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Game names corrected by spell check

What's a BioShock? By Castlevania, did you mean Televangelist? Cringe as spell check mauls your favorite games

Words: on June 5, 2008
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31 comments

  • captainobvious - October 9, 2009 10:36 p.m.

    That happened to me with my 6th Grade Math teacher's name, Ms. Oglesbee, it wanted to know if I meant Ogle's bees...WTF?

  • TrigunGunner - October 10, 2009 3:38 p.m.

    so when are you guys going to get around to that feature about spell checking butchering the names of pokemon? this article is over a year old, and this feature hasn't come up yet.

  • TrigunGunner - October 10, 2009 3:45 p.m.

    to get the wheels on this feature going, I will personally check all 493 pokemon on spell check and then copy paste it into a message and send it to a gr member

  • TrigunGunner - October 11, 2009 2:59 p.m.

    eh, I don't think I'll be finishing that. I got tired of doing it after the first 151 pokemon, with a forth of them no having any spelling suggestions. oh well, that'll be the feature that never was

  • SpicyPoyratez - October 15, 2009 3:48 a.m.

    dunno if mentioned, but Grimaldi's is known as one of, if not the best pizzerias in all of New York. thus, I lold

  • CreeplyTuna - February 10, 2010 9:07 p.m.

    should have types in okami

  • alko - February 12, 2010 11:34 a.m.

    Phlebitis is actually greek and means "an illness of the blood developed mainly in the hands"

  • D0CCON - February 16, 2010 2:04 a.m.

    tried out some pokemon names: Charmander: Charm Ander (I'm impressed), Chiromancer (which GR spellcheck thinks is spelled wrong), and charade Noctowl: Octal, Nortel, Nichol, Control, Noxell Barboach: Broach, Bareboat, Barbican, Barouche Empoleon: Employee, Embolden, Employing, Employ, Melodeon Mismagius: Misaims, messages, massages Honchcrow: (no spelling suggestions) Chingling: Shingling, changing, Tingling, Chungking, Changeling Magnezone: Manzoni, magnusson, magneto, Anemone skorupi: scorpio, soupy, soup, scorpion, scrape toxicroak:(immediately changed into toxic oak) lickilicky: (no spelling suggestions, and I was looking forward to that one) not many of these are as good as the ones in the article, but if you want me to continue, ask

  • QWERTYCommander - February 26, 2010 11:55 p.m.

    Chrome's spell-checker: DSi = Sid.

  • killer262 - March 20, 2010 1:11 a.m.

    I just tried Bioshock and I got Bios Hock

  • killer262 - March 20, 2010 4:57 a.m.

    note:Bios Hock is not a word

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