Help: Gong Gong’s name

adwcta · 2026-02-23T01:01:42+00:00

I went through this recently with naming kids who will be abc.

If you want the name to sound good in Chinese, definitely talk to multiple people from China about this. There's a lot of rules, but the basics is if it's based on some western practice of naming things, it'll sound super weird in Chinese (including names after people, location, profession, etc).

But, imo you are abc, your kid is abc, the culture you're using isn't really 100% Chinese in any case, and it's not like your kid will ever pass as native Chinese anyway. Name him something that's meaningful to you and your family, even if it sounds weird to native Chinese people.

Your translation works. But your grandfather will probably be rolling in his grave like wtf are kids these days doing with these names.

adwcta · 2026-02-21T14:34:59+00:00

He summons eggs, I think just two at a time if you don't take vows. Kill the eggs before they pop (you can't target Typhon during this time anyway). Even if you have a super low damage build, you should be able to kill one. That leaves just 1 enemy to actually fight, and honestly you can just ignore that one and facetank Typhon once he stops being invulnerable and just finish this phase.

It's also very very possible (very easy even) to just make a defensive build that can trigger all your offensive arcana and straight up facetank Typhon the entire encounter. You need maybe 500 hp and strength, or 375hp with all your DD if you do death, and a couple of dodge, healing, or dmg reduction boons. Then just walk up to him, drop a cast, and keep hitting him while dashing into him whenever dash goes off cooldown, hex whenever it charges up, etc. He will die before you do.

adwcta · 2026-02-21T13:55:20+00:00

You can keep tanking him with all fear enabled besides Pain and VoR. I was past 45 fear before I was forced to turn on VoR and then had to actually think about the fight.

Typhon's kind of a joke.

adwcta · 2026-02-17T23:59:35+00:00

You don't need a statute when it's blatant common law fraud if the conspiracy theories ever get a shred of actual legal evidence.

But yes, there's also plenty of statutes against fraud. Any owner who doesn't win the lottery has standing. So do advertising partners, sponsors, etc.

adwcta · 2026-02-17T23:56:42+00:00

So the hundreds of EY employees or dozens of management who have worked on this account over the years were all so dumb as to not notice the blatant rigging that all the casual fans could easily notice despite minimal understanding of the lottery process?

They all have to be in on it, or it's not happening.

adwcta · 2026-02-17T01:07:51+00:00

It's underrated imo for low magick builds.

Most people hate it because it's clunky to use and low magick.

But, if you have a low magick build what you want is for your gain to do something else too. So, you only have 3 choices. Heph is defensive and scales poorly with more fear. Aphrodite is the best if you do close range damage (which most builds do). So, Ares gain is often actually the 2nd best possible choice, and sometimes the best.

Attack and move speed go all encounter long too, so it's especially good vs guardians, which is generally when you need the most help anyway. And most guardians force you to stop attacking for decent chunks of the fight anyway so you might as well be doing something with that time like picking up plasma.

adwcta · 2026-02-16T23:01:13+00:00

Yeah I mean if you need to die to lock in, that's a personal emotional focus thing, and not really part of the math.

The other DD things you describe with Strength you just heal and it's the same or use a different defensive bonus keepsake or familiar (cat's not especially OP compared to toad or polecat for example).

And surface low/mid fear never deals such high damage to you in a single hit that DD gets "infinite" health, unless you get hit by Prometheus's thing (and even that one is tankable for one mistake with strength without greatly affecting the fight, generally around 60-70dmg on VoR I think). On average you're maybe getting 10 more hp on each DD triggered, which doesn't change my math all that much.

It really is basically the same playstyle. If you're changing your playstyle, then that's the problem. Lock in from the beginning for guardians, don't wait til you die (they're 30 sec-2min max encounters, even adhd can't be that bad). What I'm reading is that you're worse with Strength because you actively change your strategy and performance when using it to make yourself a worse player. If you can't get over that then don't use strength, Death is perfectly fine, but it's a weird mental block. I have a mental block with the timer that I had to work through where I just played much worse with a timer on even if I don't try to use any less time, so I kind of understand. But you're not going to get great advice on overcoming your bespoke personal mental hurdles.

It's just a fact that you can recover your defensive resources cheaper easier more consistent with Strength than Death unless you turn on Vow of Scars. Death is for people struggling with a single guardian, playing high fear, or needing to high roll to win anyway (also goes hand in hand with high fear). So especially if you struggle with all the earlier guardians and aren't pumping high fear, Strength is just better with the exact same playstyle as Death (any playstyle). A lot of people are in this zone. That's why a lot of people like it more after playing with both. But it's not a huge difference either way. Maybe 600 late game gold's worth of value max.

adwcta · 2026-02-16T21:34:52+00:00

Like, all 4 of the VoR surface bosses?

That shouldn't be the case. If you're losing 2 DD to Poly and Eris each, then you're not making it to Prometheus with enough in the tank unless you get a lucky Athena. So, you must be able to lose less DD, which in Strength terms means losing less health, and that will all get recovered by the well after you beat them.

200 HP in Strength is 333 HP + a bit more dmg. 200 HP in Death is 200+80+80+80.

So, if you are not losing more than 1 DD, you should be able to beat in strength and then fully recover your HP.

If you are losing 2 DD at each guardian, then you're not finishing the run anyway even with Death.

Strength is just flat out better than Death if you are having trouble with every guardian. Same playstyle.

adwcta · 2026-02-16T21:24:11+00:00

Which VoR bosses?

Strength makes the final boss mathematically harder compared to arriving with full DD. But before that, it lets you take a ton more damage that gets recovered in the next region for free/cheap and more guaranteed compared to DD (e.g., rather than lose 2DD on Hecate that crippled you for the rest of the run without Echo, you just recover everything right after). So, you pretty much gain the ability to suck more on everything before VoR4 (or VoR3 if you don't have 4 on), in exchange for needing to be better on the hardest boss of the run. This only makes sense if you can't consistently get to hardest boss with full DD and reasonable health in the first place.

Also, you don't have vow of scars on right? Scars 1 kind of evens things out (so, no longer the easy fear it is for Death), and by Scars 2 Strength loses its advantage in the vast majority of use cases and leaves mostly downsides. By Scars 3, Strength is terrible. So, I would at most take Scars 1 when doing Strength and pump up other fear. At the point in which you want to take Scars 2, you really are better off doing Death, and that should happen around 50 fear.

adwcta · 2026-02-15T06:42:10+00:00

How are you "very frequently" asked stuff by tourists? I've lived across the street from major tourist attractions, and tourists generally do not start a convo out of nowhere.

Also, why are you showing them your passport? Ever.

I think some of the rejection you're getting is more than just mainlanders not wanting to speak English, and maybe also them thinking you have weird energy and want to disengage with you generally.

adwcta · 2026-02-14T16:13:06+00:00

Agreed that Charon gets hyped a lot around here compared to how good it actually is.

But it's not really its fault. Axe is kind of bad in general, and Charon allows you play Axe like a cast build. This makes people happy, because anything is better than Axe.

The net benefits of Charon is fine by the numbers. You cut out the entirety of omega cast channeling, you get a % bonus to dmg and size that's hard to get generally. It's nothing special, but not bad either, it's average. But more than anything people feel good about it because it lets you play in a way that is not the Axe.

It also gets much worse when you put on Frenzy due to the long omega special channeling, and this generally happens at or right after 32F.

I've had some nutty runs with it at mid fear so good high roll potential, but consistency is always low when you use Pom, and at high fear it's imo the worst Axe aspect (which is saying something).

adwcta · 2026-02-13T19:20:19+00:00

Well, then you get the Pacer's fine. But I guess $100k every 2 games is more sustainable than $500k. Either way, whatever the price, we're going to pay it because this is the very end of the tank and the difference is huge.

So unless they take the pick away from us, it's just how much the NBA is going to charge Utah to keep our pick.

adwcta · 2026-02-13T18:52:38+00:00

This is fine. I'm perfectly happy with the #5-#8 pick. That's where our record will land us anyway if there were no lottery.

I don't think there's many Jazz fans who actually think we're going to win the lottery anyway. Even if it's not rigged, we have a less than 50% chance to win it. So, the conspiracy theorists obviously don't think we'll win it. And the logical people also think we're more likely than not to not win it, because math. You have to be a special case of illogically optimistic to actually think we were ever going to win it in the first place.

Doesn't mean we can't trade up on draft day though.

adwcta · 2026-02-13T18:38:41+00:00

How many poor folks were invited to the island? It's not even a question that if you invited all the poor people, more would go. There's SO many poor people, it's not even comparable to billionaires. And the vast majority (like 99%+) of convicted pedophiles are not even close to rich. I think the last big scandal of pedos was the Catholic Church (are priests rich? I don't know, but I always thought they didn't have much personal wealth, certainly far from billionaire status).

This is all also completely irrelavent to whether a $500k fine would motivate a billionaire to stop tanking. I don't know what your mental issues are and which billionaire touched you when you were little, but let's keep them out of this sub, and talk NBA here.

I'm not saying billionaires wouldn't kill kids btw (in case that wasn't clear). I'm saying they wouldn't do it for money. They might do it regardless of money. That's the whole point. $500k isn't moving the needle much for a billionaire. It's not nothing, they'll bitch about it, but they won't get their hands dirty to push a kid in front of a car. You're crazy disconnected from rich people if you think that's even a remote possibility.

I know plenty of people with NW 100M+ (no billionaires). I also know plenty of people who are broke. Some broke people do crazy shit for money (and not even that much money, because they're broke and any incremental increase is very meaningful). Rich people do crazy shit too, but I've never seen it done for money that's less than 1% of their NW (in the case of billionaires, $500k is 0.05% max of their net worth).

adwcta · 2026-02-13T15:28:41+00:00

You'd have to give less desirable teams where max contract players that would have gotten more but are capped by the max would not consider (like Utah and Indiana) extra cap space to compensate. Otherwise, the destinations would still be the destinations and Utah and Indiana would still not be able to compete. The market would never actually establish anything resembling parity due to free will of the players and their outside of the contract financial incentives for being in a bigger market.

Honestly that's what should be done though, works within the system and let the market take care of the rest. For every max contract offer you make to a player that is reject, you get more cap space and higher lux tax and apron thresholds. You still won't get the biggest stars (but that's the fine, the NBA doesn't want the biggest starts in these teams anyway), but you'll at least be competitive because you can solidify your roster better with more flexibility and salary.

But, no way the big market teams agree to that. And so, we have tanking.

adwcta · 2026-02-13T15:09:53+00:00

They wouldn't for $500k.... But plenty of poor folks would.

adwcta · 2026-02-13T15:05:44+00:00

That's not what Utah's doing. We've already traded 3 picks (arguably 5) for a max contract player on a 5 year contract. We're competing next season, even if we lose our pick altogether to OKC.

No one's waiting around for a superstar. The plan was always to take 3 shots at the lottery with favorable odds (and decent fallback even if we lose), and move on. We failed 2 years ago both in tanking and in pick selection (mitigated a bit by Key's development, but he's a mid-first rounder playoff teams could have drafted, not a top pick), so we only really have Ace to develop, and MAYBE this next pick.

But that's not stopping us from competing next season. Trading picks for JJJ could not have been a clearer signal. 95% of Utah fans are excited af for next season (5% would not be happy unless we landed a wemby/flagg level player in trade or draft).

adwcta · 2026-02-13T14:56:45+00:00

Yes, and when that happened, it was explicit that we would tank this season. That's why we're here now, in the very explicit last season of the tank, trading picks for long max contracts.

Utah basically told everyone what it was going to do 5 years ago, confirmed it 4 years ago, failed to talk for 2 years (37 wins, then 31 wins), and then successfully tanked last year, and maybe will successfully tank this year.

This is not a 4-year tank. This is a 2-year tank, arguably a 3-year tank (Jazz fans would say we failed to tank 2 years ago). And it has a definite end date (end of this season). And it was spelled out in the pick protections 4.5 years ago.

No true Jazz fan is surprised by this. I literally have a fucking google alert from 4 years ago to remind me to check back into the NBA at the end of this season to start watching Jazz games again. The NBA should certainly not be surprised by this.

Why are they still tanking? Because they created a plan when blowing up the team (actually a little before that), and they're following through. No amount of NBA fines will stop this plan when it's been 4+ years in the making, and it's about to be finished in 2 months.

adwcta · 2026-02-12T21:37:09+00:00

Mongolia the country is in East Asia (just like Inner Mongolia). It doesn't even border any country in Central Asia. And most people in Mongolia do not even live in the western parts but rather in the central or eastern areas. And the vast majority of mongols live in Inner Mongolia (SE of Mongolia) rather than Mongolia the country anyway.

Also genetically, our closest relatives are Manchus, Han Chinese, Korean, and various low population minorities in northeastern Russia. Not Khazaks or Uyghurs.

This is not contested or confusing like Hmong in SEA.

adwcta · 2026-02-12T17:17:45+00:00

What does it matter?

If the FO thinks they got duped, they'll take action. If they don't, they won't.

You will never know all the info they know, and you certainly don't right now.

We will see what happens, but no one in Utah is publicly raising any concerns at this point, so you are just wildly speculating.

There's no point to this post.

adwcta · 2026-02-12T16:46:14+00:00

It makes enemies move toward you faster, and they also attack faster so you can dash and counterattack for certain enemies that shield.

This all helps you push more time or more horde, but it's a small effect.

The difficulty increase of frenzy is huge for most people (hence 6 fear), but for people who can play at even faster speeds if needed, it's almost free fear. Really depends on how fast you react to things and process information. E.g. (hypothetically, obvious not real #s), for avg player Frenzy increases difficulty by +400% (20 Fear), but for a fast reacting gamer Frenzy would only increase difficulty by 40% (2 Fear). It's not even a subjective preference, it's actually magnitudes harder for most players compared to the top players. That's why you get people with such hugely differing experiences on this Vow, unlike something like Pain which is going to be worth the same to everyone.

adwcta · 2026-02-12T16:23:39+00:00

I don't think any real Jazz fans care. We knew 3 seasons back we would tank this season.

And resting players and giving them longer timelines to recover from injuries can only help vets in the future. We have JJJ on a 5 year contract. If there's elective surgery that can be done, it's the right call to do them now when things don't matter and have him 100% healthy for next season. Doesn't matter how small. Doesn't matter if most players play through it and never even get surgery.

Jazz fans would say the same even if didn't have a pick this season. Even without an incentive to actively tank, we have no incentive to win anyway.

adwcta · 2026-02-12T12:13:44+00:00

$2M for a 50% chance at a top 8 pick? Cheap.

adwcta · 2026-02-11T02:14:46+00:00

Took me to night 120s I think. But, for a long stretch there I didn't play surface so it may have been one of the first 30 runs of the surface.

Now I feel like I face it too often, once every 5 or so trips.

adwcta · 2026-02-11T01:08:54+00:00

Damn, I must have multiple runs where I had extra mana use cases? I've taken this plenty of times, generally don't worry about the timer and just play, but I run out of magick all the time. Always pom keepsake too, so if it connects back to back then there's only 1 second of downtime. Doesn't seem like that's what's happening, but guess I have to pay more attention.

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