moakley
@moakley@lemmy.world
- Comment on Good job 1 week ago:
Maybe it’s not about poop. Maybe “liquid ass” is what was “poured into them jeans”?
Let’s have a little optimism on the internet for once.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 1 week ago:
To be fair, that’s kind of the point of the story. He’s a bit of a dick who needs to learn to do better.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 1 week ago:
It was a joke. Also, I count two.
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 1 week ago:
If something has no downvotes, I might second guess downvoting it. For example sometimes I downvote bad typos, but I usually won’t if the post doesn’t have any downvotes.
You already have a couple of downvotes…
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 1 week ago:
That’s a lot of typos for someone with perfect vision.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 2 weeks ago:
Games I’m currently playing:
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I think I like it, but I don’t love it yet. It’s undeniably well made. The story is told well, the acting, music, and graphics are all top notch. Really well done.
But the story isn’t really hooking me yet. Something about that kind of fantasy story irks me. Like, the premise seems so outlandish and arbitrary that I can’t tell if it’s actually good or if it’s just manipulative. I’ve seen so much praise for the intro, but to me it’s like: “Every year on this day, something emotional and devastating happens!” Then it happens, apropos of nothing, and everyone is like, “Oh my god this intro is so emotional and devastating.”
Just doesn’t feel organic to me.
It’s also not my type of game. I’m slightly less than neutral towards turn-based RPGs, and I’m firmly against parrying. Still, the execution is good enough that I’m going to stick it out a while longer.
- Oblivion Character Creation Screen
I just can’t seem to get past this no matter how hard I try.
- Minecraft
Getting back into my 6 year old realm. Building a big stables near a cherry grove.
- Split Fiction
I’ve been playing this with my wife, and it’s fantastic. Never boring, always clever and inventive. Just went through a whole pinball sequence that is just a master class in game design.
- Ravenswatch
One of the best multiplayer games I’ve ever played. Also one of the best roguelikes. The gameplay is ridiculously tight, and the new characters are awesome. I wouldn’t personally describe it as a coop Hades, but I wouldn’t outright disagree with someone who did.
Shit, I just realized I’ve been playing a lot of games lately.
- Comment on Talented child artist 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’d probably leave that up for a few years. I have trouble throwing away any of her artwork.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty rare that I haven’t heard of a movie, but this is only the second time I’ve heard of this movie, and the first time was on reddit yesterday. Was that you?
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
I started collecting Lego again.
… and running.
- Comment on This section of Jim Carrey's Wikipedia Article 3 weeks ago:
Nostalgia usually doesn’t work on me, but bringing back 1990s Jim Carrey to be in the Sonic movies is laser targeted at 10-year-old me and totally works.
- Comment on This meme goes way back 3 weeks ago:
Orpheus is the one who looks back. He should be looking back at Eurydice, and the girl on the right is Hades looking all smug.
- Comment on they come 3 weeks ago:
They only get to about half an inch. And they’re sort of round, not as gross as a lot of other bugs. But yeah, they just slam themselves into doors and windows. It’s noisy and weird.
- Comment on they come 3 weeks ago:
June bugs are so annoying. Every April they start slamming their little bodies against the damn back door, and I’m like, what the fuck are you doing?! You’re two months early, you assholes!
It’s fine when they do it in June, but I have to put up with two months of that early bullshit.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 3 weeks ago:
Hold on. I’m going to reread the series so I can better refute this.
brb
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 3 weeks ago:
For me, Dumai’s Wells is like a mile-high rollercoaster hill. I just coast right through the slog.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 3 weeks ago:
I know this is absolutely insane to say when we’re talking about books that are 1,000 pages long, but book 6 is where the series really becomes levels up into something incredible. I enjoyed it a lot before then, but if you can get that far, it’s just amazing.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
“Woke” has had a consistent meaning since its introduction into the English language almost a hundred years ago. It means “Aware of systemic racism.”
When blues legend Lead Belly ended a show in 1938 by saying, “Stay woke,” he meant: “Stay aware of systemic racism.”
When some chud on YouTube in 2025 says “‘Woke’ is ruining gaming,” he means that awareness of systemic racism is ruining gaming. For him.
And when an American politician calls himself “anti-woke”, he’s saying that he opposes the awareness of systemic racism. Not that he denies the existence of it, but that he’d prefer no one talk about it, so that it can continue.
- Comment on How I view others in social media 5 weeks ago:
That doesn’t bother me, and as someone who occasionally makes comics I always appreciate positive feedback like that.
So much worse is:
OP: “This [noun] is [adjective].”
Commenter 1: “This [noun] is [worse adjective]. FTFY.”
Commenter 2: “[Noun] isn’t [adjective]… BECAUSE IT’S AN INSULT TO [ADJECTIVE] THINGS EVERYWHERE! I am so clever! You thought I was defending [noun], but I pulled an Uno Reverse, which is also a clever thing to say!”
At dinner that night I imagine commenter 2 tells his mom all about how he’s so funny on reddit. She doesn’t really listen.
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 1 month ago:
The typo makes the answer incorrect. The whole question would need to be thrown out.
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 1 month ago:
That’s an interesting perspective. The odds of correctly guessing any multiple choice question with four answers should be 25%. But that assumes no duplicate answers, so I still say that’s wrong.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 month ago:
A lot of the game is scanning planets, gathering resources, and upgrading your ship. The upgrades allow you to gather more resources, explore further, and get better weapons so you can survive hostile alien encounters.
If you ever have the opportunity, I highly recommend giving it a try.
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 1 month ago:
Does better reading comprehension get you a better answer?
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 1 month ago:
B.
This is a multiple choice test. Once you eliminate three answers, you pick the fourth answer and move on to the next question. It can’t be A, C, or D, for reasons that I understand. There’s a non-zero chance that it’s B for a reason that I don’t understand.
If there is no correct answer, then there’s no point hemming and hawing about it.
B. Final answer.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 1 month ago:
Multiplayer games are nearly unplayable in 2025.
Not to be contrarian, because I think you’re making some good points, but Split Fiction came out less than two months ago.
I’m also sinking hundreds of hours into Ravenswatch, which I don’t hear anyone talking about, but it’s incredible.
Other than those, I also have a hard time finding games to play multiplayer, but I think maybe that’s a problem with you and me and not with gaming. Like I see people having a ton of fun with Marvel Rivals, and I wish I could get into it, but I can’t.
Thankfully it looks like the industry is moving away from microtransactions and live service games, or at least they’re starting to learn that there’s a time and a place for those things.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 month ago:
Disco Elysium gave me this experience in a new context. But better, because it blurs the line between success and failure.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 month ago:
Star Flight. I played it on Genesis, and it’s still one of the greatest games I’ve ever played.
One space ship, 270 solar systems, and 800 planets. The manual included a captain’s log that was sent back in time from the future, but without that you’d just be scouring the stars for clues, interrogating aliens, digging through ancient ruins, and watching slowly as a rash of planet-destroying solar flares spreads through the galaxy.
So fucking good.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 1 month ago:
Obviously I don’t know your personal situation, but they can’t actually force you to play Roblox. You’re allowed to say no.
Joking aside, the existence of bad games doesn’t make gaming worse when there are great games still being made. ET doesn’t count against Super Mario Bros. just because they were released in the same decade. Superman 64 doesn’t count against Ocarina of Time just because they were a year apart. And Fortnite being released eight years ago definitely doesn’t count against gaming today just because people are still playing it.
Yeah 1998 had some great games. A couple of them even hold up today. But not many, and the biggest reason those games topped the charts back then was because gaming as a whole was like 1% of the size it is today.
If you can’t find more than three games worth playing in a year, then either you don’t like games that much, or you’re not looking.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 1 month ago:
A tree stole my wallet and had sex with my wife!
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 1 month ago:
Gaming hasn’t gone to shit.
Some of it is shit, but that’s true for literally all media and art across all of human existence.
Gaming is better than ever. This whole discussion is ridiculous, with everyone blaming this or that for something that just doesn’t align with reality.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 month ago:
Kellogg was never actually that influential. People mostly knew he was a crackpot at the time.
An episode of Adam Ruins Everything gave him way too much credit, and then people on the internet just keep repeating it because Kellogg was such a weird guy.