• jordanlund
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    11 hours ago

    Bots will automatically remove certain words regardless of context.

    I used to see this all the time in the old Sega game “Phantasy Star Online” where objectionable chat was replaced with “*”.

    So “Nice shoes!” became “Nice s****!”

    You couldn’t arrange to play a game on “Sa****ay”.

    And god help you if you lived in a “ba*****t”.

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      10 hours ago

      Or if your name was Nasser…

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      I love how your experience with regex censoring comes down to Phantasy Star Online. It’s so on the money for you to use as a reference.

      Truly king of the neckbeards.

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      10 hours ago

      Dark Souls would do something similar with names in PvP. For the most part it wasn’t a huge deal but being a medieval fantasy game, a lot of players you’d face would be called “___ K***ht”.

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        I really thought you were talking about Elder scrolls, and was wondering how Khajiit would be censored (“haji”?) before my dyslexia kicked out

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              Ok yeah. duh. you know its funny because I was wracking my brain for a word that had ht like that. Man so like every name with night would get hit. night blade, night terror, etc.

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            Because it doesn’t make sense, DS and ER are overly censoring, my friend made a character, bowperson, it censors it to bo***rson

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              9 hours ago

              honestly that does not make sense to me either. wpe? you know back in my mmo days I remember we would laugh at some stuff that was and I did like to screw around putting stars in my chat.

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      Variations on the way we used to handle the Scunthorp problems are almost always amusing for how bad they were