who were from Ireland and see if they would reply. I randomly messaged "Obligoblivion" one day, saying that I admired his mania skill (because I want to be able to do 7k mode too) and lucky for me, he replied. this gave me some hope that I wasnt all alone in osu.Mahogany wrote:
As it stands currently, it's not easy to become involved in the Irish osu community. While we do have at least one that's running right now via a skype group, it's very difficult to find people who are interested in participating in said community, and most of the group are only the higher-ranked players. It's difficult if nigh impossible for someone to get into the group without knowing a current member.
I think part of the intention behind the creation of an #Irish group would help those who are interested in discussing the game and meeting up with others of the same nationality, as well as speaking the Irish language, find each other.
Personally, when I was new to the game, I had no way of interacting with others from my country without seeming like a creep. My only option was to directly message someone, and hope they cared enough to respond. I only started to be a part of the Irish community when I gained a high enough rank, and started to get noticed by others.
I think an #Irish channel would help said newer players find a niche in the community they could fit into, instead of being forced to keep to themselves, like I was.
Obligoblivion wrote:
There will be many chances for the language to florish in the Irish Osu community and the population that have a will to learn the language.
We have fulfilled both of your requests as you have asked for , I hope this thread doesn't just get ignored by staff now like some of the others I have seen.Zallius wrote:
Get more people that speak the language to provide their vote in this thread, and star it!
My point was being made in response to the opening posts, to confirm that language specific channels are not community group for those who live in a certain country. The requirement for us to justify opening a language channel is that we have a large enough collection of players that speak the actual language to justify operating and moderating the channel.
Thank you everyone for all the support on this thus far ;^; <3nsm wrote:
this is a lovely idea! good luck
Seeing as its the following January, did this get brought up to staff? just out of interest, if it didn't could it be brought up to them, it would be ideal for at least someone to give the Irish community some response on the #Irish Channel.Flanster wrote:
I'll take a look at the discord server.
Planning on bringing this up to staff at the beginning of January.
2 years and still no proper responseadoyler97 wrote:
Seeing as its the following January, did this get brought up to staff? just out of interest, if it didn't could it be brought up to them, it would be ideal for at least someone to give the Irish community some response on the #Irish Channel.Flanster wrote:
I'll take a look at the discord server.
Planning on bringing this up to staff at the beginning of January.
who even r u lmaoYoges wrote:
This request is just a meme lol
Edit: I cant remember who it was that asked me but I got messaged in game randomly asking me to give some support to this thread and I vaguely remember the conversation to go something like this
Person: Hey
Me: Hello
Person: Do you think you could throw some support at this thread so we can get an irish channel?
Me: ...
Me: what?
Me: An Irish channel?
Person: Yeah I know
Me: Mate nobody fucking speaks irish who the fuck do you think you're shitting?
Person: Peppy lol
Me: KEK
XXXXXddD
Dia duit yoges is anim dom ta ceathruir i mo chlan ta me i mo choni i bfionglas ta 18 bliana deag daois. Bhi an aimsir go maith agus nil se fluch. Bhi an tatmospheir electric.[KoKo] wrote:
who even r u lmao