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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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".

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Or if your name was Nasser...

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 23 hours ago

Same problem but when I migrated from Black Ops 1 to Modern Warfare 2 or something similar - couldn't name my class containing assault rifles "assault"

[–] BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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”.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 22 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.

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 points 22 hours ago

I wanted to make a lore friendly character name in elden ring but they censored the word finger...

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

Black Knight? Great film

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 0 points 19 hours ago

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.