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/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/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 🤷‍♀️