moakley

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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact: when birds have sex it's called a cloacal kiss.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Stranger in a Strange Land. I was told I'd like it because it was critical of religion, but it turns out it was only critical of organized religion. Too specific for my tastes.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That depends where she is. Alimony is rare in Texas, for example. She might get a small amount of spousal support for a few years, but she's going to need to start a career soon.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

When I learned about germs, how they're everywhere and too small to see, I thought I must be squishing them every time I touch anything. So I went around the entire house touching every surface, especially the windows, because nobody ever touched those.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The whole thing has a stink to it. Obviously I can't be 100% certain, but whenever a story like that on reddit sounds a little too perfect, it's probably made up.

Having more typos in the title than in the post is a hint.

It's also just exactly the sort of thing that people will run away with on the internet. It's hitting a hot button topic about something that people started seeing in memes a couple weeks ago.

Plus it's too smooth. If the intention was to relay an event that actually happened, there'd be some kind of rough edge to it, something unexpected. But if the intention was to expand on that meme in an easily digestible way, this is what you'd get.

It's not the most obviously fake post I've seen on reddit, and it's possible I'm wrong. But like I said, I'd be willing bet on it.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd be willing to bet that it's fake.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My very first Lemmy post was in what is essentially the only Lemmy comics group, and it got removed because it contained "profanity".

I was trying to post original content directly to Lemmy, which is something no one ever does. But it got removed, so fuck it, I posted it to reddit. Two hours later, it was on the front page of reddit. So not to toot my own horn, but I think that's a sign that it was pretty fucking premium OC, the kind of content that a Lemmy mod should want in their community.

I've since seen it reposted all over the internet, and it's hit the reddit front page several more times.

The profanity in question: "balls".

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

and shave down their Senate majority by two or three seats.

That's not a wipeout then.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Something like ten years ago I got into a console vs PC argument on reddit, and everyone unanimously told me that starting up a PC with a controller was such an easy feature to add that it wasn't even a consideration. I stuck with consoles.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I get that, but it seems disproportionate. I mean we're still talking about it seven years later.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah I never really understood the backlash on that one. I actually would love to play Diablo on my phone. But like a good Diablo.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like Bananza more than BotW, but I didn't think BotW was that good. I didn't play TotK for that same reason.

I don't think Bananza's length is a mark against it. It has more than 18 hours of content, so the time to beat it is irrelevant. Cost is also irrelevant to the quality of the game.

Look at it this way: remember when large portions of the internet community were all up in arms about the cost of games and predicted that the Switch 2 was definitely going to fail?

If your perspective on games this year aligns with those communities, then you only need to look at the runaway success of the Switch 2 for proof that you're missing a big part of the picture.

It's a good game. People like it. I don't even like it that much, but I can still see why it's a successful and popular game.

 

And I definitely didn't accidentally step on any crayons in the process.

 
 

See? Nobody cares.

 

Based on a true story.

 
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