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moakley

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  • You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time.

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  • My favorite part about 2007 for video games was how close it was to 2008, the actual best year in gaming.

    That's when indie games started getting a foothold on consoles, including Braid and Castle Crashers. Plus Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, and the Wii hitting its stride with Wii Fit, Mario Kart, and a Smash Bros. Not to mention mainstream fare like CoD: World at War, MGS 4, and GTA 4.

  • You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time.

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  • Depends what you mean by "greatest". Most revolutionary? Biggest leaps forward? Possibly.

    But most of those games don't hold up today.

    We're also getting a strong cheerleader effect on this picture. Mario Party 3? Turok?

  • What are your gaming highlights of 2025?

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  • I fully understand what you mean. I got turned on to UFO 50 the exact same way, from a stranger's recommendation online. They referred to it as "a master class in game design", and I was like, that's exactly what I was just saying about Split Fiction!

    I think how we say things is important to how we connect.

    Anyway, Split Fiction requires two players. The whole game is in split screen, even if you play online. But you only need one copy of the game to play online - I think your partner can just download a special version of the game for free. But if you have someone to play with in the same room, I recommend that.

    A bit more about UFO 50 if you haven't already looked it up: it's a faux-retro game collection from a fictional, defunct 80s game developer called UFOSoft.

    Fifty is an insane number of games, and it's got so much damn content. There are space shooters, side scrollers, a wild west Final-Fantasy-style RPG, a roguelike, a soccer game inspired by Bubble Bobble, at least three golf games, and then whatever the hell Mooncat is. There's also a dark meta-narrative hidden between the games that describes why the company went under.

    So UFO 50 is a deep dive. You may want to start there first, because it's something you'll likely bounce off of and come back to. Luckily you have literally 50 games to switch between if you get frustrated.

    When it does get frustrating, it's so rewarding if you power through it. Several of the games are in the style of those ridiculously punishing 80's arcade games, except it mostly is just a style. If you keep an open mind and look for what the game is trying to show you, you start to see that there are modern design conventions underpinning everything that make the games more fair than they appear. (Except Caramel Caramel. That game is bullshit.)

    That's part of what I meant when I said it changed how I approach games. I realized I can spend so much time on my own expectations that I don't see what's in front of me. Learning to approach these games with an open mind has been a defining moment for me.

  • What are your gaming highlights of 2025?

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  • 2025 was such a good year for gaming.

    Games worth mentioning for me personally:

    • Ravenswatch came out at the end of last year, but it's an incredibly satisfying multiplayer roguelike. Really scratches that asymmetrical gameplay itch.
    • Split Fiction is a master class in game design. It creates these awesome storytelling moments that could only be created in this exact way.
    • UFO 50: holy shit this one came out of nowhere for me. It's like digging through a retro collection for diamonds in the rough, but there's more diamond than rough. It has honestly changed the way I approach video games and gaming in general. Also, Party House is so good.
    • Hades 2 is pretty much exactly what I was hoping it would be. No notes.

    I also played Clair Obscur, DK Bananza, Mario Kart World, and Silksong. Those are all good games, but none of them hooked me.

  • Why do you hate AI?

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  • I've played Magic against him a couple times. Great dude.

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

  • If only

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  • Now I'm picturing a Russian immigrant named Ublick Orekhov who sits silently by the living room radio and turns the volume down when an ad comes on.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • 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.

  • Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists

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  • 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.

  • Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms

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  • 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.

  • My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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  • Maduro cheating comes from the same people that said the US 2020 election was rigged

    Do you have a source for that? Because from what I can tell, the exact opposite is true, and the sources for these two claims are generally opposed to each other.

  • Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads

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  • 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.

  • Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads

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

  • /r/Tennessee doesn't want people posting about the Tuesday election

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  • 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".

  • Permanent ADHD Passive

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  • As a lifelong Magic player, I've reached a point where I've accepted that my strengths are more in drafting, deckbuilding, and card evaluation, not in reading complicated board states. I play more aggressively now and do better because of it. My new motto is "math is for blockers".

  • Permanent ADHD Passive

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  • No, that's definitely not how it works. It would never be worded this way to begin with, but this "effect" is just a homonym of the word you're referring to.

  • Republican lawmakers grow alarmed over signs of 2026 election wipeout

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

    That's not a wipeout then.

  • I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating

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  • That's a regular dash. The em dash is longer.

  • Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’

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  • 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.