moakley
@moakley@lemmy.world
- Comment on Panama Proxima 10 hours ago:
I guess no point in climbing Mount Everest if it’s not going to be the tallest in 250M years. That’s a relief.
- Comment on Nonsense 3 days ago:
Depends on whether or not there’s a Gogoat or a Skiddo in the party.
- Comment on Nonsense 3 days ago:
That made me look it up, and it turns out goat sucker birds predate the chupacabra by a couple thousand years. There was a myth that these birds drank goat milk (from the goat).
I remember reading the Dragonlance books in the 90s, and one character would talk about a cryptid called the “Goatsucker Bird” that was an amalgamation of those two things, and now I finally get that joke.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 4 days ago:
I’d take Diddy Kong over any version of Mario Kart, any day. It’s less random, with more streamlined items and tighter mechanics.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 4 days ago:
Modern games don’t suck. That’s a silly thing to say.
Rare’s N64 platformers especially wouldn’t hold up today.
Go play DK64 today and tell me it’s better than a modern game. But you have to play it all the way through, all the bullshit repetitive item collection, going through the same rooms with every character to get every boring banana.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 4 days ago:
Diddy Kong Racing is a masterpiece. I don’t think you played it all the way through.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 5 days ago:
I mentioned Goldeneye.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 5 days ago:
I’d say those were solid games, but not great.
Rare games just had this style that made everything feel a little off.
Like eating a Subway sandwich. The ham doesn’t just taste like ham; it tastes like ham + Subway. The turkey tastes like turkey + Subway. Banjo-Kazooie was the worst about this. It just had so much of this extra “Rare” flavor on top of it.
And like, you don’t notice it at first until you try the breakfast sandwich, and when that tastes like egg + Subway, you can’t eat there anymore because that’s all you can taste.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 5 days ago:
I was a Genesis kid, but I played most of the SNES classics while it was still the 90s.
Donkey Kong Country has always been criminally overrated. Even on a CRT television it was just not that good.
In fact I’ll go so far as to say that between the SNES and the N64, Rare made exactly two great games: Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing. Everything else was middling.
- Comment on Are You Using AI for Content Creation Yet? It Changed Everything for Me 5 days ago:
Which one do you use? I’m not asking for myself; I just want to know what you’re shilling for.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’ve got that too. But confidence leads to complacency. I’ve thankfully never had it happen when it mattered, but on a couple of occasions I’ve found myself not being hypervigilant when I normally would be. It’s back on once I notice, but it only takes one slip up.
Most of these cases also involve a change in routine. You go about your normal day, feeling the way you normally do, because your mind has forgotten that something is different. Trusting your instinct to overcome that just isn’t a foolproof plan. I mean there is no foolproof plan, but there’s also no harm in taking a little extra precaution in your routine like putting your shoe or your wallet in the back seat.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
The biggest thing that most of those people have in common is that they think it couldn’t happen to them.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
My last drain snake broke off in the drain.
Get a decent drain snake. Maybe not the cheapest one on Amazon.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
I got you.
I used to throw it away, but recently I started saving it, and it’s amazing.
Step 1: Cook bacon.
Step 2: Strain the grease. I use a tea strainer. You don’t have to do this, but it helps it last longer, because the bacon bits spoil before the grease does.
Step 3: Pour it into a small tub. I use an old spreadable butter tub that has masking tape on the top and sides with “BACON GREASE” written on it, so I don’t accidentally use it instead of butter.
Step 4: Use that shit. You can use it in most places you’d use butter or oil.
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Caramelizing onions? Slap a dollop of bacon grease into the pan first.
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Pancakes? Pancakes with a soupçon of bacon.
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Eggs? Obviously.
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Grilled cheese? Holy shit, use bacon grease. It’s so fucking good.
It behaves a lot like butter. When it’s cold it stiffens up, but if you leave it out for a few minutes it softens and becomes spreadable.
Whenever I cook more bacon I top up my bacon grease tub. My cooking has gotten a little bit better this year, and it’s all because of bacon grease.
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- Comment on Perspective 1 week ago:
Exactly. I’m using what I know of gravity. The mattress should be resting on top of something. If we’re looking down, it is. If we’re looking up, it’s floating in mid-air, apparently wedged against both walls even though it doesn’t look firmly wedged on the right side.
- Comment on Perspective 1 week ago:
I’m not the one being pedantic. Whatever that object is, it’s not clear that it’s a banister.
- Comment on Perspective 1 week ago:
There’s no banister in the picture. It looks like maybe there’s a support for a banister, but that doesn’t magically make the tops of the steps into the sides of the steps.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 week ago:
“no, there really isn’t a celebrity I’d go gay for.”
Not even for the story?
- Comment on Perspective 1 week ago:
Bottom.
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The risers on the stairs are not visible.
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The wear on the carpet goes right to the edge. That’s consistent with people stepping on it, not kicking it on the way up.
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If it’s at the top, the mattress doesn’t appear to have any of its weight resting on a step. It could be so wedged in that it’s being held in place, and that it was wedged that way by someone awkwardly pushing at the ends of it in a way that wouldn’t seem to give them enough leverage to do that. But the obvious explanation is more likely, that it’s at the bottom of the stairs.
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- Comment on Perspective 1 week ago:
There’s nothing wrong with carpeted stairs.
- Comment on Ready for another week of abuse 1 week ago:
Just do what I do, and fall behind on everything.
- Comment on Anthem servers shutting down January 12, 2026 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, the playable space in Anthem was in three dimensions. Meanwhile Destiny’s maps are deceptively small, using tunnels that wind in on themselves and non-explorable space to feel larger.
Yeah, more zones would have been good, but none of that compares to having some of the tightest combat and traversal gameplay I’ve ever experienced.
- Comment on Anthem servers shutting down January 12, 2026 2 weeks ago:
I never understood the hate. The gameplay was incredible.
The biggest complaints pretty much boiled down to it not having literal infinite replayability. Like, you have to give it a minute.
I played Destiny at launch, and Anthem at launch was better.
- Comment on ‘There Isn’t Much Sway Held by Past Success’: Baldur’s Gate 3 actors reveal it hasn’t boosted their careers 2 weeks ago:
It’s been over a year and I still think about him pleading with himself, trying to decide what to do.
- Comment on Enough is enough 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have enough skin.
The cops beat down the door . . .
I really thought it was going another direction, where they’d just, you know, get more skin.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 2 weeks ago:
As a resident of Floxus, I propose we make the creeping phlox our state flower.
(It smells like rotting skunk.)
- Comment on Beercicle 2 weeks ago:
Wrap the can in a wet paper towel. It’ll get cold much faster that way, possibly before you forget it’s in there.
- Comment on Lamp. 3 weeks ago:
Best Christmas gift I ever got my dad. He’s a huge Christmas Story fan. It came in a big crate filled with straw and everything, with “HIS END UP” and “FRAGILE” printed on the side. I think it’s a little smaller than the official one, but still pretty big.
He puts it in the front window of his house every year.
- Comment on Good job 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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.