moakley
@moakley@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 1 day ago:
The typo makes the answer incorrect. The whole question would need to be thrown out.
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 1 day 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 day 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? 2 days ago:
Does better reading comprehension get you a better answer?
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 2 days 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 3 days 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? 3 days 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? 3 days 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 3 days 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 4 days ago:
A tree stole my wallet and had sex with my wife!
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 4 days 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 week 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.
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 1 week ago:
Honestly. It’s horrible that he’s sending people who are legally allowed to be here to his concentration camp, but it is also equally horrible that he’s sending people who aren’t legally allowed to be here to his concentration camp.
Immigrants are good. Immigration is good. Everything about this is fucked up and goes against the soul of America.
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 1 week ago:
Sweet. I love this one.
- Comment on Minecraft confuses me 2 weeks ago:
Exactly!
Although now this got me thinking, as a man in my forties who shares a Minecraft Realm with his childhood best friend, how I could go about getting 80+ cows into my friend’s base. We’re working on stuff a few maps away, so I’ve got time before he goes back there, but it’s a long trip and he’d notice I’m gone. I might have to hollow out a space and breed the cows over time.
- Comment on Minecraft confuses me 2 weeks ago:
Not really a tangent. This stuff is important.
I think every generation just tries to do better than the previous one. I don’t know if I really got in trouble for my “big feelings” growing up, but I was often made to feel like my emotions were silly or too strong for a given situation. It got to the point where when something genuinely bad happens I almost revel in it, like I crave authenticity so much that I look forward to “legitimate” pain.
So I try to keep that in mind. When one of my kids cries about something silly, we have a discussion about whether it’s a big thing or a little thing. Sometimes I’m strategically dismissive, because they need to have a little thick skin, but if that doesn’t work then we go into feeling sharing mode.
Then we make a distinction between what we’re feeling (which is always legitimate, no matter what), and what we do about it. They can still get in trouble for bad behavior, but then we try to give them the language to express their emotions in a healthy way.
And if it’s just a genuine emotional breakdown, whatever the cause, I remember back to when I did that as a kid and was met with a cold response, and I stop what I’m doing and hold them until they feel better.
- Comment on Minecraft confuses me 2 weeks ago:
Children get upset about all kinds of things, and it’s important to help them understand and resolve their emotions, no matter how silly it is.
Eighty cows is a minor inconvenience at worst and like four stacks of steak at best.
So I feel like the confusion here isn’t just coming from how to handle the griefer child or how to get the cows out of the house. I think it’s more to do with the novelty of the situation.
Why is the child upset by this? Does he not like to kill cows in the game? Is there something preventing him from luring the cows out of the house? Was he just unpleasantly surprised by it and hadn’t thought through whether or not it was a big deal? There’s a lot of layers to this.
Or maybe this guy just never played Minecraft.
- Comment on nature is music 3 weeks ago:
Good for it. Those are both fantastic songs.
Even 30 years later, Black Hole Sun blows my mind. Chris Cornell’s voice walks this impossible line between sounding so full of emotion that it’s about to burst, and sounding somehow soothing and precise.
That’s not even a line that exists to walk; he creates a line that cannot logically exist, just so his voice can walk it.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 4 weeks ago:
Last time I took the political compass test, I was center-right, firmly in the libertarian quadrant, exactly in the sub-section labeled “libertarian”.
That means my political stances align 100% against the Republican party and authoritarianism in general.
- Comment on This is unfair! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 5 weeks ago:
“Female” is fine as an adjective. It’s when it’s used as a noun that it becomes a problem. But that’s not a new rule or anything.
Consider when someone says “Black people” vs “the Blacks”.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 5 weeks ago:
Agents of SHIELD. That counts.
- Comment on Val Kilmer, Actor Renowned for Receding Into His Roles, Dies at 65 5 weeks ago:
He used to comment occasionally on reddit. I interacted with him there once. He seemed very gracious and down-to-earth.
- Comment on Ty Burrell recalls being told he's 'not funny' after 'Modern Family' audition 5 weeks ago:
But he’s really terrible at it. He constantly quotes comedians out of context in ways that are categorically unfunny to the people around him. Like when he calls Dwight an “ignorant slut” or says “and don’t call me Shirley” when no one has said the word “surely”. He copies the punchlines but forgets the setups.
He envies comedians because he wants to be able to make people laugh, but he has a very poor understanding of comedy itself.
- Comment on What are some of the most well-acted, engaging, complex or interesting antagonists or villains you've watched in TV? 5 weeks ago:
Kingpin in Daredevil.
Vincent D’Onofrio walks a fine line between being believable and over the top.
- Comment on What are some of the most well-acted, engaging, complex or interesting antagonists or villains you've watched in TV? 5 weeks ago:
The first half of the first season of Heroes was so good.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
*your
- Comment on Skill issue 1 month ago:
This is definitely an objective opinion based on facts and universal experiences: the best multiplayer experience was Halo 1, when we ran ethernet cables between our dorm rooms. I’d wake up to someone slamming on my door telling me to turn my Xbox on, and I’d jump right into a death match.
- Comment on Definitely wasn't late to work making this 1 month ago:
You can color with a candle.
- Comment on Definitely wasn't late to work making this 1 month ago:
Wait until you realize that number 8 is actually teal blue! Gotcha!
The lesson here is not to peel off the labels.