• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    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”.

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      5 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.

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      9 hours ago

      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”.

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      9 hours ago

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