• felbane@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Are you fucking kidding me with that censorship? Did the Minecraft team write the language filters for this instance?

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        1 year ago

        For safety. Hey, check out my flame removedant ball gag!

        That’s what is displayed on my screen (Jerboa on Android). If it’s a client setting, I can’t find it.

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        1 year ago

        Didn’t know it had a name.
        That once stopped me from registering a video game title.

        I was feeling silly so I figured I’d go for a nonsensical contrast. “Evil Grape” got rejected. After several failed attempts it eventually dawned on me that some dumb algorithm thought it was a reference to sexual violence.

        It kind of annoyed me but I just picked an other fruit. It wasn’t until later that I considered that “Evil Banana” was probably more sexually evocative but it was too late by then.

        So if you’re ever playing a video game and shoot (or get shot by) “Evil Banana”, know that, if it weren’t for the Scunthorpe Problem, it could have been “Evil Grape,” but either way, it wasn’t intended as a sexual reference at all.

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        1 year ago

        It’s “Thorp”.

        The octothorp (easily recognized as #) is the symbol used in censorship. Has been for ages.

        Sure, some modern online chatter now uses asterisks, but that’s only because they became the symbol for hiding passwords and in the eternal September people forgot about octothorp. But censorship is not hiding passwords, it’s saying “sh#t” instead of the proper word for fear of legal repercussions. Even markdown formatting is incompatible with the imposter that is the asterisk because it recognizes the true censorship history of the thorp.