A small moment in gaming history

The word or string “ass” may be replaced by “butt”, resulting in “clbuttic” for “classic”, “clbuttroom” for “classroom”, “buttignment” for “assignment”, and “buttbuttinate” for “assassinate”.

This is seriously one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. Like gosh, I’d recommend everyone give that article a full read. I couldn’t even get mad at the stupidity. I’m bookmarking this to read again when I have a bad day.

I see this all the time in Elden Ring. So many players want the word “Knight” in their name but it just ends up rendering as “K*ht”. Also the substring “ho” comes up a lot and is censored.

In October 2004, it was reported that the Horniman Museum in London was failing to receive some of its email because filters mistakenly treated its name as a version of the words horny man.

There are a lot of gems in the article.

One of the legit uses of AI is moderation that goes beyond string pattern matching.

Such a beautiful name shouldn’t be tarnished by bigoted corporations

The current future outlook of the internet is bleak. Everything will be controlled by a dozen companies and all content must be appropriate for teens

The Flintstones theme song….

"We’ll have a gay old time"

And when it was appealed you would think the first thing the reviewer would do is search the net. Wild that it even got that far.

Yeah, but where’s the fun in that?

They knew it was a real place. They knew the filter would ban people based on real, actual names. They also knew making the filter better would cost more money than getting sued a few times.

Or Penistone

I’ve seen USians complaining about our word for black people, ignoring that calling someone black (like the color) used to be as offensive to us as the N word is to them, while our equivalent to the N word was the non-racist option. Older people who haven’t caught up with recent trends might still find referring to people as black offensive.

arse technica

Yeah I remember playing Fortnite back in high school and asking a friend if he could play via the in game chat. The problem was that I wrote “Kunt ge?” so the whole thing got censored

XBL’s auto-censored word list was (and maybe still is) wild. If you have any PC ports of Xbox games from around the 360 era, there is a chance the plain text file that contains the list is in the installation folder somewhere (IIRC, Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition has it). Bans were usually automatic if you had any of those words anywhere in your profile, and it included “gay.”

You also couldn’t put shit like “Halo sucks.” You could put “Mario sucks” or “Sony sucks” but any disparaging comments about Bill Gates, Microsoft, or any of their IPs would result in an error.