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Reminiscent to me of Call of Duty Warzone; it has loadouts which you can give custom names (that only you see!) which are protected with a profanity filter. Comically, some of the literal names of the guns are banned as being profane, like "MP5".
Maybe I'm being dense here, but what possible profane meaning is there in MP5?
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I disagree. God is already out of most schools, and it isn’t working well at all. Each school needs its own fully-integrated approach based on the students at the school and what works for them.
Why would it be good to lie to them? What are the consequences when you don't?
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Definitely. For example, MTBB's subtitles for Kimi no Na wa are very impressive. There's a short showcase of them on YouTube (spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_c-eKTisI0 It's a shame you basically cannot get anything close to the quality of fansubs from any commercial/legal options.
> It's a shame you basically cannot get anything close to the quality of fansubs from any commercial/legal options. Fansubbers work for the shows they love while the commercial distributors just pick the cheapest option to get the thing done ASAP, don't matter how sh*tty the result is. There is no chance for quality here. The same happens with Blurays x rips streams: piracy is the best option (no DRM, no unskippable…
But also, Crunchyroll uses the fansub toolset and SSA subtitles.
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Yeah, they would have to do literal translation based on phonetics. That is just insane.
> they would have to do literal translation based on phonetics. That seems pretty unlikely to have happened here; I don't know the Russian word in question, but the Chinese "hui" rhymes with English "clay". (It also rhymes with the more sensibly spelled Chinese "wei"; the 'e' is only omitted when the syllable begins with a consonant. Compare "feng shui".) I'd be surprised if that were a possible reading of any Russia…
As to why the filter was applied to Latin characters - I'm not sure, but I'm assuming that's to prevent people from using translit to sneak in profanities. Of course, this ends up being a pointless game of whack-a-mole - there's so many possible ways to spell something like that with Unicode...
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Not super relevant or anything but I just can't help but share my favorite profanity filter story, so here you go. I worked at a place that had a profanity filter in two parts. The first part was in C, several pages of if (!strcmp(x, a)) return 0; After all that, it then invokes popen() to ssh to another machine and run a shell script there, which contains several more pages of string comparisons, this time in shell.
Hold on, what? Okay, return false if they aren't equal, then open another process to repeat this method once again in the shell... I can't guess the reason. Would you know if there is any reason this might have been done?
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Would you rather have your whole app suspended indefinitely from a random google's bot decision or have a human reviewing your update and possibly rejecting it ? From my last 3 rejections on iOS, they always provided me screenshots and I could discuss with the Apple reviewers. Same story for youtube (bots everywhere...), the only Google service where I could talk to human was Google Ads.
In this case it's not an indefinite suspension. The email said exactly what he needs to do to resolve the issue. I'd rather be in that situation because there would be something I could do to make progress, even if I didn't agree with the decision. In my case, I have no idea how long this is going to take - and I've seen horror stories on the Apple Developer forums of people being in review for months. It's also clea…
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They need to take god out of politics and public schools... from the dollar bill, for example.
I disagree. God is already out of most schools, and it isn’t working well at all. Each school needs its own fully-integrated approach based on the students at the school and what works for them.
Once companies become monopolies like Google, Facebook etc, I believe the government should impose regulations like mandatory SLAs for customer support. Right now, companies like Google can completely ignore customer service because they are a monopoly. And they do this, because it saves them billions of dollars. If they had actual competition, they would spend more on customer support because it would be a point of…
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> Religion's got nothing to do with it. Racial slurs are a subset of "profanity", and I wager that you support Google's desire to not have apps in their store which prominently feature racial slurs. I have no objection. > Every culture has its "bad words" which are forbidden to use in polite company. I'm not so sure that that is true. I do not think there is but a single word in the Dutch language that cannot be feat…
Wikipedia has quite a long list, including wide assortment of racial slurs. Would all of this really be acceptable in kids tv? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_profanity Also this entry is interesting: > Kankerlijer means "cancer sufferer". It is a strong insult: an example of its legal status can be found in a 2008 court case, in which using the word kankerlijer to insult a police officer was cited as a serious…
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_profanity
Absolutely. They simply feature such swearwords as well as genitals.
> > Kankerlijer means "cancer sufferer". It is a strong insult: an example of its legal status can be found in a 2008 court case, in which using the word kankerlijer to insult a police officer was cited as a serious offense.
> Though, little surprise if "offensive to an authority figure" is a lower bar than "offensive to parents"
It isn't about offending, but insulting.
It isn't legal in the Netherlands to insult police officers in function regardless of how polite the language is. One can't walk up to one and say “I find your face most æsthetically displeasing.” for instance.
Certainly not a law I agree with, in any case, and thankfully it's becoming more and more of a dead letter, but occasionally people are prosecuted for it.
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I disagree. God is already out of most schools, and it isn’t working well at all. Each school needs its own fully-integrated approach based on the students at the school and what works for them.
God being in schools is usually much more about the parents of the students in the school.