moakley
@moakley@lemmy.world
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 1 day ago:
It’s insanely good. At some point I want to make a post just about UFO 50, just to spread the word, but I don’t even know where to start.
Fifty is just an insane number of games, and so many of them are so god damn good.
Even now I want to be like, Porgy would be worth the cost on its own! But then I’m like, should I say Porgy or Avianos? Or Mini and Max? Or Grimstone? No, Rail Heist! Fuck it, I’m just going to go back to playing the damn thing.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 day ago:
Pretty sure it’s a reaction without any external energy input, which this is, but again, I’m no astronaut.
- Comment on Is it? 1 day ago:
That’s how basically all our fruits started. Do you think some ancient person just stumbled across a watermelon one day? Fuck no. They found something as disgusting as olives, decided it was good enough, then hundreds of years of selective breeding happened.
Have you ever seen a wild banana? It’s bullshit. You’d peel it open and that’s what you’d say: “This is bullshit.”
Meanwhile olives have been cultivated for olive oil for thousands of years, so that’s probably why people kept growing them in their bitter form.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 day ago:
Yes, it’s misused sometimes. And it sounds like you agree that sometimes it’s the right word for the situation.
If a man inaccurately and smugly trying to correct a female astronaut, punctuating it with “Simple thermo”, isn’t the right time to use “mansplaining”, then when would be?
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 day ago:
I’m pretty sure he didn’t make a fair point. I haven’t taken any thermodynamics classes, but I think the word “spontaneous” means something more specific in this context and is technically accurate.
He’s trying to one up her by using the common definition.
So he’s wrong on multiple levels here, and there’s no reason to pick apart the meaningless social media post accusing him of mansplaining.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 day ago:
Sometimes people are being sexist. Mansplaining is a real thing that happens. You may not see the need for the word because you personally don’t need it, but maybe you can understand that there a lot of people who do need it?
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 1 day ago:
I have three recommendations.
Split Fiction is a master class in game design. The split screen is so integrated into the experience that even online multiplayer is in split screen. The screens are a part of the story.
The gameplay is constantly changing to the point that discovering new mechanics becomes the gameplay loop.
The level designs are so clever that you’ll have several moments that feel scripted but were actually just inevitable because of how we play games.
To give a snapshot of the experience: there was one scene where my character was driving a motorcycle along the sides of skyscrapers, doing the craziest stunts imaginable, and my wife’s character was sitting on the back frantically trying to solve a series of CAPTCHAs on her phone. She was so focused on keeping a steady hand that she barely noticed the death-defying stunts happening literally out of the corner of her eye.
By the end of it I was like, “Did you see that??” and it turns out she did not. It’s absurd and hilarious, and it’s the kind of storytelling that only works in a video game.
My current obsession is UFO 50, which is a collection of 50 “retro” games. In real life they’re all new, but the story of the game is that they’re from a company from the 80s called UFOsoft, and then there’s a dark meta narrative hidden in the background.
Which is all just a framing device for 50 games, most of which are good, some of which are amazing, and half of which are couch co-op multiplayer. It’s like exploring the Switch’s retro NES collection for hidden gems, except there’s a lot more gems.
There are beat 'em ups, obscure sports games, some platformers, tactics games, a little bit of everything.
I’ve enlisted my wife to help me, because a lot of these games are just begging to be grinded out in co-op.
I got the game when I saw someone describe it as “a master class in game design”, and I thought, “that’s the phrase I’ve just been using to describe Split Fiction.”
And finally, I recommend Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, because that’s the multiplayer game I’ve been recommending for almost ten years.
You each play as adorable creatures in an adorable space ship that you customize as you go. The ship has several stations that need to be manned, including the captain’s seat, navigation, a directional shield, and multiple weapons.
But you each can only man one station at a time. So if you need to stay on the shield but a new enemy is approaching from the other side, then that means the captain is going to have to jump on a weapon and leave the ship adrift.
You may have arguments over which type of weapons to add to your ship or over who’s better at piloting which kind of engine. Or maybe you’ll work together in perfect harmony, relying on each other’s strengths and covering each other’s weaknesses as you adapt to every new challenge. Both ways are fun.
- Comment on Disco Panic! 2 days ago:
I’ve never heard of a disco clam before, but it makes sense if you think about Sam Clam’s Disco.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 6 days ago:
Esmeralda from Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Jane from Tarzan.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 1 week ago:
Depends where you are. Louisiana? Still pretty good. Houston? They changed their suppliers years ago so now instead of getting tenders they just get gristle. 100% gristle. Totally unchewable.
Layne’s is better. Same concept, but executed well.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 1 week ago:
You’re right. I adjusted it.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 1 week ago:
It’s my new hobby.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 1 week ago:
Emphatically uncensored:
- Comment on Why is the abusive parent always portrayed as being the father, why is the mother never portrayed as abusive? 2 weeks ago:
Tangled
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 2 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t shut up about it.
- Comment on I could use some serious advice as to whether or not to do this 2 weeks ago:
I’d clear it with the couple. It’s their day.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
I like tipping. The service is better, and servers are paid more than they would be without it.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
I like prompt refills. I’m happy to tip for that.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II
What the hell was it about that game? There was just something addictive. I barely even played it online, but I could just sink hours into it.
- Comment on F*ck off Arnie, you're out of your element! 2 weeks ago:
Preventing Republicans from keeping control of congress is likely essential to preserving whatever is left of democracy in the US. If it’s not already too late.
Further gerrymandering in blue states could be walked back. Maybe it never will be. But the longer Republicans are in control, the more damage they’ll do to democracy.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 weeks ago:
That’s ridiculous.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 weeks ago:
My new hobby is emphatically uncensoring memes.
- Comment on Expert here. 3 weeks ago:
There’s a Disco Elysium joke here, but I can’t think of how to phrase it. Just pretend I made a perfectly worded reference.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
That’s fair. I guess what I’m saying is that describing it as “an RPG” doesn’t do nearly enough to convey what the game actually is. Like I can see the argument to say Elden Ring is an RPG, because it definitely has RPG elements, but you’d never describe it as an RPG without also mentioning that it’s an action game. You also wouldn’t describe Expedition 33 without mentioning that it’s a turn-based RPG.
In the same way, I find it misleading to label Disco Elysium as an RPG without mentioning that it’s an adventure game. It’s at least as much of an adventure game as it is an RPG, and most importantly: it lacks combat. Combat isn’t necessarily a requirement of the genre, but if you asked a random gamer to name 10 RPGs, he’d either name 10 games with combat systems, or he’d name 9 games with combat and Disco Elysium.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 3 weeks ago:
I could fit so many coins in my mouth.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 3 weeks ago:
I like smaller because I can fit more of them in my mouth, but so far my record is still 1.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
I think the problem is that it kind of isn’t an RPG.
It’s an adventure game with heavy RPG elements. Like the core gameplay clearly resembles old point and click adventure games. It’s just the experience and leveling system are also so central to the gameplay that it wouldn’t work without also being an RPG.
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 4 weeks ago:
And it’s all paid for by one pervert who sits across from the machine.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 weeks ago:
She’s #4 all time on there! I took this better picture this week but hadn’t posted it yet because it’s “babie week” there.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 weeks ago:
When I got a lawn, I didn’t do anything to it. It gets mowed every two weeks, but that’s it. After a particularly nasty drought most of the grass died. A few months later, clover started popping up on its own. It’s much better than grass, and now a bunny likes to visit us.
