Guild Wars 2

Release “Owlsdottir” from the grip of the Dragon Naming Policy. The daughters of Owl deserve to make their legends. The only drugs they are associated with is a good stiff flagon of mead.

If you have any love for the Spirits of the Wild, you will make it so. Owl died so all Norn could live to fight another day. Will you forsake her sacrifice? Set her daughters free. Now.

This censor stuff is so silly. I can’t even make a character after my favourite music theorist. I feel like making a new char. Ana Owkittenottir…. hey… I like it. It’s almost my favourite tree and two adorable animals in one!

“Gerroh” is accepted, but “G E R R O H” is not. It’s a rather… strange filter they’re using.

The filter does ludicrous things. Same with the forum kittenizer; for instance, the word “bad” has been changed to “kitten” when surrounded by “as” in a couple of my posts — such as that’s not as bad as it gets — though this time it snuck past (no doubt on soft little kitten feet).

I think the OP was referring to the ingame naming restriction. I used the kitten reference tithe forums as a joke. The odd combination of “lsd” I don’t think is acceptable in game, but perhaps on the forums. Of the letters in quotes are censored then I’m lying

Ah, yes, I was drawing a parallel by referring to the name issue as “filter” and the forum one as “kittenizer”. I suspect they were coded by the same not-quite-human entity.

It would be amusing if names were subject to kittenization the way the forum is instead of just blocked — and you wouldn’t find out until people asked you why your beefy norn is named Kitten Kitten Kitten.

Is it refused as a drug reference? Owsley maybe? Pretty abstract to anyone who didn’t exist in the San Francisco scene in the 60’s and 70’s or read a particular Tom Wolfe book.

edit: Oh, I see…LSD is in the word. Yeah, that’s a stretch.

Things get a little trippy at the Owl Shrine in Lost Spirits’ Hallow:

“What comes next is an assault on the senses. A flurry of feathers, a scream into the maw of oblivion, a creeping coldness. But one sensation towers over them all—hope.”

…But I swear, no illegal substance was involved with this vision.