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Gallery censoring Yoruba names
Sheepiling
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I wanted to name my sim "Adelola Titilayo" and when I went to save my sim to my library it gave me the warning that the name contains a disallowed word. I can always look up more Yoruba names for her, but I think the gallery could use an update to the censoring system because there's nothing close to any profanity in this name. It's unfortunate that a cultural name is getting blocked like that.
Edit: I have found the location/survey thing for reporting names to be uncensored! This thread can be closed/locked/deleted!
Edit: I have found the location/survey thing for reporting names to be uncensored! This thread can be closed/locked/deleted!
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The first 3 letters of the second name would be the censored one I believe! It's the name of a bird. like a Great ... but also a slang word usually used in the plural for a pair of ....! or an alternative, as in don't be a silly ... ! English slang.
Maybe they could get round this by us putting the name in quotation marks "... " and them ignoring these in the game or something like that, that makes it clear that it's a real name?
I guess the names Tito, Titus and Titania would not be allowed either then.
I'll never understand the extreme pearl clutching of the USA. Especially not in a game where you literally have a body slider for the very thing they are so aggressively censoring here.
@Sheepiling is there a list with words that should be allowed? Can you give a link to it? I would like to add to that list.
Oh yea, you're right. And EA even made Titania in Sims 2 as an iconic premade townie themselves, but her name probably is censored too.
And honestly, with this game being rated teen, I don't really see the need for the censor to be as strong as it is. This isn't Toon Town. I'd only understand catering to parents that ask for filters like this in games if it was a rated E game, made for children to enjoy. I know a lot of us played The Sims when we were young children, but that's entirely the parent's choice to buy a game not rated E and give it to their children. Heck, my Dad let me play GTA when I was a kid.
I think this may be more of a thing for them wanting to cater to foreign market's standards without landing themselves as an 18+ game. 'Cuz USA isn't THIS extreme with censoring, unless it's the rare extreme parent that doesn't even let their kids read fantasy novels.
luthienrising shared the link already where you can report names to request them to be uncensored!