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Telemetry and censorship on a 22-year-old game (twitter.com)

posted 116 days ago by GoldenInnosStatue 116 days ago by GoldenInnosStatue +58 / -0

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– PewterSpren 2 points 115 days ago +2 / -0

I’ve never played the switch version, but in the original games the trainer name shows up on the Pokemon information. If online trading is allowed, that may be why the censoring is applied. They probably don’t want a kid getting a traded pokemon with an obscene OT name attached.

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