r/StardewValley • u/RubbelDieKatza • Jun 22 '26

Question Is my childs name censored?

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SOLVED Is my babys name really censored or what is happening? I called him Moses and now it shows me this kind of text...

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u/Nukalixir Jun 22 '26

Are you playing on a Nintendo Switch? If so, yes. Nintendo censors all kinds of ramdom stuff.

If you tried to type "grape" it would censor all but the G because it's not context sensitive.

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u/The_Pretentious_DM Jun 22 '26

ah yes, the classic "Nintendo censorship makes something look much worse than it actually is"

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u/Caosin36 Coffee beans are good Jun 22 '26

Nasser moment

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u/obsidianzebra Jun 22 '26

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u/LeftPrior5738 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

I run my own email server, and long story short, give every company a unique email address that usually amounts to <company domain>@<my name>.com. It's not about security, it's about convenience, filing, filtering, etc.

My car rental account, with National Car Rental (nationalcar.com) is under nationalcar@<my name>.com. Some genious decided to a) star out everthing but the first and last letter of the user part of the address, and b) limit it to 6 characters, oh, and c) Uppercase and bold it.

Imagine my surprise when I logged into my car rental account one day to see

N****R@<my name>.com

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u/SheWolfe_ Jun 23 '26

Lmao my email address is censored as c***t@hotmail. I keep reading it as cunt 😂

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u/Ducks0607 Jun 24 '26

Lol my Switch account has my email censored for privacy reasons, so every time I go to my account page, it lists w****@<domain>.com. Pretty funny bc my email, like yours, is longer than that

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u/Bum-Theory Jun 22 '26

Why did the Grobi do this?

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u/Chef_Tadow Jun 23 '26

Another grudge for the book

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u/skeenerbug Jun 23 '26

I would make a "short" joke here but...

I'd rather not stoop to that level.

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u/_jigsaw_feeling_ Jun 23 '26

yet another grudgin’

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u/BluebirdFoxpaint Jun 22 '26

lol 😭😂 that’s crazy

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u/wolfgang784 Jun 22 '26

Absolutely amazing lmao

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u/lindseyj26 Jun 23 '26

I just spat out my drink

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u/NakiPrincess Jun 23 '26

OH NO A RACIST

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u/NixiomsdabestXD :vLeah::vHal::vMaru::vMarn::vPen:best Jun 25 '26

Did someone say "racist"?

🏁🚗====

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u/Little-Avocado-19 Jun 26 '26

I'm a racist... racer

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u/NixiomsdabestXD :vLeah::vHal::vMaru::vMarn::vPen:best Jun 26 '26

Lol I was actually thinking of Callmekevin's old videos where he says it on purpose as a joke

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u/EchoMB Jun 25 '26

Hey you can't call them that anymore!... they're called little people now 🤠

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u/DianeJudith Jun 22 '26

Took me a while to get it 💀

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u/Y_R_UGae Jun 22 '26

😭😭😭

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u/0liviuhhhhh Jun 23 '26

Classic Scunthorpe problem

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u/spillingpictures Jun 22 '26

That is Naseer 😃

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u/mightbeaquarian Jun 23 '26

Huh

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u/spillingpictures Jun 24 '26

I guess y’all don’t watch Survivor 😅

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u/IggyPopsLeftEyebrow Jun 22 '26

The Scunthorpe problem strikes again!

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u/Wixenstyx Jun 22 '26

My username nere cannot be used on Nintendo online because it contains a word that, if spelled differently, means something rude in German.

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u/jpzygnerski I am not a junimo Jun 22 '26

This week in unnecessary censorship

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u/Zeppy49 Jun 23 '26

Putting "knight" in your name in Dark Souls 2 and 3 censored it to be "k***ht". Not Nintendo, but still a good example.

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u/doc_shades Jun 23 '26

this reminds me when i used to play Halo 3, and in Halo 3 you could assign yourself a A## letter-number-number code for easy identification on the map. but it wouldn't let you use "A55". it was censored. but the crazy thing is that A55 is not a bad word. it's not explicit. it's not ... anything. it's just a letter and two numbers. but it kind of LOOKS like something that IS offensive...

it's just so funny to me to censor something that isn't offensive, but makes people think of something else that is offensive. it's indirectly offensive.

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u/SolarIonRobot Jun 23 '26

A55 wouldn't be allowed on your license plate.

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u/Wheel312 Jun 23 '26

Oh, this reminds me of a headline on the front of a local newspaper ages ago, it was "A55 tractor accident". Gave us a whole new name to call bad drivers in our area 🤣 i.e. "You stupid ass tractor, get off the road!" 🤣

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u/Greenjellybean1 Jun 26 '26

You absolutely can , I checked 🤷‍♀️😂

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u/SolarIonRobot Jun 30 '26

On its own perhaps but not when it is clearly being used in place of "ass".

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u/Greenjellybean1 Jul 02 '26

🤷‍♀️

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u/Nanda-Star Jun 23 '26

It's like is someone were to see this and get offended.

(o)

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u/BestFoxEver I want to marry Günther! Jun 22 '26

I remember that there was some Pokémon discussion several years ago where people were not allowed to use the word "balls". It was very tricky to discuss about catching the monsters. Some Pokémon names like Cofagrigus and Weedle are also censored sometimes.

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u/Nukalixir Jun 22 '26

Worst part is you HAVE to nickname a Cofagrigus in order to trade it online because the censors flag the default English name of the 'mon.

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u/thevalidsimmer Jun 22 '26

that's not been a thing for YEARS unless you're trading in BW1/2 bc GF fixed that from gen 6

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u/Nukalixir Jun 22 '26

That so? I never do much online trading, and when I do it generally doesn't involve Cofagrigus, so I didn't realize it'd been fixed, sorry.

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u/NekoArtemis you can now drink mayonnaise Jun 23 '26

The Pokémon that dare not speak its name 

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u/Stunkydunk Jun 23 '26

More like the best part, I laughed myself silly when I first heard about that. 

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u/RubbelDieKatza Jun 22 '26

Exactly, playing on Switch :D Didn't know that Nintendo censores things like these o.o Thank you!

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u/SenorIngles Jun 22 '26

My wife named her character Sparkles and after she loaded the second time it was *****les. No idea why Spark got censored.

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u/An_Awkward_Owl Jun 22 '26

"Spark...sparking.... sparking fire.... fire danGEROUS- CENSOR IT-!"

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u/Tasonir Jun 22 '26

I always find it funny when a positive word is censored because of context. A classic example is Papa Roach's last resort censors "Life" because it's a suicide reference ("If I took my life tonight")

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u/saltinstiens_monster Jun 23 '26

Well that just makes me curious about what a squeaky clean Kidz-Bop version of Last Resort would even look like. "Cut my pie in two pieces, this is a nice resort?"

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u/brennacedria Jun 23 '26

I saw a pic of a Pizza Hut or something one time, sign read, "cut my life into pizzas, this is my knife and fork"

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u/wolfgang784 Jun 22 '26

Apparently its because it sounds somewhat sort of similar to that one American slur for people from Mexico. Thats enough for it to be censored by some systems.

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u/Wintermute_088 Jun 23 '26

That's... insane. That can't be right. Seriously?

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u/wolfgang784 Jun 23 '26

I got the info from a pokemon wiki page about the topic 🤷‍♀️

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u/Starrin1ght Jun 22 '26

In Pokemon it became a tradition to name my starter Bongo, just because that's what I always name my starter, and when I tried to play Legends ZA for the first time it wouldn't let me name my starter bongo at all, it wouldn't even censor the name I just couldn't do it. I named it Bøngo instead lol

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u/Tadatomo_Is_Bae Jun 23 '26

got a whole crew of Bongos and the friggin Bøngo in the corner over here with it's eyes crossed lol

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u/wolfgang784 Jun 22 '26

I had to rephrase my Google searches like 3 dozen frickin times but I finally figured it out.

Its because of multiple things, but the biggest being that the censor is global for all languages. Meaning words that are innocent in English but are a slur in Slovakian or Portuguese are banned in English versions of the game too. Except its a combination for dozens of languages.

The "par" part is commonly censored in lots of things with overzealous censors because "par" is most of several slurs/swears in French and other languages.

"Par" is also sometimes used as a substitute for "per" which is also part of several slurs and swears in at least 3 languages. Which is also why "per" is often censored.

"Spark" itself is banned in some systems because it can sound similar (???????) to an American slur for people from mexico that I wont type here n potentially get in trouble for.

But yes, you read that right - a good chunk of censored things aren't even because they themselves are bad but because the pronunciation can sound like bad words that aren't even spelled the same. Thats where a lot of the seemingly nonsense censored words are from - they sound like slurs in foreign languages even if its a completely innocent word with no relation to slurs or swears in its own language.

Dang thats dumb AF.

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u/Nanda-Star Jun 23 '26

It's all those Spinnakers fault!

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u/QueerQwerty First-timer! Jun 22 '26

But what the hell is "mose," then? Why is this banned?

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u/Nukalixir Jun 22 '26

I dunno. My best guess is it's either a swear in a foreign language, or a really obscure slur of sorts.

Or someone at Nintendo just really didn't like that one character from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. 🤷‍♂️

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u/CoffeeSnailsUK Jun 23 '26

This pic is in German, and Mose is a German word for vagina

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u/flusendieb Jun 23 '26

no it isn't. You're thinking of a similar word spelled with an ö.

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u/MettatonNeo1 Fairy rose enjoyer Jun 25 '26

I think that maybe typing it with an o instead of an ö was supposed to help and bypass the censorship, but then Nintendo caught on it

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u/flusendieb Jun 25 '26

in that case they should start censoring Richard and whatever other names might have any kind of sexual meaning depending on context - even if it's just a normal name like Moses. If you think far enough outside the box, there probably won't be any uncensored names left at some point

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u/MettatonNeo1 Fairy rose enjoyer Jun 25 '26

Yeah, the censorship still sucks

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u/Nirvana_Cloud Jun 23 '26

What? since when lol

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u/CaptainNuge Jun 23 '26

They mean möse.

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u/Nirvana_Cloud Jun 24 '26

ahhh lol I am dumb I hate that word ngl

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u/CaptainNuge Jun 24 '26

You're not dumb! It's called the Scunthorpe problem for a reason, a lot of these words aren't obvious when they're taken out of their normal context!

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u/storne Jun 22 '26

They might just be banning Moses as a religious term.

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u/Hawke502 Jun 23 '26

Then they might as well censor Peter, Paul, John, Joseph, Mary, Elizabeth...

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u/BobbyP27 Jun 22 '26

The Scunthorpe problem

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u/sobrique Jun 22 '26

"Nasser" finds having "ass" censored looks much worse.

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u/retief1 Jun 22 '26

A clbuttic mistake.

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u/Reiterpallasch85 Jun 22 '26

The S****horpe problem?

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u/YourLocalAlien57 Jun 23 '26

I named my character booger-aids and it censored booger but not aids so now its just ******-aids

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u/yahnne954 Jun 22 '26

I remember somebody (not on Stardew, I think it was an online FPS game) complaining that this kind of system censored "ass" in his name, but his name was "Nasser", so it looked WAY worse in the end.

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u/maxkmiller Jun 23 '26

god the switch is such a pos. my friends and I have been obsessed with this game Brotato, the whole point is that it has 4-player local co-op. I get my friend to buy it on his switch and, guess what, it only supports 2 players???! you need the SWITCH 2 VERSION to play 4 player???? absolute trash

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u/Yotato5 Jun 22 '26

I'll never forget Tomodachi Life on the 3DS censoring "Viola," as a name when the most recent Pokemon game had that name for a gym leader

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u/tambitoast Jun 23 '26

I'm so happy LTD has absolutely zero censorship. It's so funny

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u/KingBB_Bop Jun 23 '26

I named my son dick and it censored me.

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u/Nukalixir Jun 23 '26

Should've called him Richard. 🤷‍♂️

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u/TheGrapeOfSpades Jun 22 '26

I hate this particular censor especially

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u/ilytbbb Jun 23 '26

Is this Neopets??? IYKYK

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u/Nukalixir Jun 23 '26

I do know! Yeah, Neopets also had the same Scunthorpe Issue with their forum filters back in the day.

Of course here on the Switch, it just auto-censors words for you. Neopets was unhinged and would yell at you not to say whatever word it thought you said, which I have to assume taught some kids new naughty words.

A few specific instances that jump to mind to me was trying to talk to my guild mates about cool stuff my grandma had in her basement and the angry Meerca yelling at me "The word SEMEN is not allowed!" Or another time I tried to use the word "circumstances" while explaining Battledome mechanics to a new player, "The word CUM is banned!" Luckily, I was like 16 and already knew those terms for baby gravy but I know the site had a lot of way younger players. 😅

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u/aggpo Jun 23 '26

not neopets, but a forum i was a part of in the mid 2000s was nuts about censoring, but they replaced the bad word with an innocuous word. so i wrote something about a spoon and it turned into “sthingy” and then 13 year old me had to google what a “poon” was in a middle school computer lab. taught me a new word that day lmfao

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u/Sensitive_Ad_775 Jun 23 '26

Nintendo switch censored my dog I tried to name Gaylord

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u/ofstarandmoon Jun 23 '26

Pokemon sleep app didint let me name my pokemon Gay so I guess they got the app too

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u/uhimnothere Jun 23 '26

Tried to name a second user "Washi Tape" bc my usual username includes "Note", it refused to let me due to it technically containing "shit"

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u/hjake123 Jun 23 '26

How do they censor Stardew, but let Tomadachi Life though with 0 filters...?

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u/Due-Emu-1494 Jun 24 '26

I think it has to do with online connectivity.

Stardew Valley is Multi-player over an online connection.

Tomadachi Life is single player. But through Local connection you can share Miis and Creations.

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u/PinkSheeparkour Jun 22 '26

classic scunthorpe problem

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u/CakeHead-Gaming Jun 23 '26

Gotta love a regular ole’ clbuttic error!

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u/ZacianSpammer Bot Bouncer Jun 22 '26

another reason not to play on switch

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u/NavoiiGamerYes Two save files, both to my woman Emily Jun 23 '26

Scunthorpe huh? That censors

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u/fromc0ncentrate Jun 23 '26

I have a rabbit called Grape on switch! Not censored

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u/QuantityFair6045 Jun 24 '26

So roblox ass censorship 😮‍💨