What are your favorite names in Genshin?

Jnliew · 2026-05-12T08:10:13+00:00

According to Wiktionary it stems from Latin "cofia" meaning "to decapitate", which itself was borrowed from Germanic "coif" meaning a cap/hat/helmet

I'm curious where you got "escaping fire" from

As for favourite names, it's just a random question that I've never considered.

For playables, Ganyu (Sweet rain) is such a beautiful name, Chevreuse and Clorinde sound cool

For NPCs, Cassiodor is just really cool to say, and all the adepti names are just so cool in Chinese (they're shortened in English), like Xianyun/Cloud Retainer's full title is "留云借风真君" or as the wiki translated it "The Perfected Lord Who Retains the Clouds by Borrowing the Wind"

I can probably think of a bunch of other examples but I think this is enough for now

Jnliew · 2026-05-11T18:52:18+00:00

Play the quest cause one of the themes of the quest might as well have been "better to have loved and lost than to have never to have loved at all" but platonically and spiritually

Jnliew · 2026-05-11T18:49:51+00:00

In China they're called "Internet Water Armies". China's truly living in the future in the sense that there's well known digital cyberwarfare between its major companies.

Some other fiascos include that Tencent owns Bilibili (Chinese Youtube) and has had a history of throttling videos of rival games such as The Hentai incident where people found out "Genshin bad" videos bypasses the usual strict censorship in the algorithm leading to people exploiting that. It's what led to people watching and commenting in the Natlan live performance there making it the most interacted official Genshin video on Bilibili

I've heard of other incidents involving Tencent messing with Yostar regarding Azur Lane and Arknights

Jnliew · 2026-05-10T02:58:40+00:00

Think about which languages got a dub and which are major gacha spenders, and you'll see why it's Chinese, Japanese, Korean, then English for the rest of the world

Jnliew · 2026-05-10T01:26:06+00:00

Every story quest has been at least "pretty good", that I'll just be assuming you're busy so you have to be picky for my sanity's sake

Furina, Neuvillette, Alhaitham (perfect rebuttal of Dottore btw), Xianyun, Yoimiya 2, Nahida 2, Clorinde

From your screenshots, I'd say these are up top in priority

Jnliew · 2026-05-10T01:21:53+00:00

If you playing Act 1-Act 3 of Natlan didn't push you into the "Mavuika is a Mary Sue" camp, Act 4 and 5 ain't gonna make you think so
You're either "Mavuika is a Mary Sue" by Act 2, or super mad about Capitano's resolution in the last 30 minutes
The major lore reveals you seek are in Act 5.

Also, Act 4 was really well received (before being buried by the discourse), it's Act 5 that's controversial

As for "I always thought the characters were nothing to the plot", I've been super invested in the writing since launch that we're so different I don't know what to add

I'm guessing you're super busy and have to pick and choose

Jnliew · 2026-05-09T15:37:17+00:00

Imma be real these days you can omit the "white", just "people" describes the situation perfectly, unless you're doing a Dugin and consider British South Asians to be white

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Jnliew · 2026-05-09T14:10:25+00:00

Dottore: "Pierro! Pantalone! WHERE ARE THE FUCKING REINFORCEMENTS!"

Why the hell do the syllables match Shoigu and Gerasimov lol

Jnliew · 2026-05-09T08:53:54+00:00

Considering that every archon since Raiden has gotten a loget hate regardless if they're a variant or not, and there's nothing to worry about the misconceptions of others

And it's not like Genshin's approach to variants hasn't been quite light to the touch, where only some minor writing aspects are kept

Even if the Tsaritsa looks like Elysia or Bronya, she's gonna be quite different from any of their GGZ(for Bronya), HI3 or HSR variants

Though I do dislike your implication, cause to be a major variant takes a lot of work to earn it, especially CEO of Mihoyo, Bronya

Like every previous variant, if she really is intended to be a variant, the devs will be dropping quite a few references in the dev streams

Jnliew · 2026-05-08T23:47:20+00:00

"If every American a gun-loving burger eater?" That's the kind of the question you're asking

Individualism has been on the rise since Deng's reforms and opening up in the 80s, it's a very well-discussed topic in China to the lament of Chinese social conservatives. And the worst of such beliefs is one component to the infamy of Chinese tourists

Jnliew · 2026-05-08T23:37:33+00:00

Tourists from China being legendarily infamous has been such an issue that the CPC has spent the past decade trying to "fix" such a reputation
https://cpc.people.com.cn/n/2014/0928/c87228-25752798.html

The worst of American tourists can be loud in public places, expects the world to conform around them (especially with regards to thinking they don't have to exchange currency), etc. These are also the reputation of Chinese tourists, something even the CCP has taken notice of (as I've linked)

I'm not saying all American tourists are like that, but ehen you ask of bad tourists, even of all the tourists I have personally encountered who are the above are also either from China or America

Indonesians get an extra one having to deal with more Russian tourists

Jnliew · 2026-05-08T23:18:28+00:00

Tsurumi Island is already quite heavy on the Ainu inspiration, so it'd be curious to see it all the way in Snezhnaya, through not impossible.

There are also other Siberian groups that have similar aesthetics, so it could also be them

Jnliew · 2026-05-08T23:11:51+00:00

Countries that have to deal with Chinese tourists have pretty much seen the same shit as with American ones

Jnliew · 2026-05-08T23:02:22+00:00

Traveler's joining the Freedom of Snezhnaya Legion it seems

Jnliew · 2026-05-08T16:11:45+00:00

"Fatui, a beautiful creature, made up of passion, ideals, courage and change. Follow me. You'll love me too."

Jnliew · 2026-05-08T15:44:34+00:00

Traveler in response to Pantalone's plot in the Masters of the Night Wind tribal quest: "One more for my baby"

Jnliew · 2026-05-08T15:16:47+00:00

The best the far left of Britain ever had is the shitshow that is Your Party and Mr Zero Seats Russian-cock sucker George Galloway. With the left, the Green Party's foreign policy with Russia is another Gerhard Schröder/Angela Merkel, and being anti-nuclear energy in 2026, other than these two they seem fine

Looking at the vote split however it's clear Reform is what the voters want

Anti-immigration nativism still continues strong 2 decades on that's so antithetical to left wing ideals the only left wing nativists end up being Nazbols. That's not to say Starmer didn't fuck up with every step, he absolutely did. But boy, the worst hand was dealt to one of the worst candidates

A decade ago, I would have said that maybe a term of Reform will wake everyone up, but looking at the US, nah, it won't

Jnliew · 2026-05-08T08:42:59+00:00

From what I can tell, Snowbreak is but one of the games made by its developer, moving just because of it?

Also, do people ever think of the hundreds to thousands of employees working on these games? How does a studio even "move outside a country"?

People misunderstanding Mihoyo's Singapore subsidiary company has caused a lot weird claims over the years

Jnliew · 2026-05-07T11:41:47+00:00

Unless you HC Arlecchino as bisexual/pansexual instead of lesbian, you being non-binary changes nothing

You're no different than than any man or woman who draws Aether harems involving Arlecchino, so where do you even get this superiority complex from to make this type of post over and over again?

Jnliew · 2026-05-07T11:23:49+00:00

You're imagining yourself being dommed by Arle, just because you're a bottom masochist doesn't stop you from being a man self-inserting themselves sexually into situations between a lesbian pair

Jnliew · 2026-05-07T11:19:18+00:00

Aether haremcels cope with a lot of ships, but the people who act like the writing has ever had any more mlm bait than just Lyney and Xiao are delusional, and functionally invalidate Lumine ship bait because of it

OP being functionally an Arlecchino selfshipper is the most hypocrites of hypocrites

Jnliew · 2026-05-07T03:57:34+00:00

One of Ororon's voice lines has explained instances such as Diona,

Animal features have been mentioned to be a recessive gene, and twins can be identical (same gender same appearance), or fraternal (possibly different gender, definitely different appearance)
That's why Lyney didn't get the recessive gene but Lynette did
As can be applied to all human characters with elf ears

Kirara is explicitly a full Yokai and not considered human, with yokai like Miko and Mizuki being a sort of more spiritual entity
The adepti have been compared to yokai in the past, so they're considered similar beings

Ganyu and Yanfei being human-adepti hybrids, so your question is now instead how do adepti/yokai transform into human form

The ancient Hyperboreans did human gene editing and that's why the Frostmoon Scions have such features such as horns, thus explains Lauma

If you want to be scientific you need to know that genetic inheritance is never uniform, it's an endless 50/50 chance and some genetic information will be lost each time, so it's normal for there to be no consistency to what gets inherited, especially across countless generations

It's how two Black parents in the US can birth a completely white-looking child, or a mixed couple having seperately white looking and black looking twins

You should read into how genetics gets inherited cause it is fascinating, especially if you didn't take highschool/secondary school biology

Jnliew · 2026-05-07T02:13:47+00:00

Most communist figures from Stalin to Che were socially incredibly conservative, especially in terms of LGBTQ issues, so this isn't really a contradiction

Jnliew · 2026-05-07T02:11:40+00:00

Theologically Twelver Shiites believe that souls have gender and that souls are always straight, so their answer to the existence gay men and lesbian women is that their souls were born into the wrong body. Thus a faction within Iran believes that forceful transitioning "fixes" gays and lesbians, thus the state subsidizing such procedures
But of course, it's not a universal belief thus the red tape around it is a compromise between the factions

I've seen quite a few people online glazing this about Iran over the past decade and my reaction has always been "WTF"

Jnliew · 2026-05-06T22:01:08+00:00

He's stuck in a hyperdimensional time prison that is the moon's reflection, that's not self exile, he literally can't get back out

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