moakley
@moakley@lemmy.world
- Comment on Perspective 22 hours 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 22 hours ago:
I’m not the one being pedantic. Whatever that object is, it’s not clear that it’s a banister.
- Comment on Perspective 22 hours 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 day ago:
“no, there really isn’t a celebrity I’d go gay for.”
Not even for the story?
- Comment on Perspective 1 day 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 day ago:
There’s nothing wrong with carpeted stairs.
- Comment on Ready for another week of abuse 2 days ago:
Just do what I do, and fall behind on everything.
- Comment on Anthem servers shutting down January 12, 2026 4 days 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 4 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
As a resident of Floxus, I propose we make the creeping phlox our state flower.
(It smells like rotting skunk.)
- Comment on Beercicle 1 week 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. 2 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 4 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? 4 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.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 4 weeks ago:
It was a joke. Also, I count two.
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
That’s a lot of typos for someone with perfect vision.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 4 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 4 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
I started collecting Lego again.
… and running.
- Comment on This section of Jim Carrey's Wikipedia Article 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.