moakley

@moakley@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  In English we used to use the word “Scotch”, like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lamp.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨Tunic is awesome and I wish more people talked about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard people describe games like this as “Metroidbrainias”, which is the dumbest name ever, but the point is that it’s a game where progress is blocked not just by obtaining in-game power-ups, but by learning how to use abilities that you already possess at the beginning of the game. The player is the one who levels up. I love that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨Do you care about up/down votes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So it sounds like you’re checking to see when the light turns off, to know that the car is going.

  Sounds like what we actually need is a green accelerator light on the front of the car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨I feel attacked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started collecting Lego again.

  … and running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It confuses me when someone thinks plastics are “bad”. It’s such a privileged, narrow viewpoint that ignores so many of the problems that humanity has overcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This section of Jim Carrey's Wikipedia Article⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re digging the knife into the pit to get a grip on it without damaging the avocado flesh around it.

  To do so, place the knife as shown in the picture, then hit the back of it with your hand to drive it in. I usually just take a swing at it with the knife itself, but it’s probably a little more consistent to do it this way.

  Avocado pits are slippery. You can’t usually just grab them with your fingers.

  So just do what the picture shows, and then do what the instructions say, in that order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Woke” has had a consistent meaning since its introduction into the English language almost a hundred years ago. It means “Aware of systemic racism.”

  When blues legend Lead Belly ended a show in 1938 by saying, “Stay woke,” he meant: “Stay aware of systemic racism.”

  When some chud on YouTube in 2025 says “‘Woke’ is ruining gaming,” he means that awareness of systemic racism is ruining gaming. For him.

  And when an American politician calls himself “anti-woke”, he’s saying that he opposes the awareness of systemic racism. Not that he denies the existence of it, but that he’d prefer no one talk about it, so that it can continue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had great, loving parents who tried their best to get me interested in my education. It didn’t matter. ADHD meant I was never going to be a good student.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I view others in social media⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t bother me, and as someone who occasionally makes comics I always appreciate positive feedback like that.

  So much worse is:

  OP: “This [noun] is [adjective].”

  Commenter 1: “This [noun] is [worse adjective]. FTFY.”

  Commenter 2: “[Noun] isn’t [adjective]… BECAUSE IT’S AN INSULT TO [ADJECTIVE] THINGS EVERYWHERE! I am so clever! You thought I was defending [noun], but I pulled an Uno Reverse, which is also a clever thing to say!”

  At dinner that night I imagine commenter 2 tells his mom all about how he’s so funny on reddit. She doesn’t really listen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And eternal life of copyright is what has led to us having our current culture in decline media landscape of endless sequels, remakes, milking licenses, and reboots. Why risk a new IP when you own 3000000 “safe bets” you can endlessly recycle bullshit

  That doesn’t really track. You think that allowing everyone to use existing characters would incentivize them to create new characters?

  A lot of the original works we do get are because not everyone has access to the “safe bets”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the game is scanning planets, gathering resources, and upgrading your ship. The upgrades allow you to gather more resources, explore further, and get better weapons so you can survive hostile alien encounters.

  If you ever have the opportunity, I highly recommend giving it a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Disco Elysium gave me this experience in a new context. But better, because it blurs the line between success and failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Flight. I played it on Genesis, and it’s still one of the greatest games I’ve ever played.

  One space ship, 270 solar systems, and 800 planets. The manual included a captain’s log that was sent back in time from the future, but without that you’d just be scouring the stars for clues, interrogating aliens, digging through ancient ruins, and watching slowly as a rash of planet-destroying solar flares spreads through the galaxy.

  So fucking good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Trees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A tree stole my wallet and had sex with my wife!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not convinced some people aren’t just statistical language algorithms. And I don’t just mean online; I mean that seems to be how some people’s brains work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religions have some of the wackiest rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kellogg was never actually that influential. People mostly knew he was a crackpot at the time.

  An episode of Adam Ruins Everything gave him way too much credit, and then people on the internet just keep repeating it because Kellogg was such a weird guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly. It’s horrible that he’s sending people who are legally allowed to be here to his concentration camp, but it is also equally horrible that he’s sending people who aren’t legally allowed to be here to his concentration camp.

  Immigrants are good. Immigration is good. Everything about this is fucked up and goes against the soul of America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet. I love this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it be so bad if it follows the same path as Twitter? If it connects people and organizations in an honest and helpful way for fifteen years?

  Or we could all just keep shitting on it while it facilitates social and political movements and enables rapid communication across the planet. Then more than a decade from now when some Ultra-Nazi trillionaire buys it, we can all say “I told you so,” and be real smug about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why he said start with Google Translate. Because Google Translate isn’t giving gibberish like vegetative electron microscopy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question] What just happened to 4 million posts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of comments coming from that instance that are indistinguishable from the ones I see from .ml.