moakley
@moakley@lemmy.world
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 days ago:
That’s ridiculous.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 days ago:
My new hobby is emphatically uncensoring memes.
- Comment on Expert here. 4 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago:
I could fit so many coins in my mouth.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 5 days 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 5 days 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. 1 week ago:
And it’s all paid for by one pervert who sits across from the machine.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 1 week 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 1 week 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.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
bowel of popcorn
I can’t make a joke in good taste, so I’ll just point it out.
- Comment on High quality sticker though 2 weeks ago:
Always be wary of sticker packs bought online. They’ll literally just do a Google image search and print off everyone’s weird fan art of whatever you’re looking for. Nudity, drugs, fetish stuff, doesn’t matter.
I made the mistake of buying a Sonic the Hedgehog sticker pack off Amazon for my kids. Honestly it could have been worse, given how hard Sonic “fan art” goes.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You should prepare yourself to get a real job.
You can game on the side. You can even try to build up a following and turn that into something that replaces your job. But you probably won’t get that off the ground before needing a real job.
- Comment on MILLIPEDE FACTS 2 weeks ago:
It was Houston, so if we’re sticking with native fauna, it was either an alligator or some kind of venomous snake.
Personally I always pictured a manticore, but I never did get up there to see.
- Comment on MILLIPEDE FACTS 2 weeks ago:
I lived on the ground floor of an apartment building that was lousy with millipedes. As pests go, millipedes are easy mode. They’re slow, they’re terrible climbers, and they crumble instead of squish. There’s a smell, but it’s not even that bad.
Occasionally there’d be a cockroach.
Then I moved to the second floor, and there were almost no millipedes, but more cockroaches. Also flying cockroaches.
It was like a video game. You’ve got your easy level 1 bugs with the occasional level 2 bug mixed in, then once you get to actual level 2, some of the level 2 bugs can fly.
Still not as bad as the third floor. The third floor was bats.
- Comment on Panama Proxima 3 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Depends on whether or not there’s a Gogoat or a Skiddo in the party.
- Comment on Nonsense 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I mentioned Goldeneye.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
