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[–] 35 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

Make sure you use a smart search and replace tool, though. I still remember many years later reading a story with a protagonist named Virginia, and then hitting a scene with a bunch of commentary about a character's "vaVirginia". It was memorable both for the "suddenly pornography" element of it and also the "ah, in an earlier draft of this story the protagonist's name used to be shortened to Gina!" realization.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago

    Its kind of the other way around, but it reminds me of the D&D handbook version where they scrapped the name "mage" and instead went with "wizard" but were lazy about the find and replace process, so you had weapons doing "1d6 piercing dawizard" on a successful hit.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    Doing a dumb search for " Gina " then " Gina's" with case sensitivity turned on then doing an interactive search for "Gina" would have prevented that tragedy, and doesn't need to be a 'smart' tool.

    Also, feeding the text before and after into Diff can give a pretty good indication if there were fuckups. Revision control is always good.

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