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- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 12 hours ago:
Why did they feel the need to replace analog controls with these weird, inconsistently responsive, difficult to map touch controls when every other console platform had already demonstrated why that’s a bad idea?
I have no idea what you’re talking about. The DS4 had a trackpad that was clearly positioned and intended for menu navigation. Nobody used trackpads as a primary game control input before the SC. That’s not because sticks are some god-given pinnacle of technology but because potentiometer-based sticks are cheap and people are used to them. Analog sticks were always, and still are, a crappy way to control a camera. Building a 1:1 thumb based input source into a controller absolutely was innovative and, like it or hate it, I don’t see how you can contest that. The Steam Deck’s pads are actually pretty great to use.
Playstation and Nintendo and XBox had already demonstrated why you don’t build controllers this way ten years earlier.
Again, what are you talking about? The SC was released in 2015.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 day ago:
It’s funny—just a little over five years ago, gamers hated it. Not because they ever used one, but because it was a failure. And as we all know about gamers, there’s nothing they hate more than a failure.
Nice try, but that’s not why I hated it.
This smug revisionism triggers me hard. As a hard core steam fan I loved the idea of the SC, I bought it and really tried to use it, but the reality was just too clunky for primary use. It has no dpad, a single crappy convex analog stick, terribly placed ABXY buttons, horrible shoulder buttons, and just a bit too much input lag on the trackpads. On top all that was (actually, still is) a remapping system that’s way too convoluted to use regularly. There’s also the sad fact that alarmingly many games don’t allow simultaneous gamepad and mouse inputs, and simulating the mouse through right stick inputs feels like shit. I really didn’t find any use case where it’s ergonomically superior to a regular gamepad beside the always cited Civ on the Couch, and I’ve tried with sooo many games.
The deck’s control layout fixes most of the issues – the placement is better (except maybe the Salvador Dali inspired B button but I digress), there is a great d pad, two pretty good analog sticks and the input is snappier. Surprise surprise, the deck is a success.
Was the SC innovative, bold and ahead of its time in many ways? Sure. Was it a good controller to play games with? Hell no.
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 5 weeks ago:
Loads of classics in this thread, worth bookmarking to revisit later. Let me add one of my own that I haven’t seen mentioned:
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) - The first movie I saw in the theater by myself, because nobody could be arsed to come along. In the end I was glad, because I cried so much.
- Comment on Codemasters confirms layoffs as EA-owned studio shifts focus away from beloved rally games 2 months ago:
I wish somebody would do a postmortem on the shitshow that is EA WRC, despite having the most beloved rally game dev team and the biggest license in rallying.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
My home (gaming) pc is going back to linux for sure., on the very day they drop support for 10.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 3 months ago:
He’s literally on the board of a union and everything I’ve seen him say is very pro union, I think you may be taking something out of context.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 3 months ago:
I’m curious, what’s the issue you have with him? I’ve only seen him vocal about the writer strikes lately and his message was fine.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 4 months ago:
DVI – sure, but if you think 1080p over VGI looks perfect you should probably get your eyes checked.
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- Comment on ugh i wish 7 months ago:
I’m told that if you mix in some bleach, it’ll “do a tremendous number” on the pathogens.
- Comment on Whales is whales 1 year ago:
The shitpost is correct. Bony fish, or the superclass Osteichtyes, absolutely is a scientific classification, and by the way modern cladistics work, every single thing descended from them, which includes all terrestrial mammals, reptiles etc. are also bony fish.
In other words, if the common ancestor of tuna and squirrels and whales is a bony fish, they are all bony fish. The squirrel and whale cannot be demoted from their bony fish status.
- Comment on You did it. The crazy son of a bitch, you did it. 1 year ago:
When a fizzy drink loses its fizziness, it’s described as flat.
- Comment on How to open a textbook 1 year ago:
Umm, this is the first thing we were taught on the first day of kindergarten.
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- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 1 year ago:
I’ve upgraded my PC and discovered that I kind of love GR Breakpoint now. They added a metric shitton of additions and improvements and I began to vibe with its sterile ikea futurism. Too bad the other island DLC isn’t happening, but there’s loads to do on the existing one still.
- Comment on Starfield's lead quest designer leaves Bethesda to join other RPG veterans making a new open-world game 1 year ago:
I’m intrigued, how the hell do you explore in this game? I thought the only way to get from system to system and planet to planet is to click through menus. The only choice seems to be whether I’ll go back to the ship and click through menus or stay where I am and click through menus.
