Electronic Arts: we’ve made a Need for Speed game with canonically queer characters! there are LGBT flag decals in the livery editor! it’s for the gays, baby!
Electronic Arts: LGBT is a slur and cannot appear in your fake car’s license plate number in a single player game
Me: fine, my Evo 9 dipped in the trans flag will be christened the LG BTV0 then
was serious btw
LGB TV0 is banned, LGBTV0 is also banned, as are 13375p34k variants, but LG BTV0 isn't. What a world.
confirming, the latest Need for Speed: Unbound patch1 no longer considers "LGBT" profanity
it does still consider "LGB" on its own a slur, which, yeah, I get it2, but aesthetically I do wish I could have it split across my plate as LGB TV0 or LGB•TV0 but hey, I guess the virtual DMV probably wouldn't approve it anyway, so the LGBTV0 lives!
shoutout to @Pr0mptCr1t1cal who was able to prod the right people internally at EA3 to get this improved, and so quickly!! 🤩
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it's not mentioned in the official patch notes but I guess that's the nature of obfuscated word blocklists
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I feel like it is very unlikely that my car which is half wrapped in the trans flag constitutes hate speech against my trans siblings but, yeah, this is probably the right call overall
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indirect action (read: grumpy queer posting and getting followed by the right queer person who works at the right company) gets the goods(?) - xe also confirm that "queer" is now a permitted word
