It never did, but in any case it's irrelevant, since it's certainly not being used that way here.

censor or obscure (part of a text) for legal or security purposes.
Origin: early 19th century: back-formation from redaction. Redact is found earlier in English (from late Middle English) in other senses (e.g. ‘combine, arrange, reduce to a certain state’), derived from Latin redact-, redigere ‘bring back’.

do you see the part there about coming from latin meaning "bring back"? that's the same as to "take back" brother..

I'm done with this conversation with you, look up the etymology for yourself.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/redact

Well OK then, you can apologize when the DLC is released. (Yeah, I know you won't.)

I owe you nothing now nor then, but what is owed to you is for yourself to look at the etymology of the word redacted and think about what has been said rather than just try to irk people and act like your completely right, because you aren't..

to "bring back" is to "take back" and to "take back" does indeed mean exactly what i have said..

how a word is used tells you what it means in case you didn't know.

grow up eric..

Dude, just admit that you were wrong, it's OK to do that. It's kind of psychotic how you're behaving. Like, get help.

You don't use the etymology of a word for it's definition, you use a (current) dictionary. Knowing the origin and history of a word is great for a lot of purposes - but not for the actual modern usage. The dictionary you linked earlier says "to remove words or information from a text before it is printed or made available to the public". That's it - no other definitions are used. The way you're using redact hasn't been in common usage since the 18th century. The devs didn't go look up the archaic usage of redact to use in their blurb and expect everyone to get that. The point of language is to communicate clearly and looking up the etymology of a word just to use an obsolete form would defeat the purpose of language itself.

no, you use etymology to point out that it indeed DID (and actually still does) mean to take back.. it's always meant that..

why you jumping in on this? if your jumping in go back and read all that was said first ehh? that way you wouldn't say stuff like this without understanding WHY the etymology was used.
looked in a mirror lately?

Yes, when I brushed my hair this morning. Grooming is a good habit; you might try it sometime.

Today's developer's diary has revealed the new endgame crisis, the Synthetic Queen: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-340-a-new-crisis-a-release-date-and-announcing-the-stellaris-season-08.1662209/

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