LBP In-Game Censorship List

I had the word p h y s i o t h e r a p i s t censored.

I can understand why, the offensive word is there plain as anything... ONCE IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOUR ATTENTION!! But how many people would even spot that it contains such a term unless it's dragged kicking and screaming to your attention?

So now, my movie with th espoken line, "you need to do the exercises set out by the p h y s i o t h e r a p i s t" is censored on the subtitles, immediately bringing anyone's attention to it (and also distracting from the film as the viewers attention is now distracted by trying to figure out what the possible reason for censoring is.

In short, this policy draws attention TO swearing/offesivenes rather than hiding it.

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Originally Posted by MuddledMuppet

I had the word p h y s i o t h e r a p i s t censored.

I can understand why, the offensive word is there plain as anything... ONCE IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOUR ATTENTION!! But how many people would even spot that it contains such a term unless it's dragged kicking and screaming to your attention?

So now, my movie with th espoken line, "you need to do the exercises set out by the p h y s i o t h e r a p i s t" is censored on the subtitles, immediately bringing anyone's attention to it (and also distracting from the film as the viewers attention is now distracted by trying to figure out what the possible reason for censoring is.

In short, this policy draws attention TO swearing/offesivenes rather than hiding it.

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It's probably because of the word 'r a p i s t'. Maybe thats why. :)

It seems to have trouble dealing with long strings of unrecognized words also. The PS3 doesn't let you use Japanese characters if your system lang is set to English, so, when i'd try and review [JPN] stages, i'd try and use romaji, and the result would be stars all the way through.

In my stage, i hadn't realized it was censoring the word "chatter" until my wife and i tried playing through on her account, and, yep, stars again.

And yet, i was playing...what was it...wooden waterfalls, maybe? Some of the comments on that stage are pretty vile. Sure, lots of stars, but the unstarred stuff...was a bit surprised.

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Originally Posted by waffleking23

And yet, i was playing...what was it...wooden waterfalls, maybe? Some of the comments on that stage are pretty vile. Sure, lots of stars, but the unstarred stuff...was a bit surprised.

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Of course; the censoring system is reserved for the truly despicable words like "Osiris" and "Computer". :rolleyes:

And don't even think of mentioning the word "Analog" near sensitive ears. :p

OMG! I had W T F censored

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Originally Posted by comphermc

It also sensors Simmons. Haha. This is mostly only funny to me... right mrsupercomputer? :D

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Now try to make a Gene Simmons level with all of that random censoring goin' on, eh?

Funny enough i can say whatever i want in LBP 1&2 and for some reason the laws of censorship don't apply, no joke. Its very strange, the same glitch occurs to me in call of duty i can hear both teams microphones even if i have been muted, i must just be lucky.

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Originally Posted by Gilgamesh

It's confusing because it's wrong.

The censored word is "chatte", not "chatter". "Chatte" is a well-known french slang. What's tragic is that it also simply means "female cat". I can only imagine the French-speaking LBP community trying to talk about their favorite pets and it being censored for this reason (again, silently and without telling the "offender" why it happened).

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you also have to remeber bich is a female dog however censored for its common slang uses. same as chatte female cat censored for its common uses as slang :D

Ah yeah this totally annoys me. You don't need to censor words like opened or happened. DOES MM KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE THESAURUS? :mad:

So that's why all my PSP Speech bubbles have been *breaking*. Thanks you so much for the list, it will help alot!

So that's why I can't say happened! LUDICROUS!

Ah, well, could be worse. We could be limited to menu chat, now THAT would suck...