Link in case this goes unnoticed because I had to fix the "Final Submission" message. My name support list there isn't changed.
swordmaster117 said:
Hey man dont rip on the name, it was for complete lolz because many of the other names are rediculous...and it rolls off the tongue. Yours just makes me think of drugs when I read it and it can't really see it as a viable name.
Like I said, it made me laugh. That was what you wanted, right? And what if my name sounds like drugs? I can imagine facing this guy being a somewhat psychedelic experience :P
Naxte said:
Yeah. Nonetheless, I still personally like the name, as I thought what we all probably did when we first read the name: that it really was simply a combination of the words "shrimp" and "pot" ("pot" having been from such an uncommonly seen term really caught me off guard at least as I was reading it). Thinking about it that way, it still works pretty much the same way: the things that you put into a pot depends on what you're cooking, which of course also depends on who exactly you're cooking for. Similarly, the moves, EVs, etc, you choose for CAP10 will depend on just what you're trying to go after with it.
Actually, I went with the potentiometer interpretation partly because I thought the raw "pot" interpretation didn't fit well with the name. However, the way you put it, it makes a lot of sense.
Concerning the obscurity of the name "
Shrimpot" (tennisace):
Honestly, how much of a problem is this? Why do you have a complaint against scientific terms but not other-language translations? Maybe you decided that that problem was especially self-evident, but I'm going to have to call you out on this one.
Secondly, I find that I have to look at an encyclopedia of some sort for most of the Game Freak names. Take Chikorita, for example. Where did that name come from? Oh, it's some kind of flower. Evidently, though, that's all the layman needs to know. In the same way, all that the layman needs to know (if he/she really wanted to) is that it's a "variable resistor". Obviously, the term itself wouldn't fit onto a Pokémon's name. If one can bother to find out what an "ohm" is (Cyclohm), I don't find "variable resistor" that unreasonable. Blame NoA for lowering the naming standards, I guess.
Quite frankly, I think that people just don't like the way it sounds, which is perfectly fine, but the reasoning given is the problem. It's too obscure? If someone can't be bothered to find out what the name means, it will be just another simplistic name. No harm done. That was the entire point of the name from the very beginning; it's simple but insightful if you want it to be.
Normally, I'd be against pushing the CAP's concept into the name, but whatever I said about the art design, I still really like how CAP 10's concept art was seamlessly integrated into the competitive concept, so I did my best to return the favour. I went for the science route because I felt that the language route had been exhausted already, and because I felt that the other "science" names reeked of people looking a term up on Wikipedia just to come up with and/or vaguely describe the subject. My purpose for looking it up was to make sure I wasn't describing things incorrectly.
In short: The name's meaning is hidden unless you seek it, and it refers to something that you use all the time. You need it to cook, you need it to watch TV, and it can even help save the environment. But it's all right if you don't like how it sounds.
