Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️So I'm hacking on Family Feud for the Switch, and it turns out it stores all its questions in one two-megabyte JSON file.
with no linebreaks
it is (of course!) Unity
the file is 6mb if you run it through a json formatter.
So they saved 4mb! in this 2gb rom! that is probably compressed!
So they saved 4mb! in this 2gb rom! that is probably compressed!
the layout of the json is... weird. I think they're trying to do some basic manual compression?
There's string pools.
So there's primarily:
1. list of questions (each of these is a complex structure)
2. list of strings of questions
3. list of strings of answers (true or false or unseen)
4. list of names of audio files or "UNKNOWN"
1. list of questions (each of these is a complex structure)
2. list of strings of questions
3. list of strings of answers (true or false or unseen)
4. list of names of audio files or "UNKNOWN"
the last two are aligned.
So #4 is called "AnswerAudioCues" and goes:
[
"A_Cry",
"UNKNOWN",
"UNKNOWN",
"UNKNOWN",
"UNKNOWN",
"A_Howl",
"UNKNOWN",
"A_BreakDown",
...
and #3 is called "AnswerText" and goes:
[
"Cry",
"Sob",
"Get sad",
"Weep",
"Cries",
"Howl",
"Feel sad",
"Break down",
...
[
"Cry",
"Sob",
"Get sad",
"Weep",
"Cries",
"Howl",
"Feel sad",
"Break down",
...
See how it lines up? Cry, Howl, and Break Down are answers with matching audio files: So when they're selected, the game will play one of the audio files of the host reading them out.
okay so #1, "Questions".
Each structure here has an ID, TextIndexUS, Quality, Validity, ValidForOnline, Answers, and False Answers.
The ID just looks like "Q_00001". TextIndexUS indexes into the #2 string table, "QuestionText". Here it's 0, which matches up with:
"Name something you do after a fight with your partner."
"Name something you do after a fight with your partner."
Quality & Validity are integers of unknown use. (1 and 3, here)
ValidForOnline is a boolean (false, here).
ValidForOnline is a boolean (false, here).
answers is a list of objects. Each has a separate Id (named like "Q_00001_A01"), and TextIndexUS (indexing into AnswerText, here 0 or "Cry"), AudioIndexUS (indexing into AnswerAudioCues, here 0 or "A_Cry"), a points value (here 62), and then a VariantIndicesUS sub-list
VariantIndicesUS is the indexes of AnswerTexts that are alternate aliases or "Cry". Here it's 1-9, or:
"Sob",
"Get sad",
"Weep",
"Cries",
"Howl",
"Feel sad",
"Break down",
"Wail",
"Moan",
"Sob",
"Get sad",
"Weep",
"Cries",
"Howl",
"Feel sad",
"Break down",
"Wail",
"Moan",
FalseAnswers has the same sort of structure as Answers: Id, TextIndexUS, AudioIndexUS, VariantIndicesUS. all that's missing is the points (since you get no points for an invalid answer)
So I think this is juts here for the AI players: it lets them generate plausible incorrect answers.
for example, the first false answer is 45, with variants of 46-51.
That matches to "Call ex", with variants of:
"Call ex-boyfriend",
"Call ex-girlfriend",
"Call ex-husband",
"Call ex-wife",
"Call ex-partner",
"Message ex",
That matches to "Call ex", with variants of:
"Call ex-boyfriend",
"Call ex-girlfriend",
"Call ex-husband",
"Call ex-wife",
"Call ex-partner",
"Message ex",
it looks like the game ships with 1595 questions
although there are duplicates and near-duplicates
the game also contains a 3036-line file titled "swear_filter"
some items:
bloblos
bullet vibe
clover clamps
commie
cunillingus
dolcett (OKAY, WHO DATAMINED A VORE WIKI?)
flow
glazeddonut
gramps
hahal (?)
heterosexual
masterblaster
mcfagget
moist
mr hands (immortality for the horsefucker!)
octopussy (the only banned Bond movie)
paginate (what)
pile
plump
plug (no, not buttplug. just plug)
raging boner (boner is on the list separately, so I don't know why they needed to call this one out)
smeg (red dwarf: banned)
soviet
tainted love
yaoi
bloblos
bullet vibe
clover clamps
commie
cunillingus
dolcett (OKAY, WHO DATAMINED A VORE WIKI?)
flow
glazeddonut
gramps
hahal (?)
heterosexual
masterblaster
mcfagget
moist
mr hands (immortality for the horsefucker!)
octopussy (the only banned Bond movie)
paginate (what)
pile
plump
plug (no, not buttplug. just plug)
raging boner (boner is on the list separately, so I don't know why they needed to call this one out)
smeg (red dwarf: banned)
soviet
tainted love
yaoi
oh and tutelage. the game bans tutelage
and stew
doom? they banned DOOM!?
they ban "bimbos" but not "bimbo". the singular is fine.
australian, athletesfoot, church, color (not colored: that's separate), dendrophilia (attraction to trees?), and dumas (NO COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO HERE)
they also ban the term "black cock", despite the fact that both "cock" and "black" are banned separately.
they ban:
boobs
booobs
boooobs
booooobs
booooooobs
but not:
boooooobs
boobs
booobs
boooobs
booooobs
booooooobs
but not:
boooooobs
inert, itch, jade, jam, jelly, juice, latin (?!)
it also has the scunthorpe problem
Matilda Love@foone it is an outrage that i, william kenneth galboobsloway, must suffer this erasure
Video_Game_King@foone Some of these describe ethnicities and nationalities, which tells me the developer wanted to head off online abuse. Either that, or someone on the team REALLY had it out for Latin Australian bimbos.
🌸 lily 🏳️⚧️ 
θΔ ⋐ & ∞@foone there's jade again. i wonder why jade is offensive
Gilgwath@foone profanity filters are my favourite example to demonstrate to people why regex is actually hard. 😬 A lot of programmers think they are big brain enough that they always get it right.
yomimono, still on land@foone looking down my shirt to see whether I have bobs, boobs, booobs, boooobs, booooobs, boooooobs, or booooooobs
@foone (look at this overconfident bitch, so sure she doesn’t have bbs)
Eric Spittle@foone bo{2,}bs?
I’m 481 Phones@ericspittle @foone I’m assuming unity has a regex engine built in, but if this was a webpack, there’d be like three, and none of them in use anywhere.
Ben Bradley@foone They don't ban 58008?
Karbontragödius Grovlon
IrishMASMS@foone banning boobs is wrong
Bill Ricker@foone ^if only there were some way to have expressions to match a set of strings in a regular way^
Sylvhem@foone They had some really specific ideas…
Cyber YukiWait, the word black is banned???
"how do you like your coffee?"
"Black."
YOU HAVE BEEN BANNED"
😑
gloriouscowmaybe a sloppy import from a word list like this one
https://github.com/dsojevic/profanity-list/blob/main/en.json
it attaches variants with adjective prefixes to the same profanity id, but if someone just stripped all the words out of it they'd get all the adjectives too.
@foone my favorite item in this list is "butthole engineer"
that's a valid medical profession!
Tobias@gloriouscow @foone The exceptions are hilarious
Fuchsiii~~~@foone is that what they call the treehuggers these days? Interesting
Ozzelot 
@foone what about colour? are the bri'ish allowed to be sloightly rude?
A cool crab wearing shades@foone we can have one, but only one.
@foone You can have one (1) bimbo, as a treat.
Josh 
Mx. Eddie R@foone
One bimbo is godly, two is just hedonism.
One bimbo is godly, two is just hedonism.
lp0 on fire 
@foone, well, if they banned that one, clearly we're not actually all ----ed…
Robin@foone they knew if they didn’t, you’d find a way to run doom within the game.
0xC0DEC0DE07EA@foone what’s Gir going to sing on road trips?
Juliet (Ryel), Rollerskating Elf 🏳️⚧️@foone First the kids are talking about stew and the next thing you know, bam, they're saying things like "I'll tutelage your raging boner, commie."
Vx. Princess "size_t queen" Grace 
@foone suck it, mill decks
taylor 
@foone hope they don't have any questions about 80s music!
cleanycloth@foone I’m dying at seeing “dolcett” on this list :’).
Also they only banned “heterosexual” and not “homosexual” or “bisexual”?
@Sylvhem no, they banned those too, I just didn't mention them
Asta [AMP]tainted lovenot the Soft Cell song I would have banned, had I been in a banning mood, but
Heathen 🐈@foone
This reads like one of those unhinged signs about who is going to hell, the kind that lists both Catholics and Anime Fans.
This reads like one of those unhinged signs about who is going to hell, the kind that lists both Catholics and Anime Fans.
C."tainted love" is a swear now?
Back soon, I gotta phone Motown...
(they should have just named it "bowdler.dat")
Laukidh@foone tainted love? No soft cell
Hanneke@foone some of these are from the google profanity filter list
https://github.com/coffee-and-fun/google-profanity-words/blob/main/data/en.txt
tutelage is conspicuously missing tho
Leah 
@foone dump it here 
Bracken@foone I think I've seen this exact list before. I was testing an internal anonymous AMA app intended for the then IBM CEO. The list and filter were in the client. 🤦♂️