The game is Word Cookies by Bitmango. I contacted them but haven’t heard back. I’m guessing it was just an oversight, but it still pissed me off.

  • wjrii@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    So like, it wasn’t just hiding in the game’s dictionary, but someone or some pre-coded algorithm selected it to feature?

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      13 days ago

      Unless the game procedurally generates the words from a dictionary

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        12 days ago

        I’m not much of a coder, but even if they’re doing something procedural, it can and should still have a blacklist.

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          12 days ago

          If I’m writing a blacklist for slurs, I’m not thinking of archaic words like “griffe”. I’m just making sure it doesn’t use anything that would be used in a modern context.