moakley
@moakley@lemmy.world
- Comment on How I view others in social media 17 hours 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" 4 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
Sweet. I love this one.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of comments coming from that instance that are indistinguishable from the ones I see from .ml.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 5 weeks ago:
Last time I took the political compass test, I was center-right, firmly in the libertarian quadrant, exactly in the sub-section labeled “libertarian”.
That means my political stances align 100% against the Republican party and authoritarianism in general.
- Comment on This is unfair! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 5 weeks ago:
“Female” is fine as an adjective. It’s when it’s used as a noun that it becomes a problem. But that’s not a new rule or anything.
Consider when someone says “Black people” vs “the Blacks”.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 month ago:
Any criticism of conservatism is grounds for removal now. I can’t believe it’s gotten this far.
Is there any Sonic community on Lemmy? Did you make one? I’m a casual fan, but I’d join.
- Comment on Skill issue 1 month ago:
This is definitely an objective opinion based on facts and universal experiences: the best multiplayer experience was Halo 1, when we ran ethernet cables between our dorm rooms. I’d wake up to someone slamming on my door telling me to turn my Xbox on, and I’d jump right into a death match.
- Comment on Definitely wasn't late to work making this 1 month ago:
You can color with a candle.
- Comment on Definitely wasn't late to work making this 1 month ago:
Wait until you realize that number 8 is actually teal blue! Gotcha!
The lesson here is not to peel off the labels.
- Comment on Definitely wasn't late to work making this 1 month ago:
True, but it’s a restaurant crayon, so it’s a little scratchy.
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- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 month ago:
2, and it’s not close.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 month ago:
Because protests don’t do shit. There were mass protests over police brutality in 2020.
I get why you feel that way, but it’s just not true.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 months ago:
lamenting
I believe you mean “lambasting”.
- Comment on Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes 2 months ago:
So what’s the damage here? I can’t find anything about the targets. Is this why my Xbox is having server issues?
- Comment on Delicious 2 months ago:
I always ask for it as thin as they can get without shredding it. It’s possible I’m hated, but that’s how I like my meat, and I can’t do it myself.
- Comment on If I sit in my basement and do nothing, I can't fuck things up 2 months ago:
Statistician: “Nailed it!”
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
Trump is a textbook fascist.
- Racist
- Nationalist
- Populist
- Authoritarian
What more do you need?
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 2 months ago:
From like three years ago? Why post about it now? Especially without providing additional context.
