You forgot the basement nerd that’s hung like a gnat and hasn’t touched grass since 1984.

That’s why I live on the second floor…

19, 65, 9, 17

4, 1, 2, 6

IYKYK

Edit: OG Sega version, dunno if those cheats apply on other platforms.

Aw, poor kitty didn’t even have a lower jawbone 😿

I have a similar problem with my buttplug.

The only difference is the holes in the wall when I fart…

This actually happened yesterday.

You’ll own nothing, you’ll access nothing, and you’ll be happy and pay for it…

Our dog only twitches his nose to the left.

By posting facts about Elon Musk for one, apparently.

Wait, you people sleep?

That which doth go in the square hole, cannot go in the round hole.

I wasn’t suggesting that I’d expect newer DirectX to work on older versions of Windows. I was suggesting that I would have expected newer DirectX standards to still be backwards compatible with older DirectX standards.

Sigh, I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility. Oh well, I switched to Linux after Windows 8 came out anyways. 🤷‍♂️

Guess not, but as far as I ever knew, M$ has been known to try to maintain backwards compatibility for longer than most users would even consider necessary.

XP supported DirectX 7/8/9

I would have figured that would have continued on with future versions of Windows, but I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility.

Oh well, all the more reason I switched to Linux as my main daily runner after Windows 8 came out. 🤷‍♂️

Why would someone expect DirectX12 to not also support 11/10/9/8/7?

As cute as this is, we used to have around 20 goats on a 40 acre open horse ranch, and you couldn’t get within 50 feet of any of them without them all running away.

I hope you didn’t turn back the odometer…

Spez (or one of their admin monkeys) perma-banned me from Reddit after like 7 years, for of all stupid things, posting actual facts about Elon Musk and his Boring Company’s “Not A Flamethrower” contraption.

Wasn’t any hate speech. Wasn’t misinformation, I even posted reference links. Wasn’t anything inappropriate or gory. Just straight up facts.

That was not all that long before Elon bought Xhitter.

Gotta love the irony huh? Fuck Spez and Musk.

I had already spent years doing occasional side work with around a dozen if not more folks originally from India. Most, except the oldest of the elders spoke good if not excellent English. But there’s pretty much always gonna be at least a subtle accent, if not a heavy accent with secondary languages.

I thought I understood the fella clearly, but it was both a combination of his accent plus the strange sentence structure context that threw me totally off.

He said he was ‘updating his tiles’, but I misunderstood his vowels, so I heard ‘updating his towels’

And why the hell would he use the word updating, he was literally having all the carpet removed in 44+ rooms and having tiles installed, not ‘updated’.

So even the context clues didn’t add up, I never guessed he was talking about the tile work he had been planning for months.

Indeed, and understandable. Modern AI does tend to do fairly well these days, but obviously no system is ever going to be perfect.

Not even our own ears are perfect. That’s why humans have the sense to ask questions sometimes, like “Hold up, I didn’t understand you, what did you just say?”

And if you check my other comments, you’ll catch an interesting story of mine over the misunderstanding of a simple spoken vowel…

Meh, true that. Hell, I dunno how to properly cross post on Lemmy, nor do I bother doing that anyways so whatever. 🤷‍♂️

Honestly I haven’t studied foreign languages all that much, but I’ve heard the accents that come from a variety of regions and countries.

The last time I got confused about anything spoken in English by an Indian man, I mistook ‘tiles’ as ‘towels’.

I totally lost out on a tile installation job offer over that, because of a misunderstanding over what’s basically the pronunciation of a particular vowel.

Like, in the back of my head, I’m wondering why this hotel owner is telling me he’s updating his towels, when really he said tiles. He was offering me a job…

I didn’t find out until he got others to do all the work ☹️

Vowels can be extremely important in communication…