Nintendo's fail word filter for the GTS

Icalasari · 2011-03-14 02:34:03

"Due to the censor that prevents Pokémon with offensive nicknames being traded on the GTS, an English language Cofagrigus cannot be traded without a nickname."

I'm not sure whether to laugh or face palm. They named it that KNOWING that it contained a word that they were banning. Just...how hard is it to either A) Make the filter not insane (ingame isn't even that bad), or

Put Cofagrigus on a special white list?

And I'm fairly certain this would be Nintendo's fault. To my knowledge, they are the ones who handle the NA localization and GTS servers, and not Gamefreak

Marioguy128 · 2011-03-14 03:06:27

Wut.

Gelzo · 2011-03-14 05:11:58

The irony of this crap is that it points out swears in the words we would not have noticed otherwise.

Ponicalica · 2011-03-14 05:52:36

ah, the clbuttic mistake.

Icalasari · 2011-03-14 06:34:06

^ Which is even worse in this situation since they set up the filters like this despite knowing that one of the Pokemon is called Cofagrigus

How does one fuck up that bad?

Central Avenue · 2011-03-14 11:44:52

By not paying attention and/or caring, of course.

The irony of this crap is that it points out swears in the words we would not have noticed otherwise.

Yeah, I can't help but read it as "Co-fag-rigus" now.

ClockworkUniverse · 2011-03-14 11:46:18

I think, for a lot of players, that Pokemon name has been ruined forever.

Reecer6 · 2011-03-14 13:51:20

A wild Coidiotrigus appeared!

glennmagusharvey · 2011-03-14 13:53:56

Nice Job Breaking It, Nintendo.

glennmagusharvey · 2011-03-14 13:54:16

^^ Wild COGAYRIGUS appeared!

Reecer6 · 2011-03-14 13:58:46

Go grbuttman!

Gelzo · 2011-03-14 14:16:45

Well I know which pokemon I'm giving an embarrassing nickname now.

glennmagusharvey · 2011-03-14 14:26:35

Cocigaretterigus?

AXavierB · 2011-03-14 20:31:55

That's just... dumb.

Icalasari · 2011-03-14 20:33:23

I wonder what other Pokemon have the potential to fall to the clbuttic mistake?

Abra into Awomansundergarments?

Froslass into Froslbutt?

Probopass into Probopbutt?

Vibrava into Viwomansundergarmentsva?

...Wow, it is hard to find anything even remotely offensive (I really had to stretch for Abra and Vibrava)

Vorpy · 2011-03-14 20:38:37

Abrassiere.

Khwarizmi · 2011-03-14 20:46:01

Which is then auto-censored to Abrassieressiere, which is then auto-censored to Abrassieressieressiere, which is then auto-censored to Abrassieressieressieressiere, until the game crashes.

Icalasari · 2011-03-14 21:00:50

What if ass is considered worse?

Then it goes:

Abra --> Abrassiere --> Abrbuttiere

Wait...

Abrbutiere JUST fits the character limit! Sure, it is missing a t, but

Vorpy · 2011-03-14 21:01:33

Acup.

glennmagusharvey · 2011-03-15 13:00:35

Abrbuttiere

Win.

Also, Kadabrbuttiere.

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