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When in-game censorship goes bad...

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Lanrutcon wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    Lanrutcon wrote: »
    Bursar wrote: »
    Any time censorship takes away the ability to insult people using conventional words, people will just find some other random word and start using that as a pejorative until people complain about it.

    I'm going to start calling people "froods" until they feel insulted. You hear that, froods?

    Go fork yourself, you spoony bard!

    :P

    Spoony is a real word though.
    spoon·y also spoon·ey (spn)
    adj. spoon·i·er, spoon·i·est
    1. Enamored in a silly or sentimental way.
    2. Feebly sentimental; gushy.

    Who knew?
    Why wouldn't you know? It's a perfectly cromulent word.

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Lanrutcon wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    Lanrutcon wrote: »
    Bursar wrote: »
    Any time censorship takes away the ability to insult people using conventional words, people will just find some other random word and start using that as a pejorative until people complain about it.

    I'm going to start calling people "froods" until they feel insulted. You hear that, froods?

    Go fork yourself, you spoony bard!

    :P

    Spoony is a real word though.
    spoon·y also spoon·ey (spn)
    adj. spoon·i·er, spoon·i·est
    1. Enamored in a silly or sentimental way.
    2. Feebly sentimental; gushy.

    Who knew?
    Why wouldn't you know? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
    It embiggens us all.

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  • VothVoth Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Don't worry. The mics are still active, and it's way more offensive than a little speech censoring.

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  • Black IceBlack Ice Charlotte, NCRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    If you're going to censor words, why have a minimum age?

    And can't you just SAY the words instead of typing them?

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    -SPI- wrote: »
    What about rhyming slang or pig latin or other things? Does it for example censor "cunning stunt"?

    You know if you got around the filter like this it would make you a

    wait for it

    cunning linguist

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    What about rhyming slang or pig latin or other things? Does it for example censor "cunning stunt"?
    You would be a fig plucker.

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  • TurkeyTurkey So, Usoop. TampaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Pluck sounds like it would be banned for no reason at all. Kinda like 'con' in good ol' PSO.

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  • Mullitt The WiseMullitt The Wise Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Everquest for PS2 would censor "cockroaches" even though they had them in the game.
    That's the most confusing part for me, like someone who mentioned that Assault is censored in Halo. Don't the developers realize this, or are they really that afraid of cuss words?

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  • SoaLSoaL fantastic Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    what if you ran into somebodies house and covered the "ault" with some tape? They would be very offended, that's what would happen.

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  • ElementalorElementalor Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I really hate getting tape on my ault.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    stop talking about jesus already you guys, I am so offended right now

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Wren wrote: »
    stop talking about jesus already you guys, I am so offended right now

    Don't censor my love for our saviour you sonuvabitch

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  • KivutarKivutar Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Don't censor my love for our saviour you sonuvabitch
    You know ***** was a *** right?

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  • FreddyDFreddyD Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I just assumed everyone in Home worshipped penis.

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  • SoulGateSoulGate Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    You wouldn't be too far from the truth. In home, they should make every model look like Dilbert. No mouth to voice his angst!

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    SoulGate wrote: »
    You wouldn't be too far from the truth. In home, they should make every model look like Dilbert. No mouth to voice his angst!

    unless you count the animated series

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    MrDelish wrote: »
    SoulGate wrote: »
    You wouldn't be too far from the truth. In home, they should make every model look like Dilbert. No mouth to voice his angst!

    unless you count the animated series

    Or the later comics, where his mouth is visible when shouting. I wonder if that came after the animated series.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Bungie's filter for Halo 3 censors the word 'on'.

    I have no words to describe that. Also, you can't put "Bungie" anywhere in the filename or description.

    However, you can get any censored word, including the 'big' ones past the filter if you take a screenshot in a game. Once you take a screenshot and name/describe it, it immediately uploads to bungie.net. However, if you then exit out and attempt to upload the same screenshot to your file share, the filter will catch it.

    It will also detect the word 'ass' in "Assault", so it will also censor it's own gametype names in Xbox Live lobbies. Did I mention it just doesn't censor the word, it replaces the entire thing with just one word, "Blam!"?

    In a world of competitive headshots, I can't imagine what sort of damage 'ASS' would do.

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  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Hee hee.

    poo.

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    emnmnme wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Bungie's filter for Halo 3 censors the word 'on'.

    I have no words to describe that. Also, you can't put "Bungie" anywhere in the filename or description.

    However, you can get any censored word, including the 'big' ones past the filter if you take a screenshot in a game. Once you take a screenshot and name/describe it, it immediately uploads to bungie.net. However, if you then exit out and attempt to upload the same screenshot to your file share, the filter will catch it.

    It will also detect the word 'ass' in "Assault", so it will also censor it's own gametype names in Xbox Live lobbies. Did I mention it just doesn't censor the word, it replaces the entire thing with just one word, "Blam!"?

    In a world of competitive headshots, I can't imagine what sort of damage 'ASS' would do.

    Competitive.... ass-shots? And that just leads to a case of chronic homosexuality.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Shooting someone in the head with a shotgun.

    Calling someone an ass.

    Which hurts a person's feeling's more.

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  • CowbombCowbomb Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    They censor 'cook'? Seriously? Is there something I'm not getting, or is it honestly because it's vaguely similar to 'cock'?

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    cooked is a druggy term I believe

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  • apotheosapotheos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Cook is a verb. You can cook many things. Explosives. Narcotics. Macaroni and cheese.

    It's all a question of intent.

    This doesn't really bother me insofar as Home is total and complete garbage, but I suppose it will become a spectacular example of what not to do we can look back on.

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  • LeitnerLeitner Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    emnmnme wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Bungie's filter for Halo 3 censors the word 'on'.

    I have no words to describe that. Also, you can't put "Bungie" anywhere in the filename or description.

    However, you can get any censored word, including the 'big' ones past the filter if you take a screenshot in a game. Once you take a screenshot and name/describe it, it immediately uploads to bungie.net. However, if you then exit out and attempt to upload the same screenshot to your file share, the filter will catch it.

    It will also detect the word 'ass' in "Assault", so it will also censor it's own gametype names in Xbox Live lobbies. Did I mention it just doesn't censor the word, it replaces the entire thing with just one word, "Blam!"?

    In a world of competitive headshots, I can't imagine what sort of damage 'ASS' would do.

    Competitive.... ass-shots? And that just leads to a case of chronic homosexuality.

    Because that's so much more homosexual then putting your virtual balls into their mouths.

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Leitner wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Bungie's filter for Halo 3 censors the word 'on'.

    I have no words to describe that. Also, you can't put "Bungie" anywhere in the filename or description.

    However, you can get any censored word, including the 'big' ones past the filter if you take a screenshot in a game. Once you take a screenshot and name/describe it, it immediately uploads to bungie.net. However, if you then exit out and attempt to upload the same screenshot to your file share, the filter will catch it.

    It will also detect the word 'ass' in "Assault", so it will also censor it's own gametype names in Xbox Live lobbies. Did I mention it just doesn't censor the word, it replaces the entire thing with just one word, "Blam!"?

    In a world of competitive headshots, I can't imagine what sort of damage 'ASS' would do.

    Competitive.... ass-shots? And that just leads to a case of chronic homosexuality.

    Because that's so much more homosexual then putting your virtual balls into their mouths.

    TBH I forgot about teabagging. I never really got into Halo. I was just amused by the concept of an ass-shot.

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  • PemulisPemulis Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Wasn't there a big list of banned words that was accidently left on the disk for some disney games? I seem to remember some surprising words there as well.

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Pemulis wrote: »
    Wasn't there a big list of banned words that was accidently left on the disk for some disney games? I seem to remember some surprising words there as well.

    It was on Pure.

    http://kotaku.com/5114974/all-the-bad-words-you-cant-say-in-pure

    Here's the list:
    http://sjsojw.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pgkIFA7N1yFDDbG75RtpCqdQ0I2NcI4n3gcQWVlRx7r_trUE8ygFWaPd57w_Kys--WY3nuZjWE6i5qZ1dEqmHwg/English_USA.txt

    It probably breaks the character limit.

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    My little brother plays Maplestory, and I noticed the word "shenanigans" is censored. I have no clue why.

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  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    edited December 2008
    Kivutar wrote: »
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Don't censor my love for our saviour you sonuvabitch
    You know ***** was a *** right?

    I lol'd

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Pemulis wrote: »
    Wasn't there a big list of banned words that was accidently left on the disk for some disney games? I seem to remember some surprising words there as well.

    It was on Pure.

    http://kotaku.com/5114974/all-the-bad-words-you-cant-say-in-pure

    Here's the list:
    http://sjsojw.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pgkIFA7N1yFDDbG75RtpCqdQ0I2NcI4n3gcQWVlRx7r_trUE8ygFWaPd57w_Kys--WY3nuZjWE6i5qZ1dEqmHwg/English_USA.txt

    It probably breaks the character limit.
    666
    bi-sexual
    dork (I don't think this word has been offensive for a really long time)

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    oh god, rumpranger. that's great.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    if girlsongirls is wrong then I don't want to be right

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Underwear
    Urinate
    xx
    xxx

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    oh god, rumpranger. that's great.

    that sounded like it could have been someone's screenname so I went looking for his post in the thread in vain

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Rumpranger would be a good band name.

    Couscous on
  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    koolielicker?

    what

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  • FaffelFaffel Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    GeoMitch wrote: »
    Underwear
    Urinate
    xx
    xxx
    testes
    testical
    testicals
    testicle
    testicles
    tit
    tits
    titt
    titties
    titts
    tramp
    tramps
    transexual
    transexuals
    transvestite
    transvestites
    twat
    twats

    That is all.

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  • Darth_MogsDarth_Mogs Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    GeoMitch wrote: »
    My little brother plays Maplestory, and I noticed the word "shenanigans" is censored. I have no clue why.

    "Pigs" used to be censored too, apparently. I don't know if it still is, but hearing about that made me laugh.

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  • PemulisPemulis Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I must have been fun to create that list. It's like all of middle school condensed into one list.

    Chode
    buttmunch

    I think it's funny that they have to include all of the misspellings:

    enima
    fuq

    Also:

    frottage

    Nice!!!

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