Topic: Animal Crossing Foul Language

@Eel Why aren't you able to edit comments any more?

@Dogorilla The changes made to moderation are global, like on the articles, a post can now only be removed, not edited.

@Eel Oh, that doesn't seem like a very good system. Why was it changed?

@Dogorilla I dunno. Perhaps they'll change and refine it in the future.

Anyway let's not derail this too much

@SKTTR It's easy. If you want an appropriate environment for your kids always check the online content.
People are responsible for themselves and their kids if they go online.

Oh I totally agree and I am always playing with her when going online. And I know how easy it is to put inappropriate stuff in animal crossing. I was just surprised the word wasn't caught or censor at the system level. All these "stability" updates for the switch OS have included updates to the system level censoring. So I was more than wondering if anybody else has come across this as well.

@Eel ok I understand the whole moderating thing but it is pretty confusing when trying to discuss a situation that happened especially when people are saying there are ways around the censor in some games yet in this case the word was spelled exactly how it is. Nobody here is being called it but just discussing what happened.

But I get it. My apologies. Just saw your comment after I just replied to somebody.

@Jbuggydroid Oh, that's region specific. Some words are perfectly normal words in other languages so they can be used, even though they are censored in another language.

Wow, dumb ***** is classified as 'Over 18' in your eyes... sheesh. What do you imagine would happen to diddums if they, Lord forbid, read those words?

@gcunit I would imagine them to turn out like many people online, as in like you for instance!

I like to reply like for like.

Interesting, because based on videos and screenshots I have seen, New Horizons doesn't seem nearly as militant about stopping people from making their animals say things that would have never passed muster in New Leaf. For that matter, New Leaf wouldn't even allow me to make "Shazam!" a villager catch phrase! I still have no idea why.

@Mountain_Man
Hmm, maybe if you have a dig around in the extracted badword list (cw: profanity), you might find an answer as to why "Shazam" is prohibited.

The software might still be running its own prohibited word list on top of whatever the firmware is using mind you.
The badword list isn't limited to just profanity of common offensive terminology, it can prohibit some pretty obscure terminology too.

I've never actually thought about this before, some of my villagers say some really inappropriate stuff.
There was definitely a lot of NSFW stuff between a few islands at times - we had a brothel with Fauna and Ruby as the "working girls" and a s** club on a mates island for example that was uploaded as a dream.
Another Island was turned into an abattoir for unwanted villagers - we used to have fun until the game got stale.

I wonder how many of those are still floating around as Dreams.

@Mr-Fuggles777
You just literally want everything about NSFW, even on a game for kids. 😒

@Jbuggydroid It's always fun asking about questionable content as a parent in gaming forums. Half the people will tell you these words aren't that bad and you need to stop being such a (adult language) about life, and the other half automatically go on a rant about how parents need to be more hands-on with their kids' media consumption, as if that wasn't EXACTLY what you were trying to do in the first place.

Unfortunately, any time a game allows people to upload content or interact with eachother, there WILL be people pushing questionable content and doing their best to get around any filters that might be in place. So you pretty much have to assume that user-generated content = bad language and inappropriate behavior. Nintendo is pretty good about limiting this stuff, but no system is perfect. Hence the online interaction warnings on almost every game these days.

I remember when Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town launched with its new photo sharing feature, one of the first images anyone uploaded was a dog's rectum, and soon after that people figured out how to get a "creepshot" of a female NPC in a short skirt sitting down to eat dinner.

This picture came up on my loading screen multiple times (while I was playing in front of my kids) and eventually showed up in an NLife article on the topic. You can't see anything, but the intent is patently obvious. I'm glad my kids were already old enough that I didn't have to start explaining about creepshots in the middle of what should be a 100% family-friendly game. So we could just collectively shake our heads and move on to some wholesome farming goodness.

With kids being online 24/7 from birth these days, it's just another thing you have to talk to your kids about and watch out for. You have to assume that at some point, on some platform you probably don't even know about yet, your kids are going to see some inappropriate stuff, and prepare them for it.

Life in the modern world, amirite?

LOL its just a word.