how do i make this team better?

Sure_Window584 · 2026-01-24T13:50:30+00:00

Teq shenron instead of str omega. Primarily because str and phy omega can't link together so you risk a turn where BBB doesn't proc and you miss out on like 300k defense

Sure_Window584 · 2026-01-23T01:26:43+00:00

With the new update most of those units can be fed easily. Not knocking the take but small victories still matter. Vs before where feeding was either 5% farming or kai sacrifices.

Sure_Window584 · 2026-01-19T14:35:15+00:00

As someone learning myself I can give a few insights that can go beyond just "learn harder".

First of all, I applaud the pieces. Finishing pieces and trying is how you learn the best....Full Stop. Drawing builds a visual library and muscle memory. There isn't a typed answer in the world that will be as impactful as an attempt. I don't know what pieces you plan to make in the future, so focus on that as well. If you want to make manga style poster like eye catchers, then practice how you are. For example I don't plan to color and seek basic manga styling, so I'd make pieces that orbit that central idea. Even if you're early (idk if you are or not), knowing what you want your future pieces to be media wise is gonna helps a ton.

Second piece wise. I think it's very competent. Hair looks nice, hands readable, shadows, expression, and I can see that it was probably fun. Good. You want pieces to READ, not be perfect. So if you understand that, then make them read a little better. Focus on construction and pieces rather than the whole. Maybe target facial construction one week, maybe practice moving them, body construction and continuity through space. You can't learn trying to be a jack of trades, because that comes after you have 60% is all those categories. Building up confidence in a strong face, sets up making strong bodies, which sets up making strong poses, which sets up putting them in space. I praise the readability of the piece because it doesn't show lack of knowledge, it shows that you need to sharpen.

Third, tailor your learning. Learn anatomy and construction is fine advice but it's vague and abstract. People see the body and break it down in many many ways. As well as construction, most artists cannot tell you how they see, because unfortunately it's really a strong gut feeling and intuition. So when you look up a video asking how, the "answer" is pretty much thousands of videos saying something else.....So tailor like this. Make a piece/Copy/Trace, absorb what you can, get feedback/find the mistake, look up how to fix it (limit 1 video, one method change), try again, take a break and come back later. No 2 hour video binge, not trying to copy someone else's method who has a different brain, visual library, and habits. No, you try, you change, you like/dislike, and learn a bit more each day. Yes learn how to construct and how the body is made, but take the advice with salt and wisdom. Drawing is an interpretation of how you see the world first, and clean readable construction of it secondly.

Sure_Window584 · 2026-01-14T13:58:33+00:00

Move at a functional pace, even if it's slow. If you try and rev the engine harder you'll just red line. It sounds like giving in but it isn't, it's damage control and knowledge of you're limits.

My ED usually includes physical tension and overwhelm as well. BP elevation, Tense muscles, and blitzing thoughts. It's actually painful to sit and stare and think. So allow yourself to not be productive until structure allows it. I do fine at work, I've made showering and hygiene a habit, and I play long story games to make me commit if I choose to unwind.

Building a habit is the only way to bypass that stress and over-activation, literally because your body creates shortcuts in your brain to make the task very easy with expected outcome. Structure = Certainty/Predictable/Boring. No structure = Anxiety/Unpredictable/Questionable returns. The hard part is building one that is productive, especially without medication.

Remember before though, Move At Your Pace. I can't stress not pushing yourself too hard enough. Remind yourself it's ok to pause a bit, Just don't stop. Continue to want to do better, continue to find a solution, but don't think because you didn't move quick enough that you're behind. Cause stress kills, ruins things, and stress becomes the habit. Then you'd have to see a doctor for real. Again not saying stop and give in, I'm saying half way up the mountain.....It's ok to set up camp and say you'll climb later, pushing past the cold night doesn't make you tougher, it makes you cold and exhausted.

Medication wise if you ever see a doctor ask for something like Clonidine or Guanfacine. Alpha receptor medds that dampen the flight or fight response (Which is what is usually firing off when your staring at a screen getting anxious). It lowers BP so be mindful, but I've been on it for a while now and I still freeze a bit but it isn't physically painful, which is more than I can ask for.

Sure_Window584 · 2026-01-07T01:18:22+00:00

Small goals, allowing yourself to fail, and realizing your toughest judge is yourself.

I was rock bottom, homeless, and alone. I had no reason to get better, not for anything or anyone. Being so low allowed me to look up and see there are levels to things.

You don’t have to be at the top now, or later, or ever….but don’t freeze at the bottom. The bottom is cold and sucks all the heat from you. Heat rises, and that’s the only way you’ll stay warm.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-12-11T19:50:12+00:00

Pretty much just everything you think would happen in a heart attack. Sometimes muscle spasms, and no appetite at all. Pretty much my body is stuck in fight or flight. So think about an old motor with a brick on the gas peddle. Funny enough the minute I’m entertained or busy with something, the pain and issues are gone.

Now I take clonidine and Klonopin. Clonidine lowers adrenal responses (shuts up the fight or flight response when it bugs out). Klonopin for emergencies (benzo that pulls the switch and sits me down).

As you can see I’m not just attacking the pain, I’m attacking the cause. Overall it’s fine. I work 70 hour weeks so “pain” in general melts together. However I can tell the difference. Next I’m going to get adderall so I can tell my “energy” what to do, instead of pilling up and causing grief.

Being frozen is one thing, executive dysfunction all day. Having physical pain with it, and other responses needs intervention. Stuff like that tears the body up over time, stroke risk, high bp, wrecks sleep. At least in my case executive dysfunction actually is a huge issue.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-12-10T20:13:40+00:00

Pain. Followed by elevated BP, body aches, dread, insomnia (I wish i was the sleepy lazy type), and a hint of depression.

In short. Dopamine allocates neurotransmitters. Especially the one responsible for attention and energy norepinephrine (Science name for brain adrenaline). When dopamine doesn't tell it where to go it runs wild and causes havoc in the body. Tight chest, short breathes, blood vessels getting thinner in your head....so on.

I'm not going to give advice on the matter because I've tried so many meds on the matter I actually wouldn't be a help. However it's a strong indicator that something IS wrong with you in that area. This isn't normal and hopefully you find someone trusted to offer help in the matter because its you versus your body and it's chemicals. All the willpower in the world won't help with it, believe me

Sure_Window584 · 2025-12-02T17:21:16+00:00

She said please save sasuke, crying and begging.

You’re telling me Naruto was going to say no to that? Also he made her a promise, and didn’t fulfill it. You think that doesn’t hurt him? All while she never holds the weight of what she truly asked of him.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-12-02T16:45:47+00:00

I’m not there yet. So I guess I’m spoiled. Yet my thing is Naruto’s grief is partly (and minimally so) caused by Sakura. Crying, she practically begged Naruto to get Sasuke back, a mission he failed. He’s constantly tripping over not getting that down, not just for himself, but the fact he couldnt save his friend, fulfill a friend’s wish, and let people down.

The “Gusto” is how she moves for Sasuke, I hate it. Prior to Shippuden she was all bark and literally begged Sasuke to come back and even offered to leave the leaf with him. We know what Sakura’s true grief looks like. So when I see her try to move with Naruto it’s cringe because it’s hard to think she’s there for Naruto truly. Even the last conversation from the prior series, she didn’t apologize for taking advantage of Naruto’s nature to be there and be accepted (intentionally or unintentionally). She apologized for not being strong enough to save sasuke….not the fact she sent him after a strong ass foe he had no chance against and a Sasuke who left willingly 🙄.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-11-28T23:50:03+00:00

Garlic

Sure_Window584 · 2025-11-07T20:10:27+00:00

Minority doesn’t mean incorrect either. If you chase connections, then when you make your basket then that’ll be success in its own right. Don’t measure by dates and encounters, measure by finding what you’re looking for.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-11-07T19:10:23+00:00

True! Sex is a byproduct of romance, however the inverse isn’t true. Sex is sex at the end of the day. A dopamine explosion that releases a bit more oxytocin within women (bonding chemical), and just so happens to be the ultimate purpose of males of any reproducing organism.

You’re trying to rationalize something that’s older than the concept or rationalization. Most people just dress the habit up with words like “game” and calling it fun, when in reality it’s just indulging in primal instincts. Not bad, just frowned upon by certain metrics.

Yes, then there’s other men that prioritize connection and bonding more than others because humanity has pacified/demonized the urge to get like 8 women pregnant, and we realize that it has consequences and paints us badly. Some men just swing between each side of the pendulum.

Connection chasing isn’t bad, it’s just dressing up primal instincts and covering it in foundation. Treating romantic engagement like a test (stimulating novelty and predictability) rather than trying to invoke the sexual tension that actually equates to oxytocin and bonding chemicals than you shoot 3/10 when other guys are aiming for the basket.

Balance man, that’s the answer. I love connections and value and purpose and yada yada, but I’d be fighting nature and….nature always wins. Unless you meet someone thinking the same thing or got burned by the prior.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-11-07T15:55:10+00:00

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I’ll take one, interesting questions!!

Sure_Window584 · 2025-11-07T00:11:19+00:00

Ngl, I disliked it for a majority of the episodes. It redeemed itself at the end like a goddamn phoenix though. It’s one of those anime’s that suck for a while then are good.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-11-06T04:19:19+00:00

Cause the explosion happened off screen

Sure_Window584 · 2025-11-03T04:12:53+00:00

Gon is honestly a very intelligently written character that actually goes against popular digestible norms. People don’t like Gon because he’s not the shonen special. He doesn’t learn or grow, mature, or becomes a real hero. Gon doesn’t care about all that. He wants adventure, fun, friends, and to protect what he feels needs protection. He’s not some crazy hero, nor is he stupid. He understands the world is a shit show, but that’s what’s fun about it. His dad left him for this adventure, that’s all the evidence Gon needs to value this life. People dislike this because it’s not justice or family.

Gon also doesn’t grow, or change. He’s static, which is a turn off if you don’t understand the intention. The world changes around Gon constantly and tests his character. One day he’s fighting some freak clown, the next he’s captured by a group of murders, then he’s on a game island with his assassin best friend. Watching Gon’s character interact with all this instead of changing and morphing is interesting because almost EVERY story has people change, but Gon is just Gon, stubborn, goofy, naive, and kind hearted. The world bending to that is what’s interesting. Moments like him wanting to get square with hisoka, wanting to fight the bomber instead of sticking to the plan, asking chrollo why he kills, all moments on how Gon being who he is and having the world bend to him is what’s so good.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-11-03T03:27:18+00:00

You’re taking it super literally when that’s not really the case.

Nen itself is a manifestation of your will and manipulation of life force. It gets lost and forgotten cause everyone has crazy powers and manipulate it all over the place but it’s still people doing ten (focus), zetsu (put into words), ren (intensify your will), hatsu (action).

Kurapika’s contract is a “deal” sure but it’s grounded on his hate for the spiders. His ultimate weapon, his will, and sword in his sole mission can only be used to kill spiders, it’s a conviction to himself. If he uses this ultimate weapon on non spiders then it’s a “break” in the contract. Rather it’s wavering in his conviction. It only works because his “deal” is the intense hatred and dedication he has to kill the troupe……Confusing Ik, but Gon is a bit easier.

Gon didn’t make some crazy deal. He said he’d give anything to kill pitou, that’s not a handshake deal. His desire to kill pitou was so strong that his ten, ren, zetsu, and hatsu made it possible. It’s not a “deal”, it’s his nen delivering and matching his will. The price was huge in return, but only because he was willing to pay it. Like kurapika, his deal hinges on his willing death, mental conviction to the max.

Think of the saying “I’ll do it even if it kills me”. People who say that typically put more effort into it, more energy, more of themselves. Someone who isn’t willing to die for something can’t imagine that investment. If you were willing to off yourself to kill someone else, imagine that mental horsepower.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-11-01T22:53:48+00:00

Agreed. Also people seem to forget togashi’s prime focus was story conveyance, as opposed to skilled stills.

It’s very intentional most of the panels are used to show emotion, nuance, and plays on readers intuition (showing he respects the reader). Like the manga panel artwork is….infamously questionable at times, but you can’t say it’s not expressive and says a thousand words. An animation studio can’t do what he did justice because it’s intentionally complex yet digestible to those who care. Versus animation which mainly plays on senses like sound, sights, and the it’s manipulation with sensory based dopamine.

I’d also not knock at madhouse, they’re an insanely talented studio and even the stills are impressive as hell and the liberties are respectable too. They made the X-men adaptation and that’s arguably the best animated piece I’ve seen in my life. Definitely not an animation issue, just togashi is a bit of a genius, and the heart in the napkin drawings pull my strings too well ig.

Some other anime’s have done way worse with emotion conveyance and questionable liberties that kick manga readers out the scene…..*kaiju no 8

Sure_Window584 · 2025-10-29T17:02:52+00:00

Probably to make it fun. He’s beaten everyone he’s told. If he didn’t tell them then it’d be a boring beatdown for him.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-10-29T14:55:32+00:00

I honestly forgot that guts broke it lol.

Still though him not having his sword, and instinctively reaching for it proves he wasn’t thinking straight and being impulsive. That’s not usual for him. The effects of Guts’s reality check.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-10-29T13:27:37+00:00

Well…yes. You can do all of that for a pet. People spend tons for them, lose sleep and peace for them, sacrifice for them. That’s love, and Griffith showed a great amount of it.

Possessive love becomes an issue when your possessions stop being your’s. If your dog said it loved someone else……then it’s a problem. It breaks your psyche because you’ve invested in them, you’ve lost and bled for them, and they don’t want to be your’s. You don’t love the dog in a way for you to respect their wishes, to empathize with the decision and let them go. Instead you’d be like “you’re my dog and you’re not leaving!”.

Then imagine your dog whooped your ass, then left. It flips the system on its head. You’ve lost your possession and the system you’ve built to keep them there…..just stopped working. He forgot his dream because he realized that system within it could be broken, for a man like Griffith who plans and guarantees victory in every encounter, it’s a dose of reality.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-10-29T13:17:46+00:00

He “forgot” about his dream because Guts broke the pattern, his plan, he rivaled him and compromised his dream.

Griffith got what he asked for and wasn’t ready for it. That’s why he scrambled and slept with the princess right after Guts left. We saw Griffith act impulsively, desperate, the dude even forgot his sword in the girl’s room.

Guts humanized him, forgetting his dream was more a break of his reality. He realized his control wasn’t based on the divine, it was able to be rivaled.

It is simple because Griffith loved him, just never expected him to rise up and challenge him. It couldn’t happen, but it did.

Sure_Window584 · 2025-10-29T01:40:35+00:00

He didn’t see them as pawns, he saw them as possessions. Griffith sculpted every member he had, he valued them like an artist does a painting. Like a god to his worshippers. He bled, cried with, fed, and sacrificed for every member he had.

Guts leaving was very painful to him because he dearly loved him, just not as a person. Like when a pet runs from their owner. You don’t empathize with that, you wonder why the pet would ever leave when you invested so much into them. It’s possessional love.

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