u/NovaSphear

Hi.

I might be in the wrong place asking for this and I might also come off as insensitive or clueless, but you gotta start somewhere so sorry in advance if that's the case.

I'm trying to give meaning to a name by using Kanji phonetically, the name in question being "Sayuri".

Sayuri is already a name that literally translates to "Small lily" or something close to it, but I wanted to try and give it a different meaning more fitting the bearer of the name. Not something that's traditionally done and also kinda backwards, but explaining the entire context would take forever so please just go with it.

The best I could come up with was 挫 愈 利.

挫 (Za, meaning to be crushed/disheartened)

愈 (Yu, meaning to heal/grow past/recover)

利 (Ri, meaning advantage/profit/benefit)

Of which I'm trying to reference the idiom of "Growing stronger with each defeat".

The problem I'm facing is that I have no idea if this is in any way correct. I struggle with understanding languages of any sort be it their structure, rules or cultural uses on top of this being a completely new front for me.

I'm mostly doing this to show appreciation to a friend which is why I dove straight into it and why I don't expect a perfect resul such as using "Za" instead of "Sa", but by only having the internet as reference I don't feel comfortable with sharing it further without having someone check me first.

Any guidance on how to fix this or improve on it would be very appreciated and if I screwed up somewhere like mixing Chinese and Japanese kanji, that's my bad since I unfortunately don't know better.

Hi.

Personally I always prefer playing a randomized nuzlocke over an unmodified one, this coming down to two main factors:

I like the challenge and it gets really funky really quickly.

After 18 years of Pokemon you start to know the games pretty well. What encounters are where, what you can get away with losing and where all the important pickups are. To me it gets stale and predictable.

I enjoy the feeling of not knowing what comes next. Will my encounter be a Magmortar or God himself Bidoof? Is Falkner going to whip out a Truant Fearow or Guts Rayquaza? "Joltik wants to learn Eruption"

There's a feeling of freshness to each playthrough and by nuzlocking it so much can happen, since yeah sure you could get Water Bubble Primal Kyogre, but it might only learn Bubble and then get one shot by Rapidash using Gigavolt Havoc. ( Might be speaking from experience )

And as many can relate to, the feeling of the unexpected hero's that carry you through the most challenging fights. Having my Audino sweep all E4 members and Hau with Z-Celebrate after a certain whale failed to do so? Could never have happened in a regular game.

The argument I often hear is that the game becomes too easy or too hard depending on how the game is randomized for you, since sometimes you will lose because you ran into a Wonder Guard Eevee and OH NO you don't have a fighting move! And others you will just cakewalk with a stupid starter pokemon, but that's part of the charm for me.

I have all the respect for people who choose to perfect base game nuzlockes, really getting it down to a science, but if you can get past the moral debate of modding your games and playing on unofficial software I think there's a lot of fun to be had with a bit more rng.

Curious if there's anyone who completely disagrees or even agrees and if so why they do, so please do share any opinion on the topic since I'm mostly interested in broadening my views more so than saying one take is more correct. Thank you.

Hi.

I don't mind people going into casuals to warm up, practice rotations or to just goof off with random loadouts and to chill with friends, that's perfectly fine.

But don't go into casuals and then start yelling at people who aren't playing up to your standards, be it teammates or enemies.

You should obviously not yell at anyone to begin with, but going into CASUALS of all things and calling people names just because they're playing "worse than you" or "are playing bad" is just stupid.

Say what you will about the culture and competitive nature of shooters, shoving insults in someone's face when you're playing a game mode with so little stakes it doesn't even count towards your stats only makes the experience worse for everyone. Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you should make other people's day worse.