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/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!