ACNL's ridiculous profanity filter?

[saehanfox]

I know you can't use words like burrow and elevator shaft but crap and J*p go through just fine
They also banned "Hitler, " Nazi, and gestapo but swastika, Stalin, and Holocaust aren't

 

[poliwag0]

Once I tried to name one of my Pokemon Violet but it wouldn't let me.

 

[Bulbadragon]

Once I tried to name one of my Pokemon Violet but it wouldn't let me.

Viol means "rape" in French, and anything containing viol, like Violet, is censored.

 

[Laudine]

Huh? Here I thought AC has a really minimal filter compared to Pokemon or Harvest Moon
So far I've never encountered any naming problem except the really obvious ones. I play the PAL version if that makes any difference?
I know I made Fauna says nut as her catchpharse (no profanity intended!)

 

[poliwag0]

Viol means "rape" in French, and anything containing viol, like Violet, is censored.

But there's a gym leader name Viola. -_-

 

[Zane]

But there's a gym leader name Viola. -_-

There's also a villager named Violet, the point is to stop people from saying it to each other. lol

 

[Bulbadragon]

Weed is censored, but cannabis is not, and I don't think heroin or crack is.

 

[radical6]

yeah, what wonderK said; this is also a game for the european region so slurs/swears in their lanuguage that is filtered out may interfere with some of the english words. there was another word (spice??? i think that was it) that is used as an insult towards middle eastern people or something??? (im not too sure of the origin, sorry!)

It wouldn't let me use 'spice' for some reason… Anyone have any ideas why?

Take the E out and its a slur against latino/a/x people i believe?


the reason i think they censor a whole word even if it doesnt mean anything bad (like violet) is because someone could type "VIOLet" so yeah

 

[Mimi14]

i just type in nonsense when plot reseeting. one time randomly i chose 'qweertiu' and i was told i couldnt do that....

 

[fallenchaoskitten]

I remember someone posting on tumblr how they got mad that they wouldn't let you put "cream" ... Since they wanted to have Coco's catchphrase be "cream" for like a pun on "coconut cream pie"...
((yet they have a villager's catchphrase be "eat it" o.o))

 

[MoonlightAbsol]

Take the E out and its a slur against latino/a/x people i believe?

Ah, ok. I didn't know that. Thanks for clearing it up

 

[jolokia]

Eh, could be worse. In Phantasy Star Online the name of an item was censored because it was a swear in Spanish. Good luck finding someone to trade you that particular mag. Also, "shoes" was verboten. Of course since it autofiltered to "s***" you ended up looking like you'd said something rather worse!

My personal favorite wordfilter story comes from a gaming forum. Important to note that this was not a kid-centric community. We were talking about drinks and I said something about cocktails. Except it came out as "thingytails". Hilarity ensued. Apparently the forum software came with some default filters and the admin hadn't gotten round to removing them.

The ironic thing is wordfilters are so easily bypassed by, as mentioned in the thread, using special characters. They are the most pointless thing.

 

[IncendiaryPyro]

Using some of the symbols helped me out. For instance, if something had the letter 'c' in it, I just used the letter from the other keyboard, and it worked.

 

[emre3]

Whenever the game says I can't use a word, I just use on of the symbols on the "?αR" tab of the keyboard, that's how I was able to create the character "*****" lol

 

[Improv]

Fun little tidbit that I found today, you can't name your town England.

also I had a laugh at Nintendo because for the message on the friends list, they won't let you type the phrase" weeping angel" from Doctor Who.

 

[Alienfish]

Ikr, I tried making a catchphrase sexy once but oh no xD

 

[LadyVivia]

Fun little tidbit that I found today, you can't name your town England.

also I had a laugh at Nintendo because for the message on the friends list, they won't let you type the phrase" weeping angel" from Doctor Who.

Nintendo's not a Doctor Who fan, hhahaahahahahaha, I'm crying.

 

[Swiftstream]

well theres towns out there called "my ass"

and literally when a villager describes the town, it would be "Is it me or is my ass looking particularly beautiful today? It's probably because of the ordinance you put in place!"