lumpenproletariatFeb 21
the one where ross says a slur
Show threadDagwoodIIIFeb 21

I had a hardcover book sitting on my shelf. Got it at a yard sale a while back. “The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction,” it was published in 1979 and most of the stories are much older.

The level of racism was pretty amazing. One story referred to a mugger as a ‘black buck’ Another was set centuries in the future and had an anthropologist keeping some ‘primitive’ people in high tech chains and cages.

Show threadjordanlundFeb 21

Agatha Christie is probably one of the most popular writers of the 20th Century, and one of her classics is now published under the title “And Then, There Were None.”

If you’ve ever seen a movie, play, or game where a group of people are invited to a house only to be killed off one by one, you’ve seen something influenced by “And Then, There Were None”.

Generally the victims are symbolized by figurines on the mantelpiece which get gradually destroyed one by one as the murders progress, eventually leaving “none”.

The previously published title was the incredibly culturally insensitive “Ten Little Indians”, and the figurines were just that.

The original published title, in the UK, in 1939 - an era when we DID IN FACT KNOW BETTER was “Ten Little removeds”.

They did not change the title in the UK until 1985(!)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None

And Then There Were None - Wikipedia

Show threadFelixCress
Is quoting Wikipedia now banned on Lemmy? I was under impression arsehole censoring mods here were mostly focused on removing mentions of Israeli genocide of Palestinians.
Feb 21 at 12:42pmWeb
Show threadFlordaManFeb 21

It’s automated. Instances can setup a list of words that will automatically get removed. Has nothing to do where it comes from.

Also, jordanlund is a mod himself, so…

Show threadFelixCressFeb 21

jordanlund is a mod himself

I know 😁

Show threadjordanlundFeb 21

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”.

Show threadOdoFeb 21

Or if your name was Nasser…

Show threadlyralycanFeb 21
Same problem but when I migrated from Black Ops 1 to Modern Warfare 2 or something similar - couldn’t name my class containing assault rifles “assault”
Show threadlyralycanFeb 21
Same problem but when I migrated from Black Ops 1 to Modern Warfare 2 or something similar - couldn’t name my class containing assault rifles “assault”
Show threadPasserby6497Feb 21
Variations on the way we used to handle the Scunthorp problems are almost always amusing for how bad they were
Show threadBurntWitsFeb 21
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”.
Show threadtetris11Feb 21
I really thought you were talking about Elder scrolls, and was wondering how Khajiit would be censored (“haji”?) before my dyslexia kicked out
Show threadHubertManneFeb 21
I still can’t figure it out.
Show threadJakeroxsFeb 21
Because it doesn’t make sense, DS and ER are overly censoring, my friend made a character, bowperson, it censors it to bo***rson
Show threadHubertManneFeb 21
honestly that does not make sense to me either. wpe? you know back in my mmo days I remember we would laugh at some stuff that was and I did like to screw around putting stars in my chat.
Show threadhypnicjerkFeb 21

knight

k***ht

Show threadHubertManneFeb 21
Ok yeah. duh. you know its funny because I was wracking my brain for a word that had ht like that. Man so like every name with night would get hit. night blade, night terror, etc.
Show threadlyralycanFeb 21
Black Knight? Great film
Show threadDrSteveBruleFeb 21
I wanted to make a lore friendly character name in elden ring but they censored the word finger…
Show threadchlorokenFeb 21

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.

Show thread14th_cylonFeb 21

so for anyone else confused…

Show threadfakeman_pretendnameFeb 21

“Content not viewable in your region”?

Now I’m more confused.

Show threadFelixCressFeb 21

There you go. This censorship is getting ridiculous. Next time people born in Fucking, Austria won’t be able to explain where they are from.

Show threadchlorokenFeb 21

Chuds not being able to post the N word for a day — challenge level: impossible.

Like, it was so important for you to post this. It was life or death for you. Not saying slurs physically makes your skin crawl.

I would personally send you to the gulag.

Show threadInstigateFeb 22
As an Australian who has never studied Agatha Christie in any context, I literally had no clue what the censored word was. I was, and am, appreciative of the context that was provided by other commenters. Be careful when you make blanket statements like “we all knew what the book was”, because you’ll almost always be confidently incorrect.
Show threadFelixCressFeb 22
You are speaking to a tankie. They are confidently incorrect pretty much by definition.
Show threadShaturFeb 22
Same here. I didn’t know this book exists.
Show threadchlorokenFeb 23
Be quiet, nerd. Nobody needs your anecdote about how stressed you were not knowing the specific slur.
Show threadInstigateFeb 24
I’m a nerd for… not knowing that a book exists? Weird, but okay I guess.
Show thread14th_cylonFeb 21

10 little subsets of the the human species with really high level of melanin in their skin.

the screenshot is hosted on imgur.com, do you generally have problems with that one? it was just a screenshot of mentioned wiki article.

Show threadfakeman_pretendnameFeb 21
Got you. Imgur is now completely blocked in the UK after the “Online Safety Act”, because maybe one of the pictures hosted on it is some boobs or something?
Show thread14th_cylonFeb 21
I had no idea. Time to search for replacement.
Show threadfakeman_pretendnameFeb 21
I’d love a replacement for the “Online Safety Act” :)
Show thread14th_cylonFeb 21
Temporary solution to this is vpn…
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Show threadbdonvrFeb 21

Lemmy admins can create word filters. They replace words with removed when you use a word in the filter.

Most admins only add slurs and other nasty things. In this case we’re talking about the N word, hard R.