moakley

@moakley@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My new hobby is emphatically uncensoring memes.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds interesting, but it looks like it’s not available on any of my platforms, so I’ll have to take your word for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for providing all these links.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bastion. It’s Bastion. Holy shit the answer to this question is Bastion.

  I’m assuming you know that Hades’ soundtrack is fucking amazing, but before that came Bastion (from the same developer), and it has possibly the most powerful soundtrack I’ve ever experienced. The way it’s integrated into the story genuinely blows my mind. Every track is a banger, but then you’ll start to get used to it, and then you’ll hear a song that’s so different, and it’s because something unexpected and beautiful is about to happen.

  Then you’ll get to the end and you’ll have a choice to make. Except it won’t feel like a choice, because you’ll feel compelled to do exactly what the game wants you to do, and then you’re rewarded with one of the most beautiful sequences I’ve ever seen in a game, accompanied by a haunting song that I still sing fourteen years later.

  I can’t stress this enough: if you want a game where the music is an essential part of the experience and is just so fucking amazing on its own that you’ll want to play it on repeat, the answer is Bastion.

  I also really loved the soundtrack to Baldur’s Gate 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconding this for the co-op play. It just captures the feeling of a heist so perfectly in a bite-sized package. In a matter of seconds you’ll go from everyone calm and knowing their role, to full panic mode as soon as someone makes a mistake, to a wary sense of relief as you manage to barely get to safety but still have to complete your mission.

  I didn’t know about the sequel. Now I’m tempted to try it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t read the article because I have an ad blocker, so I’ll assume this means she’s been crowned the new Ozzy, and being a rockstar will help her with the bills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s all paid for by one pervert who sits across from the machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Average user here. I don’t have time to take up PCs as a hobby. When I need a computer, I need it to just do what I want so I can be done with it.

  PC hobbyists always discount the amount of time and effort it takes to be a PC hobbyist. Like a recipe writer who completely ignores prep time and says a complicated recipe will only take 45 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The second one is the third highest grossing movie of all time. So clearly some people wanted more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the appeal of Avatar. I really don’t. The writing is beyond lazy, and while the visuals may be impressive or whatever, the things they’re depicting just look weird and unappealing to me.

  But even I can’t pretend that its success is only due to hype. There are plenty of successful movies that don’t deserve their success, but you don’t get as successful as Avatar without giving the audience something. People aren’t that dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, but before Avatar came along it was never quite so poorly written!

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  because most parents are lazy fucks who don’t take responsibility for their kids

  These laws aren’t a response to a real problem. The kids are fine. The parents are usually fine. These laws are posturing at best.

• ⁨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 ⁨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 ⁨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.

  • Caramelizing onions? Slap a dollop of bacon grease into the pan first.

  • Pancakes? Pancakes with a soupçon of bacon.

  • Eggs? Obviously.

  • 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.

• ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not the one being pedantic. Whatever that object is, it’s not clear that it’s a banister.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bottom.

  1. The risers on the stairs are not visible.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing wrong with carpeted stairs.