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    1157 months ago

    Recent changes in GTA Online moderation now censor words like “meth” and “cocaine” in chat…

    …in a game where large portions of the gameplay are focused around selling meth and cocaine.

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    because the devs just ran their censored words list through google translate instead of paying someone to do proper localization.

  • @[email protected]
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    887 months ago

    I remember ye-olden days…

    “Nice shoes!”

    “Let’s play again on Saturday!”

    “I can play as loud as I want in the basement!”

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          The depth of the stupidity of that is incredible to me.

          You even get invaded by NPCs with “forbidden words” in their names. Checking whether you own game violates your criteria should be sanity check number one.

          Invaded by Recusant Tanith’s Knight! -> works, it’s an NPC

          Invaded by Recusant Dark K***ht Richter! -> Ugh.

          And since those people keep their names like that, presumably they can’t even tell that their name is being ruined by the game. An extra layer of stupidity.

          At least with stupid chat moderation, you can see your messages, so you know how your messages are being ruined and you can adapt to it.

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      117 months ago

      RuneScape originally replaced censored words with “cabbage” so a rude message may read “cabbage off newb!” And honestly I feel like that’s the best way to implement a child friendly censor

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        57 months ago

        The thrive community forums did it with the word belgium, inspired by the work of Douglas Adams

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      The funny part is that they set up the detection for “hoe” wrong. “Ho” is the insult; “hoe” is a garden tool. Even jeopardy knows it.

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      Dark Souls’ implementation is something special. Censors your name based on the language settings you have in place at the time, voice-over dialogue remains in English. So change your system language to either another language you know, or play it a few times so you know what things are, and then put the most offensive shit in as your character name you like.

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    457 months ago

    Genshin has China-level censoring, with some really bizarre words like ‘tank’ being filtered.

  • pruwyben
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    447 months ago

    I said “finish it” in Genshin chat and it censored it as “Fini** **”

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    Chat censoring should be mostly on the user side with user controlled blacklists and whitelists, with moderator involvement mostly for circumventing the filters.

    Don’t want to see “penis”? Put it on your own blacklist.

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      317 months ago

      Ive been downvoted to hell and back for saying that on FFXIVs reddit back in the day

      They provide a literal toggle for you to bleep swear words out, yet you can get in trouble for using “fuck” in a way someone can perceive as insulting (which in some cases means using it at all)

      It should be fucking illegal to penalize someone by restricting access to paid content like a video game because someone else refused to use features built into that game

      Harassment and bypass? Fair game to get someone in trouble, though

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      But then you have to see penis while writing penis on the blacklist!

      But I do wholeheartedly agree. Censorship should be opt-in, and no one should be bowing to government censorship.

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        True, could be a default list that you remove them from. What a s*** storm. *long click and select unsensor once, unsensor all, or review blacklist.

        That way if people want to be sheltered they can never have to see it, and I can unblacklis> t them all at once, and the people afraid of the term moist can make sure they protect themselves via their list

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    “It’s the D–k van D–e show! Starring D–k van D–e!”

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    217 months ago

    My favorite is when characters in the game use profanity but trying to use the same profanity in chat gets censored

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    157 months ago

    I remember when playing roblox a couple years ago, they would censor almost every single romanian word and every single number

    Its not even that romanian roblox players are rare, every time i managed to write something in romanian, someone would respond in romanian

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    137 months ago

    animal crossing on ds censored town board messages client side so if you edited the word list in the rom to be blank you could use a flash cart, join someone else’s town, put whatever profanity you wanted, and they would see it in their town but wouldnt be able to swear in their own game or anyone else’s.

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    I was playing The Finals and apparently LMAO gets censored, it made me look like an asshole!

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      Did the Finals finally get text chat? I remember getting annoyed that I couldn’t yell at my teammates when they played like morons.

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    97 months ago

    YouTube censoring a video that talks about a controversial video, but not the original video itself.