moakley
@moakley@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 1 day ago:
I heard the opposite, that separating them ripens them quicker. In my experience this appears to be true.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
It wasn’t kidney failure. That’s where he hid the gold!!
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 6 days ago:
Two things can be true.
- Comment on All grown up now 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure that Morgan Freeman picture is AI.
- Comment on I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die. 1 week ago:
They’ve been saying it on the national news for 40+ years as though it’s true, but yeah one of the hundred and fifteen people who read this on Lemmy are definitely going to be the first ones to actually do it.
🙄
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 3 weeks ago:
Braid
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 3 weeks ago:
I couldn’t go back to BotW after Elden Ring.
In both games you have a vast world to explore. You see something in the distance, and it turns out it’s actually a place you can go to, which is such a cool feeling. You’re rewarded for every path you go down.
In Elden Ring you’re rewarded with some weird new scroll or a weapon that even if you won’t use it, you can totally see why it’s unique and cool in its own way.
But in Breath of the Wild you’re rewarded with a shrine that gives you nothing or another fucking Korok seed. And also while you were exploring your weapon broke.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 3 weeks ago:
A masterpiece. The entire game you have the sands and can rewind all of your missteps, only to lead up to one final, ridiculous platforming challenge where they take the sands away. Like the whole game was training you for that moment. Such a unique experience.
- Comment on negativity 4 weeks ago:
So half waffle, half pancake?
I bet I could make that.
- Comment on negativity 4 weeks ago:
Respect, but the real deal is the only syrup in my house.
My six-year-old daughter tried pancakes at a restaurant the other day where they only had Smucker’s corn syrup, and she hated it. She knows the taste of real maple. I couldn’t be prouder.
- Comment on negativity 4 weeks ago:
I figured it out because I fucking love maple syrup.
- Comment on negativity 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t work. I need butter, so unless I’m dipping in syrup and liquid butter…
Never mind, that would totally work.
- Comment on negativity 4 weeks ago:
Pancakes. Waffles just don’t achieve the same thing. Crispiness is great, but they don’t absorb the butter as well.
- Comment on negativity 4 weeks ago:
It lets the syrup soak into the middle.
- Comment on negativity 4 weeks ago:
The waffle doesn’t have enough syrup.
The pancakes have almost enough, maybe, depending on if there’s any in the middle of the stack.
Real maple syrup is a reason to get up in the morning.
- Comment on negativity 4 weeks ago:
Whoever downvoted you must not have ever had real maple syrup.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 month ago:
I’m usually fine with paying more for things I enjoy that are worth it. Like $70 games are just not a big deal to me.
I’m also too lazy to cancel most things. I’ve ignored Game Pass price hikes before and justified them by thinking of all the games I played without buying.
But this one is just ridiculous. There’s no value here, no way for me to justify it. I was enjoying Silksong on Xbox because I didn’t have to buy it, but now that I do have to buy it I guess I’ll do that on my Switch instead. Replaying it is going to be rough, especially without my Elite controller.
I hope Microsoft gets their shit together, because Xbox has been my favorite game platform for years.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yes, words matter.
But the ends don’t justify the means. Morality isn’t outcome-oriented. It’s wrong to kill someone just for their words and ideas.
If the assassin had targeted the people enacting those ideas, that might be different. But assassinations tend to be a net negative. I can’t think of an exception.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
There’s a long list of people taking our liberties away, and the guy who says stupid shit is pretty far down on that list. Words matter, but they’re not violence.
- Comment on You might need this. 2 months ago:
*you’re
- Comment on gaming 2 months ago:
Oh man. I remember the very small Castle Crashers vs. competitive scene on Xbox in 2008. I was 15th ranked in the world, and probably higher than that in actual skill.
I met a couple of really cool people on there. Most of us were about evenly matched, and a game could go either way.
But the number one player was this shit-talking child with a voice that could shatter glass. Normally I love shit-talkers in competitive scenes. I don’t tilt easy, so I feel like I get an edge on them.
But not this banshee. I don’t know if I ever even got a hit on him. I saw it as a challenge to overcome, but he just fucking wrecked me every time I saw him.
The gameplay in vs. was so crazy. Castle Crashers seems like a simple game, but with the right combos you could get airborne and never touch the ground. So most of the game was trying to get under your opponent so you could juggle them endlessly, back and forth across the screen. But you had to execute. It was tough to keep the combo going for long enough to beat someone in one go, and once you slipped up, they could do the same to you.
So my memory from that time was this shrill little fucker, gleefully shrieking about my mother while his brightly colored knight juggled mine back and forth across the top of the screen. Honestly kind of fitting for that game.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 2 months ago:
If they blocked it now, people would just sideload it.
- Comment on No brainer 2 months ago:
It’s so obviously this or the gravel.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 2 months ago:
It just felt hard to relate to. The core premise is intriguing like I want to see where it goes, but it’s not intriguing like I feel personally invested in it.
Baldur’s Gate just had this perfect buildup, where you’re trying to solve a personal problem, and then it just keeps growing until you’re killing gods.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 2 months ago:
I’m not usually a fan of turn based games.
Baldur’s Gate 3 hooked me. It was one of my favorite gaming experiences ever. I played through it two and a half times, consecutively.
I couldn’t get through Expedition 33. It’s very well done, but the story itself never hooked me. It just felt too abstract, like it never got me emotionally invested.
And the gameplay was too narrow. I’m sure it opened up after a while, but it would still be the same kind of turn based combat the whole time.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 2 months ago:
I’ve never liked most of their food, but you used to be able to get a hot, cheap, and quick meal there. And at least the fries were tasty, and the Coca-Cola was perfect.
In the 80s and 90s, going to McDonald’s felt like a guilty pleasure. It felt cheap, but you were in on it so it was ok.
Now it feels cheap at your expense. It’s sparse, like they’re providing the minimal viable product. The fries are garbage, the Coke is garbage, and the service is garbage.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 months ago:
You don’t know that it’s “most often”.
That’s just how you feel about it. You’re being judgmental but don’t have any idea.
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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.