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.
Is that game even any fun anymore? I stopped playing after the first year or so.
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.
From what I’ve seen the real fun is on the private FiveM servers
I stopped playing too, it would be more fun if it wasn’t as grindy.
So Mike Tyson can’t say that stuff is messed up… Shame
because the devs just ran their censored words list through google translate instead of paying someone to do proper localization.
Try fingers, but hole
With yourself?
Or someone elses fingers if you are feeling adventurous
:3
I remember ye-olden days…
“Nice s
hoes!”“Let’s play again on Sa
turday!”“I can play as loud as I want in the ba
sement!”The scunthorpe problem always made me giggle
Dark Souls (2?) blocked “Knight”
Elden ring blocked the nig in the middle of knight. That always got an eye roll from me.
There’s that one game that censored “Nasser” to “N***er” which made it much worse.
“People who annoy you”
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.
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
The thrive community forums did it with the word belgium, inspired by the work of Douglas Adams
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.
Black K***ht, of Dark Souls
Or butter being censored as ****er
Arguably making it much worse
It is just worse, and I don’t know how someone could argue it isn’t.
I can’t believe it’s not ass.
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.
Great cropping job
but thats a part of the joke
I guess I just don’t get it
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.
It’s what they do on the other social medias, probably because they scan images for words nowadays?
Honestly what made me laugh.
Genshin has China-level censoring, with some really bizarre words like ‘tank’ being filtered.
I wonder why
Hong Kong was also censored, haven’t checked recently tho as it could have been changed. Taiwan also censored
Fuck China
I said “finish it” in Genshin chat and it censored it as “Fini** **”
Haha you play Genshin
Haha yeah
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I really don’t think that this was necessary.
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
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.
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
I want to see penis
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.
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
This game is ESRB teens
“Online interactions not rated by the ESRB”
Damn, someone should go back and tell my teen self that bad words aren’t allowed.
I am a fucking disgrace.
Two best examples were:
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Total War censoring the username Nasser to N***er
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Gamefreak banning their own Pokemon (Cofagrigus) from online play unless you renamed it first.
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.
Dark souls censoring knight with k***ht
Elden Ring censors the word finger
How about “finga”?
Eden ring censored “Knight” to “K***ht” iirc
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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
“It’s the D–k van D–e show! Starring D–k van D–e!”
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
Romanians are such Chads
I think you confused the countries. Chad and Romania have really similar flags so its understandable
That was the joke :(
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.
I was playing The Finals and apparently LMAO gets censored, it made me look like an asshole!
Did the Finals finally get text chat? I remember getting annoyed that I couldn’t yell at my teammates when they played like morons.
YouTube censoring a video that talks about a controversial video, but not the original video itself.
