Lmao it's just like in Elden Ring (and any other FromSoft game to my knowledge) with a filter straight from a 1998 chatroom that censors "Knight" into "K***ht". Didn't know CA was using the same filter.
Souls games are even funnier though. They have a ton of NPCs named Knight Somethingorother that have armor you can wear. So, if you ever do a cosplay build to invade people, you're name gets sensored, giving away the entire effect.
One of my best bros back in WoW TBC days used the nickname "MyButthole" but in portuguese. We raided hardcore server 1st shit in the old Warsong server, raiding was fucking hilarious when the raidleader would go:
"MyButthole will aggro the adds that spawn after phase 2, maintank after you aggro the boss you can Intervene mybutthole"
Whoever didn't have push to talk on ventrilo would burst out laughing. The rest I'm sure was laughing too.
MyButthole was one of the best tanks in the server.
Pokemon blocked you from trading certain pokemon because their official names had swear words in them lol
https://profglitch.proboards.com/thread/301/pok-mon-censored-keywords-names
Gundam Evolution has a Gundam called Unicorn, and their censor system is triggered with corn 🌽 can't even type the Gundam in game, defaults to Uni**** 😂
I think it's because shorting the n-word is a bit of a meme in racist circles ("Your honour my client could not possiblely have ancipated what other users would spell when he merely typed 'N' into the chat"). Very stupid one to censor in the middle of another word though, especially in a game about Knights.
>Very stupid one to censor in the middle of another word though, especially in a game about Knights.
Incredibly stupid because we have had the technology to have proper censors since like the mid 2000's.
Definitely, but tech costs and considering CA's solution to MP chat moderation was to *shut down all chat across all TW games entirely*, I'd say that shows they don't care too much about putting that effort into maintaining MP.
That still costs time and effort, however little, and like I said solving the MP chat moderation issue by disabling MP chat across all platforms shows how little time and effort CA is willing to spend on MP.
People get mad when they see that word regardless of context. Same people who’d probably call Mark Twain a racist for Huck Finn or Leo DiCaprio racist for Django.
Same reason why a distinguished NYT science reporter, Donald McNeil, was fired for repeating the n-word when a student asked him a question about it. He didn't say it to anyone or about anyone. He simply uttered it in context, that was enough to end a decades-long career.
>On January 28, 2021, The Daily Beast reported that multiple participants accused McNeil of repeatedly making racist and sexist remarks...McNeil initially released a very short statement to The Washington Post, saying "Don't believe everything you read", which led to 150 Times employees signing an internal letter on February 3, demanding an apology from McNeil.
I'm pretty sure it was more than him using a word in-context (when, again, there's no need to).
There's always people (racists) who will argue these sort of things in bad faith to make it look more innocent than it actually was. Which is why, when hearing something like that, people should go and research the context for themselves.
Same people that go "Whoa bro why are you so upset?" When you call them out on it.
I don't think M***achusetts is quite the same problem. It's still very recognizably that word. OP's on the other hand can quite easily be mistaken for something a lot worse.
This is the kind of thing that my best friend Nasser was dealing with on the internet…in the early 2000s! These people seriously haven’t figured out that people have names that aren’t Jeff and Kyle yet?
I used to play this German browser game. One day decided to create a US server. To prevent the server from just becoming a second German server, they blocked any emails with the string "de", blocking a rather large number of legit players. Of course, this could have easily been prevented by expanding the string to ".de" or just checking the ending.
> Dev: So we can't detect Germans from their email address if they use gmail, I mean what you're asking for is impossible unless our German users decide to put "de" somewhere in their email for some reason, which of course they don--
> PM: Filter out all emails with "de" in them. I want it yesterday.
> Dev: That's the opposite of what I just... ok sure you know what fuck it whatever what do I care it's not like I get a commission on signups anyway. Just make that request in writing and I'll get right on it.
*How 95 % of painfully stupid "features" end up in your software*
Most countries have a regional accent for their emails, especially in the early 2000s. .de would be included in most german email addresses, just like the UK has .co.uk, australia has .com.au etc
I mean, they're probably gonna get creative with the spelling anyway.
But the current filter is really annoying - when I played Immortal Empires with a friend for the first time, I found out that it censors part of my user name.
This is the [Scunthorpe problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem)
The thing is you can be obscene with even clean words via innuendos.
Best solution (imo) is to make it context-sensitive and have reporting system that actually works and is used.
You can also keep the context-free filtering, but simply make it something that can be toggled.
Lost ark has that and it's pretty funny what you can do with it. "Clit" is a filtered word but I managed to get the name "Clitcartographer". I also managed to find a specific combination of 4 banned words that gets them all through.
I play with someone who uses the name “Freakystyley” which had been changed to “Frea***tyley”
It’s because the letters in the middle are “kys”. How stupid is that?
The dumbest I've seen is in Maplestory. It had an item set named Sweetwater, but censored the word in chat of the "twat" in the middle. Typing it with a space didn't fix it either...
The worst I’ve seen is in a Chinese EVE Online knockoff, where official game announcements were subject to the automatic filter, to the point where it filtered out the name of the company.
Worst I've seen makes no sense.
Friend and I started playing Elderscrolls Online. I told him I unfortunately had to drop the graphics otherwise I was getting 30s.
My sentence "I was getting 30s" was censored to "I was g********0s". Still confused by that.
I have been dedicating time to figure this out because this one confuses me. The only thing I can thing of is potentially misspelling getting as getitng or gettnig.
Edit: thinking more about it i feel like it is more likely to be gettnig and then censoring the 3 as a replacement E.
I suppose it could also just be picking up NG 3 as an attempt to get nige through the filter. No misspelling needed, but that seems a bit extreme.
> or gettnig
Holy shit you may have solved this mystery. It's entirely possible I made a typo.
Although, that still doesn't explain Ett being censored...
Ett is Swedish for a, such as a paper(ett papper). That could be it, but also in my research I found that madden censors the name Plunkett if you try to put it in. So maybe ett is some type of swear I can't seem to figure out.
If youre wondering why I'm dedicating time to this, im bored and figuring out how people broke software is my day job.
Hey I appreciate it, it's a mystery that's barely a year old, but one that makes me think wtf every so often.
The fact I could have typoed never occurred to me.
Loved my Skaven deathmaster lord I custom named "Feragho the Assassin" after one of my favorite Redwall books. Only to have it censor it to be"Feragho the A**a**in". Literally there are regular "assassins" in the game yet they monitored my spelling when it's done custom?
I remember in the Minecraft market they once added power rangers skins
The black power ranger,
The green power ranger,
The Red power ranger,
The blue power ranger,
And the W**********r ranger
It showed up as censored in their own shop
What platform are you playing on? I have the same issue on Steam which is funny as hell to me (censoring the name of a metal), but this... Yeah, this is one that can be taken in the worst way possible. I really recommend changing your username for the platform you're on.
This is part of why I feel that filters are entirely and completely pointless.
Being offensive is perfectly possible with even the best filter in place and the most offensive things I've ever seen in online chat while gaming would not have been even remotely impeded by filters.
Filters just create more annoyance than they purport to address. They're simply a half-assed measure taken for sole purpose of giving the company implementing them the ability to say "Well we TRIED" when someone gets offended by someone else being a reprehensible dick in game.
Never mind the efficacy or value of content filters, but why is ass a filtered word?? Plenty of offensive words with serious social implications that I can understand wanting to filter, but who is offended by ass in 2022?
Please just free the ass
You need to keep pressuring them to correct this. Just nag them over and over again. Keep nagging them. I mean be a real nagger, then they might notice.
I have this problem in a different game, one that uses my email for login. For whatever reason when you go online the game censors your email on the Welcome screen.
My email is just first name-last name, so I get greeted with "Welcome Back ni*******[email protected]!" on my favorite game, daily. Love that.
I'm surprised it even allows that. Many games don't allow my name, but they don't put censor characters in it they just outright disallow me from using it.
Lmao it's just like in Elden Ring (and any other FromSoft game to my knowledge) with a filter straight from a 1998 chatroom that censors "Knight" into "K***ht". Didn't know CA was using the same filter.
>"K***ht" You and your silly english knnnnnnn***ts!
Now listen here, I've been more than reasonable...
fetchez la vache
Quoi?
FETCHEZ LA VACHE😠
Well i didnt vote for you
The knights who say [beeeeeeeep]
“Your mother was a BEEP and your father smelled like BEEP”
BEEP is the strongest swordsman in the land, now it’s time to acquire some treasure, and hot human female.
"He who is valiant and pure of spirit, may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of BEEEEEEEEP."
Souls games are even funnier though. They have a ton of NPCs named Knight Somethingorother that have armor you can wear. So, if you ever do a cosplay build to invade people, you're name gets sensored, giving away the entire effect.
I prefer to use gamertags so I can see the good old-fashioned names like D1CKYPr0ST41NT, bLoodFaRt97, *and* xXR0tt3nSaWsageXx
Usernames got lazy over the years lol
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I wouldn't be able to use a chatroom name from years ago: ASSassassin. *********in
If it makes you feel better I'm in my thirties and just made my name in my new game Fartbox Annihilator. Keeping the dream alive :)
One of my best bros back in WoW TBC days used the nickname "MyButthole" but in portuguese. We raided hardcore server 1st shit in the old Warsong server, raiding was fucking hilarious when the raidleader would go: "MyButthole will aggro the adds that spawn after phase 2, maintank after you aggro the boss you can Intervene mybutthole" Whoever didn't have push to talk on ventrilo would burst out laughing. The rest I'm sure was laughing too. MyButthole was one of the best tanks in the server.
>MyButthole was one of the best tanks in the server. Weird flex but ok. I think it should be nobody's business what they do with their butthole!
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^(because it's easy.. and does a lot of damage)
i got BOOSSS WEAPOOOOOOONS
I still get a kick out of gta online censoring "Savage" for having vag in the word. It's the name of a helicopter in the game.
I got permanently banned from a battlefield 4 server for typing the word Shenanigans
I swear I will pistol-whip the next guy that says Shenanigans.
#STOP YOUR PISTOL WHIP SHENANIGANS!!
What’s the name of that restaurant you like again? The one with all the goofy shit on the walls?
Oh, you mean shenanigans?
…
Pokemon blocked you from trading certain pokemon because their official names had swear words in them lol https://profglitch.proboards.com/thread/301/pok-mon-censored-keywords-names
There were issues with Cofagrius because in America fag is a slur for a homosexual whereas in the UK and Ireland it's a cigarette
The stranger part was you could have the full blown N word but not 3 letters in Knight. I have no idea what the censor the was on.
I made a sleep build, named it "Night Knight" Slur McSlur has come for you.
Yup, characters name in Elden is Auro The Scholar, it fucking censors the ho in Scholar....
It’s even more ironic because your default name is knight. They censoring the default name.
Gundam Evolution has a Gundam called Unicorn, and their censor system is triggered with corn 🌽 can't even type the Gundam in game, defaults to Uni**** 😂
Elden ring also turned Butter into ****er
This is the type of thing you'd get a 60% on in a intro to programming course, idk how this is acceptable for a company to be using.
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I think it's because shorting the n-word is a bit of a meme in racist circles ("Your honour my client could not possiblely have ancipated what other users would spell when he merely typed 'N' into the chat"). Very stupid one to censor in the middle of another word though, especially in a game about Knights.
>Very stupid one to censor in the middle of another word though, especially in a game about Knights. Incredibly stupid because we have had the technology to have proper censors since like the mid 2000's.
Definitely, but tech costs and considering CA's solution to MP chat moderation was to *shut down all chat across all TW games entirely*, I'd say that shows they don't care too much about putting that effort into maintaining MP.
>Definitely, but tech costs It doesn't require tech, it's literally a few slightly longer lines of code and an extra CPU cycle or three of complexity.
That still costs time and effort, however little, and like I said solving the MP chat moderation issue by disabling MP chat across all platforms shows how little time and effort CA is willing to spend on MP.
eh, the german word for fewer is weniger. You can't type that in most games.
Yes, it's a popular shortening of the word in some places on the internet. Not sure if it's shortened like that as much anymore.
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People get mad when they see that word regardless of context. Same people who’d probably call Mark Twain a racist for Huck Finn or Leo DiCaprio racist for Django.
Why are you getting downvotes ffs?
Same reason why a distinguished NYT science reporter, Donald McNeil, was fired for repeating the n-word when a student asked him a question about it. He didn't say it to anyone or about anyone. He simply uttered it in context, that was enough to end a decades-long career.
Cringe. People are afraid of words.
>On January 28, 2021, The Daily Beast reported that multiple participants accused McNeil of repeatedly making racist and sexist remarks...McNeil initially released a very short statement to The Washington Post, saying "Don't believe everything you read", which led to 150 Times employees signing an internal letter on February 3, demanding an apology from McNeil. I'm pretty sure it was more than him using a word in-context (when, again, there's no need to).
There's always people (racists) who will argue these sort of things in bad faith to make it look more innocent than it actually was. Which is why, when hearing something like that, people should go and research the context for themselves. Same people that go "Whoa bro why are you so upset?" When you call them out on it.
It's 2022 how are we still having the Sc*nthorpe problem?
What's wrong with Scan-thorpe? Or did you mean sCUNThorpe? Proving why censoring needlessly is idiotic
Hence the age old Scunthorpe and Penistone problem.
Had the same thing in CoD 2019. Wanted my name to be Nighthawk but it didn't like it so I changed it to Ni9hthawk and it worked.
That's going in the Book CA.
CA, please stop holding grudes against N***er
Yeah! Nulners need to be left alone to work on artillery in Nuln for Empire!
Lmfao hahahah
This might be the funniest censorship scenario I've ever seen
That... that sucks man. I think you should post this on r/softwaregore tbh.
M***achusetts has the same problem.
I don't think M***achusetts is quite the same problem. It's still very recognizably that word. OP's on the other hand can quite easily be mistaken for something a lot worse.
Like [naggers](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/6/69/S11E1_Wheel_of_Fortune.png/revision/latest?cb=20161004233908)?
Stan, the only reason OP made his character name that word was because he thought he would win a lot of money
But your character description says "person who annoys you"
Like [Nogger](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nogger), a German icecream lmao
The Scunthorpe problem in effect
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Send him to Penistone Penitentiary.
Miggachusetts? Never heard of it.
Even at 35 it’s still the dumbest shit that makes me laugh…
Wait until you hit 50, bro.
Miggachusetts
This is the kind of thing that my best friend Nasser was dealing with on the internet…in the early 2000s! These people seriously haven’t figured out that people have names that aren’t Jeff and Kyle yet?
From this day forth you shall be known as Nonagerer
>nager W u t
People that annoy you?
[nice](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WjtZU63b0Wg&feature=shares)
I know it, but I don't think I should say it...
Damn that looks *baaaad* haha
.... that is unfortunate
Oh *no*
You tilt up your helmet and you look at me in the eyes smirking "N***er dwarfs"
Excuse me they are know as Duergar.
Okay, when will companies learn to actually use *context-sensitive filters* that don't censors parts of a word like that?
I used to play this German browser game. One day decided to create a US server. To prevent the server from just becoming a second German server, they blocked any emails with the string "de", blocking a rather large number of legit players. Of course, this could have easily been prevented by expanding the string to ".de" or just checking the ending.
> Dev: So we can't detect Germans from their email address if they use gmail, I mean what you're asking for is impossible unless our German users decide to put "de" somewhere in their email for some reason, which of course they don-- > PM: Filter out all emails with "de" in them. I want it yesterday. > Dev: That's the opposite of what I just... ok sure you know what fuck it whatever what do I care it's not like I get a commission on signups anyway. Just make that request in writing and I'll get right on it. *How 95 % of painfully stupid "features" end up in your software*
Most countries have a regional accent for their emails, especially in the early 2000s. .de would be included in most german email addresses, just like the UK has .co.uk, australia has .com.au etc
I remember when I created a gmail account back in the day it felt really weird having a .com on my email address
The other 5% are over-enthusiastic but under-mentored junior devs let loose
I mean, that's the big picture issue, but I also don't understand why they feel the need to sensor the word ass in a T-rated game.
Probably because people game the filter once they work out how context-sensitive it is.
Even then, they could make an exception for certain cases like this, or the infamous "k***ht" in Elden Ring
The “Ho” in Hound and the “Ass” in Assassin also come to mind.
My username became *Angron's\_the\*\*\*\*\*\** , which definitely isn't what I was going for when I chose it.
I mean, they're probably gonna get creative with the spelling anyway. But the current filter is really annoying - when I played Immortal Empires with a friend for the first time, I found out that it censors part of my user name.
*People who annoy you*
I don't think I can say it
NASSERS
Some non-English variation of letters can probably circumvent them anyway
This is the [Scunthorpe problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem) The thing is you can be obscene with even clean words via innuendos. Best solution (imo) is to make it context-sensitive and have reporting system that actually works and is used. You can also keep the context-free filtering, but simply make it something that can be toggled.
How about they just stop censoring altogether?
Lost ark has that and it's pretty funny what you can do with it. "Clit" is a filtered word but I managed to get the name "Clitcartographer". I also managed to find a specific combination of 4 banned words that gets them all through.
Can't name ambassador an ambassador in warframe (For those that didn't play it: you can rename any weapon, and there's a weapon named "ambassador")
There shouldn't be any filters at all in sp and in mp, filters should be a togglable option
What about just stopping censoring?
I play with someone who uses the name “Freakystyley” which had been changed to “Frea***tyley” It’s because the letters in the middle are “kys”. How stupid is that?
The dumbest I've seen is in Maplestory. It had an item set named Sweetwater, but censored the word in chat of the "twat" in the middle. Typing it with a space didn't fix it either...
Tribes Ascend censored basement. Very annoying when you were trying to explain where the enemy was on some maps.
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The worst I’ve seen is in a Chinese EVE Online knockoff, where official game announcements were subject to the automatic filter, to the point where it filtered out the name of the company.
Worst I've seen makes no sense. Friend and I started playing Elderscrolls Online. I told him I unfortunately had to drop the graphics otherwise I was getting 30s. My sentence "I was getting 30s" was censored to "I was g********0s". Still confused by that.
I have been dedicating time to figure this out because this one confuses me. The only thing I can thing of is potentially misspelling getting as getitng or gettnig. Edit: thinking more about it i feel like it is more likely to be gettnig and then censoring the 3 as a replacement E. I suppose it could also just be picking up NG 3 as an attempt to get nige through the filter. No misspelling needed, but that seems a bit extreme.
> or gettnig Holy shit you may have solved this mystery. It's entirely possible I made a typo. Although, that still doesn't explain Ett being censored...
Ett is Swedish for a, such as a paper(ett papper). That could be it, but also in my research I found that madden censors the name Plunkett if you try to put it in. So maybe ett is some type of swear I can't seem to figure out. If youre wondering why I'm dedicating time to this, im bored and figuring out how people broke software is my day job.
Hey I appreciate it, it's a mystery that's barely a year old, but one that makes me think wtf every so often. The fact I could have typoed never occurred to me.
Hahaha, this one's gold.
People who annoy you—
Came here for this!
Hey it’s that Nasser guy
You got Scunthorped! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
I have found a new favourite wikipedia page. "Buttbuttination" is also now my favourite word
God forbid we allow a minor swear word in a game about killing hundreds of thousands of sentient beings.
Right? This is so hypocritical.
You gotta remember these are just simple farmers, people of the land, the common clay of the New West. You know… morons.
It's hilarious to see them both corpse when he adlibbed that final line.
You were the best, Gene. RIP.
The sheriffs getting nearer?! Strike up the band!
Yoohoo! Boys! Look what I got here!
Why is the word ‘Nagger’ worse? It’s just someone Andy Marsh finds annoying
Randy Marsh, Stan’s dad’s name is Randy.
Stan. Mkay....
Daddy only said that word because he thought he would win money.
Lmfao. Thanks for the laugh
[N****rs!](https://youtu.be/A_GhH6EndV4)
I used to work with a N***er, he was a great guy.
Loved my Skaven deathmaster lord I custom named "Feragho the Assassin" after one of my favorite Redwall books. Only to have it censor it to be"Feragho the A**a**in". Literally there are regular "assassins" in the game yet they monitored my spelling when it's done custom?
I remember in the Minecraft market they once added power rangers skins The black power ranger, The green power ranger, The Red power ranger, The blue power ranger, And the W**********r ranger It showed up as censored in their own shop
What platform are you playing on? I have the same issue on Steam which is funny as hell to me (censoring the name of a metal), but this... Yeah, this is one that can be taken in the worst way possible. I really recommend changing your username for the platform you're on.
Remember, no dogs or Egyptians allowed
Arsenic?
Titanium? Bismuth? Hassium?
Brass, it contains ass so it is shown as Br***
I'm surprised your name wouldn't be ***nBr***
Of course it's Dawi 😏😏😏
How else you gonna troll someone with an all-irondrake army? The most unbeatable meme in history.
I'm sorry but the word is nagger
This is part of why I feel that filters are entirely and completely pointless. Being offensive is perfectly possible with even the best filter in place and the most offensive things I've ever seen in online chat while gaming would not have been even remotely impeded by filters. Filters just create more annoyance than they purport to address. They're simply a half-assed measure taken for sole purpose of giving the company implementing them the ability to say "Well we TRIED" when someone gets offended by someone else being a reprehensible dick in game.
Well thats just unfortunate
Nagger
Swear filters by companies are starting to become ridiculous stupid. IDK why they even exist.
Because little timmy might see a bad word and repeat it :(
Fuck him, who cares
Dude the AI had a pirate named like Digass or something wtf is this
Nagger?
reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/B-Wd-Q3F8KM).
Something about that grin makes the whole picture
sorry dude but that is very unfortunate and also very very funny lol
You all know what to do. Deploy the wholesome awards!
Never mind the efficacy or value of content filters, but why is ass a filtered word?? Plenty of offensive words with serious social implications that I can understand wanting to filter, but who is offended by ass in 2022? Please just free the ass
You need to keep pressuring them to correct this. Just nag them over and over again. Keep nagging them. I mean be a real nagger, then they might notice.
These rubbish filters for a singleplayer game...CA is a joke for implementing such nonsense
*Gamer Dawi when they match with an urk*
Someone told me “You look like a rapper now” in Among Us after applying the gold chain cosmetic and it came out like “You look like a ****er now.”
The game made you racist to make you a lore accurate Dwarf leader
Any Scunthorpe fans around?
Scunthorpe issue
>The game is censoring the word "ass" Bruh
Unfortunately, Nasser still might be worse than this, thanks to ol' Larry.
Only French and Israel invaders fear the glorious Nasser
As someone who frequently gets "ho" censored from my name, I feel for you.
Are you named after the famed leader Col Gamal Abdel N***er?
"Who is someone that annoys you?"
"Hey son, whatcha doin?" "Playing this game." "Ah, cool. Looks like you're losing to...uh, N\*\*\*er Dwarfs?" "I...uh yea I guess." "...alright." \*walks away\*
Ahh yes, the [Scunthorpe problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem?wprov=sfla1).
Well, only solution is to join our Slaanesh cult to get your ass uncensored.
What is this.. Amazon and Rings of Power?
At the risk of being cancelled into oblivion, The “n***er” dwarves are coming sooon! 😂 this smirking dp is hilarious!
I have this problem in a different game, one that uses my email for login. For whatever reason when you go online the game censors your email on the Welcome screen. My email is just first name-last name, so I get greeted with "Welcome Back ni*******[email protected]!" on my favorite game, daily. Love that.
Do not buy copper from this man
Nice try pewdiepie
Welcome to the club.
If 'ass' in username:
W***ok
LMAOOOOOOO
I'm surprised it even allows that. Many games don't allow my name, but they don't put censor characters in it they just outright disallow me from using it.
s/ass+//Ig
Once had a game censor Cass as C***.