• @recklessengagement
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    11316 days 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.

      • @recklessengagement
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        1116 days ago

        If you’re a fan of shenanigans, have some friends to play with, and know how to avoid the script kiddies, it can be quite fun.

      • @InSamsara
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        114 days ago

        I stopped playing too, it would be more fun if it wasn’t as grindy.

    • @Raiderkev
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      114 days ago

      So Mike Tyson can’t say that stuff is messed up… Shame

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    9516 days ago

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

  • @jordanlund
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    8816 days 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!”

    • @Passerby6497
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      5216 days ago

      The scunthorpe problem always made me giggle

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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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1114 days 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

      • @[email protected]
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        514 days ago

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

    • @Etterra
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      614 days ago

      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.

    • @asbestos
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      7516 days ago

      but thats a part of the joke

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          1216 days ago

          It’s the screenshot equivalent of a TV show cutting to the next scene the moment a punchline lands — usually a stronger and more “taboo” punchline that followed up in the dramatic pause after a previous more light-hearted punchline.

        • @yamanii
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          It’s what they do on the other social medias, probably because they scan images for words nowadays?

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

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      Hong Kong was also censored, haven’t checked recently tho as it could have been changed. Taiwan also censored

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

    • @Etterra
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      3315 days ago

      Haha you play Genshin

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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      314 days ago

      Game I play sensors damn, so I have to remember to say dam. Forget constantly so I am getting into he habit of just typing shit fire instead. “Ah, shitfire” Doesn’t care to block that I guess

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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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      3016 days 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.

      • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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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

  • @gerbler
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    Two best examples were:

    • Total War censoring the username Nasser to N***er

    • Gamefreak banning their own Pokemon (Cofagrigus) from online play unless you renamed it first.

    • @Iheartcheese
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      My favorite is GTAO having a language filter thats impossible to turn off. The NPC’s will literally yell fuck you when you drive by them but YOU cant say fuck.

    • @StinkyRedMan
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      Dark souls censoring knight with k***ht

    • @Jeanschyso
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      Eden ring censored “Knight” to “K***ht” iirc

  • @[email protected]
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    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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    “It’s the D–k van D–e show! Starring D–k van D–e!”

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    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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    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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    916 days ago

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