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lelabo_42
Would be cool to have a score like how many times did you play and how many did you guess right.
k_
Exactly what I was missing after 15~20 questions (and then I left)

Seemed easy at first (got the first 5 right), but I guess that was mostly luck because I got a lot of the next ones wrong.

Edit: being from France, pokemon here have different names, making the english names less recognizable (I never played the games anyway so that doesn't change much for me)

titanix2
French here too but playing Pokemon Go in English. After a while I can recognize most names but I still think the French names are funnier. The translation team did a real good job. Also, a lot a English names are straight coming from Japanese (e.g. Zubat) which make use of some English in the first place, so there is a bit less creativity on this side.
saagarjha
Protip: each of the things has a (occasionally humorous) description, so don't just blow past everything because you're excited to find a use for the 500 Pokémon you had memorized by heart ten years ago (no personal experience involved here at all /s).
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atipmt
I feel caught red handed
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codethief
Speaking of which… https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
akuji1993
That is a really useful site to clear some things up. Amazon should probably post this themselves.
actionowl
What happens when a big data project names itself after a Pokemon?!
r_singh
The appropriate thing to do would be to mark both as correct and to mention the same in the response.
stared
Or: Elf or prescription drug: http://quizzes.howstuffworks.com/quiz/drug-or-tolkien-elf-qu...

As a side note - I would love to see something like that automatically generated (with LSTMs or), in the spirit of http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ (and example for generating names: https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/char_rnn_generati...).

misterdata
Actually made this a little while ago for Dutch municipality names. Works quite well as even Dutch people get confused about which ones are real. https://diasli.de/848
Vinnl
10/10 so far. Love the animations though!
[dead] Kenji
Oh my god, this is hilarious. I love whoever made this <3
JunaidBhai
Finally I get to put my Pokemon knowledge to use.
franciscop
I was thinking about naming some of my npm libraries after pokemons! But then found all of the good ones were already taken, so I switched to Spanish/Japanese words (I'm a Spaniard living in Tokyo)