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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Im no more inyalowda, sassake?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've been playing the video game Astronaut The Best, and the astronauts can have various accents. Including ones the game calls 'stupid'. Your can also set the whole thing in the equivalent of old English for a challenge!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I remember an article back in the 90s where the author said somebody dropped a source code printout of a C compiler on his desk and it was like 4 inches thick, and he compared that to late 80's Turbo Pascal, a compiler and full IDE that took up 32k.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did the source code printout have an annoying space accent, or... ?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Apparently I put that in the wrong thread lol.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Don't change a word.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's getting better at fingers, but goodgawdamn, that's a long left thumb. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know about the rest, but the fingers don't really look wrong at all. Just tried it myself and thumb looks the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If that watch is based on the Casio Vintage LA680WE (33.5 x 28.6 x 8.6 mm), that left thumb's first knuckle is >2x longer than its length, making it >2.6 in long and therefore ~2.6x longer than normal on a cishet, white male in his 20s-30s like the one simulated above... 🤢😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ah yes, the "cishet" thumb, famously distinct and identifiable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Apologies, was attempting clarity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why do you assume that the knuckle begins there? It's way more likely to just be the skin between the thumb and the index finger. Again, try it out in a mirror and you'll see what I'm talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I do apologize, but the anatomical math doesn't check out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If that had been the knuckle, sure. But there is nothing that says there is, it's just an assumption on your part. Yet again, try it yourself with a mirror.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's like trying to teach maths. 😶

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And still you haven't even tried observing your own hands for some reason?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everyone reading this can look at their own hands, see in a glance their first thumb knuckles aren't 2+ inches long and immediately know you're taking the piss. Next.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

But why on earth do you keep assuming that the knuckle is that far down on the hand?? I keep telling you, look in a mirror. It's just the skin between the two fingers you see there, the knuckle starts further up. It's really not hard to try and see man.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He should play the piano or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

And I thought my childhood piano trauma was unique, 😶

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Should take up hitchhiking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Worked great for Uma Thurman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guess I'm old. The reference is stale.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Both are true and not dissimilar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

He keeps pronouncing "space" with a lisp and I swear to gawd...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Man I’m a bit of “natural” mimic i guess, I once binge watched a season of Fargo and started talking like that, then I heard myself talking like that, couldn’t get my normal accent back, so I just was quiet for a few days. There is nothing harder to do than fake your natural accent (Grew up in a county with a lot of people with the Minnesota accent, this probably had something to do with it, although I personally had a Montana accent, and this happened when I lived on the west coast and my accent had been quite nerfed.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Little known fact: the Boundary Waters are not only a boundary between Minnesota and Canada, but also spaaaaaaaace!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

An accent? Where am I supposed to find an accent? Out here. In space. At this hour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I dunno about an accent, but if you go to the right planet, you could talk out of Uranus.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nah, it's genetic his mother was a star.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

angry upvote