Spyke

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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abbadon420reply
lemm.ee

Is that game even any fun anymore? I stopped playing after the first year or so.

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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.

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kbin.earth

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

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lemmy.world

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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boolyreply
sh.itjust.works

There's that one game that censored "Nasser" to "N***er" which made it much worse.

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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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reddthat.com

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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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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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.

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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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lemmy.world

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

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lemmy.world

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

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I guess Lemmites also struggle with deciphering sarcasm without their trusty tone indicators 🤔

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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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lemmy.world

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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lemmings.world

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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Damn, someone should go back and tell my teen self that bad words aren't allowed.

I am a fucking disgrace.

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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.

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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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programming.dev

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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programming.dev

I think you confused the countries. Chad and Romania have really similar flags so its understandable

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

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lemm.ee

Either that's genshin impact or honkai star rail or some other mihoyo game

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I just made this account cuase My school account wouldnt work so I now have my own account, thus us vy far the best thing ive seen in a while

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