[-] moakley@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago

That's a lot of typos for someone with perfect vision.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I'd probably leave that up for a few years. I have trouble throwing away any of her artwork.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Can't replace Jennifer Connelly in Requiem.

Ass to ass becomes funny instead of dark.

On second thought it's probably still way too dark.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It's pretty rare that I haven't heard of a movie, but this is only the second time I've heard of this movie, and the first time was on reddit yesterday. Was that you?

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

Over the years I've learned to trust my cat. If he's on the counter, I tell him to get off, and he gets off.

If he doesn't get off, I know him well enough to know that there's a good reason. Like he's looking at me with that same cat expression he always has, but I know he's thinking, "Trust me, I'm allowed to be here right now."

Ok, let's do this.

We silently coordinate our efforts. I start moving appliances off the counter until the intruder is exposed. It's a cockroach, a big one. It scurries. Bucky swats, stunning it. He gets it in his mouth for a second, but it's gross so he spits it out. Once it's disabled, I finish it with a shoe.

Mountain of treats. Glorious victory.

Alternate ending: it escapes under the fridge and Bucky stands guard for three days waiting for it to return. He knows his job.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 159 points 1 month ago

B.

This is a multiple choice test. Once you eliminate three answers, you pick the fourth answer and move on to the next question. It can't be A, C, or D, for reasons that I understand. There's a non-zero chance that it's B for a reason that I don't understand.

If there is no correct answer, then there's no point hemming and hawing about it.

B. Final answer.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

Gaming hasn't gone to shit.

Some of it is shit, but that's true for literally all media and art across all of human existence.

Gaming is better than ever. This whole discussion is ridiculous, with everyone blaming this or that for something that just doesn't align with reality.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The super hero genre is an individualist power fantasy. It's about giving power to individuals, whereas in real life power rests in groups and systems. That includes the power to effect social change.

It's an escapist response to living in an impossibly complicated world where we want to do good, but we feel powerless and unable to.

The story of a character organizing a series of protests wouldn't really benefit from that character having super powers. Using super powers (physical force) to push political beliefs is terrorism.

So the constraints of the genre mean that social messages have to exist alongside the A-plot power struggle. And they frequently do.

Black Panther is about abandoning isolationism and using a government's power and wealth to help people.

The Avengers have an unmissable theme of not supporting the military-industrial complex. Same with Iron Man.

Common Marvel villains include fascists, bigots, businessmen, and corrupt law enforcement, in addition to the madmen and evil gods.

I've seen this point made a few times, and it just reeks of someone backfilling a reason to hate something popular without actually spending a moment to, you know, watch that thing.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago

Children get upset about all kinds of things, and it's important to help them understand and resolve their emotions, no matter how silly it is.

Eighty cows is a minor inconvenience at worst and like four stacks of steak at best.

So I feel like the confusion here isn't just coming from how to handle the griefer child or how to get the cows out of the house. I think it's more to do with the novelty of the situation.

Why is the child upset by this? Does he not like to kill cows in the game? Is there something preventing him from luring the cows out of the house? Was he just unpleasantly surprised by it and hadn't thought through whether or not it was a big deal? There's a lot of layers to this.

Or maybe this guy just never played Minecraft.

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

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[-] moakley@lemmy.world 78 points 7 months ago

Remember, it takes at least 45 minutes to caramelize an onion. If you're doing it for less than 45 minutes, then you're just cooking it.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago

Bucky's little sister passed last year, and although she was overall a much stranger cat, she drank from the waterfall part of the fountain. Sometimes Bucky would get in uncomfortably close and stare at her mouth while she was drinking. It's hard not to imagine him unable to see the water, thinking, "What are you even doing?? There's nothing there!"

Sorry for your loss. I hear it's supposed to get easier, but personally I'm still waiting.

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[-] moakley@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago

This is my first ever Lemmy post. My comics did alright on reddit, so I figured I'd try them out here.

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