After first getting your hands on Nintendo's handheld system, the 3DS, one of the first things players do is create their Mii character and then start adding their friends to the Friends List.
When creating your profile name or when assigning names to characters in games, players have probably realized that some words simply cannot be used.
Of course, Nintendo would want to make sure profanity is banned on its system. Censoring curse words from the 3DS dictionary prevents other players from being exposed to offensive or inappropriate language when in social interactions on the device.
Nintendo 3DS has a feature called StreetPass, which allows users to exchange data from games and apps that they own with others. StreetPass is enabled when another person with wireless connectivity passes by the gamer, automatically exchanging tags.
It would make sense, then, that players aren't able to name themselves "pimp" or "Hitler."
Now, it is easier to see exactly what words are blacklisted from the handheld console thanks to the work of a Redditor.
Reddit user therevolution18 posted 17 different .txt files that include all the words Nintendo censors. The files feature the list of words blacklisted by different languages in different locations around the world.
Browsing through the files, there is pretty much every version, spelling and abbreviation of the most common curse words featured on this banned list.
It's also interesting to see what other kinds of expletives Nintendo filters out, making it a really good resource for those looking to increase their vulgar vocabulary. Some deserve props for their creativity, while others are just downright dirty.
However, even if the player isn't trying to be a smart — eh, smarty pants — when it comes to the naming game, they might have noticed that some of words banned aren't even what we would consider bad language. For example, players are not being able to trade the Pokémon Cofagrigus online unless it had a nickname because the game picks up on an offensive word.
A commententor revealed that the list was probably created using RegExr, where "^ matches the start of the line, and $ matches the end of the line ..." This would explain why some innocent words are banned for seemingly no reason.
Some words may be banned based on the fact that it is a swear word in another language.
"The most annoying thing is that 'after' is banned on a German 3DS, so you have huge trouble writing stuff in English since it gets censored," a Redditor commented.
The German censored words also contain the most amusing expletives, such as very precise phrases that are just straight-up bizarre.
While we won't share any of the words we uncovered in Nintendo's list of censored words, gamers can check them out for themselves in the source link below.
Source: Reddit
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