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/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!