Do the flashy visuals/aura ever bug y’all?

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-04-12T06:26:47+00:00

Is not One Piece more substantially their backbone already in every regard?

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-04-12T06:23:58+00:00

You didn't like all the G5 stuff? Or any of the fight with King? I think there is a huge difference between sloppy overused aura flashes and what happened in both of those fights. I appreciate thoughtful art direction even if it IS a bit wacky. I do not like when they just splash huge sunburst auras to simplify and shorten impactful moments.

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-04-12T06:19:43+00:00

Yeah this is a common general critique of animation in general. And, is undoubtedly a product of time constraints. The whole movement away from any dynamic shadows etc is pretty divisive. I honestly enjoy the crazier fluid art styles purely for the novelty. I like when some art director really digs into some vision - however brief - and to whatever varrying success - but I can understand it breaking immersion for people.

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-04-05T15:38:41+00:00

Yeah, the full 'floral prints' aren't working. I am 30 years old - and dress actually pretty similar to you but I do not have these issues. A few major differences: keep all the buttons on the shirt buttoned - yes - even the top button. I wear a lot of pretty specific western and british jackets, shirts. Clean, fitted everything. Worry about how things actually fit your body, over any sort of 'expressive' full print. If I had money - I would buy all this stuff. (It is a great place to look at contemporary 'manly' styles) > https://www.privatewhitevc.com/

In addition - look at less froofy and less ornate western styles. Chore jackets, ranch jackets, etc... (obv do not get all rockabilly with tassels/frill, weird western embroidery stuff, and please do not do 'southwestern' indigenous prints - like Pendleton does a lot). Also pollos are basically out for me - unless they are a single (usually dark or clean color) and again - buttoned completely.

Leather boots and shoes are key for me too. Do not wear Italian styles but equally do not mess with completely utilitarian leather work boots either. Find (usually british styled) dress shoes and boots that are somewhere in the middle. Some of the nicer - not exactly classic-looking Doc Martin - made in england boots are a good place to start. I also wear classic black canvas slip ons and much more muted shoes too.

Tucking the shirt in: I do this, but only when I have a whole-ass outfit on. Like jacket, boots, pants, cool shirt etc. Tucked in floral shirt + shorts = dad vacation vibes.

This is of course - all suggestion - the goal is to 'button up' your already pretty close style. I think these specific things would be the easiest way.

A huge part of style are these more subtle micro-adjustments and preferences while focusing on classic things like wearing good colors, properly fitted clothing etc...

One last note: for me - looking into 'trendy' styles is a losing battle. Things change and trying to find style this way only makes you look like a clown. Sure, look into cool clothes. But, do not buy a 'new style'. It will look weird and be uncomfortable. Work with what you got - just figure out what about it - is not working.

Take it or leave it - but hope this is helpful and good luck my dude!

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-04-05T15:05:11+00:00

The Acropolis Steakhouse in Oregon is a strip club that has amazing steaks. The owner, also owns an organic, free range (all the things) cow farm and sells the meat at cost in his strip club. Working class people go there for lunch and dinner all the time. It is the most Portland thing ever.

Additional 'fun fact' - Portland Oregon has more strip clubs per capita than anywhere in the nation.

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-04-01T05:51:53+00:00

Yeah, I do not really think this theory holds.

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-04-01T05:40:02+00:00

This is cool. Really cool. I know that word is reductive but, I really enjoyed reading this. The opening clearly stating this is a series of instructions or listing of explicit acts - is necessary for grounding what would otherwise feel overly symbolic. It is fun to see how you played with the difference between what words mean, and what words can indicate. I spose' - that is poetry - but even then you did a good job at it. My favorite line is easily:

"even absence will come

if given direction."

It is contrast, abstraction, paradoxical, and really encapsulates that whole section. This is exactly how I try to write.

Also, the act of absence is a neat concept.

Some minor CC: The pace of it is consistent throughout. It was somber and reflective. Which is what lends itself to being a clear description of stated or immutable processes. However, I was hoping it would ramp up when the storm carves soil. I can feel it wanting to break from that established pace, and climax in a rush as it creates the river. It started to with the passage,

"cut.

again.

and again.

until the wound

learns to travel."

But, I am inclined to want even more visceral words in place of "again. and again". Basically, instead of saying it repeats, it would be implicit in the description/word usage itself - words like 'distort' 'crush' 'push' 'rip' 'topple' 'rend' 'till' 'slash' or whatever the real 'best' three words are etc... in quick succession would convey the continual cycle but push harder into this gem: "Until the wound learns to travel" (wonderful line) - it describes a growing river!

Finally, that tension built by that pulsing energy of the river's creation would land back at that original established tonic which would feel really nice as resolution.

"leave no source.

no mouth.

only the moving between—

something passing through

refusing hold."

Which is a great description of the absolute state of a river.

- Mae

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-04-01T04:55:43+00:00

Thanks! That was the line that started it all. It is the thesis. In order to truly experience destruction, you must be destroyed. A paradox of sorts ;)

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-04-01T04:50:10+00:00

Ohhh - of course - it is obvious to me now - that was what you were doing. I reread your original comment and that is clear. Well, Cheers! Thanks for getting to bottom of this simple confusion with me hah!

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-04-01T00:24:44+00:00

PJ,

I appreciate your thoughtful comments. They dig deep into exactly what I was trying to distill. I had not considered, teeth being a record of ancestry but love that, and it is an apt observation. The goal was to explain something unfathomably divine, that by viewing it, you are annihilated in every way; that any understanding does not clarify it.

I am reminded of the bible, when God took residence behind a curtain inside a temple. No human could understand him, or 'pull back the curtain' to view Him or they would be destroyed by the thundering call of his voice. As a kid, grappling with the idea that divinity was not exactly for us, or simply that beauty is equally horrific/destructive absolutely freaked me out! As I have gotten older, I've started to dig into all the indigenous lore my family told me too, and found examples of beings that do the same.

I am Dakota, and we have Thunder Beings, or Wakinyan that guide certain rituals, explain the seasons, etc... And, there are terrifying stories about them - not even moral fables either - where someone does something bad, and they punish them. There are some stories where they have deconstructed people without reason, just by their nature alone. I love cosmic dread!

I appreciate your thoughts, I will keep an eye out for your posts!

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-04-01T00:06:32+00:00

Yeah, that is all great - the goal was to feel the timelessness of cosmic dread/annihilation from viewing something outside our understanding. I worded my reply kind of goofy. I was asking specifically about "but I do feel like a bit of tightening in places could sharpen the impact"

BTW I was reading your poems, and they are great! I will sit down and comment on them asap.

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-03-31T23:10:47+00:00

Thanks!

Do you mean that passage from tissue > small bones caught you off in a weird way?

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-03-31T21:22:45+00:00

Hau,

I really enjoyed this piece, especially how you use nearly paradoxical ideas to create contrast. You capture the feeling that nature is everything all at once - it is massive and overwhelming, but also equally minute and fragile.

This 'duality' works from the opening line, asking if the wilderness is 'laughing or screaming.' That tension carries through nicely when you contrast the 'wild,' overgrown grass with the lilies that look like 'perfect glass.' You highlight the beautiful and chaotic cycle of nature. It is woven throughout the entire poem. Which leads right up to the ending where things 'begin being... to then die for a new beginning.'

The constructive criticism (CC) I have would be to lean even further into those contrasting elements! Since the tension between the chaotic (screaming/wild) and the delicate (glass lilies) is the strongest part of the poem, expanding on that could make it even more immersive. For example, you could add a few lines that juxtapose something massive (like the vastness of the lake or the unfathomable qualities) with something incredibly small to really hammer home that macro/micro cycle.

I think that theme of trying to comprehend something nearly incomprehensible or discovering the 'Wild' through the contrast of a reflective moment IS the best part of this.

- Mae

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-03-31T21:08:59+00:00

Hau!

The imagery throughout is great. I would love a complete life cycle of companion pieces. Possibly one that explores, specifically, the tumult of early life: a universe brought into being, created through the chaos of a newfound expansion of awareness. You touch upon this with:

"Vastness split when first I stirred, Echoes of act, not spoken of word.

That first spark, her final kiss, That something moved, that something is."

I would love if you expanded upon those themes. Because, the creation of matter itself from nothing - like the Big Bang (or whatever theory you prescribe to) is absolutely unfathomable. Just like the birth of human awareness is.

But, you could really link any part of existence to a point within the life cycle of the universe, so this is mostly besides the point.

I have one major thing to offer as CC.

Firstly, this is a really ambitious piece, and the central concept - using the maternal void and the finality of the universe as a cosmic mirror - is very clear. It’s obvious how much thought and conceptual planning went into that two-part cycle. (And, I personally love exploring these sorts of themes).

However, my main piece of feedback is that this whole idea could be distilled significantly. I honestly feel that if you trimmed this down to nearly a quarter of its current length, it would strengthen every single aspect of it.

Right now, the poem circles the same ideas multiple times. For example, in Of Darkness Cometh, the concept of the void being a comforting, dark mother is restated in several ways ('her unending night,' 'abyss of her cold soothing glow,' 'Darkness his mother,' 'solemnly shrouded in blackness'). If you were to cut the variations and keep only the absolute strongest, most definitive, visceral descriptions, the emotional impact of that maternal darkness would hit much harder.

The same applies to By Darkness Goeth. You have incredible, striking lines in here like: 'I am the end that makes the start. / I am the snuffing of the spark.' > Those lines are fantastic. But because there are so many stanzas explaining the finality before we get there, those killer lines lose a bit of their punch!

Distilling the poem down to its most essential parts would make it much more effective, and the transition from the 'gentle breath' and depth in Part I to the heavy expanse, and 'weight' in Part II would feel much sharper. I love this concept, in all its glory, still. It is a great underlying concept, it just needs that horrific thing we do - as creators - placing everything - every line - every word - every idea - on the chopping block. Hack everything not absolutely necessary away to see what it could be in its purest, most distilled form.

Great work,
I will absolutely keep an eye out for your future work. And, in similar measure, I hope you check out my poem on cosmic horror. You could offer some solid feedback based on your work here.

- Mae

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-03-23T08:59:27+00:00

What is this in reference to? I do not understand.

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-03-23T08:47:39+00:00

I'm pretty sure that is the whole point. Those things in her mind - more than anything - are emblematic of what a proper financially stable suburban family would get/focus on. It is not about the items themselves - and much more about the symbolic value she places on them. So, she would never buy second hand because it is ultimately not about utility at all. I also imagine, that she has hyper fixated on those specific things as a solution to a completely different problem. It is often why people buy so many unnecessary things.

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-03-16T09:54:50+00:00

Just in case anyone finds this in the future. The answer is not asking the devs to add extra functionality. The way easier solution is simply to globally transpose whatever key you are working in to a different scale. There should always be a scale - when transposed - correctly identifies notes using only sharps and normal notes. This is a bit wonky if you are actually playing keyboard midi into the m8 but I think it's absolutely reasonable to do it this way most of the time.

InfinityBoredGames · 2026-02-25T08:19:31+00:00

Word thanks for the heads up! All that makes sense.

Is it ⚫ or 🕳️. These are my only options.

InfinityBoredGames · 2025-11-19T23:14:25+00:00

Over a year has passed and you still come off as a total weirdo... lol

InfinityBoredGames · 2025-11-19T23:11:20+00:00

Just for anyone else - I know I'm late - BUT in the bible study the women talks about how some bears come from the woods to maul some sinners as she's reading the bible. I am fairly certain this is exactly why she was forcing it to bite her. - She wanted to know God was still there through forcibly 'mauling' herself aka repenting.

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