moakley

@moakley@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on whether or not there’s a Gogoat or a Skiddo in the party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing wrong with carpeted stairs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ready for another week of abuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just do what I do, and fall behind on everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a wonderful attitude to have as long as it’s not in the comments of an article about how Tesla’s approach is literally trapping people and burning them alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthem servers shutting down January 12, 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨Facts and minds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s true though. It’s about cognitive dissonance. Like actual cognitive dissonance, not the internet buzzword version.

  When our actions and beliefs don’t match up, it makes us uncomfortable. And as much as we’d all love to think we’d change our actions to match our beliefs, the truth about humanity is that we’re just as likely to change our beliefs to match our actions.

  Look at the Ben Franklin effect. Ben Franklin asks for a favor from his enemy, something small like borrowing a book. His enemy lends him the book because it would be impolite not to. Then he experiences dissonance. It makes him uncomfortable that he’s being nice to someone he hates. Instead of not being nice, he lets go of his hate.

  Any outward action you take that suggests a certain belief moves your internal compass towards that belief.

  I’m convinced this is the worst effect that social media has had on society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facts and minds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People become emotionally invested because they argue. Arguing fortifies their emotional stance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There Isn’t Much Sway Held by Past Success’: Baldur’s Gate 3 actors reveal it hasn’t boosted their careers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a resident of Floxus, I propose we make the creeping phlox our state flower.

  (It smells like rotting skunk.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The name "seagull" implies the existence of landgulls, airgulls, and firegulls.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how much cuter a goldfish is than a silverfish, whatever a bronzefish is must be a absolutely disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beercicle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it was named that because it was cheap tape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨Tunic is awesome and I wish more people talked about it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.